History Series / TwoOfAKind

** This also occurs in the episode "Kevin Burke's Day Off" where Carrie convinces [[StraightMan Kevin]] to call in sick at work and go to a ball game instead, which is the first time he's ever played hooky. He wins a car because of this - and ends up on the big screen and the evening news. When his boss calls, [[spoiler: the trope is revealed to be {{subverted}}; he was just asking to test drive the car]].

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Paul (Another of Kevin's students) turns up at the house delivering a pizza for the girls' slumber party, only to see Carrie lounging around their professor's house and painting her nails whilst he paid for a pizza, he came to the ([[ShipTease not unreasonable]]) conclusion that they were having an affair. The whole class later finds out about it. [[spoiler: But it’s Kevin who accidentally reveals it to them. Paul only told one classmate about it and it had yet to start spreading around.]]

* NewFriendEnvy: "You've Got a Friend" has Mary-Kate jealous that Ashley keeps ditching her for her new friend Nicole than with Mary-Kate. After Ashley ends up going to a movie with Nicole that she and Mary-Kate had already agreed to go see together, Mary-Kate pretends to be Ashley to break up their friendship, leaving Ashley furious when she finds out. Kevin is able to resolve this by explaining to Mary-Kate that Ashley is still her best friend and that Ashley shouldn't take Mary-Kate for granted just because she has a new friend.

* IronicInversion: Ashley auditions for a modelling agency but doesn't get it despite having prepared for weeks. Mary-Kate has no interest in it and ends up getting it with a sarcastic tryout. Turns out that Mary-Kate was just as interested in the modelling job, but didn't want to appear too enthusiastic to avoid ruining her reputation.

** Played with in when the twins sneak over to Carrie's college party without Kevin's permission. They get caught, but the end of the episode has them realizing they can still make a good story out of this.

** Played with again when Ashley, in a desperate move to raise more school funds, uses the current funds to engage in a betting operation that a boy in school runs, ending up losing the bet and the money. When she and Mary-Kate go to the boy to give the money to him, however, they meet him and his mother there, who issues a cease-and-desist order on the betting operation and gives the money back.

** This also occurs in an episode where Carrie convinces [[StraightMan Kevin]] to call in sick at work and go to a ball game instead, which is the first time he's ever played hooky. He wins a car because of this - and ends up on the big screen and the evening news. When his boss calls, [[spoiler: the trope is revealed to be {{subverted}}; he was just asking to test drive the car]].
** And then subverted when the girls throw a party at the house while Kevin is away. See SarcasticConfession below.

--->'''Boy's mother''': You girls are getting off easy, and that's only because we have bigger fish to fry. (turning to the boy) Now... who's the boy with the pink slip to ''Daddy's Camaro?!''\\

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Played with in when the twins sneak over to Carrie's college party without Kevin's permission. They get caught, but the end of the episode has them realising they can still make a good story out of this.
--> '''Mary-Kate:''' At least we get to tell Jennifer Dilber we went to a college party.\\

* TokenMinority: Max.

This show has parallels with ''Series/FullHouse'', the most obvious examples being both the prominent roles the Olsen twins take up and Miller-Boyett as production company. It ran for one season only and was the last sitcom produced by Miller-Boyett until their official final sitcom, ''Series/FullerHouse'', debuted 18 years later.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: When Kevin's car breaks down and he needs to not only drop Mary-Kate and Ashley to school but get to work himself, he enlists Carrie's help. His initial attempt at instructing Carrie proves too complicated for Carrie to comprehend, so he simplifies his instruction to "Us... your car... now." Carrie understands at once, and all four of them make their way to Carrie's car, saying that he should talk like Tarzan more often.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Between Kevin and Carrie. [[spoiler:Nope, but only because the show was CutShort - the Season Finale ends with the two of them admitting their feelings as Carrie leaves for the summer.]]

* GeekPhysiques: Paul, due to his tall and lanky appearance.

** A one-shot character (captain of the cheerleader squad), who has Ashley vandalize a Goth girl's backpack as condition to acceptance into the squad. Ashley goes through with it, but her conscience kicks in at the sight of said Goth girl's devastated expression from Ashley's vandalizing act, and Ashley decides against joining the squad, agrees to pay for the girl's new backpack, and gets the last laugh at the stinger of the episode by writing a ''scathing'' review about the cheerleaders' routine during the school assembly for the school newspaper, which ends with Ashley claiming she could barely hear the cheer over the flapping of the captain's ''thighs''.

%%* EvenNerdsHaveStandards

%%* GeekPhysiques: Paul.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The next-door neighbor Mrs. Baker tells Carrie of a female relative of her love interest. She isn't fond of said relative and lets Carrie know it, and then this takes place:
-->'''Carrie''': What is she, some kind of witch?
-->'''Mrs. Baker''': You're just one letter off.
** A not-so subtle example in another episode where the twins lie to their father's date that Carrie is another one of his girlfriends:
--> '''Marcy:''' You never mentioned her.
--> '''Kevin:''' There's not much to tell. I needed someone, I took out an ad and Carrie showed up. It's just a coincidence that she happened to be a student of mine. And whenever she's too busy with her studies I just call Mrs. Baker...[She's] my neighbour. Of course she's 72 so she's not as much fun as Carrie but she still gets the job done.
** "Peeping Twins" literally implies that Mrs. Baker and Mr. Fillmore are going to have sex.

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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Played with in when the twins sneak over to Carrie's college party without Kevin's permission. They get caught but the end of the episode has them realising they can still make a good story out of this.

** This also occurs in an episode where Carrie convinces [[StraightMan Kevin]] to call in sick at work and go to a ballgame instead, which is the first time he's ever played hooky. He wins a car because of this- and ends up on the big screen and the evening news. When his boss calls, [[spoiler: the trope is revealed to be {{subverted}}; he was just asking to test drive the car]].

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The twins sneaked their way around to a college party without Kevin's approval, so Carrie decided to have them stay... as clean-up crew.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: The series deconstructed PapaWolf in one episode. Ashley has a crush on her tutor but discovers he has a girlfriend and is heartbroken. When Kevin finds out, he fires the tutor thinking it would help. Instead Ashley yells at him for meddling in her private business and Carrie points out how Kevin assumed he would be helping rather than actually asking Ashley about her feelings. Kevin eventually admits it was more out of a desire to come across as a hero - and hires the tutor back.

* FieryRedhead: Carrie. An ex boyfriend of hers reveals she used to be '''worse'''.

--> '''Kevin:''' There's not much to tell. I needed someone, I took out an ad and Carrie showed up. It's just a coincidence that she happened to be a student of mine. And whenever she's too busy with her studies I just call Mrs Baker...[She's] my neighbour. Of course she's 72 so she's not as much fun as Carrie but she still gets the job done".
** "Peeping Twins" literally implies that Mrs Baker and Mr. Fillmore are going to have sex.

* InformedAbility: A plot point in one episode where a guy Mary Kate likes says he only swing dances and when she keeps asking him to dance with her (after learning how to swing-dance) he rebuffs her before confessing he can't dance at all and just made it up as an excuse.
* IronicEcho: In "Prelude to a Kiss" as Kevin denies the implications that he and Carrie are having an affair (see NotWhatItLooksLike below), Carrie fails to clear things up by replying "no comment". Later when Carrie gets a good grade on a paper, her classmates imply she got it due to sleeping with the professor, so when Carrie asks Kevin to back her up he replies "No comment".
* IronicInversion: Ashley auditions for a modelling agency but doesn't get it despite having prepared for weeks. Mary Kate has no interest in it and ends up getting it with a sarcastic tryout. Turns out that Mary-Kate was just as interested in the modelling job, but didn't want to appear too enthusiastic to avoid ruining her reputation.

** Another episode has Kevin planning to break up with Nancy but Carrie tells her by accident, making Nancy even angrier that she knew in advance as well. The episode ends with Kevin finding one of his car mirrors smashed and Carrie gets away scot-free ''again''.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Paul (Another of Kevin's students) turned up at the house delivering a pizza for the girls' slumber party, only to see Carrie lounging around their professor's house & painting her nails whilst he paid for a pizza, he came to the ([[ShipTease not unreasonable]]) conclusion that they were having an affair. The whole class later finds out about it. [[spoiler: But it’s Kevin who accidentally reveals it to them. Paul only told one classmate about it and it had yet to start spreading around]].

* WildTeenParty: All right, so the twins aren't teen yet, but the party they hold still turn into this. They aren't punished for it, however, because they clean up well after it before Kevin returns and [[SarcasticConfession the truth Kevin gets about it is not quite full-fledged]].
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Between Kevin and Carrie. [[spoiler:Nope, but only because the show was CutShort - the Season Finale ended with the two of them admitting their feelings as Carrie left for the summer.]]
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This show has parallels with ''Series/FullHouse'', the most obvious examples being both the prominent roles the Olsen twins take up and Miller-Boyett as production company. It ran for one season only and was the last sitcom produced by Miller-Boyett until ''Series/FullerHouse'' debuted 18 years later.