History Series / StillStanding

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* {{Adorkable}}: Brian

* TheCastShowOff: One episode had Lauren sing a jazz solo in a dream sequence. Her actress, Renee Olstead, is an accomplished jazz vocalist.
** Averted with Kathy Halverson. She's played by Marin Mazzie, a Tony-winning Broadway actress who specializes in musical theatre, but she never sings.

* DoubleStandard: Bill is always hoping for Brian to meet a girl and get laid, but gets riled up any time Lauren even mentions boys, though it is only due to him being MistakenForGay.
** Actually, this is a pretty common DoubleStandard in real life.
* TheEighties: Bill and Judy still wish it was the eighties, when they ruled their high school.

* TheSmartGuy: Brian

* UglyGuyHotWife: Bill and Judy.

* InsistentTerminology: Bill once took Tina to a Bar - ''AND GRILLE''.[[note]]In all fairness, taking a child to a Bar and Grille isn't actually as bad as they made it out to be - many restaurants that are child-friendly have a bar, and some even allow children to sit in the bar as long as they don't have any liquor if they don't have any space to seat them in the main restaurant. Otherwise, a bar and grille will put a customer with children in an area ''away'' from the bar.[[/note]]

* LineOfSightName: Subverted. Brian claims he's holding a condom in his wallet for a friend named Dorian. The parents ground him, thinking he made up the name while staring at the front door. Turns out he actually has a friend named Dorian.

* RacistGrandma: Bill's mother had this occasionally. At her engagement party, "Who bought me a rice cooker? My fiance is Asian, I'm ''marrying'' a rice cooker." Bill's father, Al is stated to be racist as well, but it comes across as an InformedFlaw.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Fitz' wife, Marion. There was an entire episode dedicated to this, with such friends being deemed "The Marion."
** Bill and Judy themselves have been this several times.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: You can bet Brian, Lauren, and Tina will have some...''interesting'' stories of the constant taunting and belittling from their parents.
** But they tend to mean well and really love their kids. Their failures in parenting are usually just fleeting jokes. The last episode is kind of an easy one to use as evidence, with Judy and Bill breaking down over Brian leaving for college, but it's only one a bunch of moments where it's easy to root for (at least Judy) them for showing just how much they love their kids.
*** It's hinted that Bill had one, in one episode he mentons that his father made him fight a dog to settle a bet.

* ItsBeenDone: Perry writes a song that happens to have the same tune as Music/{{KISS}}'s "Rock and Roll All Nite".

* MistakenForGay: Brian. Most of the speculation is due to him be much more soft spoken and intellectual than his family.
** Not to mention he reads ''Vogue'', twirls a baton in band, likes musical theatre and even served as a male cheerleader at one point. The latter, however, was Brian's way of interacting with [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders girls he wants, but could never get otherwise]]. Despite all of this, it has been made perfectly clear that he is straight.

* RacistGrandma: Bill's mother had this occasionally. At her engagement party, "Who bought me a rice cooker? My fiance is Asian, I'm ''marrying'' a rice cooker."

** SadistShow: A lot of the things that Bill and Judy do to their kids would probably get them in trouble with Social Services in real life.

** Brian being MistakenForGay, which is in nearly every postseason 1 episode.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Well sister-sister incest actually-In one episode, Judy thinks she got groped by her mother-in-law's boyfriend while he was hugging her, so she tries to recreate the moment with her sister Linda(I.E. hugging her and grabbing her ass) and both of them seem to enjoy it(Judy even makes a coment about Linda having tight glutes).Linda lampshades this later on when Judy wears tight pants in order to try and see if the boyfriend will try to grab her ass again.

* InsistentTerminology: Bill once took Tina to a Bar - ''AND GRILLE''. [[hottip:note:In all fairness, taking a child to a Bar and Grille isn't actually as bad as they made it out to be - many restaurants that are child-friendly have a bar, and some even allow children to sit in the bar as long as they don't have any liquor if they don't have any space. Otherwise, a bar and grille will put a customer with children in an area ''away'' from the bar]].

* ReallyGetsAround: Linda is implied to be this, but she seems to want to get married.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Two in-universe example were mentioned, PlayedForLaughs:

* InsistentTerminology: Bill once took Tina to a Bar - ''AND GRILLE''. [[hottip:*:In all fairness, taking a child to a Bar and Grille isn't actually as bad as they made it out to be - many restaurants that are child-friendly have a bar, and some even allow children to sit in the bar as long as they don't have any liquor if they don't have any space. Otherwise, a bar and grille will put a customer with children in an area ''away'' from the bar]].

* InsistentTerminology: Bill once took Tina to a Bar - ''AND GRILLE''. [[hottip:*:In all fairness, taking a child to a Bar and Grille isn't actually as bad as they made it out to be - many restaurants that are child-friendly have a bar, and some even allow children to sit in the bar as long as they don't have any liquor]].

* HotMom: Judy, ''full freakin' stop.''

Set in Chicago, Bill and Judy Miller have never really given up their high-school antics, despite having three children to raise: brainy Brian, spoiled Lauren, and strange little Tina. Judy's unlucky-in-love sister Linda often pops in to trade barbs with Bill. The end of episodes usually deal with a role reversal by having the kids teach a lesson to the adults.

* CloudCuckooLander: Perry, Linda's boyfriend.

* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Bill telling Judy that Brian's employer likes the White Sox in ''Still Our Kids'':

* FakeAmerican: The British Mark Addy as Bill.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Judy is plotting a scheme to get the TheWho tickets from their friends, you can see Tina walking into the kitchen, picking up a large cutting knife, then walking off. And then Lauren runs in looking scared.

* ItsBeenDone: Perry writes a song that happens to have the same tune as {{KISS}}'s "Rock and Roll All Nite".

Has nothing to do with the {{Glurge}}-filled StrawmanPolitical autobiography penned by a Miss USA contestant.

* FakeAmerican: Unless you have seen his work in his home country (especially if you are from there), you would never guess...

* TheCastShowOff: One episode had Lauren sing a jazz solo in a dream sequence. Her actress, Renee Olstead, is an accomplished jazz vocalist.
* TheDitz: Lauren, usually. This role is also sometimes filled by Perry, Linda's on-again-off-again boyfriend/fiance/husband.
* TheEighties: Bill and Judy still wish it was the eighties, when they ruled their high school.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Bill and Judy

* AdultChild: Bill and Judy. Made even worse due to the fact they have three children.

* RetroactiveRecognition: A pre-fame AshleyTisdale plays Brian's girlfriend Bonnie.