History Series / StillStanding

* OldMaid: Linda, despite being in her late thirties, is unmarried and has no children and it bothers her greatly. She does date a lot, but they never turn into anything serious. She eventually does get married to Perry in the show's final seasons.

** "That is so wrong!" "No, what's wrong is that I'm watching Series/TheView."

-> ''"I wouldn't have it any other way,''\\

* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: In "Still in School", Linda reunites with her former high school crush Steve Upton. She and Steve end up sleeping together and Linda tells Judy that he's perfect in every way. Until she finds out that he doesn't like Music/TheBeatles.

* ManlyGay: Scotty, Fitz's son, qualifies as he's a BigManOnCampus jock character who hits on Brian and even asks him out when they work on a float for the parade together, which leads to -

* BookDumb: Bill and Judy are both this. Neither of them did well in school and have no post-secondary education (well, technically Bill did go to college briefly, but flunked out after a few weeks). Lauren is also said to get poor grades in school and slacks off when it comes to homework. This is all in contrast to Brian, who excels in school.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Judy is plotting a scheme to get the Music/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.

* BumblingDad: Present as expected in a sitcom. But what makes this case stand out is that both Bill and Judy are incompetent parents.

* OldMaid: Poor, poor Linda...

* RetroactiveRecognition: Oscar Nunez appeares in "Still Hairdressing" as Bill's poker buddy Tim, two years before playing Oscar Martinez in [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheOfficeUS The Office].

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization Flanderization]]: Bill and Judy in the first two seasons are depicted as a slightly eccentric married couple with an unconventional parenting style but who still ultimately are good parents. By the fourth and final season, they're cartoonishly over the top about it; bonding with another couple over hating their kids (in "Still the Fun One"), telling Fitz and Marian that ganging up on Brian is something they can both enjoy as a couple, and not even caring when he angrily calls them out as "horrible, horrible people that nobody else could ever love" (in "Still a Team"). Subverted at the conclusion of the series finale when Brian moves out (for all their talk, they realize they can't go through with tearing Brian's room down and instead choose to keep it the same to prove he's always welcome in their home).

* PlayingAgainstType: John Marshall Jones as Bill's co-worker Mack McDaniel. Jones is probably best known as TJ's level-headed and patient single dad Floyd on [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/SmartGuy Smart Guy.]] By contrast, Mack McDaniel is morally dubious, at times lecherous, and very happily without any kids of his own (as stated in "Still Single" and "Still the Boss").

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization Flanderization]]: Bill and Judy in the first two seasons are depicted as a slightly eccentric married couple with an unconventional parenting style but who still ultimately are good parents. By the fourth and final season, they're cartoonishly over the top about it; bonding with another couple over hating their kids (in "Still the Fun One"), telling Fitz and Marian ganging up on Brian is something they can both enjoy as a couple, and not even caring when he angrily calls them out as "horrible, horrible people that nobody else could ever love" (in "Still a Team"). Subverted at the conclusion of the series finale when Brian moves out (for all their talk, they realize they can't go through with tearing Brian's room down and instead choose to keep it the same to prove he's always welcome in their home).

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization Flanderization]]: Bill and Judy in the first two seasons are depicted as a slightly eccentric married couple with an unconventional parenting style but who still ultimately are good parents. By the fourth and final season, they're cartoonishly over the top about it; bonding with another couple over hating their kids (in "Still the Fun One"), telling Fitz and Marian ganging up on their Brian is something they can both enjoy as a couple, and not even caring when he angrily calls them out as "horrible, horrible people that nobody else could ever love" (in "Still a Team"). Subverted at the conclusion of the series finale when Brian moves out (for all their talk, they realize they can't go through with tearing Brian's room down and instead choose to keep it the same to prove he's always welcome in their home).

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization Flanderization]]: Bill and Judy in the first two seasons are depicted as a slightly eccentric married couple with an unconventional parenting style but who still ultimately are good parents. By the fourth and final season, they're cartoonishly over the top about it; bonding with another couple over hating their kids (in "Still the Fun One"), telling Fitz and Marian ganging up on their Brian is something they can both enjoy as a couple, and not even caring when said he calls them out as "horrible, horrible people that nobody else could ever love" (in "Still a Team"). Subverted at the conclusion of the series finale when Brian moves out (for all their talk, they realize they can't go through with tearing Brian's room down and instead choose to keep it the same to prove he's always welcome in their home).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The house had a very different setup in the pilot.

Set in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, Bill (Creator/MarkAddy) and Judy (Creator/JamiGertz) Miller have never really given up their high-school antics, despite having three children to raise: brainy Brian (Taylor Ball), spoiled Lauren (Renee Olstead), and strange little Tina (Soleil Borda). Judy's unlucky-in-love sister Linda (Jennifer Irwin) 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.

* SecretlyWealthy: When Al is getting remarried, his fiancee Joy tells Bill that she's not marrying Al for his money, which Bill assumes means that Al lied about his finances to Joy. As it turns out, Al is a millionaire and has been hiding it for years. He won a large sum of money in a lawsuit and invested wisely.

* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Bill telling Judy that Brian's employer likes [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams the White Sox]] in ''Still Our Kids'':

[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise from center: Judy, Bill, Linda, Brian, Lauren and Tina]]

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[[caption-width-right:389:The cast. From left to right: Brian, Linda, Judy, Tina, Bill, and Lauren.]]

Set in UsefulNotes/{{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.