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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Joey built the Cleary's backyard treehouse because it gives him the ideal vantage point to ogle the attractive nurse who lives next door.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Peggy sees Eddie as this.
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* DudeLooksLikeALady: In one episode an old lady mistakes Lawrence for a girl.
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* ColorblindCasting: Played for laughs when Timmy is cast as Joe in the school's production of "Show Boat".
* DayInTheLimeLight:"Showboat" "Show Boat" is one for Frank.
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* BlackSheep: Timmy is one due to his interests in musical theater.
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* HiddenDepths: It's shown that Frank hates being so co-dependent with Peggy, and likes to help others, and work as a stagehand.
** Despite their gruff exteriors, Peggy and Mike do care about their boys happiness and well-being.
** Despite their gruff exteriors, Peggy and Mike do care about their boys happiness and well-being.
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* DayInTheLimeLight: "Showboat" is one for Frank.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: Frank calls Peggy out on how she always depends on him, and how she never lets him do his own thing.
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* EtTuBrute: William has this reaction when Timmy accidentally lets it slip that he accidentally broke the lamp.lamp.
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* MamasBoy: Frank is the most eager to please Peggy, going so far as to become the family snitch and rat out his brothers so that he can look good in comparison.
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* MamasBoy: Frank is the most eager to please Peggy, going so far as to become the family snitch and rat out his brothers so that he can look good in comparison. In his words, he "worships the woman" which the others find abnormal.
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* OutnumberedSibling: Played with. In “Little Cyst”, Pat misshears Peggy, and tells the others that they’re going to have a little sister. The news freaks All the boys out, except for Pat freak out at the thought of having a sister, and they try to solve what’s what's really going on. on.
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* EtTuBrute: William has this reaction when Timmy accidentally lets it slip that William broke the lamp.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While Mike is usually fine with Peggy pinning the boys against one another, he doesn't approve of her love list, as it was putting a strain on Timmy and William's relationship.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While Mike is usually fine with Peggy pinning the boys against one another, he doesn't approve of her love list, as it was putting a strain on Timmy and William's relationship.
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* EtTuBrute: William has this reaction when Timmy accidentally lets it slip that William he accidentally broke the lamp.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While Mike is usually fine withPeggy pinning the boys against one another, Peggy's parenting style, he doesn't approve of her love list, as because it was putting pinning the boys against one another and briefly put a strain on Timmy and William's relationship. relationship.
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* OutnumberedSibling: Played with. In “Little Cyst”, Pat misshears Peggy, and tells the others that they’re going to have a little sister. The news freaks the boys out, and they try to solve what’s really going on.
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* RupturedAppendix: Timmy faints as a result of appendicitis, and has to go to the hospital because of it.
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* RupturedAppendix: In "The Love List", Timmy faints as a result complains that his stomach hurts, which of appendicitis, course Mike and has to go Peggy just brush it off as him wanting attention. When he faints, then they take him to the hospital because of it. only to find out he has appendicitis and has to get his appendix removed.
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* DeadBabyComedy: Peggy can veer into the macabre when dealing with Wendi, such as quipping that Wendi is the type of daughter she wished she'd had if only those pregnancies had made it to term.
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* TheSeventies: The show is set during this decade, opens in 1972, with occasional mentions of the then-unfolding Watergate scandal.
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* EtTuBrute: William has this reaction when Timmy accidentally lets it slip that William broke the lamp.
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-->'''Mike:''' Stealing, murder, rubbers...all mortal sins. Equally condemned by me and by God.
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-->'''Mike:''' Stealing, murder, rubbers...all mortal sins. Equally condemned by me and by God.
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* OvenLogic: The microwave episode discussed their discovery of just how sensitive baked goods in particular are to that.
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* MissingTheGoodStuff: Timmy is told that on an upcoming Bob Hope TV special, Barbara Eden wears a revealing costume that at one point shows "Everything" (though he's not sure what "everything" actually means). As the special airs, a fuse blows due to Peggy sabotaging the new microwave oven Mike brought home, and the power goes out just as Eden was supposedly about to expose herself.
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* ParentsAsPeople: One subplot revolves around Lawrence coming to better understand his father and seeing that, despite his gruff exterior, Mike is a compassionate man who cares about the plight of others.
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* CasualKink: Mike and Peggy gargle mouthwash to signal to the other that they're in the mood. Even seeing an TV ad for Scope prompts them to go to bed early.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Frank is the family snitch but he also has a selfless side when it comes to helping older women around the neighborhood at no cost. Timmy and Joey, however, speculate that it's because Frank is stocking up on good deeds to get out of Purgatory faster.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Invoked. Mike points out to Peggy that it's impossible for them to have one blanket approach to all their sons and they have to address issues case by case, even if it means being hands on with one son while being hands off with another.
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* TheSmartGuy: William is the most bookish of the Cleary boys and often the one to propose the most level-headed and well thought out solutions to the boys' problems.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In an attempt to scare Eddie out of having sex with Wendi, Mike gives him a barely veiled talk lumping theft, murder, and the purchase of condoms together[[note]]DeliberateValuesDissonance is invoked here since, as a Catholic, Mike really would consider premarital sex and birth control to be serious sins[[/note]].
-->'''Mike:''' Stealing, murder, rubbers...all mortal sins. Equally condemned by me and by God.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: A lot of humor is mined by showing how different parenting was in the 1970's.
-->'''Mike:''' Stealing, murder, rubbers...all mortal sins. Equally condemned by me and by God.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: A lot of humor is mined by showing how different parenting was in the 1970's.
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* TwerpSweating: Gender flipped. Peggy intimidates and plays mind games with Wendi, Eddie's girlfriend, to see what sort of girl her son is dating.dating.
* WellDoneSonGuy: All the Cleary boys desperately want Mike's attention and approval.
* WellDoneSonGuy: All the Cleary boys desperately want Mike's attention and approval.
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Not to be confused with ''Film/TheKidsAreAlright'', a documentary film about Music/TheWho, or ''Film/TheKidsAreAllRight'', a film about a lesbian couple and their children.
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Mike and Peggy Cleary are a working class Irish-American couple raising their eight sons (with a 20 year gap between the eldest and youngest) in suburban Los Angeles during the [=1970s=].
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Mike and Peggy Cleary are a working class Irish-American couple raising their eight sons (with a 20 year gap between the eldest and youngest) in suburban Los Angeles during the [=1970s=]. \n The show is primarily told from the perspective of Timmy, the fifth son, as he tries to figure out how to navigate adolescence and his large and loud family.
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* PurityPersonified: Peggy sees Eddie as being too nice and trusting of others and, thus, in danger of being taken advantage of.
* RaisedCatholic: One of the show's central concepts as the eight Cleary boys are being raised in a Catholic household.
* RaisedCatholic: One of the show's central concepts as the eight Cleary boys are being raised in a Catholic household.
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* SkewedPriorities: Mike and Peggy are more concerned with property damage rather than their sons' physical well-being whenever the boys start playing in the house.
* TheTeetotaler: Mike abstains from drinking due to a family history of alcoholism. Peggy, on the other hand, enjoys the occasional tipple.
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''The Kids Are Alright'' is a semi-autobiographical American DomCom that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} in 2018. It was inspired by the childhood of creator Tim Doyle, who also acts as the show's narrator.
Mike and Peggy Cleary are a working class Irish-American couple raising their eight sons (with a 20 year gap between the eldest and youngest) in suburban Los Angeles during the [=1970s=].
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!!This series provides examples of the following:
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: None of the Cleary boys particularly like being around Frank since he'll go whining to their mother at the slightest hint of trouble.
* JockDadNerdSon: Invoked. Mike is a working class machinist who's seen what scientists and engineers can do so he pushes his sons to pursue educations.
* MamaBear: Peggy doesn't take too kindly to outsiders coming in and potentially corrupting her sons.
* MamasBoy: Frank is the most eager to please Peggy, going so far as to become the family snitch and rat out his brothers so that he can look good in comparison.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: There are eight Cleary boys with barely enough space in the house to fit them all. In the first episode, the Narrator mentions another family having ''12'' children.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Timmy has trouble fitting in as he's too young to hang around his older brothers but too old to play with his younger brothers. He's also interested in pursuing a career in show business, something none of his other brothers can understand.
* PurityPersonified: Peggy sees Eddie as being too nice and trusting of others
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Peggy spends a day testing Wendi to see if she has the strength of character to protect Eddie as well as the drive to push him to become better.
* SexyPriest: Lawrence turns many young women's heads when he comes home from seminary school wearing clerical clothing.
* SkewedPriorities: Mike and Peggy are more concerned with property damage rather than their sons' physical well-being whenever the boys
* TwerpSweating: Gender flipped. Peggy intimidates and plays mind games with Wendi, Eddie's girlfriend, to see what sort of girl her son is dating.
Mike and Peggy Cleary are a working class Irish-American couple raising their eight sons (with a 20 year gap between the eldest and youngest) in suburban Los Angeles during the [=1970s=].
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!!This series provides examples of the following:
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: None of the Cleary boys particularly like being around Frank since he'll go whining to their mother at the slightest hint of trouble.
* JockDadNerdSon: Invoked. Mike is a working class machinist who's seen what scientists and engineers can do so he pushes his sons to pursue educations.
* MamaBear: Peggy doesn't take too kindly to outsiders coming in and potentially corrupting her sons.
* MamasBoy: Frank is the most eager to please Peggy, going so far as to become the family snitch and rat out his brothers so that he can look good in comparison.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: There are eight Cleary boys with barely enough space in the house to fit them all. In the first episode, the Narrator mentions another family having ''12'' children.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Timmy has trouble fitting in as he's too young to hang around his older brothers but too old to play with his younger brothers. He's also interested in pursuing a career in show business, something none of his other brothers can understand.
* PurityPersonified: Peggy sees Eddie as being too nice and trusting of others
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Peggy spends a day testing Wendi to see if she has the strength of character to protect Eddie as well as the drive to push him to become better.
* SexyPriest: Lawrence turns many young women's heads when he comes home from seminary school wearing clerical clothing.
* SkewedPriorities: Mike and Peggy are more concerned with property damage rather than their sons' physical well-being whenever the boys
* TwerpSweating: Gender flipped. Peggy intimidates and plays mind games with Wendi, Eddie's girlfriend, to see what sort of girl her son is dating.
