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But when Clem's wild-child half-sister, Shannon (Odessa Adlon), appears on their doorstep to escape their train wreck of a dad, homicide detective Freddy (Creator/GaryCole), Nick agrees that Clem can help her avoid all the mistakes she made, and they invite her to move in. As the family Clem chose and the family she has blend, Clem realizes that this happy fam may be the perfection she's been seeking.

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But when Clem's wild-child half-sister, Shannon (Odessa Adlon), ([[Creator/OdessaAzion Odessa Adlon]]), appears on their doorstep to escape their train wreck of a dad, homicide detective Freddy (Creator/GaryCole), Nick agrees that Clem can help her avoid all the mistakes she made, and they invite her to move in. As the family Clem chose and the family she has blend, Clem realizes that this happy fam may be the perfection she's been seeking.
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* ChekhovsGag: "Ocean View" opens with Walt preparing for an audition to play a DirtyCop in a play. Shannon gives him advice on how to be more convincing (basically repeating what Freddie has said and done), and Walt's initially peeved about the criticism. Later, Walt (back from the audition) breaks up the raging WildTeenParty by behaving exactly as Shannon had suggested.
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* ChafingAgainstTheDressCode: In "It's Been A While", Clem and Nick go to the principal's office when Shannon is suspended for breaking the school's dress code. Clem gets into an argument with the principal over the sexist reasoning behind forcing a dress code onto girl but not boys.
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* AbsenteeActor: Presumably because of Creator/GaryCole's busy schedule, Freddy only appears in about half of the first season, though the character is still talked about in the episodes where he's gone, like a subplot in "Ocean View" where Walt gets input from Clem and Shannon about how to be like Freddy when he gets the role of a DirtyCop in a play.


* AuthorAvatar: Show creator Corinne Kingsbury [[https://www.tvinsider.com/742979/corinne-kingsbury-interview-fam-cbs-nina-dobrev/ says that Clem is based on herself]].

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* AuthorAvatar: Show creator Corinne Kingsbury Creator/CorinneKingsbury [[https://www.tvinsider.com/742979/corinne-kingsbury-interview-fam-cbs-nina-dobrev/ says that Clem is based on herself]].

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* SoProudOfYou: Given the kind of guy he is, Freddy often expresses pride for such things as Clem picking a winning horse at the track or Shannon pawning a stolen watch.



* SoProudOfYou: Given the kind of guy he is, Freddy often expresses pride for such things as Clem picking a winning horse at the track or Shannon pawning a stolen watch.

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* SoProudOfYou: Given RobbingTheDead: In the kind of guy he is, final episode, Freddy often expresses pride for such things as Clem picking steals Yankees tickets off a winning horse dead man at the track or Shannon pawning a stolen watch.crime scene.
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* MrsRobinson: Jolyene, Shannon's biological mother, qualifies. She made out with Clem's boyfriend at Clem's prom and is very flirtatious with Nick when they meet for the first time.

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* MrsRobinson: Jolyene, Jolene, Shannon's biological mother, qualifies. She made out with Clem's boyfriend at Clem's prom and is very flirtatious with Nick when they meet for the first time.
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* MrsRobinson: Jolyene, Shannon's biological mother, qualifies. She made out with Clem's boyfriend at Clem's prom and is very flirtatious with Nick when they meet for the first time.
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* GayBestFriend: Evan is this to Clem.

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* GayBestFriend: Evan Ben is this to Clem.
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* GayBestFriend: Evan is this to Clem.
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* OneSteveLimit: In "Drunk in Love", it is revealed that Clem and Nick's relationship began when she accidentally texted him due to mistaking him for another guy named Nick whom she had met.


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* ParentalAbandonment: Clem's mother left her and her father.
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* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Clem and Shannon's crappy treatment by their father is treated in a comedic light for the most part.

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