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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Billy the angst-filled teenage son continually dismisses his father as the biggest pile of incompetence and clumsiness to have ever walked the Earth this side of WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, but then [[TheReveal it turns out]] that every time Bob has appeared in the series so far as a bumbling dad is [[Series/KevinCanGoFuckHimself Billy having a "sitcom" hallucination]] and the "real world" version of Bob is not only a competent man, he [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness is getting increasingly worried about what is happening in Billy's head ever since that car crash five years ago]].

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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Billy the angst-filled teenage son continually dismisses his father as the biggest pile of incompetence and clumsiness to have ever walked the Earth this side of WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, but then [[TheReveal it turns out]] that every time Bob has appeared in the series so far as a bumbling dad is [[Series/KevinCanGoFuckHimself [[Series/KevinCanFuckHimself Billy having a "sitcom" hallucination]] and the "real world" version of Bob is not only a competent man, he [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness is getting increasingly worried about what is happening in Billy's head ever since that car crash five years ago]].

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* '''Inverted''': Bob is a StandardFiftiesFather.

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Bob is a StandardFiftiesFather.


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** Bob is TheSmartGuy and the plots of the series revolve around how the rest of his family [[TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket can't follow his instructions to literally save their lives]].


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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Billy the angst-filled teenage son continually dismisses his father as the biggest pile of incompetence and clumsiness to have ever walked the Earth this side of WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, but then [[TheReveal it turns out]] that every time Bob has appeared in the series so far as a bumbling dad is [[Series/KevinCanGoFuckHimself Billy having a "sitcom" hallucination]] and the "real world" version of Bob is not only a competent man, he [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness is getting increasingly worried about what is happening in Billy's head ever since that car crash five years ago]].
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** Because of RuleOfFunny, Bob occasionally trips and misinterprets things (and the results get out of control), but he is still [[TheSmartGuy very well-read and professional]] and it's easy to see why he's the primary bread-winner of the family.
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** "[[Series/TheWaltons All]] [[Series/LeaveItToBeaver those]] [[Series/TheBradyBunch perfect]] DomCom families on TV ... [[TastesLikeDiabetes they make me sick]]! I'll make a DysfunctionalFamily, with a [[TheFool blithering]] [[TheDitz idiot]] as its head!"

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** "[[Series/TheWaltons All]] [[Series/LeaveItToBeaver those]] [[Series/TheBradyBunch perfect]] DomCom families on TV ... [[TastesLikeDiabetes [[SickeninglySweet they make me sick]]! I'll make a DysfunctionalFamily, with a [[TheFool blithering]] [[TheDitz idiot]] as its head!"
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** Bob is a hard-working househusband with a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]], [[SarcasmMode sarcastic attitude]] and Alice is a [[TheDitz ditzy, disoriented]] mother, who sits around, [[TheAlcoholic drinking wine]] and watching TV, instead of providing for her family.

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