YMMV / American Housewife

• Ass Pull: The Season 5 episode "How Oliver Got His Groove Back" has the arc of Taylor and Trip's relationship deteriorating come to its payoff and fruition with Taylor and Trip breaking up and realizing they need time to figure themselves out without each other. When she attempts to go on a date with her college friend Andre, she finds herself unable to kiss him because she's not over Trip. Thus, the same episode literally ends with Taylor telling Trip she wants him back and he takes her back. Not to mention the season/series finale "The Election" has them getting engaged.
• Designated Villain: In Season 3's "Grandma's Way", Katie villainizes Gina for ending things with Oliver just because she got accepted to the ballet school they both applied to and he wanted her to hold to the promise they each made not to go without the other. If anything, aside from the agreement not being fair to begin with, it's really just Katie disapproving of Gina now just because she hurt Oliver and the reasoning being irrelevant when the circumstances should've really been taken into account.

• Diagnosis: Knowing Too Much: Franklin's main "problem" is his complete lack of understanding social cues, which could describe any number of mental/social disorders.

• Fan Nickname: The gatherings of Katie, Doris, and Angela are referred to by fans as the "Second Breakfast Club", which has been acknowledged by the show's social media accounts.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Oliver and Cooper are shipped together very strongly for how much of a bromance they have and the fact that they have more chemistry than Oliver had with Alice, Gina or Brie when he was with any of them.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • After years of playing a girl unhealthily obsessed with horses on this show, Julia Butters played a western actress in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
  • Not the first time Leslie Bibb and Sara Rue have been on screen together.
• Hollywood Homely: While Katy Mixon did gain some weight to play the role (and it helps that she was pregnant during both of the first two seasons), she's a beautiful woman. However, her character, Katie Otto, is self-conscious about her appearance since all the other women in Westport are slender.
• Hollywood Pudgy: Katie is considered to be the "Second fattest housewife" in Westport, she's curvy if you compare her to Pam, who was the fattest. She of course lampshades this early on, stating that as a forty-something mother of three kids, she'd need a dedicated personal trainer and plastic surgery to "have the ass of a 19-year-old." In Season Two, it is also mentioned that in most of the rest of America, Katie would be considered normal size. Greg, for his part, adores his larger wife.
• Platonic Writing, Romantic Reading:
  • The writers made it clear in the show that they didn't want Oliver and Cooper to be shipped together despite interest thriving regardless. See Fan-Preferred Couple.
  • Cooper viewing Oliver's family like they're his own means that moments of him and Taylor looking like they're flirting with each other were not meant to be seen as Ship Tease and yet could still be interpreted as such.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: In "Grandma's Way" from Season 3, Katie indicts Gina for her decision to go to the ballet school without Oliver as being wrong when the agreement that they made not to go without each other to begin with was already a selfish one that Gina was right to not honor.

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