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* RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor:
** Eleanor Clift believes herself to be this.
--->'''Eleanor:''' I always wonder what my mother-in-law in Cleveland is thinking. I feel like saying, "Hey, I'm really a very nice person."
** Robert Novak was fairly harmless in real life, politics aside, despite his in-series persona being comparable to Archie Bunker from ''Series/AllInTheFamily'', to the point where one observer remarked that the only difference between the two was that Novak got more airtime.
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* InMemoriam: The SeriesFinale effectively served as a tribute to John [=McLaughlin=].
* RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor:
** Eleanor Clift believes herself to be this.
--->'''Eleanor:''' I always wonder what my mother-in-law in Cleveland is thinking. I feel like saying, "Hey, I'm really a very nice person."
** Robert Novak was fairly harmless in real life, politics aside, despite his in-series persona being comparable to Archie Bunker from ''Series/AllInTheFamily'', to the point where one observer remarked that the only difference between the two was that Novak got more airtime.
* MoneyDearBoy: Jack Germond admitted he considered the show was "really bad TV" and stayed on purely to pay for his daughter's medical school tuition.
* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Robert Novak's run on the series came to an end in the summer of 1988, shortly after he made sport of what he considered John [=McLaughlin=]'s chameleon-like political views on the air, accusing him of preparing to turn Democrat. Unusually for this trope, Novak would leave of his own volition.

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