History Series / MyWifeAndKids

** In "Breaking Up and Breaking It", Kyle is struggling to walk with a painful limp and he confesses to his mother "I think I broke it". He ends up having to go to the hospital where the doctors order him to abstain from his masturbation habit until his groin heals up and his parents can't stop laughing once they find out.

** In the episode "Breaking Up and Breaking It", Jay and Claire complain about Kyle spending too much time in the bathroom with magazines.

* GroinAttack: One of Michael's favorite home movies is Junior catching himself in his fly.

* GagPenis: In one episode Jay paints a picture of Michael in the style of Michelangelo's ''David'', and a friend puts it in her art gallery. When it's unveiled, a woman standing next to Jay says "Holy moley, how do you find time to paint?!" [[spoiler: Subverted since Michael had altered it the night before to avoid embarrassment about what Jay had [[TeenyWeenie actually painted]].]]

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* GenreSavvy: Micheal is usually the one to suspect if his kids are up to something and occasionally does his own little [[BatmanGambit Batman Gambits]] in order to prove a point, although occasionally he's wrong and it turns out his kids weren't up to anything suspicious and he was just quick to jump to assumptions.

* LatinLover: "Samba Story" has Marcello Roccocco, Jay and Micheal's Brazilian Samba instructor. He often wears outfits that show off his [[CarpetOfVirility hairy chest]], often speaks in a breathy tone and clearly has some effect on Jay. Michael scares him into fleeing back to Brazil by pretending to be an immigration officer and has him replaced with a female instructor named Selma.

** The briefly seen back cover of a book Claire is holding in the last scene from "Of Mice and Men" shows that the book is ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheSorcerersStone''.

* ObnoxiousInLaws: As shown in "Sister Story", Jay does get along well with Michael's sister Kelly. it is quite obvious that Kelly doesn't approve of Jay and their interactions are riddled with condescending remarks and passive-aggressive snark. It's also suggested that Michael and Jay don't like each other's mothers.

* ButNotTooBlack: Averted by [[TheOtherDarrin Claire's original actress]].

* {{Catchphrase}}: Averted in Season 1. After that, it was open season...

** When Junior's test papers come back with a perfect score he starts acting genuinely smarter. Later in the episode it's cleared up he didn't even get his own name correct on the paper, but the paper he helped Claire with was still an A+ and the climbing frame he put together himself was still built perfectly.

* BuffySpeak:
** Franklin when he invites Kady to drink soda and watch cartoons.
--->'''Franklin:''' Let's drink some of that colored water saturated with high-fructose corn syrup, get a huge sugar rush going, and then watch hours of insipid animated marsupials sing and dance their way through a jungle festooned with product placement featuring candy-laced cereals that will no doubt destroy my pancreas before I'm 12 and leave me twitching in a diabetic coma.
** When Michael is talking to Jay about reforming the garage with Junior, he refers to a saw as "the thing that goes 'bzzz' [and] that cuts through stuff".

* ExactWords: After Michael makes a deal with the kids to see if they can last one week of independence from him, he gives a frozen whole chicken for Claire and Junior to eat (he agreed to provide food, but did not say it would be in an edible state) and makes Junior sleep on the garden after changing the locks when he comes home late at night (he agreed to provide shelter, but did not say it would be only in the house).

DomCom that aired on ABC from 2001 to 2005. The show is about Michael Kyle (Creator/DamonWayans, in what is arguably his most famous work worldwide) and, well... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin his wife and kids]]: Jay (Creator/TishaCampbell[[note]]credited as Tisha Campbell-Martin[[/note]]), Junior (George O. Gore II), Claire (Jazz Raycole[[note]]Season 1 only[[/note]]/Jennifer Nicole Freeman) and Kady (Parker [=McKenna=] Posey).

** Tony. He saved children from a burning orphanage after his first date with Claire.
** Franklin, being a ChildProdigy, can do pretty much everything and come out on top.

* BlackAndNerdy: Franklin, who takes the ChildProdigy trope up to eleven.

* AssholeVictim: Michael's OverprotectiveDad tendencies are so big it's very satisfying to see him getting out-gambitted by Claire and learning to trust her word about not having sex with her boyfriend.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Tony was initially just a NiceGuy boyfriend of Claire's, that in his early appearances got a bit rude when Michael's OverprotectiveDad tendencies got a little too far. Then he got a bit more subdued and even nicer, until he becomes [[TheFundamentalist a holier-than-thou Christian evangelist]], and pretty condescending to Claire and Michael when they do or say things that don't agree with his beliefs.

* FreudianExcuse: When Michael and Jay were still in high school, she got pregnant with junior, they got married and had to put off whatever plans they had for after high school for several years. That experience made Michael an overbearing OverprotectiveDad towards Claire, and the only reason she's allowed to date is because Jay convinced him to. Even though her latest boyfriend, Tony, is more than happy to wait until marriage, which he understands and has clearly stated to be several years after high school, and even college, Michael would rather he stayed as far away as possible from Claire.

* OverprotectiveDad: Even after getting proof, time and again, that Tony is pretty much a boy scout, Michael still offers some stubborn resistance to letting Claire date him - even going so far as to drag Jay with him to turn their first date into a double date.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Michael. He may be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, but there are many reasons for the "jerk" part of that: full of himself, a ManipulativeBastard, an OverprotectiveDad that's not afraid to say how he preferred that Claire never dated anyone, never supports Jay from the start when she wants to do anything that takes her away from her housewife duties (like going back to college), and does a lot of DisproportionateRetribution to his children when punishing or trying to get a confession from them, the worst of which is banishing his son to the garage and changing his former room into a mancave just because Junior had sex in Michael and Jay's room (which also makes Michael a {{Hypocrite}}, since he and Jay had previously had sex on Junior's bed in his old room and he later tries to convince her to do it again in the garage before it's reformed).

* TestosteronePoisoning: Michael hits the gym in one episode upon realizing he needs to get fit. Unfortunately for him, he enlists the help of Daryl (played by Creator/TerryCrews), who's extremely macho and flexes his pecs like there's no tomorrow. Daryl's training regimen is outlandish, what with the high-intensity workouts and yelling "EURO TRAINING!" on top of his lungs, and Michael is unable to keep up.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Junior and Claire. Arguably more so Junior given that it resulted in a Teen Pregnancy.

* WrestlerOfBeasts: Vanessa's father is a large, imposing man who has displayed [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower unusual feats of strength]] [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome offscreen]. One of these is killing a wolf using nothing but his hands and teeth, which only makes him even more intimidating to Michael.

-->'''Michael:''' Am I your bad boy?
-->'''Jay:''' [[TeenPregnancy You knocked me up at 16.]] It doesn't get any badder than that.

-->'''Franklin:''' Let's drink some of that colored water saturated with high-fructose corn syrup, get a huge sugar rush going, and then watch hours of insipid animated marsupials sing and dance their way through a jungle festooned with product placement featuring candy-laced cereals that will no doubt destroy my pancreas before I'm 12 and leave me twitching in a diabetic coma.

* DopeSlap: Michael often gives Junior these whenever he says something exceptionally stupid.

--> '''Kady''': Are we there yet?
--> '''Michael''': Yes, we are. ''That'' is Paul Revere's house.
--> '''Junior''': Which one?
--> '''Michael''': The one behind [[spoiler:the sign that says, "Paul Revere's House: Closed For His Birthday"]].
--> ''(One by one, the entire family dissolves into InelegantBlubbering)''

-->'''Claire:''' I know! We're like the only ones at school who haven't done it. Erica and Damien did it. I heard they did it three times in one week, give or take.

-->'''Tony:''' Well, how'd you like it?
-->'''Claire:''' Wow, Tony, you were so good. It was my first time and I'm really glad I did it with you. You were so quick, but you hit it so hard.
-->'''Tony:''' Yeah, that's why it's important to use protection.
-->'''Claire:''' I'm glad you brought some. I didn't even know how to put it on. You are so much better at it than me.
-->'''Tony:''' No, you were good too. I mean, you really got your hips into it a couple of times.
-->'''Claire:''' I liked it more than I thought I would.
-->'''Tony:''' Yeah, once you get started, it's hard to stop.
-->'''Claire:''' I know. I'm exhausted.
-->'''Tony:''' Yeah, that's natural. I mean, I usually go to sleep right afterwards. But don't worry, the more you do it, the easier it gets.

-->'''Junior:''' Let's step outside for a minute, Tony. I wanna have a little ''mano-y-boyo'' chat with you.

** In the last episode, "The "V" Story", Jay expects Michael to go and get a vasectomy because she's really that paranoid and petty about not having anymore children, so much so that she kicks him out of his own bedroom just because Michael doesn't want anyone else touching his reproductive system, but when he suggests that she get her tubes tied, Jay cannot be bothered to do the same thing. It's bad enough to the point that they try to make Michael out to be the monster ''to the very end'' just because he doesn't want anyone fooling around downstairs to be infuriating, and it's even more insufferable when Jay acts like [[SmallNameBigEgo she, and the sex by association, is 100 precent worth it when it's probably not even worth that much]] and how Michael does not even get a say despite it being his body and his decision.

-->'''Jay:''' ''(to Claire)'' Baby, you have got to communicate with Tony. That is the secret to any good relationship. How do you think your father and I have hung in there for so long?
-->'''Michael:''' Unplanned pregnancies?

-->'''Michael:''' Look at the time. Where is everybody at?
--> '''Jay:''' The kids are in their afterschool programs, Rosa's picking up Kady from Tumble Tots, and I had a late meeting. Come on baby, what is the big deal? Would you smile? ''(kisses)''
-->'''Michael:''' I'll smile when I come home and see my wife and kids and some food on the table like my father used to have.

-->'''Jay:''' So, Michael, did you have a good time?
-->'''Michael:''' Any time I spend with my wife and kids is a good time.

-->'''Michael:''' I want to thank you guys for reminding me what's really important in my life. That's the love and respect of my wife and kids.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Inverted. When Michael bets with the kids that they can't last one week without going to him for anything, he tells them he will only provide "food and shelter -- and bail money, if necessary".

* ObnoxiousInLaws: As shown in "Sister Story", Jay does get along well with Michael's sister Kelly. it is quite obvious that Kelly doesn't approve of Jay and their interactions are riddled with condescending remarks and passive-aggressive snark.