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  • Funny Moments: In one of the show's rare light-hearted episodes (by comparison, anyway) "Lighten up, Rene", Rene and M.E. visit the former's beauty parlor so she can get her hair done. At one point, the curious latter ends up rubbing lye on her face, to the beauticians' (and soon her own, especially when it started to burn) horror. Cue a later scene with M.E. sitting at home and explaining that she got the burns from poison ivy, to a very skeptical Mrs. O'Brien's suspicions.
  • Hollywood Pudgy: Rene shockingly asks "M.E., what is with those pants?!", having noticed how much weight she's gained recently, but M.E. really doesn't look any different.
  • Ho Yay: In "It's Not About The Butter (Part 1)" Mary Elizabeth and Rene share a kiss just to spite a possible racist and homophobic man.
    • In another episode, young M.E. flips out upon seeing Teresa making out with another girl. . .who turns out to be a long-haired boy.
    • After fights with M.E. and Kelly, respectively, Collier and Ajoni go to a local bar to commiserate. Not until another man compliments them on their relationship do they realize that it's a gay bar.
  • Tear Jerker:
    • The racial protest against injustice resulting in many innocent protesters being hosed down, attacked with police dogs and thrown into jail.
    • Mary Elizabeth's grandmother committing suicide in season 1.
    • Johnny being killed in action while serving in Vietnam. Especially the aftermath: Mrs. O'Brien collapses upon being told and in the long run, Mr. O'Brien never got over his death, which may have been a huge role in him suffering Alzheimer's Disease in the present day.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Kelly spends the entire fourth season whining to her mother about how difficult marriage and parenthood is, especially at such a young age. But she's the one who was having unprotected sex with her boyfriend—and blowing off her mother's attempts to have The Talk with her—and adamantly declared that she neither wanted to have an abortion nor give the child up for adoption. Her difficult situation is entirely of her own making.

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