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1!![[Film/TheReplacements2000 The film ]]
2See YMMV/TheReplacements2000
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4!![[WesternAnimation/TheReplacements The Disney series]]
5* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Admit it; you probably only watched the show for the sexy spy mom.
6* DieForOurShip: Sierra is hated by fans who want Riley to end up with anyone but her, and thus usually have her set out to destroy her relationship with someone only for it to backfire.
7* GrowingTheBeard:
8** The first season was just passable, focusing on the gimmick with formulaic episodes. (The kids are displeased, someone is replaced, things are better, then they learn why the original was better and fix it.) However, by season 2, the gimmick was used in creative ways and the plots focused more on the characters themselves.
9** The TwoShorts format was also mostly abandoned - allowing the opportunity to tell more developed stories.
10** In addition to the art style change, the animation became [[AnimationBump much smoother]].
11* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In "Truth or Daring", Riley, while under the effects of the "truth salt", is forced to admit that she has no idea how to set things right, but she still swears to set them right anyway and says she cares about her dad and thinks he's a good dad despite being a bad politician. Seeing as she was able to say that, that means she really does care about Dick.
12* IncestYayShipping: A rare adoptive family example. [[MayDecemberRomance Riley and K]] are often the subject of [[RuleThirtyFour very lewd fan-art and stories]].
13* RetroactiveRecognition: Story editor Scott Peterson would later go on to be the story editor for ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' and ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', and be showrunner for ''WesternAnimation/TheLastKidsOnEarth''.
14* TheWoobie: Prince Cinnamon Boots for always being forgotten by the family.
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16!![[Music/TheReplacements The band]]
17* EpicRiff: A few, but "We're Coming Out" has a pretty damn epic one.
18* FanNickname: The Mats. Allegedly, a drunken Paul Westerberg misread his band's name and demanded to know who "The Placemats" were. Fans eventually adopted "The Mats", a contraction of Placemats, as an affectionate nickname for the band.
19* GrowingTheBeard: While their first couple albums aren't considered bad, the 'Mats grew a [[Film/HotFuzz big bushy beard]] with ''Let It Be'' and never looked back.
20** The band began growing stubble with ''Hootenanny'', which contained a few songs that were more introspective and very un-punk, like "Within Your Reach" and "Willpower".
21* HarsherInHindsight: "Here Comes a Regular" can get even more depressing when you remember Bob Stinson's alcoholism led to his early death.
22** "Johnny's Gonna Die" was a jokey song about New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders having sloppy performances due to drug use and dying early. Thunders ended up passing away ten years later, possibly due to drug abuse.
23* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: "Androgynous", a remarkably ahead-of-its-time song about a non-binary couple.
24* TearJerker: "Sixteen Blue", "Here Comes a Regular", "Androgynous", "The Ledge"...
25* ToughActToFollow: While the albums following it were well-received, ''Let It Be'' is often held up at the band's high point.
26* ValuesResonance: "Androgynous" is a positive depiction of a couple who doesn't follow traditional gender norms. Not only was this fairly rare and progressive for its time, but the ultimate message of the song is that people in the future will see traditional gender roles as passé. Although we haven't reached a world where "kewpie dolls and urine stalls" are laughed at, the world is much more accepting of gender non-conforming people than it was in 1984, and gender neutral fashions (and unisex bathrooms) are much more common now.

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