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4''I Hate My Teenage Daughter'' is an American {{Sitcom}} that ran on {{Creator/FOX}} from November 30, 2011 to March 20, 2012. The series stars Creator/JaimePressly and [[Series/{{Wonderfalls}} Katie Finneran]] as the mothers of two highly problematic girls (Creator/KristiLauren and Creator/AishaDee, respectively).
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6The series followed two mothers who fear their daughters are turning into exactly the kind of girls they had to endure in high school. And with good reason: Annie Watson (Pressly), who grew up in an ultra-strict conservative family, begins to notice that she has allowed her daughter Sophie (Lauren) to do what she wants to do, which she takes advantage of by embarrassing and mocking her mother; her best friend Nikki Miller (Finneran), who grew up unpopular and overweight and has reinvented herself as a SouthernBelle, begins to notice how manipulative her daughter Mackenzie (Dee) has become. They declare their mission in no uncertain terms: remedy their misfires, straighten out their daughters, before it's too late.
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8Even the ex-husbands are not good fathers: Annie's ex Matt is too clueless, prompting his lawyer brother Jack ([[Series/DesperateHousewives Kevin Rahm]]) to step in (and become an object of Annie's crush) while Nikki's ex Gary is letting their complicated relationship become more complicated in the parenting department. These situations are among the major challenges Annie and Nikki face to keep their daughters from turning into the people they were afraid of at that age.
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11!!This show contains examples of:
12* AdultsAreUseless: The girls' fathers are not as helpful with them as they should be. Averted with Annie and Nikki, who are trying their best to keep their daughters from turning into their worst nightmares.
13* AffablyEvil: Mackenzie and Sophie. Deanna also counts as this.
14* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Averted in "Teenage Dating", where Annie allows Sophie to date an older boy, but it turns out that he is a teenage father with a baby.
15* AlliterativeName: Deanna Dunbar and Mackenzie Miller.
16* AlphaBitch: This is what Annie and Nikki are afraid of how their daughters will end up.
17** Deanna was the former mean girl who went to the same school as Annie and Nikki.
18* AmicableExes: Annie and Nikki are quite friendly with their ex-husbands when it comes to parenting or disciplining their daughters.
19* AntagonisticOffspring
20* ArchEnemy: Deanna was also this to Annie and Nikki back in school.
21* BackToSchool: In "Teenage Escuela", Annie and Nikki both take Spanish classes at a local community college to try to prove a point to their daughters that grades are important.
22* BigScrewedUpFamily: Both of the families.
23* BirthdayEpisode: Annie and Nikki both throw a double birthday party for their daughters, but all hell breaks loose when the girls decide that they want a ''Series/MadMen''-themed birthday party instead.
24* BitchInSheepsClothing: Mackenzie and Sophie.
25** Deanna can also qualify as this.
26* {{Bratty Teenage Daughter}}s: Mackenzie and Sophie both ''own this trope!''
27* BumblingDad: Matt and Gary both qualify as this.
28* ComedySeries
29* CoolUncle: Jack.
30* CutShort: The show was canceled because of poor ratings and only 10 episodes were aired.
31* DaddysGirl: Mackenzie and Sophie are extremely close with their dads.
32* [[TallDarkAndSnarky Dark And Snarky]] / DeadpanSnarker: Mackenzie.
33** Sophie is more of a StepfordSnarker.
34* EducationMama[=/=]HigherEducationIsForWomen: Annie and Nikki both attend Spanish classes at a local college, specifically to prove a point to Sophie and Mackenzie about grades.
35* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Annie, Nikki, and Deanna all went to school together.
36* FormerlyFat: Nikki used to be overweight in high school.
37* GenerationXerox: Annie and Nikki are afraid that their daughters are set to turn out exactly like the kind of girls that bullied and tormented them when they were in school.
38* GlamorousSingleMother: Annie and Nikki.
39* GoneHorriblyRight: What happened to Annie and Nikki. They went out of their way to provide everything for their daughters and do what it took to ensure they'd never be bullied like their mothers were. It worked...only by spoiling them so much, the pair ended up turning their daughter into the bullies.
40* GoodParents: Annie and Nikki try to be good parents to their daughters. Averted and subverted with their exes, who are far from perfect trying to be better parents.
41* HeterosexualLifePartners: Annie and Nikki. Matt and Gary can sorta qualify as well since their ex-wives and daughters are best friends.
42** Mackenzie and Sophie, also.
43* HighSchoolDance: In the first episode.
44* {{Hormone Addled Teenager}}s: And ''how!''
45* HotTeacher: Alejandro "Alex" Castillo, Annie and Nikki's Spanish teacher.
46* HotForTeacher: In "Teenage Date Night", Annie goes on a date with her Spanish teacher.
47* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode begins with "Teenage".
48* {{Jerkass}}es: Mackenzie and Sophie. Their brattiness and teen angst comes across as jerk-like and snobbish.
49** Even their dads can qualify as this as well.
50* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: From time to time, Mackenzie and Sophie would show compassion towards their parents and would respect them.
51** Matt and Gary both deeply care about their daughters and love them as much as their exes. They even try to be friendly with their exes, despite their different parenting styles.
52* LastMinuteProject / ParentProducedProject: In "Teenage Escuela", Matt and Gary both help their daughters with their school projects.
53* ManipulativeBitch: Mackenzie. Sophie also has her moment.
54* NiceGuy: Jack.
55* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Verbatim in its [=IMDb=] entry.
56* OpenMindedParent: Annie and Nikki.
57* ParentalAbandonment: Matt and Gary weren't exactly involved in their daughters' lives very often.
58* ParentalObliviousness: Neither of the girls' fathers have any clue of how to help their exes of raising their daughters right.
59* ParentsAsPeople
60* ParentsKnowTheirChildren
61* RedheadsAreUncool: Nikki was very unpopular and overweight back in school.
62* ShesAllGrownUp: How Gary saw his daughter in "Teenage Cotillion". He starts to cry when he saw how much Mackenzie has grown up to become a lovely young lady.
63* ShortRunners
64* SouthernBelle: Nikki.
65* {{Spoiled Brat}}s: Mackenzie and Sophie.
66* StepfordSnarker: Sophie.
67* TeensAreMonsters / KidsAreCruel: How Annie and Nikki view their daughters.
68* TokenMinority: Gary and Mackenzie, though Mackenzie is half-black.
69** TwoferTokenMinority: Mackenzie can also count as this since she's bi-racial.
70* ToughLove: Annie and Nikki always use this on their daughters when their behavior gets out of control.
71* VacationEpisode: Annie takes the gang on a road trip in an RV during spring break just like what she used to do when she was her daughter's age.
72* VisitByDivorcedDad: Both of the girls' fathers show up frequently on the show.
73* WhereDidWeGoWrong The point of the series.
74* WillTheyOrWontThey: Annie and Jack. Annie has a crush on Jack while Jack started to develop feelings for Annie when she went on a date with her Spanish teacher. Now that the show is canceled, will never know if those two will end up as a couple.

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