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* TownGirls: Rachel and Daphne are Feeme, Georgie is Butch, and Harley is Neither.



* TownGirls: Rachel and Daphne are Feeme, Georgie is Butch, and Harley is Neither.
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* CallBack: In ''Stuck in a Gold Medal Performance'' when Georgie says to Suzy and Tom that the Diaz family isn't a traditional Hispanic family at all, Suzy defends themselves by saying how the family kept a Quinceañera for Georgie going during a hurricane in the episode ''Stuck in the Quinceañera''.
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* RideOfTheValkyries: [[spoiler:The Snowball fight]] at the end of "Stuck with No Rules", [[spoiler:the food fight]] in "Stuck in the School Photo", and [[spoiler:The Terror Trio, (Lewie, Beast, and Daphne), attack Harley with strawberry cannons]] in "Stuck in the Babysitting Nightmare”.
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* BittersweetEnding: A really emotional one occurs in “Stuck With Rachel’s Secret”; Rachel leaves her family to attend a fashion program overseas, leaving the rest of the family missing her and aren’t ready to take over her big sister role yet.
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** In “Stuck With Rachel’s Secret”, Rachel leaves the Diaz family to attend boarding school in Paris.

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** In “Stuck With Rachel’s Secret”, Rachel leaves the Diaz family to attend boarding school college in Paris.Paris, France.

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* PutOnABus: At the end of “Stuck with a Bad Influence”, Harley’s friend Ellie is sent to a boarding school.

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At the end of “Stuck with a Bad Influence”, Harley’s friend Ellie is sent to a boarding school.school called Radistone Academy.
** In “Stuck With Rachel’s Secret”, Rachel leaves the Diaz family to attend boarding school in Paris.



* ShaggyDogStory: In “Stuck In the Sweet Seat”, Suzy apologizes to Harley for forgetting her birthday and gives her the best seat in the car as a present...but it turns out she won’t be getting it for another four years.

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* ShaggyDogStory: In “Stuck In the Sweet Seat”, Suzy apologizes to Harley for forgetting her birthday and gives her the best seat in the car as a present...but it turns out she won’t be getting it for another four years.years (when she turns 17).

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* RideOfTheValkyries: [[spoiler:The Snowball fight]] at the end of "Stuck with No Rules", [[spoiler:the food fight]] in "Stuck in the School Photo", and [[spoiler:The Terror Trio, (Lewie, Beast, and Daphne), attack Harley with strawberry cannons]] in "Stuck in the Babysitting Nightmare

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* RideOfTheValkyries: [[spoiler:The Snowball fight]] at the end of "Stuck with No Rules", [[spoiler:the food fight]] in "Stuck in the School Photo", and [[spoiler:The Terror Trio, (Lewie, Beast, and Daphne), attack Harley with strawberry cannons]] in "Stuck in the Babysitting NightmareNightmare”.
* ShaggyDogStory: In “Stuck In the Sweet Seat”, Suzy apologizes to Harley for forgetting her birthday and gives her the best seat in the car as a present...but it turns out she won’t be getting it for another four years.
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* TownGirls: Rachel and Daphne are Feeme, Georgie is Butch, and Harley is Neither.

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* YankTheDogsChain: Just as Harley's mother makes a chunk in her to-do list while the twins are at camp, the counselors keep calling her to tell on the kids. When she lies down when all the kids at home are grounded, she gets the call that the twins have been kicked out of the camp, after only one day. She snarks that they did better than expected.

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* YankTheDogsChain: YankTheDogsChain:
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Just as Harley's mother makes a chunk in her to-do list while the twins are at camp, the counselors keep calling her to tell on the kids. When she lies down when all the kids at home are grounded, she gets the call that the twins have been kicked out of the camp, after only one day. She snarks that they did better than expected.expected.
** In “Stuck In the Sweet Seat”, Harley only has one small slice of cake to eat, which Suzy offers, only for Daphne to swipe it and [[KarmaHoudini never get scolded.]]
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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: When Rachel receives a red light traffic infraction notice, she sets up an elaborate scheme to trick Suzy into thinking she was the one ticketed. To really sell the idea, Rachel "finds" the coffee cup from the infraction photo in the car with Suzy written on it. After Rachel leaves, Suzy smirks while examining the coffee cup. She later reveals to Rachel whenever she orders coffee, she does so using the name Celeste for her own personal amusement.
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* PutOnABus: At the end of “Stuck with a Bad Influence”, Harley’s friend Ellie is sent to a boarding school.
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* RideOfTheValkyries: [[spoiler:The Snowball fight]] at the end of "Stuck with No Rules".

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* RideOfTheValkyries: [[spoiler:The Snowball fight]] at the end of "Stuck with No Rules".Rules", [[spoiler:the food fight]] in "Stuck in the School Photo", and [[spoiler:The Terror Trio, (Lewie, Beast, and Daphne), attack Harley with strawberry cannons]] in "Stuck in the Babysitting Nightmare
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* LatinoIsBrown: The entire family is Hispanic; a first for a Disney show.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title starts with either "Stuck in" or "Stuck with".

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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title starts with either "Stuck in" or "Stuck with".in/with/at".
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The show is rather unusual compared to other Creator/DisneyChannel {{Kid Com}}s. Unlike other shows on the channel, for the first time since ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'' it is a single-camera sitcom with no LaughTrack. The set of the house is much messier than most other homes, and there is a substantial amount of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

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The show is rather unusual compared to other Creator/DisneyChannel {{Kid Com}}s. Unlike other shows on the channel, for the first time since ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'' it is a single-camera sitcom with no LaughTrack. The set of the house is much messier than most other homes, and there is a substantial amount of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
GettingCrapPastTheRadar. It's also one of the few of their sitcoms ''not'' to be produced by It's A Laugh Productions.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Harley has to make it through an entire day of school without getting detention in order to get a much desired indoor skydiving session. When she sees a substitute teacher who despises the Diaz children and is known for giving them detentions for that reason, Ellie takes over Harley's identity for the day to ensure all the hostility is directed towards her. Naturally, HilarityEnsues. It also happened to be PictureDay.


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** It is possible this is just his nickname, due to his animalistic behavior.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: With her to-camera monologues, Harley does this often.
** When the family becomes the subject of a reality tv show, Harley freezes up while looking at the interview camera when requested to talk to it. Then she turns to the show camera and says "I'm not sure if I can do this whole talking to camera thing".
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Beast.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: The only way for Ethan to fit in between Georgie and Harley in the birth order. Harley explicitly turns 13 in an early season 1 episode, while Georgie doesn't turn 15 until nearly season two. The bare minimum amount of time for there to be two to-term pregnancies (6 months is the bare minimum at which a fetus can survive outside the womb) with minimum amount of healing time between births (6 weeks each) is 18 months, which just barely fits in the needed time frame (and possibly doesn't at all).

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* WritersCannotDoMath: The only way for Ethan to fit in between Georgie and Harley in the birth order. Harley explicitly turns 13 in an early season 1 episode, while Georgie doesn't turn 15 until nearly season two. The bare minimum amount of time for there to be two to-term pregnancies (6 months is the bare minimum at which a fetus can survive outside the womb) with minimum amount of healing time between births (6 weeks each) is 18 months, which just barely fits in the needed time frame (and possibly doesn't at all). The wikia reveals that Georgie was born in July 2000, Ethan in November 2001 (so almost a year and a half right there), and Harley in ... April 2002. This means that Harley was born 5 months after Ethan (so, in order to be full-term, would have had to be conceived 4 months into Ethan's pregnancy).

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* CrankyNeighbor: Bethany Peters, who loathes Suzy and Tony's parenting style, very different from her own.

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* CrankyNeighbor: Bethany Peters, who loathes Suzy and Tony's Tom's parenting style, very different from her own.


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* WritersCannotDoMath: The only way for Ethan to fit in between Georgie and Harley in the birth order. Harley explicitly turns 13 in an early season 1 episode, while Georgie doesn't turn 15 until nearly season two. The bare minimum amount of time for there to be two to-term pregnancies (6 months is the bare minimum at which a fetus can survive outside the womb) with minimum amount of healing time between births (6 weeks each) is 18 months, which just barely fits in the needed time frame (and possibly doesn't at all).
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The show is rather unusual compared to other Creator/DisneyChannel [[KidCom Kid Coms]]. Unlike other shows on the channel, it is a single-camera sitcom with no laugh track. The set of the house is much messier than most other homes, and there is a substantial amount of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

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The show is rather unusual compared to other Creator/DisneyChannel [[KidCom Kid Coms]]. {{Kid Com}}s. Unlike other shows on the channel, for the first time since ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'' it is a single-camera sitcom with no laugh track.LaughTrack. The set of the house is much messier than most other homes, and there is a substantial amount of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
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* VagueAge: The show can't seem to decide if Ethan is older than Georgie or younger; different episodes seem to change the order. Georgie is explicitly fifteen now, but sometimes Ethan is older than Georgie and sometimes younger. Additionally, the twins are somewhere between Daphne's age of "sinister six" and Harley's thirteen. Given that, in season 2, the twins are not at the same school as the older kids, it seems likely that the twins are under the age of eleven.

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* VagueAge: The show can't seem to decide if Ethan is older than Georgie or younger; different episodes seem to change the order. Georgie is explicitly fifteen now, but sometimes Ethan is older than Georgie and sometimes younger. Additionally, the twins are somewhere between Daphne's age of "sinister six" and Harley's thirteen. Given that, in season 2, the twins are not at the same school as the older kids, it seems likely that the twins are under the age of eleven.eleven, and it is later revealed that they are eight.
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* VagueAge: The show can't seem to decide if Ethan is older than Georgie or younger; different episodes seem to change the order. Georgie is explicitly fifteen now, but sometimes Ethan is older than Georgie and sometimes younger. Additionally, the twins are somewhere between Daphne's age of "sinister six" and Harley's thirteen.

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* VagueAge: The show can't seem to decide if Ethan is older than Georgie or younger; different episodes seem to change the order. Georgie is explicitly fifteen now, but sometimes Ethan is older than Georgie and sometimes younger. Additionally, the twins are somewhere between Daphne's age of "sinister six" and Harley's thirteen. Given that, in season 2, the twins are not at the same school as the older kids, it seems likely that the twins are under the age of eleven.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Some of Georgie's behavior suggests she could be somewhere on the autism spectrum.
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* CharacterDevelopment: In the earlier episodes, the older kids and Harley seem to be highly annoyed by the youngest three, but over the course of the season they start getting along much better, and they're basically all shown to have had at least one positive interaction with a child from the younger set (with the most prominent being Ethan and the twins, or Rachel and Daphne).
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* TheLeader: In most situations, everyone in the family (yes, including the parents) count on Harley to call the shots.

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''Stuck in the Middle'' is a Disney series that began airing in 2016 about a large family, with seven children. The main character is Harley, the third of four girls and the fourth child overall, leaving her, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin stuck in the middle]].

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''Stuck in the Middle'' is a Disney series that began airing in 2016 about a large Hispanic family, with seven children. The main character is Harley, the third of four girls and the fourth child overall, leaving her, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin stuck in the middle]].



* AlphaBitch: Rachel has this down pat, being arrogant, stuck-up and is the leader of her circle of friends known as "The Squad".



* BigSisterMentor: In In one episode, Rachel teaches Daphne how to be a star.

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* BigSisterMentor: In In one episode, Rachel teaches Daphne how to be a star.


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* {{Hypocrite}}: In Lockdown, Harley accuses Daphne for manipulating their parents into getting what she wants at Harley's and their older siblings' expense, but in "Stuck In Harley's Comet", Harley had no qualms doing the same thing to her dad at the expense of Rachel.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Mrs. Peterson with regards to her only daughter, Ellie.
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Harley's best friend, Ellie, is an only child and also has a very overprotective mother.
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* TakeThat: In "Stuck in the Diaz of Our Lives" the reference to the quintuplets show being cancelled over a scandal is a dig at 19 Kids and Counting being cancelled on TLC, though the latter case had less family-friendly reasons.

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* TakeThat: In "Stuck in the Diaz of Our Lives" the reference to the quintuplets show being cancelled over a scandal is a dig at 19 Kids and Counting ''Series/NineteenKidsAndCounting'' being cancelled on TLC, though the latter case had less family-friendly reasons.

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* ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe, in "Stuck in the Diaz of Our Lives" the producers force a lot of changes while filming to make the Diaz family less like reality. They dismiss Harley's invention while making her change into a pink outfit, force the boys to sing as backup to an animated raccoon, to the twins' disgust, and pit Georgie and Rachel against each other as Rachel spreads embarrassing secrets about the family. Daphne's the only one who doesn't want out of the contract.
* FailedASpotCheck: Harley mentions that she ought to have realized the reality show about the quintuplets was faked with two of the so-called siblings calling their mother "Aunt Jess".



* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Stuck in the Diaz of Our Lives" the reality show producers mention that a previous show got cancelled due to a scandal about the star quintuplets actually being triplets and two cousins. When the producers start to film the Diazes as part of a new reality show, they invoke ExecutiveMeddling that makes the entire family except Daphne miserable.



* TakeThat: In "Stuck in the Diaz of Our Lives" the reference to the quintuplets show being cancelled over a scandal is a dig at 19 Kids and Counting being cancelled on TLC, though the latter case had less family-friendly reasons.



* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Played for laughs when the twins at camp toss "Ron" off a room; their mothers freak until she learns Ron is a crash test dummy. She then goes back to sleep on top of the dishes she's washing.

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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Played for laughs when the twins at camp toss "Ron" off a room; their mothers freak mother freaks until she learns Ron is a crash test dummy. She then goes back to sleep on top of the dishes she's washing.



* YankTheDogsChain: Just as Harley's mother makes a chunk in her to-do list while the twins are at camp, the counselors keep calling her to tell on the kids. When she lies down when all the kids at home are grounded, she gets the call that the twins have been kicked out of the camp, after only one day.

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* YankTheDogsChain: Just as Harley's mother makes a chunk in her to-do list while the twins are at camp, the counselors keep calling her to tell on the kids. When she lies down when all the kids at home are grounded, she gets the call that the twins have been kicked out of the camp, after only one day. She snarks that they did better than expected.

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