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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: In the pilot, Cody has a talk with Pete about the brothers' fight while holding a baseball bat. He's not going to hit Pete with it; it's to help scare off his daughter's latest boyfriend, and it works.
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* OverprotectiveDad: In the pilot, Cody has a talk with Pete about the brothers' fight while holding a baseball bat. He's not going to hit Pete with it; it's to help scare off his daughter's latest boyfriend, and it works.
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* RantInducingSlight: In "Rear-D Day" Pete (whose working on anger management techniques) manages to stay serene while doing a lot of arduous chores for the husband and son of a deployed soldier right up until the guy indicates that he doesn't see them as "real" soldiers.
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* RantInducingSlight: RageBreakingPoint: In "Rear-D Day" Pete (whose working on anger management techniques) manages to stay serene while doing a lot of arduous chores for the husband and son of a deployed soldier right up until the guy indicates that he doesn't see them as "real" soldiers.
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry. Don't add the example back without proper context
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* IAteWhat: Subverted, when Randy tricks Chubbowski into eating toothpaste Oreos, he simply takes the plate.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Jealous that Perez's platoon gets to march in the parade while his are stuck on cleanup detail, Pete decides to drill his soldiers all night before the parade to get them to a standard where they can march too. When he shows Cody the results, the platoon just stumble around and drop their guns, just like they did before. You can't drill people to maximum efficiency in a few hours, and Pete only succeeded in exhausting his already sub-par soldiers.
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* RealityEnsues: Jealous that Perez's platoon gets to march in the parade while his are stuck on cleanup detail, Pete decides to drill his soldiers all night before the parade to get them to a standard where they can march too. When he shows Cody the results, the platoon just stumble around and drop their guns, just like they did before. You can't drill people to maximum efficiency in a few hours, and Pete only succeeded in exhausting his already sub-par soldiers.
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* RecklessGunUsage: While trying to prove which is the best soldier, Jill and Pete devise a series of contests, the first of which is a high-stress firing contest, which involves running an obstacle course and leapfrogging a private. [[RealityEnsues The Range Safety Officer immediately throws them out]].
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* RecklessGunUsage: While trying to prove which is the best soldier, Jill and Pete devise a series of contests, the first of which is a high-stress firing contest, which involves running an obstacle course and leapfrogging a private. [[RealityEnsues The Range Safety Officer immediately throws them out]].out.
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* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: One episode has Gumble impersonating a doctor (via a fake mustache) on a video the platoon made to give a bogus diagnosis. It would have been a lot more convincing if the captions below didn't refer to him as "Real Doctor".
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: One episode has Gumble impersonating a doctor (via a fake mustache) on a video the platoon made to give a bogus diagnosis. It would have been a lot more convincing if the captions below didn't refer to him as "Real Doctor".
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* GenkiGirl: Park is often pretty upbeat and encouraging, except during incidents which have the whole platoon down, or when her divorce are brought up.
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* AllForNothing: One episode has Randy causing a lot of trouble over having his hopped (which he uses for cooking in the barracks) confiscated only to accidentally burn himself with it in the end and admit that now he does see hat it's dangerous and doesn't mind losing it.
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** The US Military has done everything possible to prevent siblings from serving in the same unit since WWII, when all five of the Sullivan brothers were killed in action aboard the USS ''Juneau''. This can be excused for RuleOfFunny, though.
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** The US Military has done everything possible to prevent siblings from serving in the same unit since WWII, when all five of the Sullivan brothers were killed in action aboard the USS ''Juneau''. This can be excused for RuleOfFunny, though.though (and possibly by the fact that they aren't a combat unit).
* TheBet: Cody and a rival in the Marines make one about a football game in one episode, with Pete being brought in as the quarterback (and then the coach after hurting his arm) and being convinced he can win the game. He can't and it turns out Cody had only bet that his team would be able to ''score'' (and is incredulous that Pete was egotistical enough to think he could win).
* TheCakeIsALie: One episode has Cody promise Pete a trophy if he does well on an inspection and then casually admit that he made that up when Pete asks if he'll get it at the end.
* DatePeepers: In one episode Cody enlists Perez to spy on his daughters date.
* DivorceIsTemporary:
** It's mentioned from the first episode that Park is going through a divorce but in the finale when her husband comes by a party she starts out just trying to [[OperationJealousy make him think she's moved on fine to rub it in]] but after seeing the expression on his face over and hugs him instead, with the implication they might get back together.
** It's also indicated that Randy's girlfriend might reconnect with her sons' father, although he hasn't completely given up by the end.
* FakeGuestStar: Several platoon members, such as Park and Chubowski.
** It's mentioned from the first episode that Park is going through a divorce but in the finale when her husband comes by a party she starts out just trying to [[OperationJealousy make him think she's moved on fine to rub it in]] but after seeing the expression on his face over and hugs him instead, with the implication they might get back together.
** It's also indicated that Randy's girlfriend might reconnect with her sons' father, although he hasn't completely given up by the end.
* FakeGuestStar: Several platoon members, such as Park and Chubowski.
* RantInducingSlight: In "Rear-D Day" Pete (whose working on anger management techniques) manages to stay serene while doing a lot of arduous chores for the husband and son of a deployed soldier right up until the guy indicates that he doesn't see them as "real" soldiers.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: One episode has Randy guarding a bunch of snacks for a visiting general and when the inspection is called off he refuses to let the rest of the platoon eat them (thinking that their lying in order to get the food). It turns out that the general really is still coming (and will want some refreshments), but everyone did honestly think that he'd cancelled the trip when they went to Randy and tried to take the food.
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* SoldiersAtTheRearSoldiersAtTheRear: Their rear echelon soldiers who don't do much besides play minor roles in testing the occasional weapon, watch out for the families of deployed soldiers and prepare for inspections.
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* StealingTheCredit: Schneeberger does this after a successful inspection where a lot of effort was put into pleasing a visiting general. [[LaserGuidedKarma this also leads to him sharing the blame for a prank Randy pulled]].
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: One episode has Gumble impersonating a doctor (via a fake mustache) on a video the platoon made to give a bogus diagnosis. It would have been a lot more convincing if the captions below didn't refer to him as "Real Doctor".
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: One episode has Gumble impersonating a doctor (via a fake mustache) on a video the platoon made to give a bogus diagnosis. It would have been a lot more convincing if the captions below didn't refer to him as "Real Doctor".
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* UnderstandingBoyfriend: A flashback in the second episode has Park happily saying how her husband is so supportive about her decision to join the military. Randy then proceeded to be a {{Troll}} by sarcastically saying how nice it was that her husband was supportive of her doing something that would cause them to spend less time together. It's implied that comment caused the Park's to divorce.
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* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first time Keith David has played an [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare2 Army Ranger]].
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* IncestSubtext: Courtesy of [[AccidentalInnuendo Randy.]]
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* IncestSubtext: Courtesy of [[AccidentalInnuendo Randy.]]
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* OutOfOrder: The show suffered terribly from this via ExecutiveMeddling. FOX wanted a football episode to air the weekend before the Super Bowl so it moved "Homecoming" from episode 10 to episode 4. The problem is that this episode also reunited Derrick's girlfriend with her estranged husband. Derrick and his girlfriend had not yet met at this point.
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* TheNeidermeyer: 2LT Schneeberger. As a new officer, he should have relied on Pete and Jill for support and advice and, if he had half a brain, afford Cody as much, if not more, respect as he would give any of his superiors. Instead, he goes out of his way to be as obnoxious as possible to everyone lower ranking than him and throws his weight around a Command Sergeant Major (who may be lower rank but is meant to be viewed as a mentor by junior officers). Also has a tendency to steal the credit for anything that goes well, regardless of how much influence he had over it.
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* TheNeidermeyer: 2LT Schneeberger. As a new officer, he should have relied on Pete and Jill for support and advice and, if he had half a brain, afford Cody as much, if not more, respect as he would give any of his superiors. Instead, he goes out of his way to be as obnoxious as possible to everyone lower ranking than him and throws his weight around a Command Sergeant Major (who may be lower rank but is meant to be viewed as a mentor by junior officers).officers. Cody would have had more time in uniform than the LT had in life). Also has a tendency to steal the credit for anything that goes well, regardless of how much influence he had over it.
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** While being chewed out in private, Randy addresses him as 'Uncle' Sergeant Major Cody.
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* CerebusRetcon: Pete is introduced swiping through family photos on his phone and cheerfully showing them to another soldier in the middle of a firefight. At first viewing, this comes across as CasualDangerDialogue and SkewedPriorities to show how cool Pete is in danger. But he later reveals that it's something he does so he can see his brothers one last time before he dies, putting that first scene into a different context.
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* FreudianExcuse: The Hill brothers were all affected by the death of their father. Randy in particular was scared Pete would get killed in Afghanistan and has a panic attack when told Pete was actually scared over there. The other brothers feel the need to avoid talking about heavier matters out of fear of upsetting him. Randy's trauma also makes him adept at interacting with the families of deployed soldiers.
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* OverprotectiveDad: In the pilot, Cody has a talk with Pete about the brothers' fight while holding a baseball bat. He's not going to hit Pete with it; it's to help scare off his daughter's latest boyfriend, and it works.
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* OutOfOrder: The show suffered terribly from this via ExecutiveMeddling. FOX wanted a football episode to air the weekend before the Super Bowl so it moved "Homecoming" from episode 10 to episode 4. The problem is that this episode also reunited Derrick's girlfriend's with her estranged husband. Derrick and his girlfriend had not yet met at this point.
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* OutOfOrder: The show suffered terribly from this via ExecutiveMeddling. FOX wanted a football episode to air the weekend before the Super Bowl so it moved "Homecoming" from episode 10 to episode 4. The problem is that this episode also reunited Derrick's girlfriend's girlfriend with her estranged husband. Derrick and his girlfriend had not yet met at this point.
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* GoodLookingPrivates: Pvt. Randy Hill is literally a good-looking Private. The other Hill brothers are no slobs either. The rest of the platoon looks more like we mere mortals but even they clean up well for their unit formal.
** Pete invokes this because of his PTSD.
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* RobotSpider: In the episode "Paint Cart 5000 vs. the Mondo Spider".
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* SpiderTank: In the episode "Paint Cart 5000 vs. the Mondo Spider".
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* RobotSpider: In the episode "Paint Cart 5000 vs. the Mondo Spider".
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* BloodKnight: Randy is a subversion, he wants to be a cold eyed, remorseless badass, but his naturally sweet-hearted nature and general incompetence mean that he will almost certainly never see combat in his career.
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* BloodKnight: Randy is a subversion, he wants to be believes he is a cold eyed, remorseless badass, badass and desperately wants to go to war like his big brother, but his naturally sweet-hearted nature and general incompetence mean that he will almost certainly never see combat in his career.career.
* BrainlessBeauty: Randy.
* BrainlessBeauty: Randy.
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* KavorkaMan: Randy.
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* BigBrotherWorship: Rabdy to Pete.
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* BigBrotherWorship: Rabdy Randy to Pete.
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* BigBrotherWorship: Rabdy to Pete.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: InUniverse example: when Randy disappoints Pete, he does jumping jacks while sobbing until he passes out, which Derrick describes as being initially funny, then sad, and then funny again.
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%%* LonelyBachelorPad: Pete's trailer at the "depressing single guy trailer park near the dump".
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* CallBack In the pilot, Park elbows the others during a run, screaming that she's going through a divorce. In episode 7, it's revealed that Derrick planted the seed for the divorce by making Park suspicious of her husband, and in the finale they reconcile.
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* CallBack CallBack: In the pilot, Park elbows the others during a run, screaming that she's going through a divorce. In episode 7, it's revealed that Derrick planted the seed for the divorce by making Park suspicious of her husband, and in the finale they reconcile.
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-->"Rear D. Those guys aren't even real soldiers, all they do is mow lawns and wash tanks, my brothers are in Rear D. ''(beat)'' What a second, Florida? Oh heeeell no"
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-->"Rear D. Those guys aren't even real soldiers, all they do is mow lawns and wash tanks, my brothers are in Rear D. ''(beat)'' What Wait a second, Florida? Oh heeeell no"
