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* FakeOrgasm: In "The Tub", Robin suspects Nate of faking an orgasm while making love. He claims he did but didn't ejaculate. "It's a thing [he's] been working on."
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Delilah, in discovering ''herself'', [[spoiler:finds pleasure in constantly revving up a motorbike, but never actually ''going'' anywhere]].

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: PoorMansPorn: Or rather, Poor Woman's Vibrator. Delilah, in discovering ''herself'', [[spoiler:finds pleasure in constantly revving up a motorbike, but never actually ''going'' anywhere]].
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* AmbiguousDisorder: A few gags are made that Delilah and Jared aren't neurotypical, with multiple instances of them being too naive to catch a hint or show any common sense for their age. Nate at least is stated multiple times to be a dumbass, so it might be inherited. (Robin and [[spoiler:Carlos]] aren't all that bright, either).
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* TakeThat: One Season 2 episode has a not-so-subtle take on the Hillsong Church (called the Mountain Ballad Church in the show), being run by Australians who are clearly grifting their followers and spending lavishly on themselves.
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* AllForNothing: The Season 1 finale. [[spoiler:Partway through the season, Nate's motivation for reaching Florida has changed from trying to get his job back to being a whistleblower and exposing a dangerous flaw in the hand sanitizer they manufacture. Right as the family's about to interrupt the press conference being held, a group of activists beat them to the punch, only to be mocked because the hand sanitizer was never intended for public distribution in the first place; all Nate can do is silently walk away, glad that at least he didn't publicly embarrass himself.]]

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* AllForNothing: The Season 1 finale. [[spoiler:Partway through the season, Nate's motivation for reaching Florida has changed from trying to get his job back to being a whistleblower and exposing a dangerous flaw in the hand sanitizer they manufacture. Right as the family's about to interrupt the press conference being held, a group of activists beat them to the punch, only to be mocked because the that batch of hand sanitizer was never intended for public distribution in the first place; all Nate can do is silently walk away, glad that at least he didn't publicly embarrass himself.]]

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* AbortedArc: Season 2 strongly implies that Edie [[spoiler:is pregnant by her co-worker]] after the two had their ''fling'' off duty. Season 3 seems to [[{{Retcon}} retcon]] it with her being artificially inseminated with [[spoiler: Nate's]] sperm instead.

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* AbortedArc: Season 2 strongly implies that Edie [[spoiler:is pregnant by her co-worker]] after the two had their ''fling'' off duty. Season 3 seems to [[{{Retcon}} retcon]] it with her being artificially inseminated with [[spoiler: Nate's]] [[spoiler:Nate's]] sperm instead.



* AmbiguousDisorder: A few gags are made that Delilah and Jared aren't neurotypical, with multiple instances of them being too naive to catch a hint or show any common sense for their age. Nate at least is stated multiple times to be a dumbass, so it might be inherited. (Robin and [[spoiler: Carlos]] aren't all that bright, either).

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* AllForNothing: The Season 1 finale. [[spoiler:Partway through the season, Nate's motivation for reaching Florida has changed from trying to get his job back to being a whistleblower and exposing a dangerous flaw in the hand sanitizer they manufacture. Right as the family's about to interrupt the press conference being held, a group of activists beat them to the punch, only to be mocked because the hand sanitizer was never intended for public distribution in the first place; all Nate can do is silently walk away, glad that at least he didn't publicly embarrass himself.]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: A few gags are made that Delilah and Jared aren't neurotypical, with multiple instances of them being too naive to catch a hint or show any common sense for their age. Nate at least is stated multiple times to be a dumbass, so it might be inherited. (Robin and [[spoiler: Carlos]] [[spoiler:Carlos]] aren't all that bright, either).



** Delilah tells Edie at one point that if anyone is going to break up her family, it will be her. [[spoiler: She does exactly that in the finale.]]

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** Delilah tells Edie at one point that if anyone is going to break up her family, it will be her. [[spoiler: She [[spoiler:She does exactly that in the finale.]]



* MamaBear: Robin, so very much. The second season had her assaulting Carlos when he [[spoiler: threatened to tell Jared that he was his real father.]] She also stayed up all night for two days going cross-country to save her kids from [[spoiler: her father.]]

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* MamaBear: Robin, so very much. The second season had her assaulting Carlos when he [[spoiler: threatened [[spoiler:threatened to tell Jared that he was his real father.]] father]]. She also stayed up all night for two days going cross-country to save her kids from [[spoiler: her father.]][[spoiler:her father]].



* MockGuffin: [[spoiler:The bags of hand sanitizer. Turns out they never were intended for human use, and Nate's big plan was AllForNothing.]]

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* MockGuffin: [[spoiler:The In Season 1, [[spoiler:the bags of hand sanitizer. Turns out they never were intended for human use, and Nate's big plan was AllForNothing.]]AllForNothing]].



%%* RoadTripPlot

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%%* RoadTripPlot* RoadTripPlot: The focus of each season is Nate's family travelling in an RV and trying their best to deal with each other as they attempt to reach a specific location.



** Delilah constantly feels that nobody in her family cares to listen to her concerns. [[spoiler: This motivates her to [[TheRunaway ditching her family]] at the end of season 3.]]
* WhosOnFirst: Jared starts dating a nonbinary person who uses they/them pronouns in season 3, leading to some confusion with Nate on how many people he's dating. He even lampshades that it's just like the trope.

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** Delilah constantly feels that nobody in her family cares to listen to her concerns. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This motivates her to [[TheRunaway ditching her family]] at the end of season 3.]]
* WhosOnFirst: Jared starts dating a nonbinary person who uses they/them pronouns in season Season 3, leading to some confusion with Nate on how many people he's dating. He even lampshades that it's just like the trope.

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* CallBack:
** In season 2 episode 10, Nate and Robin make the same drive to Florida just as in the first season. Nate recalls their misdeeds from the first season, but Robin brushes him off.

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* CallBack:
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CallBack: In season 2 episode 10, "The Trip", Nate and Robin make the same drive to Florida just as in the first season. Nate recalls their misdeeds from the first season, but Robin brushes him off.



* IntimateHealing: Played for CringeComedy in "The Search" after Jared ends up almost frozen, his parents have to help up warm up by sleeping naked with him to share body heat, but it becomes extremely awkward for them since he's having an EroticDream and his body starts to... [[RagingStiffie react]].



-->'''Robin''': They're ours!
-->'''Nate''': They came out of her!
-->'''Jared''': Yeah! He planted the seeds in her forehead and the eggs grew and ate the seeds and then the seeds split into two and then they popped out of her tummy scar twelve years later.
-->'''Trucker''': Son, did these people drug you?

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-->'''Robin''': They're ours!
-->'''Nate''':
ours!\\
'''Nate''':
They came out of her!
-->'''Jared''':
her!\\
'''Jared''':
Yeah! He planted the seeds in her forehead and the eggs grew and ate the seeds and then the seeds split into two and then they popped out of her tummy scar twelve years later.
-->'''Trucker''':
later.\\
'''Trucker''':
Son, did these people drug you?



* SexySurfacingShot: In a DreamSequence during "The Search", one of Jared's dream girls is introduced coming out of the water in a tiny black bikini.



** Delilah constantly feels that nobody in her family cares to listen to her concerns. [[spoiler: This motivates her to ditching her family at the end of season 3.]]

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** Delilah constantly feels that nobody in her family cares to listen to her concerns. [[spoiler: This motivates her to [[TheRunaway ditching her family family]] at the end of season 3.]]

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* RoadTripPlot

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* %%* RoadTripPlot



* SirSwearsAlot: Nate.

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* SexinessScore: In "The Search", Jared unknowingly kissed a 10-year-old girl (she was wearing a snowsuit and he couldn't tell) and is freaked out about it. When he tells his parents he "got some from a 10", they assume he's talking about this trope, and Nate congratulates him while Robin admonishes him for rating women numerically.
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SirSwearsAlot: Nate.



* WhosOnFirst: Jared starts dating a nonbinary person who uses they/them pronouns in season 3, leading to some confusion with Nate on how many people he's dating. He even lampshades that it's just like the trope.

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* WhosOnFirst: Jared starts dating a nonbinary person who uses they/them pronouns in season 3, leading to some confusion with Nate on how many people he's dating. He even lampshades that it's just like the trope.trope.
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* AbortedArc: Season 2 strongly implies that Edie [[spoiler:is pregnant by her co-worker]] after the two had their ''liaison'' off duty. Season 3 seems to [[{{Retcon}} retcon]] it with her being artificially inseminated with [[spoiler: Nate's]] sperm instead.

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* AbortedArc: Season 2 strongly implies that Edie [[spoiler:is pregnant by her co-worker]] after the two had their ''liaison'' ''fling'' off duty. Season 3 seems to [[{{Retcon}} retcon]] it with her being artificially inseminated with [[spoiler: Nate's]] sperm instead.
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