History Characters / FIsForFamilyNeighbors

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:She develops a friendship with Maureen in Season 4 because they're both bullied by Amy and shows Bridget symphaty when she tears up after Amy insults Bridget's late mother.]]

* FreudianExcuse: It's implied that she had a close relationship with her mother and her grief over her mother's death drives her sociopathic behavior when Maureen sees her crying over a locket with a picture of her mother and herself. It doesn't really help that she is stuck with her alcoholic, abusive father, (possible) mean stepmothers and a brother with whom she never got along.

* TragicKeepsake: [[In Season 4, it is revealed that she hides a locket with a picture of her mother and herself beneath her clothes.]]

* AbusiveDad: He frequently beats Jimmy to discipline him for his misbehavior, and doesn't seem to be much nicer to Bridget either.

* WouldntHitAGirl: He never gives Bridget any beatings, and once scolded Jimmy for hitting Phillip ([[ItMakesSenseInContext whom Mr. Fitzsimmons]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady mistook for a girl]]).

* CreepyChild / EnfanteTerrible: Enough so, that her own big brother is ''afraid of her''. For context; Jimmy is fucked up because his father beats him. Bridget is evil straight out the gate. Even more telling is that her father never shows any signs or intention of beating her, because he is also terrified of her.

* DomesticAbuse: She abuses Bill both mentally and physically, and whenever Bill tries to break up with her, Bridget feigns being hurt to manipulating him into taking her back and being stuck in the toxic relationship with her.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:She develops a friendship with Maureen in Season 4 because they're both bullied by Amy.]]

* FreudianExcuse: It's implied that she had a close relationship with her mother and her grief over her mother's death drives her sociopathic behavior when Maureen sees her crying over a locket with a picture of her mother and herself.

* VillainDecay: To a degree, in seasons 4 and 5. In season 4, she's shown to be bullied somewhat easily by Amy despite her reputation in season 3. In season 5, she doesn't nearly have the hold on Bill or her father and brother as she did in previous seasons, with Bill casually dismissing her and walking away even as she shouts at him.

* {{Expy}}: She's essentially a more abraisive version of [[Series/TheGoldenGirls Sophia Petrillo.]]

* {{Expy}}: She's essentially a more abraisive version of [[LiveActionTV/TheGoldenGirls Sophia Petrillo.]]

* LaughablyEvil: You certainly wouldn't want a kid like her to exist in real life, but her rancid potty mouth combined with her [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior unchildlike conduct]] makes her hilarious to watch at times.

* LaughablyEvil: Her rancid potty mouth combined with her lisp makes her hilarious to watch at times. Still, you wouldn't want a kid like her to exist in real life.

* LaughablyEvil: Her verbal lisp combined with her rancid potty mouth makes her hilarious to watch at times. Still, you wouldn't want a kid like her to exist in real life.

* LaughablyEvil: Her verbal lisp combined with her rancid potty mouth akes her hilarious to watch at times. Still, you wouldn't want a kid like her to exist in real life.

* AManIsAlwaysEager: [[spoiler: Pretty much uses the fact that Kevin had an erection after seeing her breasts as an open invitation, even though he was actually quite distressed by this fact at the time as it had previously caused him embarrassment. Later, when she's yelling at him he points out that she was the one who came on to him, to which she blames on the fact that he had a hard-on.]]

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:At the end of season 4 Vic discovers her in the hospital, pregnant and getting ready to deliver. When he asks her if it's his baby, she tells him that he is the only man she's had unprotected sex with in the past 9 months, and he believes her. But it [[ReallyGetsAround wouldn't be]] [[MrsRobinson the first time she's lied]]. It was only until a tweet from the creators that Vic was confirmed to be the father.]]]]

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:At the end of season 4 Vic discovers her in the hospital, pregnant and getting ready to deliver. When he asks her if it's his baby, she tells him that he is the only man she's had unprotected sex with in the past 9 months, and he believes her. But it [[ReallyGetsAround wouldn't be]] [[MrsRobinson the first time she's lied. It was only until a tweet from the creators that Vic was confirmed to be the father.]]]]

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:At the end of season 4 Vic discovers her in the hospital, pregnant and getting ready to deliver. When he asks her if it's his baby, she tells him that he is the only man she's had unprotected sex with in the past 9 months, and he believes her. But it [[ReallyGetsAround wouldn't be]] [[MrsRobinson the first time she's lied. It was only until a tweet from the creators that Vic was confirmed to be the father.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She high-tails it with the rest of the party guests once Vic starts shooting up his house and wisely does not go back.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: [[spoiler: Of MrsRobinson, this scenario would usually be played as the ultimate teenage boy fantasy, losing your virginity to an attractive woman and bragging to your friends about being the first to do so. However, Kevin is horrified and deeply confused about having sex with Cutie Pie and the act messes him up for a long time until Vic reassures him that it wasn't his fault. Cutie Pie is shown to be a selfish manipulator who blames Kevin for statutory rape since she stupidly thought he was older and thought his erection was a form of consent. After the act, Kevin shows traits of Rape Trauma Syndrome, is more confused than proud about losing his virginity, and Kevin is horrified when Vic finally finds out since he was told that Vic would kill him for sleeping with his girlfriend.

* AnythingThatMoves: Cutie Pie [[spoiler:was cheating on Vic with men, women, midgets, a 14-year-old boy...]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seems nice at first, but not only does she wind up [[spoiler:statutorily raping Kevin, she's pretty nasty to him about it too, blaming him for the incident.]]

* GoldDigger: Possibly why she stayed with Vic after she began feeling neglected and [[spoiler:started cheating]].

* AManIsAlwaysEager: Pretty much uses the fact that [[spoiler:Kevin]] had an erection after seeing her breasts as an open invitation, even though he was actually quite distressed by this fact at the time as it had previously caused him embarrassment. Later, when she's yelling at him he points out that she was the one who came on to him, to which she blames on the fact that he had a hard-on.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:At the end of season 4 Vic discovers her in the hospital, pregnant and getting ready to deliver. When he asks her if it's his baby, she tells him that he is the only man she's had unprotected sex with in the past 9 months, and he believes her. But it [[ReallyGetsAround wouldn't be]] [[MrsRobinson the first time she's lied.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Jossed by the writers, who said in a tweet that Vic is definitely the father.]]

* PinkIsErotic: Like her husband, Cutie Pie has an active sex life and their house is decorated with a pink aestetic and erotic art.

** Later in the series, he shows signs of being transgender, as he tells his father, "I don't want to be a man! That was YOUR mistake!" When he makes an inappropriate boast to Nana Rose about wearing an athletic cup over his "weenis," Nana remarks, "Sometimes, when God make-a the bull, he make-a the cow."

* AmbiguouslyGay: Phillip shows signs of repressed homosexuality and he seems to be infatuated with Bill as shown in “Mr. Murphy’s Wild Ride” and “Battle Of The Sexes”

* Catchphrase: When she sees Sue, she usually says "Sue? Sue Murphy?" In the last season, this is played with at Fort Rustland, when she says "Sioux? Sioux Indians?"

* DeepSouth: Both of them have this accent.

* TheCameo: From being significant characters in the first two seasons and Ben still having a small role in seasons 3-4, their only appearance in Season 5 is a brief appearance in the opener of the SeriesFinale.

* TheScapegoat: A RunningGag involves characters saying that they're Jimmy Fitzsimmons so that he'll be the one to take their fall for something they did.

* BadassDecay: To a degree, in seasons 4 and 5. In season 4, she's shown to be bullied somewhat easily by Amy despite her reputation in season 3. In season 5, she doesn't nearly have the hold on Bill or her father and brother as she did in previous seasons, with Bill casually dismissing her and walking away even as she shouts at him.

* StepfordSmiler: It's eventually revealed that Ginny wasn't just cheerfully oblivious to Greg being gay, but instead ''very'' deep in denial about it, even telling him "No, you're not!" to his face when he tries comes out to her and beg for a divorce.