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3	A 2013 Creator/{{FOX}} sitcom, cancelled after [[ShortRunners one season]]. The series follows video game designers Eli Sachs (Creator/SethGreen) and Warner Whittemore (Creator/GiovanniRibisi) who both unexpectedly have their lives turned upside down by their fathers (Creator/PeterRiegert and Creator/MartinMull, respectively) coming to live with them.
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5	!!Tropes:
6	* BrainBleach: After Eli's father marries Edna to keep her from being deported, he unintentionally walks in on them having sex. It turns out that they've been doing it for quite a while, too.
7	* CallingTheOldManOut: Eli does this several times with his father. Warner sometimes does it with his, but not as frequent as Eli.
8	* ChristmasEpisode: "The Glitch That Stole Christmas." Eli and Warner's company has developed a Christmas game, but an employee secretly and repeatedly inserted the N-word as payback for being fired. Worse, the watchdog executive they gave a preview copy to is black, so Eli and Warner scheme to break into the guy's house and retrieve the game. Meanwhile, David works as a MallSanta.
9	* CitizenshipMarriage: Eli's father marries Eli's maid, Edna, so she wouldn't get deported.
10	* DiagonalBilling: Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi.
11	* EthnicMenialLabor: Edna, Eli's maid.
12	* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: David and Edna seem to have this behavior. At one point, they ''were'' an old married couple.
13	* LikeGoesWithLike: Referenced in one episode, when Veronica has a date. When Eli asks if he's Asian, she says no and he (jokingly) calls her a racist.
14	* OnlySaneMan: Veronica seems to be the only one with any real sense for the series.
15	* ParentalSubstitute: Edna to Eli. In one episode, after she was discovered to be an illegal immigrant, Eli called his father out on taking away the closest thing to a mother he's ever had.
16	* PromotedToParent: Inverted, it's the sons who are promoted to a guardian-esque role for their parents.
17	* SassySecretary: Veronica, Eli and Warner's assistant. She takes verbal abuse, but gives it just as much.
18	* StudioAudience: A rare modern example.
19	* TechnicianVsPerformer: When it comes to the business, Warner is the technician and Eli is the performer.
20	* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: The titular dads. Made more complicated by the fact they're family, of course.
21	* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Eli and Veronica. And due to the cancellation, it will never be resolved.
22	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Towards the end of one episode, Eli and Warner vomit on each other. [[OverlyLongGag Multiple times]].
23	* WorldOfHam: "Over-the-top" is the standard choice of delivery.

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