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* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: Kimberly sometimes quotes famous movies and tv shows from before she was born thanks to memes and popular social media posts, but she's disinterested in learning about their points of origin.
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* IncestSubtext: A RunningGag of Season 1 that's conveyed in several fashions.
** One of Annie's main strategies from deterring Duncan from making rash sexual decisions (such as taking advantage of a drunk female friend, or giving hundreds of dollars to strippers) is to project herself onto the women of these scenarios, the image of which seriously grosses her son out.
** Kimberly once threatened to catfish Duncan if he got in her way.
** Jing has a crush on Duncan, and spends the first few episodes wanting to marry her foster brother. This is resolved midway through the season where experiencing an AwfulWeddedLife after a mock wedding despite neither of them wanting to hurt the other, makes Jing realize that they're not emotionally mature enough for that kind of relationship - if not why the idea of such is cause for {{Squick}}.
** When Jack coerces his family into starring in his RockOpera, he assigns the roles of hippie lovers Rommy and (a very pregnant) Rainbow to Duncan and Kimberly respectively. This appalls his costars, but they manage to rein in their disgust to perform the play with a straight face come opening night, and the members of the audience who know that the two romantic leads are played by siblings are more morbidly amused by the coincidence than anything.


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* HighHopesZeroTalent: Jack wanted (and possibly stills wants) to be a rockstar. Sadly, while he can read, write, and play music, his singing is subpar, and his songwriting is more derivative of than influenced by his favorite artists.

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* ToxicFriendInfluence: While she usually brings out the best in them, Jing's impressionable age can have her internalize and even emulate the bad behavior of her family members.



* HiddenDepths: He has an understated artistic streak, and struggles with anxiety that's always just beneath the surface of his strained ambivalence. He also fears that his parents will eventually divorce.

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* HiddenDepths: He has an understated artistic streak, is something of a movie buff, and struggles with anxiety that's always just beneath the surface of his strained ambivalence. He also fears that his parents will eventually divorce.


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* IHaveNoSon: Duncan is fond of his dad, but Jack's own flaws and his relatively inglorious job of being a plumber make it hard for him to win his son's respect. Due to this, Duncan sometimes fantasizes about spending time with more immediately laudable male role models like {{Film/Sully}}, and ''Fridgey'' shows that he's had at least one dream where he's the son of [[{{Film/Rocky}} Apollo Creed.]]


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* PrecisionFStrike: The usual suspect is the titular profanity of the episode ''Duncan's New Word''.


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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender


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* WhatTheHellHero: Duncan publicly cussing out Jack provokes the usually cooly aloof Mitch into explaining to his student how CallingTheOldManOut can be satisfying, doing so against a fundamentally good man is hurtful and uncalled for.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: The most frequent challenge to the love the family has for one another is their individual shortsighted selfishness, facilitating abrupt moments of callousness that borders on cruelty.
* SanityBall: Worryingly, it's usually held by Jing, who is understandably limited by her naiveté and being an actual child.


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* PatheticallyWeak: He's an 80 pound weakling who can barely do a single sit-up. Tellingly, many of his fantasies involve him doing physically impressive things [[TheSlacker sans any hard work or training.]]
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* TheJobber: The Season 1 finale has Mia convince him to run against her for student body president as "the white guy (she) makes history against", confident that he can't possibly win. However, his nonchalance towards unreasonable campaign promises and Mia's own lack of charisma result in him snagging the election by a landslide.

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* TheJobber: {{Jobber}}: The Season 1 finale has Mia convince him to run against her for student body president as "the white guy (she) makes history against", confident that he can't possibly win. However, his nonchalance towards unreasonable campaign promises and Mia's own lack of charisma result in him snagging the election by a landslide.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily
* DysfunctionJunction
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* AmbiguousDisorder: She has an Adderall prescription "for school", implying that she has some form of attention deficit disorder.
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* HypocriticalHeartwarming: When Kimberly enacts her own rendition of this by calling Jack ugly, Duncan pipes in with the claim that their father is at least a "solid 6".


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* HeroicComedicSociopath: Struggles between being one of these and a good mother who genuinely cares for her family. Tellingly, Annie's desire to become a detective is less motivated by wanting to solve crimes than it is by her dreams of being a CowboyCop like in all the police-related pop culture she absorbed in the 80s and 90s.


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* ItsAllAboutMe: His skittish and non-confrontational personality occasionally swerves into outright immaturity and self-absorption.

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* ALessonInDefeat: Spends the first act of ''Classless President'' talking at and down to her classmates while running for student body president. Losing the office to ''[[IdiotHero Duncan]]'' causes her to realize how callously dismissive she's been, and that while she might view high school mainstays like prom as "antiquated", she has to at minimum respect and try to understand why it's so beloved by everyone else.



* InsufferableGenius: This is what initially costs her the student body presidential elections in the Season 1 finale, as her underwhelming campaign promises of implementing more standardized testing into the school budget and abolishing prom for a mandatory day of service where everyone is forced to clean the town's dirty river fall flat

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* InsufferableGenius: This is what initially costs her the student body presidential elections in the Season 1 finale, as her underwhelming campaign promises of implementing more standardized testing into the school budget and abolishing prom for a mandatory day of service where everyone is forced to clean the town's dirty river fall flatflat.
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* GrewASpine: The first season ends with Duncan learning how to say no to Mia when she keeps urging him to step down as student council president, even rebuffing her attempt to use the crush he has on her against him. Rather than ruin their friendship, this development causes Mia to come to grips with what cost her the election, and the two of them end the episode on personable, even ground.

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* GrewASpine: The first season ends with Duncan learning how to say no to Mia when she keeps urging him to step down as student council president, even rebuffing her attempt to use the crush he has on her against him. Rather than ruin their friendship, this development causes Mia to come to grips with what cost her the election, and the two of them end the episode on more personable, even ground.
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* GrewASpine: The first season ends with Duncan learning how to say no to Mia when she keeps urging him to step down as student council president, even rebuffing her attempt to use the crush he has on her against him. Rather than ruin their friendship, this development causes Mia to come to grips with what cost her the election, and the two of them end the episode on personable, even ground.
* HiddenDepths: He has an understated artistic streak, and struggles with anxiety that's always just beneath the surface of his strained ambivalence. He also fears that his parents will eventually divorce.


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* TheJobber: The Season 1 finale has Mia convince him to run against her for student body president as "the white guy (she) makes history against", confident that he can't possibly win. However, his nonchalance towards unreasonable campaign promises and Mia's own lack of charisma result in him snagging the election by a landslide.


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* InsufferableGenius: This is what initially costs her the student body presidential elections in the Season 1 finale, as her underwhelming campaign promises of implementing more standardized testing into the school budget and abolishing prom for a mandatory day of service where everyone is forced to clean the town's dirty river fall flat
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* InTheBlood: Like her mother, she has a romantic preference for "bad boy" types who are good guys deep down.
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* InTheBlood: His parents are gradually shown to be similarly manic dreamers whose obsessions can cause them to act just as foolishly as Duncan.


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* NeverLearnedToRead: Subverted. When Duncan threatens to blackmail the town with the various confessions they stuffed into the ''Witch Day'' effigy, the crowd around him thinks he's bluffing as they assume that he's too illiterate to do so. However, despite flunking English and having subpar grammar and often misspelling every other word, he's still capable of ''reading'', which allows him to make good on his ultimatum.


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* TautologicalTemplar: Played with. During her brief time as a tv judge during ''Judge Annie'', her style of litigating murky civil cases resembled this trope in an AffectionateParody approximation of Series/JudgeJudy, played almost off-the-cuff and swift for entertainment purposes. However, she's very much beholden to the written law, and in the episode's ToBeLawfulOrGood conflict, [[spoiler:being lawful]] is what wins.
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* BuffySpeak: Poehler described writing Duncan’s dialogue (i.e. how a 15-year old boy would speak) as taking “all the words you usually say and reduce it as two words.”


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* MrImagination: Has occasional, self-aggrandizing flights of fancy despite him living in a fairly bizarre world.
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* NotSoDifferent: Duncan cracks on his dad for being a dork at times when he's really just as much of a dork.

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!!Mr. Mitch
->'''Voiced by:''' Music/WizKhalifa

Duncan's teacher at Oakdale High School.

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!Others
!Kimberly's Friends
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!!Mr. Mitch
Claire]]
!!Claire
->'''Voiced by:''' Music/WizKhalifa

Duncan's teacher at Oakdale High School.
Creator/NataliePalamides

Kimberly's friend.



* CoolTeacher: He's this for Duncan and his friends, as the rest of the students. He even rides a hoverboard around school.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He has a resemblance to Music/SnoopDogg.
* TheStoner: He gets high on the weekends.

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* CoolTeacher: He's DisneyDeath: Went through anaphylactic shock after consuming a peanut which she is extremely allergic to. Luckily Kimberly managed to inject her with her Epi Pen just in time.
-->'''Duncan:''' (dissappointedly) "But I almost died."
-->'''Spokesperson:''' "I appreciate that, but she did die."
-->'''Claire:''' "I saw God."
* InkSuitActor: She resembles her voice actress Natalie Palamides quite a lot.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She was presented as if she and Kimberly have been hanging out all
this for Duncan and his friends, as time, despite no mention of her in the rest of the students. He even rides a hoverboard around school.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He has a resemblance to Music/SnoopDogg.
* TheStoner: He gets high on the weekends.
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[[folder: Mayor Jen]]
!!Mayor Jen
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KathyNajimy

The mayor of Oakdale.

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[[folder: Mayor Jen]]
!!Mayor Jen
Allison]]
!!Allison
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KathyNajimy

The mayor
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A member
of Oakdale.Kimberly's coven



* BigBad: The closest the show has one as every episode she appears in she antagonizes the Harris family.
* CorruptPolitician:
** She once asked a foreign government to dig up dirt on someone, possible a political rival.
** Blackmails and bullies the Harris family after Annie refuses to remove the clamp from her car. She then attempts and successfully bribes Annie to remove it in exchange for winning the Oakie Awards.
* KarmaHoudini: Usually gets away with all the bad stuff she does, most jarringly in "Annie Oakie" as Annie refused to rat her out at the end of the episode.



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!!Hal

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!!Hal
Samantha]]
!!Samantha



A hardware/plumbing store owner where Jack gets his plumbing supplies from.

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A hardware/plumbing store owner where Jack gets his plumbing supplies from.Another member of Kimberly's coven
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!!Hellen Diggins
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KathyNajimy

Annie's friend and neighbor who is occasionally seen drinking wine and martini. She is also shown to be attracted to Duncan.

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!!Hellen Diggins
Mr. Mitch]]
!!Mr. Mitch
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KathyNajimy

Annie's friend and neighbor who is occasionally seen drinking wine and martini. She is also shown to be attracted to Duncan.
Music/WizKhalifa

Duncan's teacher at Oakdale High School.



* TheAlcoholic: In most of her appearances she can be seen with a glass of wine or martini in her hands.
* DirtyOldWoman: She has an attraction towards Duncan to the point that Annie warns him not to be alone with her.
* DoesNotLikeMen: If this dialogue is anything to go by
-->'''Boy:''' (while getting hosed down by Helen) "What's your damage lady?!"
-->'''Helen:''' "All men are my damage!"
* NoodleIncident: Annie claims that she fell asleep once with a cigarette in her mouth which caused a house fire.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Despite showing a dislike towards men, she clearly has the hots for Duncan.

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* TheAlcoholic: In most of her appearances she can be seen with a glass of wine or martini in her hands.
* DirtyOldWoman: She has an attraction towards
CoolTeacher: He's this for Duncan to and his friends, as the point that Annie warns him not to be alone with her.
rest of the students. He even rides a hoverboard around school.
* DoesNotLikeMen: If this dialogue is anything to go by
-->'''Boy:''' (while getting hosed down by Helen) "What's your damage lady?!"
-->'''Helen:''' "All men are my damage!"
* NoodleIncident: Annie claims that she fell asleep once with a cigarette in her mouth which caused a house fire.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Despite showing a dislike towards men, she clearly
NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He has a resemblance to Music/SnoopDogg.
* TheStoner: He gets high on
the hots for Duncan.weekends.



[[folder: Bradley]]
!!Bradley
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NataliePalamides

Jing's friend whose mother is a therapist.

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!!Bradley
Mayor Jen]]
!!Mayor Jen
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NataliePalamides

Jing's friend whose mother is a therapist.
Creator/KathyNajimy

The mayor of Oakdale.



* FreeRangeChildren: His parents give him nearly unlimited personal space. It helps that he's one of the most mature characters in the show.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Due to his playroom being next to his therapist mother's office he picked up a few of her methods.
* TroublingUnchildLikeBehaviour: Was revealed to be a pyromaniac in the episode "Sibling Revelry".

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* FreeRangeChildren: His parents give him nearly unlimited personal space. It helps that he's BigBad: The closest the show has one of the most mature characters in the show.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Due to his playroom being next to his therapist mother's office he picked up a few of her methods.
* TroublingUnchildLikeBehaviour: Was revealed to be a pyromaniac in the
as every episode "Sibling Revelry".she appears in she antagonizes the Harris family.
* CorruptPolitician:
** She once asked a foreign government to dig up dirt on someone, possible a political rival.
** Blackmails and bullies the Harris family after Annie refuses to remove the clamp from her car. She then attempts and successfully bribes Annie to remove it in exchange for winning the Oakie Awards.
* KarmaHoudini: Usually gets away with all the bad stuff she does, most jarringly in "Annie Oakie" as Annie refused to rat her out at the end of the episode.



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!!Claire
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NataliePalamides

Kimberly's friend.

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[[folder: Claire]]
!!Claire
Hal]]
!!Hal
->'''Voiced by:'''

A hardware/plumbing store owner where Jack gets his plumbing supplies from.
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!!Hellen Diggins
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NataliePalamides

Kimberly's friend.
Creator/KathyNajimy

Annie's friend and neighbor who is occasionally seen drinking wine and martini. She is also shown to be attracted to Duncan.



* DisneyDeath: Went through anaphylactic shock after consuming a peanut which she is extremely allergic to. Luckily Kimberly managed to inject her with her Epi Pen just in time.
-->'''Duncan:''' (dissappointedly) "But I almost died."
-->'''Spokesperson:''' "I appreciate that, but she did die."
-->'''Claire:''' "I saw God."
* InkSuitActor: She resembles her voice actress Natalie Palamides quite a lot.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She was presented as if she and Kimberly have been hanging out all this time, despite no mention of her in the past.

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* DisneyDeath: Went through anaphylactic shock after consuming a peanut which she is extremely allergic to. Luckily Kimberly managed to inject her with her Epi Pen just in time.
-->'''Duncan:''' (dissappointedly) "But I almost died."
-->'''Spokesperson:''' "I appreciate that, but she did die."
-->'''Claire:''' "I saw God."
* InkSuitActor: She resembles her voice actress Natalie Palamides quite a lot.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She was presented as if she and Kimberly have been hanging out all this time, despite no mention
TheAlcoholic: In most of her appearances she can be seen with a glass of wine or martini in her hands.
* DirtyOldWoman: She has an attraction towards Duncan to
the past.point that Annie warns him not to be alone with her.
* DoesNotLikeMen: If this dialogue is anything to go by
-->'''Boy:''' (while getting hosed down by Helen) "What's your damage lady?!"
-->'''Helen:''' "All men are my damage!"
* NoodleIncident: Annie claims that she fell asleep once with a cigarette in her mouth which caused a house fire.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Despite showing a dislike towards men, she clearly has the hots for Duncan.



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!!Marcus
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Another one of Kimberley's love interests.

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!!Marcus
Bradley]]
!!Bradley
->'''Voiced by:'''

Another one of Kimberley's love interests.
by:''' Creator/NataliePalamides

Jing's friend whose mother is a therapist.



* AmbiguouslyBrown
* InterspeciesRomance: Has one with a female cockatoo that resembles Kimberly, he even proposed to it.

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* AmbiguouslyBrown
* InterspeciesRomance: Has one with a female cockatoo
FreeRangeChildren: His parents give him nearly unlimited personal space. It helps that resembles Kimberly, he's one of the most mature characters in the show.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Due to his playroom being next to his therapist mother's office
he even proposed picked up a few of her methods.
* TroublingUnchildLikeBehaviour: Was revealed
to it.be a pyromaniac in the episode "Sibling Revelry".


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!!Marcus
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Another one of Kimberley's love interests.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Has one with a female cockatoo that resembles Kimberly, he even proposed to it.
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* BreastExpansion: Thanks to Jing's newly acquired witch powers in the episode [[Recap/DuncanvilleS2E12WitchDay2 Witch Day 2]], she enlarges Kimberly's bust to B-Cup size after the latter made a sarcastic response to Jing's afforementioned powers.
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* HighPriest: She is voted High Priestess in her coven. She cast a spell to make the other coven members be choked by their own hair, and reserves it after they vote for her.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Admits to having one with the aforementioned cockatoo which understandably enrages Kimberly.
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Another one of Kimberley's love interests.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown
* InterspeciesRomance: Has one with a female cockatoo that resembles Kimberly, he even proposed to it.
* YourCheatingHeart: Admits to having one with the aforementioned cockatoo which understandably enrages Kimberly.
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* PutOnABus: She left in the same episode she was introduced in.
** TheBusCameBack: Reappears as part of Kimberly’s coven in “High Crimes and Misters Demean Her”.
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* ACupAngst: A season 2 episode reveals Kimberly is insecure because puberty has yet to give her any, quote, "Ba-BAM!"
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** TheBusCameBack: Reappears as part of Kimberly’s coven in “High Crimes and Misters Demean Her”.
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* DumbBlonde: While her natural hair color hasn't been revealed yet, she invokes this in the episode "Das Banana Boot" where her hair was dyed blonde as part of her makeover.
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* HiddenDepths: She seems to be a very skilled architect as she designed the perfect room for Jing while Jack was having troubles from the start in the episode "Who's Vroomin Who".
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* IdenticalStranger: Has two actually, one who may or may not be his father in the episode "Witch Day" and a blond look a like in the episode "Annie Oakie".
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** Blackmails and bullies the Harris family after Annie refused to remove the clamp from her car. She then attempted and successfully bribed Annie to remove it in exchange for winning the Oakie Awards.

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** Blackmails and bullies the Harris family after Annie refused refuses to remove the clamp from her car. She then attempted attempts and successfully bribed bribes Annie to remove it in exchange for winning the Oakie Awards.
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* DisneyDeath: Went through anaphylactic shock after consuming a peanut which she is extremely allergic to. Luckily Kimberly managed to inject her with her Epi Pen just in time.
-->'''Duncan:''' (dissappointedly) "But I almost died."
-->'''Spokesperson:''' "I appreciate that, but she did die."
-->'''Claire:''' "I saw God."

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