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3	A sitcom starring Music/RebaMcEntire that aired on Creator/{{ABC}} from 2012–13. It's basically a SpiritualSuccessor to her previous sitcom, ''Series/{{Reba}}''.
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5	Reba Gallagher stands conflicted at a press conference where her country superstar husband publicizes an extramarital affair. When he condescendingly suggests that she'll always be by his side, she takes the mike and demands a divorce. She then takes her two kids, [[ThemeNaming June and Cash]], and her mother, Lillie Mae (Creator/LilyTomlin) to his previously unknown summer home in Malibu, where she tries to get back into the country music game herself (under her maiden name [=MacKenzie=]) after getting out of it for the good of her marriage. Along the way, she tries to keep her kids grounded, get on good terms with her new neighbor Kim (Creator/SaraRue), and fights with her chosen record producer, but ultimately wows the producers's assistant Geoffrey (Jai Rodriguez)...which gets her absolutely no pull because the producer still doesn't know his name.
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8	!!Tropes present in ''Malibu Country'':
9	* AndStarring: Creator/LilyTomlin.
10	* BigBrotherInstinct: Cash
11	* BowlingForRatings: "Bowling for Mama".
12	* CampGay: Geoffrey, as played by Jai Rodriguez, otherwise best known for co-hosting ''Series/QueerEyeForTheStraightGuy''.
13	* TheDitz: Kim. Cash as well.
14	* HollywoodAtheist: Nicely {{averted}} when June admits she's an atheist. Reba respects this, along with her desire to not attend church anymore.
15	* MistakenForGay: Cash, a couple of times.
16	* PracticeKiss: Reba catches June practice kissing with a boy, who swears he's gay (and turns out to be Kim's son).
17	* ShortRunner: Ran for 18 episodes.
18	* ThemeNaming: Reba's kids are named Cash and June. If she'd had another boy, he'd probably have been named [[Music/JohnnyCash Johnny]].
19	* VerySpecialEpisode: The eighth episode "Push Comes to Shove" involves Cash being picked on by the school bully and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becoming a bully himself]], which ends with [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle a short PSA about the consequences of bullying]].

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