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* DirtyOldWoman: Peg doesn't seem to mind Al ogling younger women, reading nudie magazines or watching strippers. This may be because she does the same things herself with younger men.
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* DirtyOldWoman: She's fantasizedabout the likes of John F. Kenndy Jr. or Mike Tyson, had an orgasm when she saw Bud's romantic rival Nikolai, and faked a back injury to get massages from Al's high-school aged coworker Aaron and his young friends.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Scoring 4 touchdowns in a single game. Getting his bathroom back after Peg turned it into a pink, frily mess by eating a lot of spicy Mexican and deficating in front of the interior designers she was showing it off to.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Scoring 4 touchdowns in a single game. Getting his bathroom back after Peg turned it into a pink, frily mess by eating a lot of spicy Mexican and deficating defecating in front of the interior designers she was showing it off to.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In an audition, no less. When O'Neill auditioned, he was required to act like he was walking through the front door and then say his lines. He did the entrance, but before saying his lines, he did what no one else thought to do - let out a defeated sigh over returning home. This bit of ThrowItIn won him the part.
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Jefferson gets a job as an aerobics instructor in the last season, and he's incredibly popular with the studio's female exercisers. When Marcy finds out, she tries to make him quit:
-->'''Woman #1''': Hold it, sweetie. You don't just ''walk'' into a Jefferson D'Arcy class.
-->'''Marcy''': But I'm his wife!
-->'''Woman #2''': Nice try, honey. On an average day, he usually gets about four wives, plus a couple of husbands!
-->'''Woman #1''': Hold it, sweetie. You don't just ''walk'' into a Jefferson D'Arcy class.
-->'''Marcy''': But I'm his wife!
-->'''Woman #2''': Nice try, honey. On an average day, he usually gets about four wives, plus a couple of husbands!
* SpearCounterpart: To Peggy. He's very lazy and comes up with all sorts of excuses to avoid getting a job, and has been known to blow Marcy's money on expensive baubles the way Peg spends Al's.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Despite his protests, Jefferson actually ''does'' manage to get a few jobs throughout the series. Unfortunately, whether he gets a job at the shoe store, as an actor or as an aerobics instructor, Jefferson typically ends up working with beautiful women. This makes Marcy force him to quit and return to his de facto job as her sex toy:
-->'''Jefferson''': I thought you wanted me to get a job!
-->'''Marcy''': Your job is to please me. And right now, I am not pleased.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Despite his protests, Jefferson actually ''does'' manage to get a few jobs throughout the series. Unfortunately, whether he gets a job at the shoe store, as an actor or as an aerobics instructor, Jefferson typically ends up working with beautiful women. This makes Marcy force him to quit and return to his de facto job as her sex toy:
-->'''Jefferson''': I thought you wanted me to get a job!
-->'''Marcy''': Your job is to please me. And right now, I am not pleased.
* DirtyOldMan: Like the rest of NO MA'AM.
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* FatBastard: A textbook example. Al once used his exposed gut to scare a bunch of kids out of their Halloween candy.
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* CloudCuckoolander: He insists that Elvis is alive, enjoys Yanni's music, and it's occasionally implied that he's bisexual.
* NoAccountingForTaste: Ike has been known to drool over elderly strippers and fat women in aerobics outfits, in other words the kind of women that give the rest of the NO MA'AM guys dry heaves.
* NoAccountingForTaste: Ike has been known to drool over elderly strippers and fat women in aerobics outfits, in other words the kind of women that give the rest of the NO MA'AM guys dry heaves.
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* HollywoodHomely: The show made frequent jokes about how unattractive Marcy was. With Bearse being a slender, blonde woman who still has fans commenting on how cute she actually looked.
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* HollywoodHomely: The show made frequent jokes about how unattractive Marcy was. With Bearse being a [[http://www.series-80.net/acteurs/amanda_bearse/acteur_amanda-bearse_2_1141998498.jpg slender, blonde woman woman]] who still has fans commenting on how cute she actually looked.
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* LethalChef: Peg in the early episodes. In the later episodes, she typically didn't cook at all, often going out to eat, ordering pizza, or not eating at all. Unless the plot specifically required it. Occassions included Al using the money from the "No Chicken, No Check" insurance company to force Peg to buy meat, Peg's insanely obese mom starting to make money as a phone sex operator, and Peg suffering amnesia and Al brainwashing her into being a competent housewife. Her lethal chef skills at times proved beneficial for her family. For example, her leftover Mystery Meal had the Bundy house and everyone in it quarantined for a month. The people inside at the time included the band Anthrax, favorites of the Bundy kids who apparently really enjoyed that month.
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* LethalChef: Peg in the early episodes. In the later episodes, she typically didn't cook at all, often going out to eat, ordering pizza, or not eating at all. Unless the plot specifically required it. Occassions included Al using the money from the "No Chicken, No Check" insurance company to force Peg to buy meat, Peg's insanely obese mom starting to make money as a phone sex operator, and Peg suffering amnesia and Al brainwashing her into being a competent housewife. Her lethal chef skills at times proved beneficial for her family. For example, her leftover Mystery Meal had the Bundy house and everyone in it quarantined for a month. six months. The people inside at the time included the band Anthrax, favorites of the Bundy kids who apparently really enjoyed that month.those six months.
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* BeleagueredAssistant: In many later-season episodes when Bud and Kelly embarked on some sort of scheme, he usually ended up suffering the consequences of Kelly's screw-ups.
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* SpeedSex: Peg constantly mocks him for not being able to last in bed for more than a few minutes"
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* SpeedSex: Peg constantly mocks him for not being able to last in bed for more than a few minutes. minutes"
-->'''Peg''': I used to call you the Minuteman. Now I long for those days.
-->'''Peg''': I used to call you the Minuteman. Now I long for those days.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Bud is just as much of a pervert as his father, and he also seems to have inherited Al's less-than-spectacular bedroom skills:
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Bud is just as much of a pervert as his father, and he father:
-->'''Amber''': ''(To Bud)'' You're amazing. Where do you learn this kind of behavior?
-->'''Al''': ''(Watching'' The Centrefold Weed-Whacker Murders ''on TV)'' No, you can't hide under the tree stump! He can burrow! Don't you see? He's half mole!
He also seems to have inherited Al's less-than-spectacular bedroom skills:
-->'''Amber''': ''(To Bud)'' You're amazing. Where do you learn this kind of behavior?
-->'''Al''': ''(Watching'' The Centrefold Weed-Whacker Murders ''on TV)'' No, you can't hide under the tree stump! He can burrow! Don't you see? He's half mole!
He also seems to have inherited Al's less-than-spectacular bedroom skills:
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Bud is just as much of a pervert as his father, and he also seems to have inherited Al's less-than-spectacular bedroom skills:
-->'''Ariel''': I didn't say it was the best. I said you ''did'' your best.
* LoserSonOfLoserDad: Bud hasn't sunk to the same level of personal failure as his father, since he got good grades in school and sometimes makes good money as a talent agent. On the other hand, Bud has never gotten the same kind of action Al did in high school, and is frequently reduced to scheduling ADateWithRosiePalms whenever he feels horny, so it balances out.
-->'''Ariel''': I didn't say it was the best. I said you ''did'' your best.
* LoserSonOfLoserDad: Bud hasn't sunk to the same level of personal failure as his father, since he got good grades in school and sometimes makes good money as a talent agent. On the other hand, Bud has never gotten the same kind of action Al did in high school, and is frequently reduced to scheduling ADateWithRosiePalms whenever he feels horny, so it balances out.
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** We're shown (in flashback) that Kelly was bright enough as a young child (having no problem reading, for instance), until a car accident dumbed her down a notch.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Her boyfriends are various sleazy bikers, hoods and ex-cons with nicknames like Mayhem, Pinworm and Stab Wound. It's even {{Lampshaded}}:
-->'''Buck''': Where does she ''find'' these guys?
-->'''Buck''': Where does she ''find'' these guys?
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** And then there was her attempt to develop and market her own line of Bon Bons. Al and Jefferson each need both hands to lift them, and several hours to chew through a single bite. Curiously enough, Marcy and Buck didn't have any trouble eating that one bite, although they both suffered a crazed, hours-long sugar high afterward.
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* CombatPragmatist: While Bud was perfectly capable of handling himself in a straight fight, he continued the proud Bundy tradition of cheating by smashing larger opponents over the head with bottles or chairs, or by hitting them below the belt. Needless to say, this made Al especially proud of his boy.
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* KarmaHoudini: She took advantage of her family in some really awful ways, but you could count all the times she got punished on only one hand.
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* BuxomIsBetter: Not as endowed during the earlier seasons but she filled out pretty nice during the later seasons. Al once punched out a guy making a comment about his wife's large assets in one episode.
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* ICouldaBeenAContender: A talented athlete whose career ended at age 18 due to an injury.
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* ICouldaBeenAContender: A talented athlete whose career ended at age 18 due to an injury.marrying young.
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* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: Al, of course. How the mighty have fallen...
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* LethalChef: Peg in the early episodes. In the later episodes, she typically didn't cook at all. Unless the plot specifically required it. Occassions included Al using the money from the "No Chicken, No Check" insurance company to force Peg to buy meat, Peg's insanely obese mom starting to make money as a phone sex operator, and Peg suffering amnesia and Al brainwashing her into being a competent housewife. Her lethal chef skills at times proved beneficial for her family. For example her leftover Mystery Meal had the Bundy house and everyone in it quarantined for a month. The people inside at the time included the band Anthrax, favorites of the Bundy kids who apparently really enjoyed that month.
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* LethalChef: Peg in the early episodes. In the later episodes, she typically didn't cook at all, often going out to eat, ordering pizza, or not eating at all. Unless the plot specifically required it. Occassions included Al using the money from the "No Chicken, No Check" insurance company to force Peg to buy meat, Peg's insanely obese mom starting to make money as a phone sex operator, and Peg suffering amnesia and Al brainwashing her into being a competent housewife. Her lethal chef skills at times proved beneficial for her family. For example example, her leftover Mystery Meal had the Bundy house and everyone in it quarantined for a month. The people inside at the time included the band Anthrax, favorites of the Bundy kids who apparently really enjoyed that month.
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* PrettyFreeloaders: Al, Kelly and Bud are typically the ones earning money. Peggy is the one helping them spend it. Whether they agree or not.
* UngratefulBastard: To Al.
* UngratefulBastard: To Al.
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* PrettyFreeloaders: Al, Kelly (in the later episodes), and Bud are typically the ones earning money. Peggy is the one helping them spend it. Whether they agree or not.
*UngratefulBastard: [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bitch]]: To Al.
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* FreudianExcuse: It's implied in several episodes that Kelly's promiscuity stems from Al being such a bad father, which affected her relationship with all men. She developed an unnatural attraction towards them in the process because she sought the affection she never got from her father. Don't look at me, I just compiled all the stuff they said in different episodes.
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* FreudianExcuse: It's implied in several episodes that Kelly's promiscuity stems from Al being such a bad father, which affected father and her relationship with all men. She developed an unnatural attraction towards them in being used as the process because she sought the affection she never got from her father. Don't look at me, I just compiled all the stuff they said in different episodes.family ButtMonkey.
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** From what I've seen online, episode 2. 14 is considered the exact moment.
** It is. In that episode Kelly falls for a prank by Bud when he coaches her on a book report on ''RobinsonCrusoe'' which she hasn't read (Bud feeds her the plot of ''GilligansIsland'' instead.) Not so strange considering even pre-bimbo Kelly was always an awful student, but then having become a laughing stock in front of the whole school, she falls for the same prank ''again'' when Bud promises to help her on her report on EdgarAllanPoe (this time tricking her into talking about ''TheAddamsFamily''.) Thus was born one of the iconic BrainlessBeauty characters.
** It is. In that episode Kelly falls for a prank by Bud when he coaches her on a book report on ''RobinsonCrusoe'' which she hasn't read (Bud feeds her the plot of ''GilligansIsland'' instead.) Not so strange considering even pre-bimbo Kelly was always an awful student, but then having become a laughing stock in front of the whole school, she falls for the same prank ''again'' when Bud promises to help her on her report on EdgarAllanPoe (this time tricking her into talking about ''TheAddamsFamily''.) Thus was born one of the iconic BrainlessBeauty characters.
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** From what I've seen online, season two, episode 2. 14 is considered the exact moment.
** It is. In that episode Kelly falls for a prank by Bud when he coaches her on a book report on ''RobinsonCrusoe'' which she hasn't read (Bud feeds her the plot of ''GilligansIsland'' instead.) Not so strange considering even pre-bimbo Kelly was always an awful student, but then having become alaughing stock laughingstock in front of the whole school, she falls for the same prank ''again'' when Bud promises to help her on her report on EdgarAllanPoe (this time tricking her into talking about ''TheAddamsFamily''.) Thus was born one of the iconic BrainlessBeauty characters.
** It is. In that episode Kelly falls for a prank by Bud when he coaches her on a book report on ''RobinsonCrusoe'' which she hasn't read (Bud feeds her the plot of ''GilligansIsland'' instead.) Not so strange considering even pre-bimbo Kelly was always an awful student, but then having become a
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* CorruptCop: Openly admits to being crooked, though after joining NO MA'AM he frequently used said connections to keep Al out of jail.
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** Not right away. He finally joined up with them after "Psycho Dad" was cancelled.
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* {{Fiction 500}}: Own several multi-million dollar businesses, but the constant failings of the shoe store keep her at #501
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* SpeedSex: Peg constantly mocks him for not being able to last in bed for more than a few minutes.
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