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* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Many readers (mostly on Reddit) complained more about Audrey's selfishness to Nicole and expressed hatred towards the former, saying how she's the worst character in the series despite Aunt Mallory doing ''way worse'' than Audrey, as stated below.
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* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Many readers (mostly on Reddit) complained more about Audrey's selfishness to towards Nicole and expressed hatred towards the former, saying how she's the worst character in the series despite Aunt Mallory doing ''way worse'' than Audrey, as stated below.
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* VanillaProtagonist: Compared to the rest of her siblings, Katie is this, as aside from her relationship issues and reactions to the things that happen in the books, she barely shows any distinct personality traits and quirks throughout and more or less acts as an AudienceSurrogate most of the time. This lead to many readers finding her arc boring, and the fair amount of times when Katie does something rather stupid and foolish doesn't help her case on these detractors.[[note]]Interestingly, this (and other reasons mentioned above and the one below) actively lead to Katie and Audrey being hated on online more by fans than actual villainous characters like Paolo and Mallory in the series.[[/note]]
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* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Many readers (mostly on Reddit) complained more about Audrey's selfishness to Nicole and expressed hatred towards the former, saying how she's the worst character in the series despite Aunt Mallory doing ''way worse'' than Audrey, as stated below.
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* AcceptableTargets:
** Women under 30 are portrayed as Russell-fodder and not much else.
** Husbands who love sports are portrayed as hopeless at anything even remotely unisex.
** Women under 30 are portrayed as Russell-fodder and not much else.
** Husbands who love sports are portrayed as hopeless at anything even remotely unisex.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: The film has been criticized by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/aug/11/1 several]] [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/aug/11/2 reviewers]] for allegedly promoting an anti-Arab and anti-Muslim perspective. In particular, they argued that film conveys the message that indiscriminate shootings of anti-American civilians are justifiable, if American lives are at stake. Furthermore, Childers' torture of prisoners of war in Vietnam is deemed as acceptable, simply because the North Vietnamese colonel admitted that he would have done the same to save lives. Paramount eventually released a statement noting that "the film is not an indictment of any government, culture or people."
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Zero Context Example. Fixing example indentation and getting rid of Conversation On The Main Page and trope slashing. Jeff and Audrey are too major for Ensemble Dark Horse, which requires that a character be a smash hit despite minimal screen time. Russell and Timmy are more Base Breaking Characters than The Scrappy. Kick The Dog isn't YMMV.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Jennifer the OnlySaneMan being pushed to her breaking point from dealing with an idiot boyfriend, apathetic neighbors and a lecherous acquaintance, or does she hang out with these people to indulge her superiority complex?
** Did Russell greencard-marry Timmy out of kindness, or to indulge his homoerotic sense of dependency on him?
*** Jeff admits that this is his interpretation of Russell.
** Did Russell greencard-marry Timmy out of kindness, or to indulge his homoerotic sense of dependency on him?
*** Jeff admits that this is his interpretation of Russell.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Is Jennifer the OnlySaneMan being pushed to her breaking point from dealing with an idiot boyfriend, apathetic neighbors and a lecherous acquaintance, or does she hang out with these people to indulge her superiority complex?
** Did Russell greencard-marry Timmy out of kindness, or to indulge his homoerotic sense of dependency onhim?
***him? Jeff admits that this is his interpretation of Russell.
** Is Jennifer the OnlySaneMan being pushed to her breaking point from dealing with an idiot boyfriend, apathetic neighbors and a lecherous acquaintance, or does she hang out with these people to indulge her superiority complex?
** Did Russell greencard-marry Timmy out of kindness, or to indulge his homoerotic sense of dependency on
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* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Timmy, whose hilarious interactions with Russell quickly got him promoted to series regular.
** Jeff and Audrey, due to having [[SpotlightStealingSquad taken over]] the primary couple stuff from Adam and Jennifer.
* FridgeHorror: Adam's stupidity might be the result of minor brain-damage, due to the possibility that his Hippie mother continued to take mind-expanding drugs during pregnancy! Considering what we see of her, there is ''nothing'' that rules this possibility out!
** Evidence of Jennifer's porn-career surfaces at the end of an episode.
** Timmy, whose hilarious interactions with Russell quickly got him promoted to series regular.
** Jeff and Audrey, due to having [[SpotlightStealingSquad taken over]] the primary couple stuff from Adam and Jennifer.
* FridgeHorror: Adam's stupidity might be the result of minor brain-damage, due to the possibility that his Hippie mother continued to take mind-expanding drugs during pregnancy! Considering what we see of her, there is ''nothing'' that rules this possibility out!
** Evidence of Jennifer's porn-career surfaces at the end of an episode.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Timmy, whoseEnsembleDarkhorse: Timmy's hilarious interactions with Russell quickly got him promoted to series regular.
* FridgeHorror:
**Jeff and Audrey, due to having [[SpotlightStealingSquad taken over]] the primary couple stuff from Adam and Jennifer.
* FridgeHorror:Adam's stupidity might be the result of minor brain-damage, due to the possibility that his Hippie mother continued to take mind-expanding drugs during pregnancy! Considering what we see of her, there is ''nothing'' that rules this possibility out!
** Evidence %%Evidence of Jennifer's porn-career surfaces at the end of an episode.
** Timmy, whose
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* HollywoodHomely[=/=][[HollywoodPudgy Pudgy]] Liz is treated as being hideously ugly and extremely overweight when she is neither. Later seasons focus more on her unpleasant personality, and criticisms of her body are limited to what cannot be seen on screen (such as having one breast longer than the other)
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* HollywoodHomely[=/=][[HollywoodPudgy Pudgy]] HollywoodHomely:
** Liz is treated as being hideously ugly and extremely overweight when she is neither. Later seasons focus more on her unpleasant personality, and criticisms of her body are limited to what cannot be seen on screen (such as having one breast longer than the other)
** Liz is treated as being hideously ugly and extremely overweight when she is neither. Later seasons focus more on her unpleasant personality, and criticisms of her body are limited to what cannot be seen on screen (such as having one breast longer than the other)
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* JerkassWoobie: Russell becomes this when Audrey tells him that her sister doesn't feel the same way about him as he does towards her. Although Russell tries to play it cool, it's obvious that he's completely heartbroken by the news.
** Although some people consider it to be a case of LaserGuidedKarma due to Russell's poor treatment of women. This is even lampshaded by Audrey herself.
* KickTheDog: Audrey has a kick the dog moment in the episode "Reunion" where she and Jeff travel to Nebraska to attend her high school reunion. Audrey intends on rubbing it in her classmates' faces that she lives in New York City and has a great life, but when it turns out that most of her high school classmates have gone on to have rich, fulfilling lives she becomes depressed that she's unable to gloat like she wanted to. Audrey definitely comes across as rather shallow and mean-spirited in that episode.
* SoOkayItsAverage: This seems to be the general opinion of television critics regarding the show. When the show was canceled in May of 2013, many journalists noted their surprise that the show managed to last for seven seasons due to the fact that it never had high ratings and it had narrowly avoided being canceled several times before. Other people have remarked that while many people ''like'' the show, virtually nobody considers it to be their ''favorite'' show.
** As the show ended, the response was still the same, describing it as a solid show that never really set the world on fire, but did have a steady, dependable run that gave them a deep enough episode count to, again, have a steady, dependable (and therefore highly profitable) run in syndication.
*** The ongoing and post-cancellation popularity of the show is similar to ''Series/MadAboutYou'', a 90's NBC Sitcom that also focused around a childless couple in New York. It was also overshadowed in pop culture by larger shows like ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' and ''Series/{{Friends}}'' but occupied a niche that gave the cast and crew about seven seasons of work.
* TheScrappy: Timmy.
** On the other hand, some fans actually consider ''Russell'' this due to how much of a selfish Jerkass he is (although his recent character development has begun to lessen this), with Timmy's passive-aggressive [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]] at how utterly inept Russell to be both deeply refreshing and making him something of an EnsembleDarkhorse.
** Timmy is more of an AscendedExtra, having started out as a one time role that was too popular to let go of, and he was asked to become a regular.
* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: Russell and Audrey's sister.
** Although some people consider it to be a case of LaserGuidedKarma due to Russell's poor treatment of women. This is even lampshaded by Audrey herself.
* KickTheDog: Audrey has a kick the dog moment in the episode "Reunion" where she and Jeff travel to Nebraska to attend her high school reunion. Audrey intends on rubbing it in her classmates' faces that she lives in New York City and has a great life, but when it turns out that most of her high school classmates have gone on to have rich, fulfilling lives she becomes depressed that she's unable to gloat like she wanted to. Audrey definitely comes across as rather shallow and mean-spirited in that episode.
* SoOkayItsAverage: This seems to be the general opinion of television critics regarding the show. When the show was canceled in May of 2013, many journalists noted their surprise that the show managed to last for seven seasons due to the fact that it never had high ratings and it had narrowly avoided being canceled several times before. Other people have remarked that while many people ''like'' the show, virtually nobody considers it to be their ''favorite'' show.
** As the show ended, the response was still the same, describing it as a solid show that never really set the world on fire, but did have a steady, dependable run that gave them a deep enough episode count to, again, have a steady, dependable (and therefore highly profitable) run in syndication.
*** The ongoing and post-cancellation popularity of the show is similar to ''Series/MadAboutYou'', a 90's NBC Sitcom that also focused around a childless couple in New York. It was also overshadowed in pop culture by larger shows like ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' and ''Series/{{Friends}}'' but occupied a niche that gave the cast and crew about seven seasons of work.
* TheScrappy: Timmy.
** On the other hand, some fans actually consider ''Russell'' this due to how much of a selfish Jerkass he is (although his recent character development has begun to lessen this), with Timmy's passive-aggressive [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]] at how utterly inept Russell to be both deeply refreshing and making him something of an EnsembleDarkhorse.
** Timmy is more of an AscendedExtra, having started out as a one time role that was too popular to let go of, and he was asked to become a regular.
* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: Russell and Audrey's sister.
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* JerkassWoobie: While Russell becomes this is a womanizing creep, he earns some sympathy when Audrey tells him that her sister doesn't feel the same way about him as he does towards her. Although Russell tries to play it cool, it's obvious that he's completely heartbroken by the news.
** Although some people consider it to be a casenews, with Audrey's sister being one of LaserGuidedKarma due to Russell's poor treatment of women. This is even lampshaded by Audrey herself.
* KickTheDog: Audrey has a kickthe dog moment in the episode "Reunion" where she and Jeff travel to Nebraska to attend her high school reunion. Audrey intends on rubbing it in her classmates' faces that she lives in New York City and has a great life, but when it turns out that most of her high school classmates have gone on to have rich, fulfilling lives she becomes depressed that she's unable to gloat like she wanted to. Audrey definitely comes across as rather shallow and mean-spirited in that episode.
few women Russell had [[LadykillerInLove genuine feelings for]].
* SoOkayItsAverage: This seems to be the general opinion of television critics regarding the show. When the show was canceled in May of 2013, many journalists noted their surprise that the show managed to last for seven seasons due to the fact that it never had high ratings and it had narrowly avoided being canceled several times before. Other people have remarked that while many people ''like'' the show, virtually nobody considers it to be their ''favorite''show.
**show. As the show ended, the response was still the same, describing it as a solid show that never really set the world on fire, but did have a steady, dependable run that gave them a deep enough episode count to, again, have a steady, dependable (and therefore highly profitable) run in syndication.
*** The ongoing and post-cancellation popularity of the show is similar to ''Series/MadAboutYou'', a 90's NBC Sitcom that also focused around a childless couple in New York. It was also overshadowed in pop culture by larger shows like ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' and ''Series/{{Friends}}'' but occupied a niche that gave the cast and crew about seven seasons of work.
* TheScrappy: Timmy.
** On the other hand, some fans actually consider ''Russell'' this due to how much of a selfish Jerkass he is (although his recent character development has begun to lessen this), with Timmy's passive-aggressive [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]] at how utterly inept Russell to be both deeply refreshing and making him something of an EnsembleDarkhorse.
** Timmy is more of an AscendedExtra, having started out as a one time role that was too popular to let go of, and he was asked to become a regular.
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** Although some people consider it to be a case
* KickTheDog: Audrey has a kick
* SoOkayItsAverage: This seems to be the general opinion of television critics regarding the show. When the show was canceled in May of 2013, many journalists noted their surprise that the show managed to last for seven seasons due to the fact that it never had high ratings and it had narrowly avoided being canceled several times before. Other people have remarked that while many people ''like'' the show, virtually nobody considers it to be their ''favorite''
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* TheScrappy: Timmy.
** On the other hand, some fans actually consider ''Russell'' this due to how much of a selfish Jerkass he is (although his recent character development has begun to lessen this), with Timmy's passive-aggressive [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]] at how utterly inept Russell to be both deeply refreshing and making him something of an EnsembleDarkhorse.
** Timmy is more of an AscendedExtra, having started out as a one time role that was too popular to let go of, and he was asked to become a regular.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The prosecution calls a former North Vietnamese soldier as a witness, who testifies about Childers having executed a prisoner during the Vietnam War. A controversial moment... but less so than the US Navy calling [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochitsura_Hashimoto#McVay_court-martial Commander Mochitsura Hashimoto]] to testify against American Captain Charles [=McVay=], on trial for negligence after Hashimoto torpedoed and sunk his ship.
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* UnfortunateImplications: [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/aug/11/1 Several]] [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/aug/11/2 reviewers]] accused the movie of promoting an anti-Arab and anti-Muslim perspective. In particular, they argued that film conveys the message that indiscriminate shootings of anti-American civilians are justifiable, if American lives are at stake. Furthermore, Childers' torture of prisoners of war in Vietnam is deemed as acceptable, simply because the North Vietnamese colonel admitted that he would have done the same to save lives.
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* {{Wangst}}: Katie only having cold feet not because of the realistic consequences of only knowing her new fiancé for less than two months, but because she discovered that [[BrokenPedestal her parents' marriage wasn’t perfect]]. What added more to her detractors is the premium flashback from Trent's perspective, where it's revealed that, in addition of his growing insecurities, Katie did very little effort to keep their relationship alive.
* WhatAnIdiot: The cliffhanger of Book 1 has Katie signing a contract in Greek that she didn't even read, ''handed out by her douche ex-fiancé Trent'', [[BlatantLies with the excuse that it's an issue with her passport]]. What could possibly go wrong?\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Katie took her time to ask what she's about to sign and check it first, since ''Dinesh'' and ''Alex'', both lawyers, are on board.\\
'''Instead''': She takes Trent's word and signs it without reading because she's in a hurry to go on her date.\\
'''Result''': What Katie signed turns out to be a ''marriage certificate'' in Greek, 100% legal. She has to get a lot of help from Dinesh finding a loophole in the inheritance, Leo calling a favor from his Royal parents, William getting her a divorce lawyer, and Dean getting information from Trent, to clear up her own fuck up.
* WhatAnIdiot: The cliffhanger of Book 1 has Katie signing a contract in Greek that she didn't even read, ''handed out by her douche ex-fiancé Trent'', [[BlatantLies with the excuse that it's an issue with her passport]]. What could possibly go wrong?\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Katie took her time to ask what she's about to sign and check it first, since ''Dinesh'' and ''Alex'', both lawyers, are on board.\\
'''Instead''': She takes Trent's word and signs it without reading because she's in a hurry to go on her date.\\
'''Result''': What Katie signed turns out to be a ''marriage certificate'' in Greek, 100% legal. She has to get a lot of help from Dinesh finding a loophole in the inheritance, Leo calling a favor from his Royal parents, William getting her a divorce lawyer, and Dean getting information from Trent, to clear up her own fuck up.
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* {{Wangst}}: Katie only having cold feet not because of the realistic consequences of only knowing her new fiancé for less than two months, but because she discovered that [[BrokenPedestal her parents' marriage wasn’t perfect]]. What added more to her detractors is the premium flashback from Trent's perspective, where it's revealed that, in addition of his growing insecurities, Katie did very little effort to keep their relationship alive.
* WhatAnIdiot: The cliffhanger of Book 1 has Katie signing a contract in Greek that she didn't even read, ''handed out by her douche ex-fiancé Trent'', [[BlatantLies with the excuse that it's an issue with her passport]]. What could possibly go wrong?\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Katie took her time to ask what she's about to sign and check it first, since ''Dinesh'' and ''Alex'', both lawyers, are on board.\\
'''Instead''': She takes Trent's word and signs it without reading because she's in a hurry to go on her date.\\
'''Result''': What Katie signed turns out to be a ''marriage certificate'' in Greek, 100% legal. She has to get a lot of help from Dinesh finding a loophole in the inheritance, Leo calling a favor from his Royal parents, William getting her a divorce lawyer, and Dean getting information from Trent, to clear up her own fuck up.alive.
* WhatAnIdiot: The cliffhanger of Book 1 has Katie signing a contract in Greek that she didn't even read, ''handed out by her douche ex-fiancé Trent'', [[BlatantLies with the excuse that it's an issue with her passport]]. What could possibly go wrong?\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Katie took her time to ask what she's about to sign and check it first, since ''Dinesh'' and ''Alex'', both lawyers, are on board.\\
'''Instead''': She takes Trent's word and signs it without reading because she's in a hurry to go on her date.\\
'''Result''': What Katie signed turns out to be a ''marriage certificate'' in Greek, 100% legal. She has to get a lot of help from Dinesh finding a loophole in the inheritance, Leo calling a favor from his Royal parents, William getting her a divorce lawyer, and Dean getting information from Trent, to clear up her own fuck up.
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!The film
* HarsherInHindsight: An incident similar to the film's prologue occurred during the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Iraq War]], where a group of US marines [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah_killings_of_April_2003 fired upon]] a group of protesting Iraqi civilians in Fallujah, believing that they were fired upon first. As the evidence was inconclusive, the marines were never charged. Unlike the film however, the shootings led to severe consequences for the US military, including several retaliatory killings and the First Battle of Fallujah in 2004, where Coalition forces were driven out of the city. Coalition forces eventually retook the city from Iraqi insurgents during the Second Battle of Fallujah later in the year.
* UnfortunateImplications: [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/aug/11/1 Several]] [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/aug/11/2 reviewers]] accused the movie of promoting an anti-Arab and anti-Muslim perspective. In particular, they argued that film conveys the message that indiscriminate shootings of anti-American civilians are justifiable, if American lives are at stake. Furthermore, Childers' torture of prisoners of war in Vietnam is deemed as acceptable, simply because the North Vietnamese colonel admitted that he would have done the same to save lives.
* HarsherInHindsight: An incident similar to the film's prologue occurred during the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Iraq War]], where a group of US marines [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah_killings_of_April_2003 fired upon]] a group of protesting Iraqi civilians in Fallujah, believing that they were fired upon first. As the evidence was inconclusive, the marines were never charged. Unlike the film however, the shootings led to severe consequences for the US military, including several retaliatory killings and the First Battle of Fallujah in 2004, where Coalition forces were driven out of the city. Coalition forces eventually retook the city from Iraqi insurgents during the Second Battle of Fallujah later in the year.
* UnfortunateImplications: [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/aug/11/1 Several]] [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/aug/11/2 reviewers]] accused the movie of promoting an anti-Arab and anti-Muslim perspective. In particular, they argued that film conveys the message that indiscriminate shootings of anti-American civilians are justifiable, if American lives are at stake. Furthermore, Childers' torture of prisoners of war in Vietnam is deemed as acceptable, simply because the North Vietnamese colonel admitted that he would have done the same to save lives.
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* FanPreferredCouple: Russell and Audrey's sister, due to the fact that she was one of the few women he really cared about and wasn't just using for sex.
