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* MicrowaveMisuse: Mike brings a microwave prototype home for testing. Peggy resents it because she sees it as an intrusion in her kitchen, so she sabotages it by putting a fork inside and turning it on. It shorts out a fuse and causes a blackout.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In an episode dealing with masturbation, Timmy is shown squirting copious amounts of Elmer's Glue and getting it all over the place.
** While losing badly gambling, Wendi asks her opponent to kiss her because she likes to be kissed when she's getting-- ''(scene changes)''
** While losing badly gambling, Wendi asks her opponent to kiss her because she likes to be kissed when she's getting-- ''(scene changes)''
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** While losing badly gambling, Wendi asks her opponentfuture, please check the trope page to kiss her because she likes to be kissed when she's getting-- ''(scene changes)''make sure your example fits the current definition.
** While losing badly gambling, Wendi asks her opponent
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The show was cancelled after 1 season in 2019.
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* {{Fainting}}: Timmy faints while complaining his stomach hurts, due to a RupturedAppendix.
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* 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.
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* JockDadNerdSon: Invoked. A variation. Mike is a jock dad who want his sons to be nerds. Mike is a working class machinist who's seen what scientists and engineers can do do, so he pushes his sons to pursue educations.
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* AgeGapRomance: Larwence, who's in his early 20s begins to date Fiona, who reveals she's ''47''.
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* VagueAge: Fiona. Lawrence assumes she's somewhere around his age. She then reveals she's 47.
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** While losing badly gambling, Wendi asks her opponent to kiss her because she likes to be kissed when she's getting-- ''(scene changes)''
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In an episode dealing with masturbation, Timmy is shown squirting copious amounts of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer's_Products Elmer's Glue]] and getting it all over the place.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In an episode dealing with masturbation, Timmy is shown squirting copious amounts of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer's_Products Elmer's Glue]] Glue and getting it all over the place.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In an episode dealing with masturbation, Timmy is shown squirting copious amounts of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer's_Products Elmer's Glue]] and getting it all over the place.
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** Timmy is MistakenForMasturbating because he left a glue stain on his bedsheet while making a secret puppet show. It gets worse when he starts gluing his puppets over a Sears catalog... over the women's coats section.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: In "Timmy's New Hobby", Lawrence is asked to talk to Timmy because Peggy thinks he's masturbating. In reality, Timmy is secretly doing a puppet show about his family and he got glue on the sheets. So when Lawrence and Timmy talk, Lawrence is taken aback when Timmy says he likes to do it with an audience, mainly on the children's section of the library.
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* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: Parodied on "Timmy's New Hobby", where Timmy does a puppet show about his family. When he's caught, he points to a disclaimer he wrote on the side of the box he uses as a theater: "Any resemblance to actual persons is entirely coincidental and a sign of excellent puppetry."
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** Wendi calls out Mike over his WellDoneSonGuy routine and how Eddie is willing to die in Vietnam just to get his respect.
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* ImportantHaircut: Larwence gets a haircut thinking Peggy is angry with him.
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* ActorAllusion: In "Low Expectations", Timmy is trying to get into ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'', and talks to a studio guard who claims Creator/DannyBonaduce is mean to him. Bonaduce himself plays the guard.
* PlaceboEffect: In "Low Expectations", Peggy takes dog sedatives to calm her before her driving test. She feels guilty about it later, and that's when Mike informs her that he switched the sedatives for Tic Tacs.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Nine Birthdays" flashes back to the Cleary kids' birthdays from before the start of the show, showing how Eddie met Wendi, how Lawrence changed while at the seminary, and when Pat started wearing glasses.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Nine Birthdays" flashes back to the Cleary kids' birthdays from before the start of the show, showing how Eddie met Wendi, how Lawrence changed while at the seminary, and when Pat started wearing glasses.glasses.
* WomenDrivers: Mike makes jokes about Peggy's driving when she's trying to renew her license. Later, she blames him from making her too nervous to pass her driving test.
* WomenDrivers: Mike makes jokes about Peggy's driving when she's trying to renew her license. Later, she blames him from making her too nervous to pass her driving test.
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* OutOfFocus: Lawrence was originally set up as an important supporting character who would have disagreements with his father. He was gradually pushed to the side in favor of goofier stories focusing on his younger brothers.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: When Eddie's number is called in the draft lottery, Lawrence, who'd received a draft letter just moments before, declares that he's going to Vietnam. Despite vehemently opposing the war and scared to go, he's willing to put himself through it if it means that there's even a chance that it'll keep Eddie out of danger.
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* FlashbackEpisode: "Nine Birthdays" flashes back to the Cleary kids' birthdays from before the start of the show, showing how Eddie met Wendi, how Lawrence changed while at the seminary, and when Pat started wearing glasses.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: All the Cleary boys desperately want Mike's attention and approval.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: All the Cleary boys desperately want Mike's attention and approval.approval.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Nine Birthdays" flashes back to the Cleary kids' birthdays from before the start of the show, showing how Eddie met Wendi, how Lawrence changed while at the seminary, and when Pat started wearing glasses.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Nine Birthdays" flashes back to the Cleary kids' birthdays from before the start of the show, showing how Eddie met Wendi, how Lawrence changed while at the seminary, and when Pat started wearing glasses.
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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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* 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. She even believes Eddie absorbed a twin sister in the womb, and celebrates her "birthday" along with his.
* FlashbackEpisode: "Nine Birthdays" flashes back to the Cleary kids' birthdays from before the start of the show, showing how Eddie met Wendi, how Lawrence changed while at the seminary, and when Pat started wearing glasses.
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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.
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** It's shown that Frank hates being so co-dependent with Peggy, and likes to help others, and work as a stagehand.
** It's shown that Frank hates being so co-dependent with Peggy, and likes to help others, and work as a stagehand.
** Peggy is shown to be an excellent artist in "Nine Birthdays", making a set of well-crafted Richard Nixon candles that sell very well and is able to reproduce the set of a kid show for Timmy.
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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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* 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).means at first). 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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* 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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** Joey built the Cleary's backyard treehouse because it gives him the ideal vantage point to ogle the attractive nurse who lives nextdoor.door.
** Lawrence notes that Frank takes extra long in the shower whenever he sees Catwoman on TV. Frank insists he's just being "thorough".
** Joey built the Cleary's backyard treehouse because it gives him the ideal vantage point to ogle the attractive nurse who lives next
** Lawrence notes that Frank takes extra long in the shower whenever he sees Catwoman on TV. Frank insists he's just being "thorough".
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* JerkassRealization: Wendi realizes that she's been a little too hard on Eddie, and realizes that it's okay if they're on different paths.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Wendi shows shades of being this, especially when Eddie is trying to being sweet to her, eventually leading to a short break up.
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* RealityEnsues: Lawrence receives a draft letter halfway through the first season, having lost his deferment when he dropped out of the seminary in the first episode.
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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.
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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. Mike also sees Eddie this way and doesn't want to see his son become cynical and hardened by war.
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* StressVomit: In “Vietnam”, Mike acts with pride at two of his sons going out to serve their country. Then he runs to the bathroom to throw up.
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* AdultFear: With the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar raging, Peggy is terrified at the prospect of her older sons being drafted and sent overseas to fight.
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* {{Conscription}}: “Vietnam” is all about how the family deals with Lawrence and Eddie getting drafted.
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* PassThePopcorn: The Clearys eat popcorn while watching the televised Vietnam War draft.
* PercussivePrevention: In “Vietnam”, [[spoiler:Peggy hits Lawrence with her car to keep him out of the Vietnam draft.]]
* PercussivePrevention: In “Vietnam”, [[spoiler:Peggy hits Lawrence with her car to keep him out of the Vietnam draft.]]
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** Lawrence could also be considered one due to him quitting the seminary, and his liberal beliefs.
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* LikeASonToMe: Peggy sees Wendi as the daughter she never had.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Frank seems to lack social skills, and doesn't seem to like being touched.
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* TheCutie: Pat identifies himself as this.
