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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: Nobody ever saved the toddler from the elevator.
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** Charlie's afraid of Diane, with Diane playing into his fears.
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** Nobody knows how old Charlie is, not even himself.
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Because of its success, ''black•ish'' has also spawned a franchise of spinoffs. The first spinoff, ''Series/GrownIsh'', which follows eldest daughter Zoey (Creator/YaraShahidi) as she begins her college studies, premiered on Creator/{{Freeform}} in 2018. The second spinoff, ''Series/MixedIsh'', a Bow-centric {{prequel}} that follows her upbringing as a mixed race child in UsefulNotes/TheEighties, premiered on ABC in 2019. The third spinoff, ''old-ish'', which will center on Dre's parents Pops (Creator/LaurenceFishburne) and Ruby (Jenifer Lewis), is set for a 2021 premiere on ABC.
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Because of its success, ''black•ish'' has also spawned a franchise of spinoffs. The first spinoff, ''Series/GrownIsh'', which follows eldest daughter Zoey (Creator/YaraShahidi) as she begins her college studies, premiered on Creator/{{Freeform}} in 2018. The second spinoff, ''Series/MixedIsh'', a Bow-centric {{prequel}} that follows her upbringing as a mixed race child in UsefulNotes/TheEighties, premiered on ABC in 2019. The third spinoff, ''old-ish'', which will center on Dre's parents Pops (Creator/LaurenceFishburne) and Ruby (Jenifer Lewis), (Creator/JeniferLewis), is set for a 2021 premiere on ABC.
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* Dre complaints about Bow not taking his last name, citing if Amber Rose did, Bow could, too. Amber Rose was playing Charlies loveinterest Dominique in the second season.
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* ActorAllusion: Bow's two doctor friends in "Hero Pizza" are played by Creator/JudyReyes and Creator/ParminderNagra, who have also played health care workers in medical shows (''Series/{{Scrubs}} and ''Series/{{ER}}'', respectively).
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* ActorAllusion: Bow's two doctor friends in "Hero Pizza" are played by Creator/JudyReyes and Creator/ParminderNagra, who have also played health care workers in medical shows (''Series/{{Scrubs}} (''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' and ''Series/{{ER}}'', respectively).
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* MatchmakerFailure: In one episode, Junior asks his sister Zoe if she can help set him up with a girl he likes. Zoe scoffs at this, finding the [[NoAccountingForTaste girl too nerdy]], and tries setting him up with a more attractive girl. It looks like she's successful at first, as Junior lands a date with this girl. Then he reveals the only reason the girl went out with him was so he would edit a video for her. Zoe is actually more upset about this than Junior, because she took pride in her matchmaking skills.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Johnson family.]]
''Black-ish'' is a 2014 American sitcom created by Kenya Barris and starring Creator/AnthonyAnderson, Creator/TraceeEllisRoss, and Creator/LaurenceFishburne (the show is co-produced by Fishburne's company Cinema Gypsy Productions). The show centers around Andre "Dre" Johnson, Sr., an ad executive, and his anesthesiologist wife Rainbow, as they try to raise their kids in an upper-middle-class environment. The show premiered on Creator/{{ABC}}, and is one of the few [[MinorityShowGhetto minority-led sitcoms]] to air on a major network.
After three seasons, Zoey left for college and her own spin-off, ''Series/GrownIsh'', on ABC's sister channel Creator/{{Freeform}}. A second spinoff, the Bow-centric {{prequel}} series ''Series/MixedIsh'', has been picked up for a Fall 2019 premiere.
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''Black-ish'' is a 2014 American sitcom created by Kenya Barris and starring Creator/AnthonyAnderson, Creator/TraceeEllisRoss, and Creator/LaurenceFishburne (the show is co-produced by Fishburne's company Cinema Gypsy Productions). The show centers around Andre "Dre" Johnson, Sr., an ad executive, and his anesthesiologist wife Rainbow, as they try to raise their kids in an upper-middle-class environment. The show premiered on Creator/{{ABC}}, and is one of the few [[MinorityShowGhetto minority-led sitcoms]] to air on a major network.
After three seasons, Zoey left for college and her own spin-off, ''Series/GrownIsh'', on ABC's sister channel Creator/{{Freeform}}. A second spinoff, the Bow-centric {{prequel}} series ''Series/MixedIsh'', has been picked up for a Fall 2019 premiere.
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''[[AllLowercaseLetters black•ish]]'' isa 2014 an American sitcom {{dom com}} created by Kenya Barris and starring Creator/AnthonyAnderson, Creator/TraceeEllisRoss, and Creator/LaurenceFishburne (the show is co-produced by Fishburne's company Cinema Gypsy Productions). Barris, which premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} in 2014.
Theshow series centers around Andre "Dre" Johnson, Sr., Sr. (Creator/AnthonyAnderson), an ad executive, and his anesthesiologist wife Rainbow, Rainbow (Creator/TraceeEllisRoss), as they try to raise their kids children while reconciling their status as a black family in an upper-middle-class environment. The show premiered on Creator/{{ABC}}, and is one of the few [[MinorityShowGhetto minority-led sitcoms]] to air on a major network.upper middle class environment.
After three seasons, Zoey left for college ''black•ish'' was one of very few [[MinorityShowGhetto minority-led sitcoms]] to air on a major network when it premiered, and her own spin-off, has since been regarded as having helped led a new wave of diversity in American television during UsefulNotes/TheNewTens. Because of its subject matter, it's also considered something of a 2010s update of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'', which discussed similar themes.
Because of its success, ''black•ish'' has also spawned a franchise of spinoffs. The first spinoff, ''Series/GrownIsh'', which follows eldest daughter Zoey (Creator/YaraShahidi) as she begins her college studies, premiered onABC's sister channel Creator/{{Freeform}}. A Creator/{{Freeform}} in 2018. The second spinoff, the Bow-centric {{prequel}} series ''Series/MixedIsh'', has been picked up a Bow-centric {{prequel}} that follows her upbringing as a mixed race child in UsefulNotes/TheEighties, premiered on ABC in 2019. The third spinoff, ''old-ish'', which will center on Dre's parents Pops (Creator/LaurenceFishburne) and Ruby (Jenifer Lewis), is set for a Fall 2019 premiere.2021 premiere on ABC.
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* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Bow attended Brown University while Dre attended the not-Ivy but historically-Black Howard University. Subverted with Zoey, who gets rejected from Brown but gets into the not-an-Ivy-but-still-prestigious NYU, but turns it down in favor of the nearby, fictional CaliforniaUniversity. Junior gets into the Ivy-adjacent Stanford and Howard, choosing Howard, but later takes a gap year over his concerns about not being ready for college.
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* MaidenNameDebate: Rainbow did not take Andre's last name. Technically, it doesn't really matter, as her maiden name was also "Johnson", but Dre is still furious.
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* MaidenNameDebate: The focus of "Johnson & Johnson". Rainbow did not take Andre's last name. Technically, it doesn't really matter, name, something that was technically meaningless, as his last name and her maiden name was also "Johnson", but are ''both'' Johnson. However, when Dre is still furious.realizes that Bow technically kept her maiden name, he's upset just on principle.
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* BlackRepublican: One episode deals with Junior joining the Republican Club at school, leaving his family in complete disbelief. They later find out he only joined because of a girl he liked was in the same club, but were terrified that she may influence his views. Andre and Bow later meet the girl's parents, which goes ''disastrously''. They later realize that they need to encourage their kids to consider other points of view, but then are relived when Junior says he's a Democrat again -- only because Zoey introduced him to another girl in the Democrat Club.
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* NamesTheSame: Both sides of the family have the surname "Johnson."
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* SameSurnameMeansRelated: Averted; both sides of the family have the surname "Johnson."
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* HypocriticalHumor: In "Juneteenth", when Dre confronts the kids' school about the Columbus Day play Jack and Diane perform in:
-->'''Dre:''' I can't believe you would honor a slave trader like Columbus when you do not honor Juneteenth a proud black holiday tradition that my family treasures!\\
'''Junior:''' What?! We don't celebrate Juneteenth.\\
'''Dre:''' Shut up, Junior!
-->'''Dre:''' I can't believe you would honor a slave trader like Columbus when you do not honor Juneteenth a proud black holiday tradition that my family treasures!\\
'''Junior:''' What?! We don't celebrate Juneteenth.\\
'''Dre:''' Shut up, Junior!
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* MoneyDumb: In one episode, Bow admits she let's Dre take control of the family's finances, as she finds it confusing and intimidating. It turns out, Dre is just as confused by finances as she is. The episode ends with Dre and Bow agreeing to work together to help understand the family's finances.
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* TookALevelInDumbass: Jack: as his actor aged out of the DeliberatelyCuteChild role, they started to make the character a bit of dope with bad grades to further contrast him with Diane.
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''Black-ish'' is a 2014 American sitcom created by Kenya Barris and starring Creator/AnthonyAnderson, Tracee Ellis-Ross, and Creator/LaurenceFishburne (the show is co-produced by Fishburne's company Cinema Gypsy Productions). The show centers around Andre "Dre" Johnson, Sr., an ad executive, and his anesthesiologist wife Rainbow, as they try to raise their kids in an upper-middle-class environment. The show premiered on Creator/{{ABC}}, and is one of the few [[MinorityShowGhetto minority-led sitcoms]] to air on a major network.
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''Black-ish'' is a 2014 American sitcom created by Kenya Barris and starring Creator/AnthonyAnderson, Tracee Ellis-Ross, Creator/TraceeEllisRoss, and Creator/LaurenceFishburne (the show is co-produced by Fishburne's company Cinema Gypsy Productions). The show centers around Andre "Dre" Johnson, Sr., an ad executive, and his anesthesiologist wife Rainbow, as they try to raise their kids in an upper-middle-class environment. The show premiered on Creator/{{ABC}}, and is one of the few [[MinorityShowGhetto minority-led sitcoms]] to air on a major network.
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* AnachronismStew: Deliberately played for laughs in "Pops' Pops' Pops", in which Pops' story about his grandfather is ostensibly set in the 1920s but features various anachronisms both blatant (breakdancing is invented) and subtle (a mention of Spanish Flu).
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* AnachronismStew: Deliberately played for laughs in "Pops' Pops' Pops", in which Pops' story about his grandfather is ostensibly set in the 1920s but features various anachronisms both blatant (breakdancing is invented) and subtle (a mention of [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu Spanish Flu).Flu]]).
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* ExecutiveExcess: Dre's boss Leslie Stevens, co-founder and CEO of Stevens & Lido, is regularly suggested to be one. Whilst at work he's most often portrayed as lazy and clueless, regularly slacking off to discuss Andre's issues, he also casually implies that amongst other things he repeatedly cheats on his wife, has got at least one of his maid's pregnant and gambles with company money. Its also a recurring joke for him to slip into casual conversation a vague offhand reference to some extreme escapade or other he's done, such as mentioning that he once crashed a boat full of cocaine and prostitutes into California. Along with the long list of more seriously illegal acts he's potentially done (in particular the implication he regularly has to cover up his son Connor's actions), this is always PlayedForLaughs.
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''Black-ish'' is a 2014 American sitcom created by Kenya Barris and starring Anthony Anderson, Creator/AnthonyAnderson, Tracee Ellis-Ross, and Creator/LaurenceFishburne (the show is co-produced by Fishburne's company Cinema Gypsy Productions). The show centers around Andre "Dre" Johnson, Sr., an ad executive, and his anesthesiologist wife Rainbow, as they try to raise their kids in an upper-middle-class environment. The show premiered on Creator/{{ABC}}, and is one of the few [[MinorityShowGhetto minority-led sitcoms]] to air on a major network.
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* PlasticBitch: Zoey wants to set up Junior with one of these. It's mentioned the girl had a boob job and "some light butt work". She establishes herself as a bitch when [[spoiler: she dates Junior just to get him to edit an audition video for her.]]
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The colorism debate in "Black Like Us" leads to this. Junior is correct that the family (especially Dre) has some colorist tendencies and it's dishonest and hypocritical to claim otherwise. Bow is correct that her having lighter skin (and being biracial) doesn't make her less black, nor does it negate the racism she encounters. Junior and Bow both also point out that the constant jokes about them being light-skinned are rather mean-spirited. On the flipside, Dre and Ruby are correct that light-skinned privilege is very much a thing, and while Bow and Junior aren't responsible for it, they ''do'' benefit from it. They also point out how screwed up it is that, even among other black people, light skin is seen as more beautiful. However, Ruby does acknowledge at the end that this doesn't give her the right to saw Bow isn't "black enough," and genuinely apologizes to her -- and Bow apologizes in kind for the discrimination Ruby faces. Finally, Diane is right that while Dre and Ruby are dark-skinned, neither of them are as dark as her, and as much as they claim to not be colorist, the fact that they never discuss it speaks volumes.
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* RealityEnsues: After a season and a half of outrageous ConspicuousConsumption, Dre and Bow discover their financial situation is completely screwed.
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After three seasons, Zoey left for college and her own spin-off, ''Series/GrownIsh'', on ABC's sister channel Creator/{{Freeform}}. A second spinoff, the Bow-centric {{prequel}} series ''Mixed-Ish'', has been picked up for a Fall 2019 premiere.
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* InMemoriam: One episode had one to Producer Gail Lerner's children Lily and Hart Campell, who died in a car crash. The tribute scene showed Jack and Diane bonding with each other after thr latter has a nightmare about slipping away from each other.
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* HeightAngst: In “When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)”, Jack is cut from the basketball team and blames it on being short. Dre briefly considers giving him human growth hormone.
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* InMemoriam: One epusode episode had one to Producer Gail Lerner's children Lily and Hart Campell, who died in a car crash. The tribute scene showed Dre Jack and Ruby Diane bonding with each other after thr latter has a nightmare about slipping away from each other.
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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Bow's college friends in "Femenisn't" are played by Tracy Ellis-Ross' co-stars from ''Series/{{Girlfriends}}''.
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