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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In "Claire's New Boyfriend", Claire breaks up with Tony and starts dating a dimwitted, gangster wannabe named Jason (or 1040-EZ as he prefers to be called). Jay tells Michael that the reason Claire dumped Tony was because Michael was warming up to him and the last thing a girl wants is a guy their father approves of. Michael tries to help Tony get back with Claire by giving him a new, bad boy makeover. This fails to impress Claire as she sees right through what Michael is attempting. However, she dumps EZ anyway due to him being too much of a jerk.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In "Claire's New Boyfriend", Claire breaks up with Tony and starts dating a dimwitted, gangster wannabe named Jason (or 1040-EZ as he prefers who goes by the street name 1040-EZ, has at least two kids already and is openly disrespectful to be called).Claire in front of her parents. Jay tells Michael that the reason Claire dumped Tony was because Michael was warming up to him and the last thing a girl wants is a guy their father approves of. Michael tries to help Tony get back with Claire by giving him a new, bad boy makeover. This fails to impress Claire as she sees right through what Michael is attempting. However, she dumps EZ anyway due to him being too much of a jerk.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In "Claire's New Boyfriend", Claire breaks up with Tony and starts dating a dimwitted, gangster wannabe named Jason (or 1040-EZ as he prefers to be called). Jay tells Michael that the reason Claire dumped Tony was because Michael was warming up to him and the last thing a girl wants is a guy their father approves of. Michael tries to help Tony get back with Claire by giving him a new, bad boy makeover.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In "Claire's New Boyfriend", Claire breaks up with Tony and starts dating a dimwitted, gangster wannabe named Jason (or 1040-EZ as he prefers to be called). Jay tells Michael that the reason Claire dumped Tony was because Michael was warming up to him and the last thing a girl wants is a guy their father approves of. Michael tries to help Tony get back with Claire by giving him a new, bad boy makeover. This fails to impress Claire as she sees right through what Michael is attempting. However, she dumps EZ anyway due to him being too much of a jerk.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: PlayedForLaughs.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: PlayedForLaughs.In "Claire's New Boyfriend", Claire breaks up with Tony and starts dating a dimwitted, gangster wannabe named Jason (or 1040-EZ as he prefers to be called). Jay tells Michael that the reason Claire dumped Tony was because Michael was warming up to him and the last thing a girl wants is a guy their father approves of. Michael tries to help Tony get back with Claire by giving him a new, bad boy makeover.
** The same episode has this exchange between Michael and Jay.
** The same episode has this exchange between Michael and Jay.
* AllMenArePerverts: Michael has a very cynical and paranoid view of teenage boys, seeing all of them is sex-crazed dogs who will take advantage of his eldest daughter. This clearly stems from Michael getting Jay pregnant when both of them were teenagers and wanting to keep his daughter from making the same mistakes as he and his wife.
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* TeenPregnancy: Jay was pregnant with Junior during her senior year of High School. Claire's friend in Season 2, and later on Junior's girlfriend.
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* TeenPregnancy: TeenPregnancy:
** Jay was pregnant with Junior during her senior year of HighSchool. School.
** Season 2 has a friend of Claire'sfriend in Season 2, who got pregnant and turned to Claire for advice. Michael ends up being very supportive of her, given his own experiences.
** Junior later onJunior's girlfriend.gets his girlfriend Vanessa pregnant.
** Jay was pregnant with Junior during her senior year of High
** Season 2 has a friend of Claire's
** Junior later on
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* LadyInRed: Selma, Jay and Michael's replacement Samba instructor in "Samba Story", is seen wearing a very revealing red dress during their lesson. For extra points, she's played by Creator/SofiaVergara.
* LatinLover: "Samba Story" has Marcello Roccocco, Jay and Micheal's Brazilian Samba instructor. He often wears outfits that show off his [[CarpetOfVirility hairy chest]], often speaks in a breathy tone and clearly has some effect on Jay. Michael scares him into fleeing back to Brazil by pretending to be an immigration officer and has him replaced with a female instructor named Selma.
* LatinLover: "Samba Story" has Marcello Roccocco, Jay and Micheal's Brazilian Samba instructor. He often wears outfits that show off his [[CarpetOfVirility hairy chest]], often speaks in a breathy tone and clearly has some effect on Jay. Michael scares him into fleeing back to Brazil by pretending to be an immigration officer and has him replaced with a female instructor named Selma.
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** Franklin, being the ChildProdigy variety of CreatorsPet.
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** Franklin, being the ChildProdigy variety of CreatorsPet.a ChildProdigy, can do pretty much everything and come out on top.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When cooking in an episode, Michael wears an apron with illustrations and the names of nutmeg and thyme. Later episodes show that nutmeg is the secret ingredient to Michael's mother's cookies (as told by Kelly, Michael's sister, during a visit) and that Michael and Jay mistake for thyme an aphrodisiac plant they got from Kady and Franklin.
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* Foreshadowing: When cooking in an episode, Michael wears an apron with illustrations and the names of nutmeg and thyme. Later episodes show that nutmeg is the secret ingredient to Michael's mother's cookies (as told by Kelly, Michael's sister, during a visit) and that Michael and Jay mistake for thyme an aphrodisiac plant they got from Kady and Franklin.
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** Claire is portrayed as an overly vapid, clumsy ditz who mostly cares about her appearance and superficial things...but she is a honor student.
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** Claire is portrayed as an overly vapid, clumsy ditz who mostly cares about her appearance and superficial things... but she is a an honor student.
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* BlackAndNerdy: Franklin, who takes the ChildProdigy trope UpToEleven.
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* BlackAndNerdy: Franklin, who takes the ChildProdigy trope UpToEleven.up to eleven.
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* BrickJoke: In the cartoon ''My Wife and Kid'', Junior gives his father the same "I'm rich, you're broke" answer Michael gave him in a previous season.
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* BrickJoke: In the [[spoiler:the cartoon ''My Wife and Kid'', Kid'']], Junior gives his father the same "I'm rich, you're broke" answer Michael gave him in a previous season.
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** Tisha Campbell plays the wife of the main protagonist, like in ''Series/Martin''.
** Andrew McFarlane plays the boyfriend of a girl from the protagonist family, having previously played one in... ''this very series''. Before Tony, he was Roger, the single-episode boyfriend of the single-season Jazz Raycole's Claire. (Yes, the producers changed Claire's actress and gave her a new boyfriend, but did not change the boyfriend's actor. Go figure.)
** Andrew McFarlane plays the boyfriend of a girl from the protagonist family, having previously played one in... ''this very series''. Before Tony, he was Roger, the single-episode boyfriend of the single-season Jazz Raycole's Claire. (Yes, the producers changed Claire's actress and gave her a new boyfriend, but did not change the boyfriend's actor. Go figure.)
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** Tisha Campbell plays the wife of the main protagonist, like in ''Series/Martin''.
''Series/{{Martin}}''.
** AndrewMcFarlane [=McFarlane=] plays the boyfriend of a girl from the protagonist family, having previously played one in... ''this very series''. Before Tony, he was Roger, the single-episode boyfriend of the single-season Jazz Raycole's Claire. (Yes, the producers changed Claire's actress and gave her a new boyfriend, but did not change the boyfriend's actor. Go figure.)
** Andrew
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** In the pilot episode, Kady speaks a bit of Spanish that his Latina nanny taught her.
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** In the pilot episode, Kady speaks a bit of Spanish that his her Latina nanny taught her.
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* TheDanza:
** Kennedy McCullough as Kennedy, Claire's protégé from the Big Sister program in "The Sweet Hairafter".
** Rick Overton as Rick, one of Michael's employees in "Candy Wars".
** Kennedy McCullough as Kennedy, Claire's protégé from the Big Sister program in "The Sweet Hairafter".
** Rick Overton as Rick, one of Michael's employees in "Candy Wars".
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Michael makes Junior lose a contract opportunity with Creator/ABC to adapt his comic strip into a cartoon (as well as being barred from every other TV channel that broadcasts cartoons) due to posing as his agent and asking for too much money for a beginner artist. He later makes up for that by strucking a deal with a startup website that would still make Junior earn a good amount of money (not as much as with a broadcast network, but still good), with the bonus of letting him keep the ownership of his cartoon.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Michael makes Junior lose a contract opportunity with Creator/ABC Creator/{{ABC}} -- and, due to word of mouth from its executives, every other TV channel that broadcasts cartoons -- to adapt his comic strip into a cartoon (as well as being barred from every other TV channel that broadcasts cartoons) due to posing as his agent and asking for too much money for a beginner artist. He later makes up for that by strucking a deal with a startup website that would still make Junior earn a good amount of money (not as much as with a broadcast network, but still good), with the bonus of letting him keep the ownership of his cartoon.
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** A mouse hunt scene features Michael in a full military uniform, evoking ''Film/Major Payne'', where Damon Wayans played the military protagonist.
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** A mouse hunt scene features Michael in a full military uniform, evoking ''Film/Major Payne'', ''Film/MajorPayne'', where Damon Wayans played the military protagonist.
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* ActorAllusion: Damon Wayans playing a character that makes a joke about [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre doing heavy lifting in the bathroom]]? [[Film/TheLastBoyScout Not the first time]].
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* ActorAllusion: ActorAllusion:
** Damon Wayans playing a character that makes a joke about [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre doing heavy lifting in the bathroom]]? [[Film/TheLastBoyScout Not the firsttime]].time]].
** When Michael and Jay are having a night out and he remembers he forgot to recite the rules to the kids, she asks him: "You know, wouldn't it be funny if we came home and the kids were having a house party? You know how they do that in the movies?". Tisha Campbell was in ''Film/HouseParty'' and its first two sequels.
** A mouse hunt scene features Michael in a full military uniform, evoking ''Film/Major Payne'', where Damon Wayans played the military protagonist.
* AerithAndBob:
** The protagonist family has Michael, Janet (Jay), Michael Jr., Claire... and Kady.
** All of the suggested names for [[spoiler:Junior and Vanessa's baby]] are weird/uncommon names: [[spoiler:Vanessa's mother]] suggests Shamashalon if it's a girl, Michael comically suggests Clajaydy (a portmanteau of "Claire", "Jay", and "Kady") if it's a girl, and [[spoiler:Junior and Vanessa themselves]] suggest two portmanteaus of their first names: [[spoiler:Janessa]] if it's a girl and [[spoiler:Vanjer]] (an alternative to the DoubleEntendre [[spoiler:Vajunior]]) if it's a boy. In the end, the baby [[spoiler:(a boy)]] ends up being named [[spoiler:Michael Richard Kyle III, nicknamed Junior Jr.]]
** Damon Wayans playing a character that makes a joke about [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre doing heavy lifting in the bathroom]]? [[Film/TheLastBoyScout Not the first
** When Michael and Jay are having a night out and he remembers he forgot to recite the rules to the kids, she asks him: "You know, wouldn't it be funny if we came home and the kids were having a house party? You know how they do that in the movies?". Tisha Campbell was in ''Film/HouseParty'' and its first two sequels.
** A mouse hunt scene features Michael in a full military uniform, evoking ''Film/Major Payne'', where Damon Wayans played the military protagonist.
* AerithAndBob:
** The protagonist family has Michael, Janet (Jay), Michael Jr., Claire... and Kady.
** All of the suggested names for [[spoiler:Junior and Vanessa's baby]] are weird/uncommon names: [[spoiler:Vanessa's mother]] suggests Shamashalon if it's a girl, Michael comically suggests Clajaydy (a portmanteau of "Claire", "Jay", and "Kady") if it's a girl, and [[spoiler:Junior and Vanessa themselves]] suggest two portmanteaus of their first names: [[spoiler:Janessa]] if it's a girl and [[spoiler:Vanjer]] (an alternative to the DoubleEntendre [[spoiler:Vajunior]]) if it's a boy. In the end, the baby [[spoiler:(a boy)]] ends up being named [[spoiler:Michael Richard Kyle III, nicknamed Junior Jr.]]
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Michael bets with the kids that they can't last one week without going to him for anything, he tells them he will only provide "food and shelter -- and bail money, if necessary".
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Inverted. When Michael bets with the kids that they can't last one week without going to him for anything, he tells them he will only provide "food and shelter -- and bail money, if necessary".necessary".
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: When Junior confesses to having broken one of Michael's rules by eating peaches with cheese, Michael says he's "not supposed to mix dairy and citrus". Peach is not a citrus fruit.
* AssholeVictim: Michael's OverprotectiveDad tendencies are so big it's very satisfying to see him getting out-gambitted by Claire and learning to trust her word about not having sex with her boyfriend.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: When Junior confesses to having broken one of Michael's rules by eating peaches with cheese, Michael says he's "not supposed to mix dairy and citrus". Peach is not a citrus fruit.
* AssholeVictim: Michael's OverprotectiveDad tendencies are so big it's very satisfying to see him getting out-gambitted by Claire and learning to trust her word about not having sex with her boyfriend.
* BrickJoke: In the cartoon ''My Wife and Kid'', Junior gives his father the same "I'm rich, you're broke" answer Michael gave him in a previous season.
* BuffySpeak:
** Franklin when he invites Kady to drink soda and watch cartoons.
-->'''Franklin:''' Let's drink some of that colored water saturated with high-fructose corn syrup, get a huge sugar rush going, and then watch hours of insipid animated marsupials sing and dance their way through a jungle festooned with product placement featuring candy-laced cereals that will no doubt destroy my pancreas before I'm 12 and leave me twitching in a diabetic coma.
** When Michael is talking to Jay about reforming the garage with Junior, he refers to a saw as "the thing that goes 'bzzz' [and] that cuts through stuff".
* BuffySpeak:
** Franklin when he invites Kady to drink soda and watch cartoons.
-->'''Franklin:''' Let's drink some of that colored water saturated with high-fructose corn syrup, get a huge sugar rush going, and then watch hours of insipid animated marsupials sing and dance their way through a jungle festooned with product placement featuring candy-laced cereals that will no doubt destroy my pancreas before I'm 12 and leave me twitching in a diabetic coma.
** When Michael is talking to Jay about reforming the garage with Junior, he refers to a saw as "the thing that goes 'bzzz' [and] that cuts through stuff".
* CastingGag:
** Tisha Campbell plays the wife of the main protagonist, like in ''Series/Martin''.
** Andrew McFarlane plays the boyfriend of a girl from the protagonist family, having previously played one in... ''this very series''. Before Tony, he was Roger, the single-episode boyfriend of the single-season Jazz Raycole's Claire. (Yes, the producers changed Claire's actress and gave her a new boyfriend, but did not change the boyfriend's actor. Go figure.)
** Damon Wayans, being one of the men behind the series, casted former colleagues of his in some episodes: T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, David Alan Grier, Kim Coles (all from ''Series/InLivingColor''), and Creator/TaylorNegron (the villain Milo from ''Film/TheLastBoyScout''). The latter three share scenes with him.
** Tisha Campbell plays the wife of the main protagonist, like in ''Series/Martin''.
** Andrew McFarlane plays the boyfriend of a girl from the protagonist family, having previously played one in... ''this very series''. Before Tony, he was Roger, the single-episode boyfriend of the single-season Jazz Raycole's Claire. (Yes, the producers changed Claire's actress and gave her a new boyfriend, but did not change the boyfriend's actor. Go figure.)
** Damon Wayans, being one of the men behind the series, casted former colleagues of his in some episodes: T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, David Alan Grier, Kim Coles (all from ''Series/InLivingColor''), and Creator/TaylorNegron (the villain Milo from ''Film/TheLastBoyScout''). The latter three share scenes with him.
* ChekhovsSkill: In the pilot episode, Michael finds out that Junior draws very well and says it could be his future. In the last season, an episode shows that Junior has created a comic strip about him and his family that later gets turned into a cartoon, which makes him finally earn money by himself.
* TheDanza:
** Kennedy McCullough as Kennedy, Claire's protégé from the Big Sister program in "The Sweet Hairafter".
** Rick Overton as Rick, one of Michael's employees in "Candy Wars".
** Kennedy McCullough as Kennedy, Claire's protégé from the Big Sister program in "The Sweet Hairafter".
** Rick Overton as Rick, one of Michael's employees in "Candy Wars".
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Michael does this to all his kids. He'll go to great lengths to punish them or get a confession no matter how small the issue is. In one instance, he tries to get Junior thrown out of the house for drinking all the milk. Subverted though, in that he needed an excuse to throw him out because Junior got a tattoo and wasn't able to punish him for it.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: DisproportionateRetribution:
** Michael does this to all his kids. He'll go to great lengths to punish them or get a confession no matter how small the issue is. In one instance, he tries to get Junior thrown out of the house for drinking all the milk. Subverted though, in that he needed an excuse to throw him out because Junior got a tattoo and wasn't able to punish him forit.it.
** Tony does this to himself once. In "The Lady is Not a Tramp", it's revealed that he went to spend 40 days and 40 nights in the desert as self-punishment for getting drunk at Claire's house party and running naked in the street (both seen in "While Out").
** Michael does this to all his kids. He'll go to great lengths to punish them or get a confession no matter how small the issue is. In one instance, he tries to get Junior thrown out of the house for drinking all the milk. Subverted though, in that he needed an excuse to throw him out because Junior got a tattoo and wasn't able to punish him for
** Tony does this to himself once. In "The Lady is Not a Tramp", it's revealed that he went to spend 40 days and 40 nights in the desert as self-punishment for getting drunk at Claire's house party and running naked in the street (both seen in "While Out").
* Foreshadowing: When cooking in an episode, Michael wears an apron with illustrations and the names of nutmeg and thyme. Later episodes show that nutmeg is the secret ingredient to Michael's mother's cookies (as told by Kelly, Michael's sister, during a visit) and that Michael and Jay mistake for thyme an aphrodisiac plant they got from Kady and Franklin.
* FreezeFrameBonus:
** The briefly seen back cover of a book Claire is holding in the last scene from "Of Mice and Men" shows that the book is ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheSorcerersStone''.
** In "What Do You Know?", when the family is playing the eponymous game, Kady asks Franklin which of ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 The Powerpuff Girls]]'' is her favorite. When he gives wrong answers and she hits him with the cardboard paper, the answer (Blossom) can be seen -- very blurry, but identifiable -- if you pause ''exactly'' at the right moment.
* FreezeFrameBonus:
** The briefly seen back cover of a book Claire is holding in the last scene from "Of Mice and Men" shows that the book is ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheSorcerersStone''.
** In "What Do You Know?", when the family is playing the eponymous game, Kady asks Franklin which of ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 The Powerpuff Girls]]'' is her favorite. When he gives wrong answers and she hits him with the cardboard paper, the answer (Blossom) can be seen -- very blurry, but identifiable -- if you pause ''exactly'' at the right moment.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Michael makes Junior lose a contract opportunity with Creator/ABC to adapt his comic strip into a cartoon (as well as being barred from every other TV channel that broadcasts cartoons) due to posing as his agent and asking for too much money for a beginner artist. He later makes up for that by strucking a deal with a startup website that would still make Junior earn a good amount of money (not as much as with a broadcast network, but still good), with the bonus of letting him keep the ownership of his cartoon.
* PuppyLove: Kady and Franklin.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Claire gets very upset after coming second in a dance contest.
* SpoilerTitle: [[spoiler:"Jr. Sells His Car"]] and [[spoiler:"Michael Sells the Business"]].
* ATasteOfHisOwnMedicine: Michael, an avid BatmanGambit player when teaching lessons to his children, falls into one from Claire when she wants to prove he could trust her about not having sex with Tony when he returned from his self-imposed religious exile.
-->'''Claire:''' You know what this is? This is the very first "Claire Kyle signature moment".
-->'''Michael:''' I taught you well.
-->'''Claire:''' You know what this is? This is the very first "Claire Kyle signature moment".
-->'''Michael:''' I taught you well.
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* TitleDrop:TitleDrop: OnceASeason up to and including Season 3.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
** Michael and peach cobbler.
** Calvin and bacon. He's never actually seen eating it, but it's mentioned that he stops by the Kyle house everytime he smells it when passing by and that he once pursued a bacon truck.
** Michael and peach cobbler.
** Calvin and bacon. He's never actually seen eating it, but it's mentioned that he stops by the Kyle house everytime he smells it when passing by and that he once pursued a bacon truck.
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DomCom that aired on ABC from 2001 to 2005. The show is about Michael Kyle ([[Creator/TheWayansFamily Damon Wayans]], in what is arguably his most famous work worldwide) and, well... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin his wife and kids]]: Jay (Creator/TishaCampbell[[note]]credited as Tisha Campbell-Martin[[/note]]), Junior (George O. Gore II), Claire (Jazz Raycole[[note]]Season 1 only[[/note]]/Jennifer Nicole Freeman) and Kady (Parker [=McKenna=] Posey).
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DomCom that aired on ABC from 2001 to 2005. The show is about Michael Kyle
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* BigEater: Calvin almost ''ate all the food that a Chinese restaurant had.''
** Jay's gluttony is also a running gag.
** Jay's gluttony is also a running gag.
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* BigEater: BigEater:
** Calvin almost''ate ate all the food that of a Chinese restaurant had.''
restaurant.
** Jay's gluttony isalso a running gag.RunningGag.
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** Jay's gluttony is
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* DeadlySparring: "In Papa Said Knock You Out", Michael decides to get back in shape by taking up boxing and picks Junior as a sparring partner. During one of their sessions, Michael encourages Junior to be more aggressive with his blows, resulting in Junior accidentally knocking Michael out.
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* DeadlySparring: "In Papa In "Papa Said Knock You Out", Michael decides to get back in shape by taking up boxing and picks Junior as a sparring partner. During one of their sessions, Michael encourages Junior to be more aggressive with his blows, resulting in Junior accidentally knocking Michael out.
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* SurprisePregnancy:
** In "Anniversary Part 1", Michael implies that Junior wasn't his only unplanned child.
-->'''Jay:''' ''(to Claire)'' Baby, you have got to communicate with Tony. That is the secret to any good relationship. How do you think your father and I have hung in there for so long?
-->'''Michael:''' Unplanned pregnancies?
** [[spoiler:Vanessa in the Season 3 finale.]]
** [[spoiler:In the series finale, Jay goes to the hospital to have a tubal ligation surgery but ends up finding out she's pregnant.]]
** In "Anniversary Part 1", Michael implies that Junior wasn't his only unplanned child.
-->'''Jay:''' ''(to Claire)'' Baby, you have got to communicate with Tony. That is the secret to any good relationship. How do you think your father and I have hung in there for so long?
-->'''Michael:''' Unplanned pregnancies?
** [[spoiler:Vanessa in the Season 3 finale.]]
** [[spoiler:In the series finale, Jay goes to the hospital to have a tubal ligation surgery but ends up finding out she's pregnant.]]
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* ActorAllusion: Damon Wayans playing a character that makes a joke about [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre doing heavy lifting in the bathroom]]? [[Film/TheLastBoyScout Not the first time]].
* GratuitousSpanish:
** In the pilot episode, Kady speaks a bit of Spanish that his Latina nanny taught her.
** When Junior wants to have a "man-to-boy" conversation with Tony about the latter's intentions with Claire.
-->'''Junior:''' Let's step outside for a minute, Tony. I wanna have a little ''mano-y-boyo'' chat with you.
** In the pilot episode, Kady speaks a bit of Spanish that his Latina nanny taught her.
** When Junior wants to have a "man-to-boy" conversation with Tony about the latter's intentions with Claire.
-->'''Junior:''' Let's step outside for a minute, Tony. I wanna have a little ''mano-y-boyo'' chat with you.
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** In "Snapping and Sniffing", when Michael complains to Jay about coming home and seeing it empty.
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** Season 1 -- In "Snapping and Sniffing", when Michael complains to Jay about coming home and seeing it empty.
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** In "Man of the Year", when Michael gives his acceptance speech after winning the Father of the Year Award from his family.
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** Season 2 -- In "The Kyles Go to Hawaii Part 3", when the family is boarding the bus to the airport.
-->'''Jay:''' So, Michael, did you have a good time?
-->'''Michael:''' Any time I spend with my wife and kids is a good time.
** Season 3 -- In "Man of the Year", when Michael gives his acceptance speech after winning the Father of the Year Award from his family.
-->'''Jay:''' So, Michael, did you have a good time?
-->'''Michael:''' Any time I spend with my wife and kids is a good time.
** Season 3 -- In "Man of the Year", when Michael gives his acceptance speech after winning the Father of the Year Award from his family.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The [[OnTheNext next episode preview]] at the end of "Anniversary Part 1" reveals that [[spoiler:Michael's surprise for Jay is a proper wedding, which they could not have when they got married]], and that [[spoiler:Brian [=McKnight=], of whom Jay had shown to be a big fan in that same episode, sings at the ceremony.]]
* TwerpSweating: Michael to all of Claire's boyfriends (Roger and Tony), and more than once with the latter.
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* VolleyingInsults: Michael and Wanda communicate with each other this way.
* WaterWakeup: After making Junior spend the night in the family's garden, Michael wakes him up by turning on the sprinklers.
* WaterWakeup: After making Junior spend the night in the family's garden, Michael wakes him up by turning on the sprinklers.
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* VolleyingInsults: VolleyingInsults:
** Michael and his father when his parents visit him.
** Michael and Wandacommunicate whenever they're seen together, except when [[spoiler:both reveal to Jay that Wanda helped Michael with each other this way.
the surprise wedding ceremony]].
* WaterWakeup:After In the morning after making Junior spend the night in the family's garden, Michael wakes him up by turning on activating the sprinklers.
** Michael and his father when his parents visit him.
** Michael and Wanda
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* ActorAllusion: Damon Wayans' middle name is Kyle and he also has [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915458/ a son named Junior]].
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Michael describes his fake back injury as a "subjugated managerial dilapidated disc collapse of the lower lumbar G3 area".
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* ActorAllusion: Kyle is Damon Wayans' middle name.name is Kyle and he also has [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915458/ a son named Junior]].
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* ForWantOfANail: Not hearing the very first sentence ("Tony, I cannot wait until we can go out on a real date"[[note]]Without her parents chaperoning like in their first date, seen in a previous episode[[/note]]) from a set of two DoubleEntendre-filled dialogues between Claire and Tony makes Junior think they're talking about having sex, which makes him take boxing lessons from Michael to give a lesson to Tony... which ultimately makes him end up with a black eye, courtesy of Tony himself.
** First, Claire continues the conversation on the phone:
-->'''Claire:''' I know! We're like the only ones at school who haven't done it. Erica and Damien did it. I heard they did it three times in one week, give or take.
** Later, after Claire and Tony return from baseball practice (another thing that Junior didn't know):
-->'''Tony:''' Well, how'd you like it?
-->'''Claire:''' Wow, Tony, you were so good. It was my first time and I'm really glad I did it with you. You were so quick, but you hit it so hard.
-->'''Tony:''' Yeah, that's why it's important to use protection.
-->'''Claire:''' I'm glad you brought some. I didn't even know how to put it on. You are so much better at it than me.
-->'''Tony:''' No, you were good too. I mean, you really got your hips into it a couple of times.
-->'''Claire:''' I liked it more than I thought I would.
-->'''Tony:''' Yeah, once you get started, it's hard to stop.
-->'''Claire:''' I know. I'm exhausted.
-->'''Tony:''' Yeah, that's natural. I mean, I usually go to sleep right afterwards. But don't worry, the more you do it, the easier it gets.
** First, Claire continues the conversation on the phone:
-->'''Claire:''' I know! We're like the only ones at school who haven't done it. Erica and Damien did it. I heard they did it three times in one week, give or take.
** Later, after Claire and Tony return from baseball practice (another thing that Junior didn't know):
-->'''Tony:''' Well, how'd you like it?
-->'''Claire:''' Wow, Tony, you were so good. It was my first time and I'm really glad I did it with you. You were so quick, but you hit it so hard.
-->'''Tony:''' Yeah, that's why it's important to use protection.
-->'''Claire:''' I'm glad you brought some. I didn't even know how to put it on. You are so much better at it than me.
-->'''Tony:''' No, you were good too. I mean, you really got your hips into it a couple of times.
-->'''Claire:''' I liked it more than I thought I would.
-->'''Tony:''' Yeah, once you get started, it's hard to stop.
-->'''Claire:''' I know. I'm exhausted.
-->'''Tony:''' Yeah, that's natural. I mean, I usually go to sleep right afterwards. But don't worry, the more you do it, the easier it gets.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Michael bets with the kids that they can't last one week of total independence from him, he tells them he will only provide food, shelter and bail money.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Michael bets with the kids that they can't last one week of total independence from him, without going to him for anything, he tells them he will only provide food, "food and shelter -- and bail money.money, if necessary".
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* BerserkButton: Don't tell Michael he's not capable of doing something.
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* BerserkButton: Don't tell BerserkButton:
** Jay and being clapped at to do something faster.
** Michael and being told he's not capable of doing something.
** Jay and being clapped at to do something faster.
** Michael and being told he's not capable of doing something.
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: In one episode, Michael finally warms up to the idea of Claire and Tony dating and Michael even says he likes Tony because he's such a good kid. The next day she dumps Tony and starts dating a good for nothing gangsta' wannabe who constantly talks down to her. After trying to win Claire back fails, Jay has a talk with Claire, wanting to know how can she dump a good guy like Tony and start dating a thug who doesn't appreciate her. Claire says that lately she has gotten annoyed with Michael and just wants to see him suffer, Jay tells her that she understands she's going through a rebellious phase, but that's still no reason to date the other guy, and suggests to Claire she break up with him and give Tony another chance. Once Claire and Tony make up, Michael jokingly tells them he hates him.
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: In one episode, Michael finally warms up to the idea of Claire and Tony dating and Michael even says he likes Tony because he's such a good kid. The next day she dumps Tony and starts dating a good for nothing gangsta' good-for-nothing gangsta wannabe who constantly talks down to her. After trying to win Claire back fails, Jay has a talk with Claire, her, wanting to know how can she dump a good guy like Tony and start dating a thug who doesn't appreciate her. Claire says that lately she has gotten annoyed with Michael and just wants to see him suffer, suffer. Jay tells her that she understands she's going through a rebellious phase, but that's still no reason to date the other guy, and suggests to Claire she break up with him and give Tony another chance. Once Claire and Tony make up, Michael jokingly tells them he hates him.
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* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Subverted. When Michael finds out one of the kids has eaten the piece of pie he intended to eat at the halftime of a basketball game and none of them confesses, he decides to make them eat the exact same kind of pie in all their meals until the perpetrator does.
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* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Subverted. Subverted.
** WhenMichael finds out one none of the kids has confess to having eaten the piece of pie he intended to eat at the halftime of a basketball game and none of them confesses, he game, Michael decides to make them eat the exact same kind of pie in all their meals until the perpetrator does.gives up.
** When Claire and Junior are under a deal with Michael to not go to him for anything so as to not having to follow his rules, he gives them a whole frozen chicken to eat but does not tell them how to cook it.
** When
** When Claire and Junior are under a deal with Michael to not go to him for anything so as to not having to follow his rules, he gives them a whole frozen chicken to eat but does not tell them how to cook it.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Micheal does this to all his kids. He'll go to great lengths to punish his kids or get a confession no matter how small the issue is. In one instance, he tries to get Junior thrown out of the house for drinking all the milk. Subverted though, in that he needed an excuse to throw him out because Junior got a tattoo and wasn't able to punish him for it.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Micheal Michael does this to all his kids. He'll go to great lengths to punish his kids them or get a confession no matter how small the issue is. In one instance, he tries to get Junior thrown out of the house for drinking all the milk. Subverted though, in that he needed an excuse to throw him out because Junior got a tattoo and wasn't able to punish him for it.
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* ExactWords: After Michael makes a deal with the kids to see if they can last one week of independence from him, he gives a frozen whole chicken for Claire and Junior to eat (he agreed to provide food, but did not say it would be in an edible state) and makes Junior sleep on the garden after changing the locks when he comes home late at night (he agreed to provide shelter, but did not say it would be only in the house).
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* WaterWakeup: After making Junior spend the night in the family's garden, Michael wakes him up by turning on the sprinklers.
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* AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: Junior moves into a studio apartment where the bathtub doubles as a bed and couch.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Michael bets with the kids that they can't last one week of total independence from him, he tells them he will only provide food, shelter and bail money.
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* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Subverted. When Michael finds out one of the kids has eaten the piece of pie he intended to eat at the halftime of a basketball game and none of them confesses, he decides to make them eat the exact same kind of pie in all their meals until the perpetrator does.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Claire [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers is upset about getting second place in a dance contest]], Jay tells her that it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, to which Claire responds asking if Jay tells that to her clients in the stock market.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Jay, [[spoiler:and becomes an Absurdly Youthful ''Grandmother'' later on in the series]].
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Jay, [[spoiler:and who got pregnant with Junior, the eldest of the Kyle children, at 16 years old. [[spoiler:She becomes an Absurdly Youthful ''Grandmother'' later on in the series]].series.]]
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* AgeLift: Jay got pregnant with Junior at 16 years old, but Creator/Tisha Campbell is actually 14 years older than George O. Gore II.
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* AgeLift: Jay got pregnant with Junior at 16 years old, but Creator/Tisha Campbell Creator/TishaCampbell is actually 14 years older than George O. Gore II.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother:
** Jay, [[spoiler:and becomes an Absurdly Youthful ''Grandmother'' later on in the series]].
** Tisha Campbell-Martin is about 13 years older than the actor who played her eldest child, but then it ''was'' a TeenPregnancy, even if the age gap was larger by about 5 years.
** Jay, [[spoiler:and becomes an Absurdly Youthful ''Grandmother'' later on in the series]].
** Tisha Campbell-Martin is about 13 years older than the actor who played her eldest child, but then it ''was'' a TeenPregnancy, even if the age gap was larger by about 5 years.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother:
**AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Jay, [[spoiler:and becomes an Absurdly Youthful ''Grandmother'' later on in the series]].
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** Tisha Campbell-Martin is about 13 years older than the actor who played her eldest child, but then it ''was'' a TeenPregnancy, even if the age gap was larger by about 5 years.
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* AgeLift: Jay got pregnant with Junior at 16 years old, but Creator/Tisha Campbell is actually 14 years older than George O. Gore II.
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: When Michael complains about coming home and finding it empty, telling Jay he wants to come home and see [[TitleDrop his wife and kids]] and some food on the table, she laughingly suggests him to just come home later.
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* TitleDrop: In "Man of the Year", when Michael gives his acceptance speech after winning the Father of the Year Award from his family.
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** In "Snapping and Sniffing", when Michael complains to Jay about coming home and seeing it empty.
-->'''Michael:''' Look at the time. Where is everybody at?
--> '''Jay:''' The kids are in their afterschool programs, Rosa's picking up Kady from Tumble Tots, and I had a late meeting. Come on baby, what is the big deal? Would you smile? ''(kisses)''
-->'''Michael:''' I'll smile when I come home and see my wife and kids and some food on the table like my father used to have.
** In "Man of the Year", when Michael gives his acceptance speech after winning the Father of the Year Award from his family.
** In "Snapping and Sniffing", when Michael complains to Jay about coming home and seeing it empty.
-->'''Michael:''' Look at the time. Where is everybody at?
--> '''Jay:''' The kids are in their afterschool programs, Rosa's picking up Kady from Tumble Tots, and I had a late meeting. Come on baby, what is the big deal? Would you smile? ''(kisses)''
-->'''Michael:''' I'll smile when I come home and see my wife and kids and some food on the table like my father used to have.
** In "Man of the Year", when Michael gives his acceptance speech after winning the Father of the Year Award from his family.
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* TitleDrop: In "Man of the Year", when Michael gives his acceptance speech after winning the Father of the Year Award from his family.
-->'''Michael:''' I want to thank you guys for reminding me what's really important in my life. That's the love and respect of my wife and kids.
-->'''Michael:''' I want to thank you guys for reminding me what's really important in my life. That's the love and respect of my wife and kids.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Twice in Season 4 ("Empty Nest", parts 1 and 2).
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DomCom that aired on ABC from 2001 to 2005. The show is about Michael Kyle ([[Creator/TheWayansFamily Damon Wayans]], in what is arguably his most famous work worldwide) and, well... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin his wife and kids]]: Jay[[note]]real name Janet[[/note]] (Tisha Campbell-Martin), Junior (George O. Gore II), Claire (Jazz Raycole[[note]]Season 1 only[[/note]]/Jennifer Nicole Freeman) and Kady (Parker [=McKenna=] Posey).
Also known for Creator/NoahGrayCabey's first big role (the ChildProdigy Franklin) and for the first appeareance of Creator/TerryCrews in a big work after his breakout role as Latrell Spencer in ''Film/WhiteChicks''.
Also known for Creator/NoahGrayCabey's first big role (the ChildProdigy Franklin) and for the first appeareance of Creator/TerryCrews in a big work after his breakout role as Latrell Spencer in ''Film/WhiteChicks''.
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DomCom that aired on ABC from 2001 to 2005. The show is about Michael Kyle ([[Creator/TheWayansFamily Damon Wayans]], in what is arguably his most famous work worldwide) and, well... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin his wife and kids]]: Jay[[note]]real name Janet[[/note]] (Tisha Campbell-Martin), Jay (Creator/TishaCampbell[[note]]credited as Tisha Campbell-Martin[[/note]]), Junior (George O. Gore II), Claire (Jazz Raycole[[note]]Season 1 only[[/note]]/Jennifer Nicole Freeman) and Kady (Parker [=McKenna=] Posey).
Also known for Creator/NoahGrayCabey's first big role (the ChildProdigy Franklin) and for the firstappeareance appearance of Creator/TerryCrews in a big work after his breakout role as Latrell Spencer in ''Film/WhiteChicks''.
Also known for Creator/NoahGrayCabey's first big role (the ChildProdigy Franklin) and for the first
