Meet The Millers is a 2000 Web Animation series of five short episodes from Icebox Entertainment and created by David Zuckerman. The series is a satire of 1950s American life and evokes the sitcoms of that era, it focuses on titular Miller family, the parents Jim and Betty Miller, alongside their children Nicky, Nancy and Benji. The series features the voice talents of Dan Castellaneta, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr and Jeannie Elias. The whole series can be found on Icebox's YouTube channel
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It has no relation to the CBS sitcom The Millers nor the crime comedy film We're the Millers.
The series shows examples of the following tropes:
- Childish Tooth Gap: Benji not only has a tooth gap but also has Youthful Freckles to fully show that he's the youngest Miller child.
- Domestic Abuse: Gus and Audrey's married life isn't the best to say the least, with Gus openly berating him in front of the Millers and when Audrey visits Betty she has to wear sunglasses to hide her black eye.
- The '50s: The show is set during the 1950s, and it doesn't shy away from showcasing exaggerated Deliberate Values Dissonance.
- British Brevity: Only five episodes were produced.
- Deliberately Monochrome: Fitting the era depicted, the show is completelyy monochrome and it's even shown through an old television set.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: The show unabashedly showcases political incorrectness befitting the era for historical accuracy, which includes but not limited to: blatant sexism, misogyny, domestic abuse, anti-Semitism and racism.
- Red Scare: Due to Jim being a part of the FBI and the timeframe the series is set in. Fear and hatred for Communists is very apparent. Although to further exaggerate it they go with "Jew-loving commies".
- Token Minority: Leroy is the only African-American character and due to the era the show takes place, he doesn't get much respect due to his race.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Due to embodying some of the worst traits (that seemed fair for their day) of 1950s Americans, The Millers fit this trope to a T. Although the family patriarch Jim Miller takes the cake, frmo forbidding his wife to butt in with the Domestic Abuse problem that Audrey has with her husband (outright ordering her to not even dream about it), to Jim blackmailing the principal into kicking out Benji's teacher who has to make him repeat his grade due to his super low report card scores just so his son doesn't end up looking like a "retard"note and so much more.
- Youthful Freckles: Benji, the youngest of the Miller Family's children has freckles and a Childish Tooth Gap.
