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** Jimmy Fitzsimmons, despite having [[HateSink very little (if any at all) in the way of redeeming traits]], is at least implied to have a FreudianExcuse in the form of a crappy home life. He gets physically disciplined by an AbusiveDad, and after Jimmy is framed for a crime ''that he was completely innocent of'', he's forced to attend a
[[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Catholic military school]] that tried to change his behavior by using lots of brute force. It's also strongly implied that both he and his father (as evidenced by a semi-conscious rant when Mr. Fitzsimmons awakens) were sexually abused by the same priest at the Catholic Church, which would only contribute to Jimmy's issues.
[[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Catholic military school]] that tried to change his behavior by using lots of brute force. It's also strongly implied that both he and his father (as evidenced by a semi-conscious rant when Mr. Fitzsimmons awakens) were sexually abused by the same priest at the Catholic Church, which would only contribute to Jimmy's issues.
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** Jimmy Fitzsimmons, despite having [[HateSink very little (if any at all) in the way of redeeming traits]], is at least implied to have a FreudianExcuse in the form of a crappy home life. He gets physically disciplined by an AbusiveDad, and after Jimmy is framed for a crime ''that he was completely innocent of'', he's forced to attend a
[[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Catholic military school]] that tried to change his behavior by using lots of brute force. It's also strongly implied that both he and his father (as evidenced by a semi-conscious rant when Mr. Fitzsimmons awakens) were sexually abused by the same priest at the Catholic Church, which would only contribute to Jimmy's issues.
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** Jimmy Fitzsimmons, despite having [[HateSink very little (if any at all) in the way of redeeming traits]], is at least implied to have a FreudianExcuse in the form of a crappy home life. He gets physically disciplined by an AbusiveDad, and after Jimmy is framed for a crime ''that he was completely innocent of'', he's forced to attend a [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Catholic military school]] that tried to change his behavior by using lots of brute force.
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** Jimmy Fitzsimmons, despite having [[HateSink very little (if any at all) in the way of redeeming traits]], is at least implied to have a FreudianExcuse in the form of a crappy home life. He gets physically disciplined by an AbusiveDad, and after Jimmy is framed for a crime ''that he was completely innocent of'', he's forced to attend a a
[[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Catholic military school]] that tried to change his behavior by using lots of bruteforce.force. It's also strongly implied that both he and his father (as evidenced by a semi-conscious rant when Mr. Fitzsimmons awakens) were sexually abused by the same priest at the Catholic Church, which would only contribute to Jimmy's issues.
** Mr. Durkin, a teacher at Kevin's school who is teaching summer school. He is clearly burned out at his job to the point where he has open contempt for his students, though that feeling is reciprocated. He constantly harasses and belittles Kevin. That said, his teaching job pays so poorly that he has to work multiple jobs to make ends meet, and he is implied to owe a heavy alimony settlement to at least one ex-wife. He's so desperate for money that he digs in the gutters for loose change. On top of that, his car is very old and seems to attract rocks and other garbage that breaks its windshield and windows. Since Mr. Durkin can't afford to fix the windows, he tapes trash bags over them, and when the trash bags start getting damaged by flying rocks, it's clear that even plastic trash bags are an expense that he can't afford. He gets arrested for insurance fraud when his car is crushed by a train while sitting on the tracks, though it's likely this was caused by Kevin's friends, who enjoy putting junk on the tracks to watch it get smashed. He does get released, as he is back teaching one of Kevin's classes in the fall. But just when he thinks he's reaching Kevin, the kids make fun of a family member of his dying. Mr. Durkin may be an asshole teacher, but his financial and personal stresses, and the apathy from his students, are contributing to at least some of his antagonism.
[[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Catholic military school]] that tried to change his behavior by using lots of brute
** Mr. Durkin, a teacher at Kevin's school who is teaching summer school. He is clearly burned out at his job to the point where he has open contempt for his students, though that feeling is reciprocated. He constantly harasses and belittles Kevin. That said, his teaching job pays so poorly that he has to work multiple jobs to make ends meet, and he is implied to owe a heavy alimony settlement to at least one ex-wife. He's so desperate for money that he digs in the gutters for loose change. On top of that, his car is very old and seems to attract rocks and other garbage that breaks its windshield and windows. Since Mr. Durkin can't afford to fix the windows, he tapes trash bags over them, and when the trash bags start getting damaged by flying rocks, it's clear that even plastic trash bags are an expense that he can't afford. He gets arrested for insurance fraud when his car is crushed by a train while sitting on the tracks, though it's likely this was caused by Kevin's friends, who enjoy putting junk on the tracks to watch it get smashed. He does get released, as he is back teaching one of Kevin's classes in the fall. But just when he thinks he's reaching Kevin, the kids make fun of a family member of his dying. Mr. Durkin may be an asshole teacher, but his financial and personal stresses, and the apathy from his students, are contributing to at least some of his antagonism.
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** One character, who makes no physical appearance, is this but only through someone else's story of her - Sophie, Stan's OnlyTrueLove. The pair were deeply in love with one another but Stan's father didn't approve. He was so against their union that he had a CorruptCop buddy of his frame her for theft to make her look undesirable to his son (it's not touched on if it was because the girl was a different race or came from a different economic background). But when her father heard about it, he hit her, leading to her death. The poor girl did nothing wrong but her reputation ruined by her love's prejudice father and had an abusive father who ended up killing her. The people who framed most likely received no punishment. And her so-called true love ended up ''thanking'' his father for his heinous actions.
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* AssPull: After Frank spends a full season trying to find the meaning of "Box Sixteen", [[spoiler:his father's last words]], it turns out he misheard them and [[spoiler:Big Bill was just asking for "Bach's Sixteenth," a song from a beer jingle, to be played at his funeral.]] While it's not inconceivable that Frank could mishear it, the fact that [[spoiler:Big Bill just happens to have an actual locker with the number sixteen on it that he kept a box of audio tapes in, which is nothing more than a RedHerring]] and the misunderstanding is only revealed in the final moments of the last episode strains credulity and lessens the emotional impact.
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* AssPull: After Frank spends a full season trying to find the meaning of "Box Sixteen", [[spoiler:his father's last words]], it turns out he misheard them and [[spoiler:Big Bill was just asking for "Bach's Sixteenth," a song from a beer jingle, to be played at his funeral.]] While it's not inconceivable that Frank could mishear it, the fact that [[spoiler:Big Bill just happens to have an actual locker with the number sixteen on it that he kept a box of audio tapes in, which is nothing more than a RedHerring]] and the misunderstanding is only revealed in the final moments of the last episode strains credulity and lessens the emotional impact.impact (though [[AntiClimax that may be the point]]).
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* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Goomer appears to be a "little off" compared to the rest of the neighborhood. If he's not socializing with the other men, he's usually off alone peeping into the neighbors houses; including repeatedly breaking into Frank's house to drink his beer and wear his clothes when nobody is around. Also [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Goomer likes to]] [[invoked]][[{{Squick}} smell the scent of his dog's feces]].
** If the throwaway line of "I don't remember doing any of this" when [[spoiler:Maureen finds his creepy shrine to Hobo Jojo]] is any indication, along with Phillip's NightmareFuelColoringBook and suppressed violent tendencies, it can indicate schizophrenia; as he may not really have a conscious clue of what he's doing. He also has intense anger issues that his [[spoiler:time as a cop in training]] did nothing to help. He calls his anger issues and suppressed violent tendencies, The Red Place.
** It's strongly implied that Anthony has some sort of developmental disability, but what he has in particular is never elaborated on. Phillip did admit to pressing his soft spot when he was born, so that likely has something to do with it.
** Ed constantly maintains a flat affect when he speaks, similar to the cadence Joe Pera usually employs in his comedy routines, and often smiles inappropriately. When he is eating lunch, he is crying. He shows traits of autistic spectrum disorder or depression. He also mentions being taken prisoner and tortured in Korea.
** Goomer appears to be a "little off" compared to the rest of the neighborhood. If he's not socializing with the other men, he's usually off alone peeping into the neighbors houses; including repeatedly breaking into Frank's house to drink his beer and wear his clothes when nobody is around. Also [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Goomer likes to]] [[invoked]][[{{Squick}} smell the scent of his dog's feces]].
** If the throwaway line of "I don't remember doing any of this" when [[spoiler:Maureen finds his creepy shrine to Hobo Jojo]] is any indication, along with Phillip's NightmareFuelColoringBook and suppressed violent tendencies, it can indicate schizophrenia; as he may not really have a conscious clue of what he's doing. He also has intense anger issues that his [[spoiler:time as a cop in training]] did nothing to help. He calls his anger issues and suppressed violent tendencies, The Red Place.
** It's strongly implied that Anthony has some sort of developmental disability, but what he has in particular is never elaborated on. Phillip did admit to pressing his soft spot when he was born, so that likely has something to do with it.
** Ed constantly maintains a flat affect when he speaks, similar to the cadence Joe Pera usually employs in his comedy routines, and often smiles inappropriately. When he is eating lunch, he is crying. He shows traits of autistic spectrum disorder or depression. He also mentions being taken prisoner and tortured in Korea.
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* NWordPrivileges: The series generally averts this, but one notable example is Big Bill and Dick Sawitzki affectionately greeting each other with mild ethnic jokes about each other's respective Irish and Polish heritage.
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* NWordPrivileges: The series generally averts this, but one notable example is Big Bill and Dick Sawitzki affectionately greeting each other with mild ethnic jokes about each other's respective Irish and Polish heritage.
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** It's strongly implied that Anthony has some sort of developmental disability, but what he has in particular is never elaborated on.
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** It's strongly implied that Anthony has some sort of developmental disability, but what he has in particular is never elaborated on. Phillip did admit to pressing his soft spot when he was born, so that likely has something to do with it.
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** The horrified reactions of the Bonfiglio family (and in one case, Vic) to Marie breastfeeding six-year-old Anthony in the open are played for laughs. With that said, real-life attitudes toward public breastfeeding have softened over the years as advocates point out that older children and adults would never be expected to eat in bathrooms or with blankets over their heads (and in this example, Marie did it in her own home, with Vic being a visitor, so this is not actually in public.) At what age a child should be weaned is also a matter of debate.
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** The horrified reactions of the Bonfiglio family (and in one case, Vic) to Marie breastfeeding six-year-old Anthony in the open are played for laughs. With that said, real-life attitudes toward public breastfeeding have softened over the years as advocates point out that older children and adults would never be expected to eat in bathrooms or with blankets over their heads (and in this example, Marie did it in her own home, with Vic being a visitor, so this is not actually in public.) At what age a child should be weaned is also a matter of debate.
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** Ed constantly maintains a flat affect when he speaks, similar to the cadence Joe Pera usually employs in his comedy routines, and often smiles inappropriately. When he is eating lunch, he is crying. He shows traits of autistic spectrum disorder or depression.
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** Ed constantly maintains a flat affect when he speaks, similar to the cadence Joe Pera usually employs in his comedy routines, and often smiles inappropriately. When he is eating lunch, he is crying. He shows traits of autistic spectrum disorder or depression. He also mentions being taken prisoner and tortured in Korea.
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* AssPull: After Frank spends a full season trying to find the meaning of "Box Sixteen" [[spoiler:his father's last words]], it turns out he misheard them and [[spoiler:Big Bill was just asking for "Bach's Sixteenth," a song from a beer jingle, to be played at his funeral.]] While it's not inconceivable that Frank could mishear it, the fact that [[spoiler:Big Bill just happens to have an actual locker with the number sixteen on it that he kept a box of audio tapes in, which is nothing more than a red herring]] and the misunderstanding is only revealed in the final moments of the last episode strains credulity and lessens the emotional impact.
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* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Goomer appears to be a "little off" compared to the rest of the neighborhood. If he's not socializing with the other men, he's usually off alone peeping into the neighbors houses; including repeatedly breaking into Frank's house to drink his beer and wear his clothes when nobody is around. Also [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Goomer likes to]] [[invoked]][[{{Squick}} smell the scent of his dog's feces]].
** If the throwaway line of "I don't remember doing any of this" when [[spoiler:Maureen finds his creepy shrine to Hobo Jojo]] is any indication, along with Phillip's NightmareFuelColoringBook and suppressed violent tendencies, it can indicate schizophrenia; as he may not really have a conscious clue of what he's doing. He also has intense anger issues that his [[spoiler:time as a cop in training]] did nothing to help. He calls his anger issues and suppressed violent tendencies, The Red Place.
** It's strongly implied that Anthony has some sort of developmental disability, but what he has in particular is never elaborated on.
** Ed constantly maintains a flat affect when he speaks, similar to the cadence Joe Pera usually employs in his comedy routines, and often smiles inappropriately. When he is eating lunch, he is crying. He shows traits of autistic spectrum disorder or depression.
* AssPull: After Frank spends a full season trying to find the meaning of "BoxSixteen" Sixteen", [[spoiler:his father's last words]], it turns out he misheard them and [[spoiler:Big Bill was just asking for "Bach's Sixteenth," a song from a beer jingle, to be played at his funeral.]] While it's not inconceivable that Frank could mishear it, the fact that [[spoiler:Big Bill just happens to have an actual locker with the number sixteen on it that he kept a box of audio tapes in, which is nothing more than a red herring]] RedHerring]] and the misunderstanding is only revealed in the final moments of the last episode strains credulity and lessens the emotional impact.
** Goomer appears to be a "little off" compared to the rest of the neighborhood. If he's not socializing with the other men, he's usually off alone peeping into the neighbors houses; including repeatedly breaking into Frank's house to drink his beer and wear his clothes when nobody is around. Also [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Goomer likes to]] [[invoked]][[{{Squick}} smell the scent of his dog's feces]].
** If the throwaway line of "I don't remember doing any of this" when [[spoiler:Maureen finds his creepy shrine to Hobo Jojo]] is any indication, along with Phillip's NightmareFuelColoringBook and suppressed violent tendencies, it can indicate schizophrenia; as he may not really have a conscious clue of what he's doing. He also has intense anger issues that his [[spoiler:time as a cop in training]] did nothing to help. He calls his anger issues and suppressed violent tendencies, The Red Place.
** It's strongly implied that Anthony has some sort of developmental disability, but what he has in particular is never elaborated on.
** Ed constantly maintains a flat affect when he speaks, similar to the cadence Joe Pera usually employs in his comedy routines, and often smiles inappropriately. When he is eating lunch, he is crying. He shows traits of autistic spectrum disorder or depression.
* AssPull: After Frank spends a full season trying to find the meaning of "Box
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** While most agree this show has a realistic view to minorities' and women's struggles in the 70's, some say the execution isn't the best.
** In general, there's some disagreement over whether the depiction of feminism and post-Civil Rights racism, especially in season 2 when it's a major story arc, are entertaining and informative or just [[{{Anvilicious}} reduce the characters to mouth-pieces on the subject]].
** In general, there's some disagreement over whether the depiction of feminism and post-Civil Rights racism, especially in season 2 when it's a major story arc, are entertaining and informative or just [[{{Anvilicious}} reduce the characters to mouth-pieces on the subject]].
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** While most agree this show has a realistic view to minorities' and women's struggles in the 70's, '70s, some say the execution isn't the best.
** In general, there's some disagreement over whether the depiction of feminism and post-Civil Rights racism, especially inseason Season 2 when it's a major story arc, are entertaining and informative or just [[{{Anvilicious}} reduce the characters to mouth-pieces on the subject]].
** In general, there's some disagreement over whether the depiction of feminism and post-Civil Rights racism, especially in
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* GrowingTheBeard: While the first season was already well-received, season 2 does a better job of exploring the Murphy family dynamic and giving a lot of extra depth to most of the main and secondary characters, revealing several {{Jerkass}}es to actually be {{Jerkass Woobie}}s who aren't as unsympathetic or one-dimensional as they once seemed.
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* GrowingTheBeard: While the first season was already well-received, season Season 2 does a better job of exploring the Murphy family dynamic and giving a lot of extra depth to most of the main and secondary characters, revealing several {{Jerkass}}es to actually be {{Jerkass Woobie}}s who aren't as unsympathetic or one-dimensional as they once seemed.
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** The season 3 premier shows a man bleeding excessively from his ear.
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** The season Season 3 premier shows a man bleeding excessively from his ear.
