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Trouble Busters (トラブルバスターズ, Toraburu Basutāzu) is a YouTube Vyond anthology series. It stars Midoriko, Hikari and Akashi getting revenge on those who wronged them.

While the main characters have set appearances, their age, role and relationships differ from story to story.

The English channel can be found here. The original Japanese channel can be found here.

Compare to similar channels Gossip City, MoniRobo, Revenge Films, and Refreshing Stories.

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I won't forgive these tropes! TROUBLE BUSTER!

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     Tropes A to F 
  • Abnormal Allergy: Jessica has been allergic to water since birth and can't even be in contact with water. Her mother-in-law didn't believe her thinking that she just doesn't want to shower, and tried to force her to bathe causing her to have a nasty reaction.
  • Abusive Parents: Some episodes feature parents who put down their children as antagonists.
    • "My wife ignored our daughter and cheated on me but...": Claire was verbally abusive towards her daughter Melanie and neglected her to go on affairs with other guys behind her husband Alan's back. When a fire broke out in her house, she expressed joy at Lily telling her Melanie died, as she could claim the insurance money from her.
  • Academia Elitism: These types of characters are common as antagonists; they often include workplace bullies who look down on the less educated protagonist, toxic relatives who view the protagonist as an embarrassment for their lower education, and classist jerks who see the protagonist's lower education as a mark of inferiority.
  • Accidental Kidnapping:
    • Sandra wanted Helen to lend her daughter Sarah so she can show her off instead of her own daughter Julia. Helen refused and Sandra decided to kidnap Sarah but unfortunately for her, she wound up kidnapping Mona, her cousin since the two were sleeping together and Sandra couldn't tell them apart.
    • Sean kidnapped his brother Aaron's wife to force him to pay his gambling debt. Turns out he actually kidnapped his friend Andy's wife and Heather was safe. This got Sean into trouble with Andy since the latter was a gang member and the one who lent him the money in the first place.
    • A pair of criminals called Hillary to tell her they kidnapped her daughter. However, Hillary knows her daughter Melanie is right next to her, while the victim turned out to be a famous half-Russian cosplayer whose costumes were made by Hillary. When Hillary came over and the crooks tried to kill her, the girl's father, Maxim, showed up with his Mafiya goons to beat them bloody for their kidnapping.
  • Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: The three main Trouble Busters can have their relationships change from story to story. They can either be good friends, married, or even biologically related depending on what the story needs.
  • Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Aiden from "My coworker made a speech at my wedding but…" got drunk at Adam's wedding and accused him of having an affair with his wife and getting her pregnant as well as embezzling the company's money. However Adam's bride Jade challenged him to find proof of his accusations and he became very nervous.
  • Animesque: As expected of an animation made in Vyond's Business-Friendly style, it vaguely resembles anime but also uses conventions from the Tokusatsu genre for the titular Trouble Busters.
  • Attempted Homewrecker:
    • The unnamed nurse combines this trope with a serious case of Mad Love; in order to steal Alan, the hospital's director, from his wife Melanie, she lies to Melanie by claiming that Alan wants to divorce Melanie to be with her, going so far as to create a fake recording, a photoshopped picture, and divorce papers with Alan's forged signature. When she tries force a hospitalized Melanie to sign the divorce papers, Alan stops her. The nurse delusionally believes that Alan is in love with her, claiming that she can "hear his feelings from his heart" and that Alan's soul came to her in a dream and possessed her to force her to sign the divorce papers. Later, it turns out that she wasn't crazy, just an extremely persistent Gold Digger.
    • "My fiancé cheated on me with my sister so I taught them both an unforgettable lesson!": On her wedding day, Nancy attempts to seduce Helen's new husband, Lee, after finding out that he is the CEO of a K-pop entertainment company. However, she does this right in front of her groom John, his parents, and the guests. As a result of Nancy's shameless behavior, John proceeds to strangle her in retaliation and only was stopped by his parents. However, she insisted on marrying Lee instead and would return to John if she failed, which got her beaten by John, with her parents refusing to do anything and disowning her.
    • "A JERK dumped my friend for her younger sister and said she was ugly...": After finding out her husband, Roger, was an accountant wanted for embezzlement and that Tara's new husband, Alan, had a majority stake on the company Roger worked at, Misty attempts to seduce Alan into lending her money, right in front of Roger. However, Alan has none of Misty's crap and defends Tara while proclaiming the latter as beautiful. Afterward, the newlyweds leave Misty crying in defeat.
  • The Baby Trap: In "My ex-wife tried to trick me into paying for a child that wasn't mine but I proved her wrong," after Alan married Helen following his divorce from Sarah, his boss Aaron shows up to demand he pay child support because Sarah allegedly became pregnant with Alan's child after she remarried. Moreover, he whips out a family registry sheet to confirm the rumors, causing his coworkers to turn on him. Eventually, Aaron escalated by threatening to sue Alan if he refused to pay. However, when he and Aaron gathered to settle it, Alan reveals he was rendered permanently infertile from the mumps and testicular inflammation he suffered by the time of the divorce. Moreover, his wife Helen shows up and uses her knowledge as a researcher to prove Alan's innocence.
  • Bad Boss: President Asahina treated her employees like slaves and threatened to fire anybody who disobeyed her orders. When Hikari took a homeless man to her hotel and tried to call the homeless shelter, President Asahina decided to suspend her.
  • Bad Influencer:
    • Sean, the streamer from "A rich College student injured a pregnant woman..." pulled a sadistic prank on a pregnant Helen by victimizing her friend's baby daughter, Selena. When he didn't get as many views as expected, he decided to assault Helen and record it to become popular even when her water broke, but had to stop when some onlookers came to her aid.
    • Malena from "My childhood friend stole my fiancé from me..." bragged about being a model at a popular magazine. However, after taking over Helen's wedding with Steve, the cheated woman exposed Malena on the wedding day as a mere Instagrammer who says and does controversial things to get donations.
  • Bedroom Adultery Scene:
    • "We were hiding to surprise my wife, but she came in with her lover...": Aaron caught his wife Natalia right before she slept with a guy named Roger; she left embarrassed and Roger chased after her, forgetting his bag. When he called Roger's wife to retrieve the bag he left in the bedroom, she revealed he was cheating on her years ago, causing Aaron to wonder if his daughter Jane is really his.
    • "Found out that my wife was cheating on me… Then…": Oliver catches his wife Brooke cheating on him via the camera she forgot to turn off during his overseas trip. When he flew back home after his month ended, he rented an apartment for a week and lied to her that he would return one week later, he finally caught the lovebirds red-handed and took photos of the evidence.
    • "I walked in my boss sleeping with my wife so I beat them both up. But the truth was...": Alex caught his wife Sharon sleeping with his boss Mr. Harrison when he returned home. The scene pissed him off enough to beat both lovebirds up until Alan stopped him from beating the man even further. However, it was too late as the ensuing commotion caused the neighbors to call the cops on him, sending him to prison. After he has been released and meets Sharon again, Alan reveals it wasn't an affair, Sharon was blackmailed and raped by Mr. Harrison.
    • "My wife and her guy friend were making out at our wedding": After Thalia kissed Clifford in front of Alan right on their wedding day, he decides to call Rose and her gang to help him move out before storming into the bedroom to catch the lovers red-handed. Moreover, he also called over both Clifford's wife, who was tough on cheaters, and Mr. Mulligan, a PI he hired earlier on to do a background check on Thalia right after he left the wedding.
  • Beg the Dog: Mrs. Romano got down on her knees and begged Morgan to forgive her, after she put her through abuse and forced a miscarriage on her. Morgan understandably isn't having any of the old hag's crap and rejects her.
  • Big Ball of Violence: In "My twin daughters were split up. The daughter that lived with me turned out to be happy but…" after Mia kicked Sarah and Maya from the house in response to all the abuse they put her through, the mother-daughter duo's subsequent bickering devolved into a catfight depicted as a cloud of dust.
  • Big Brother Bully:
    • A cousin variant in this episode, Sarah's spoiled son Sean is rough with his baby cousin Sienna, much to Helen's chagrin. What's more, Sean always acts like an innocent child whenever he's at risk of getting caught. The last straw was when Sean shot at Sienna's face with an airgun while Sarah looked on with approval.
    • "My brother threatened me to go to his wedding, so I did but he pulled this horrible prank...": Ulysses has been bullying his little brother Aaron, from stealing food when they were kids to robbing him of his money as adults.
    • Michael is a troublemaker who bullied his cousins Hillary and Hannah whenever he visited. He especially held a grudge against the latter for not returning his affection and ended up kidnapping and almost raping her on her wedding day.
    • "My fiancé cheated on me with my sister so I taught them both an unforgettable lesson!": Nancy went out of her way to steal every potential boyfriend from her younger sister Helen since childhood. Moreover, she enjoyed rubbing it in Helen's face whenever she did it.
  • Big Eater: Steve eats a lot of food, even to the point that he steals Melanie's food. When he ate her order at a restaurant (that was limited), she broke up with him. Later, Melanie caught Steve with a new girlfriend named Helen. He tried to get Melanie to share her burger and later ate Helen's food. Both women had enough of him and called him out.
  • Big "NO!": Clark lets one out on his wedding day after his boss and coworkers decide to report him to HR for cheating on Hillary with her sister, Andrea.
  • Big "SHUT UP!": In "My fiancé was wasted during our wedding, and told everyone he got my younger sister pregnant," when Hillary and Clark's wedding devolved into chaos after the latter revealed his affair with the former's sister, Andrea, an asleep Terry wakes up screaming, "SILENCE!" It turns out the commotion interrupted his dream of having won the lottery.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing:
    • "I was late to my wedding because I saved a kid from getting run over, which changed everything...": Aaron's girlfriend, Sharon, seemed to be a nice woman. On the day of their wedding, Aaron got into an accident while trying to save a kid and couldn't attend the wedding on time. When he arrived, Sharon showed her true colors and called off the wedding and they broke up.
    • "In laws want me to get an abortion, whatever it takes" [sic]: Mrs. Romano seemed to be a nice mother-in-law towards Morgan. But once she married Aidan, she dropped the act and started abusing Morgan along with her eldest son Karter.
    • "Someone convinced my daughter I was having an affair, but who...?": The Jones siblings seemed to be fairly normal around Alan at first. However, it's revealed they were conspiring to break up Alan and Jasmine's marriage by making one look like a cheater to the other so that Chelsea and Harry would marry Alan and Jasmine, respectively. Moreover, Chelsea used her position as a teacher to turn the couple's daughter Sally against Alan to facilitate the divorce. However, Sally eventually caught on and gathered them all to expose the siblings.
    • "My husband cheated on me with my best friend, but it didn't turn out very well for them": Shawn seemed to be a fairly kind man when he married Hillary, but two years later, he became a power-tripping, narcissistic bastard who constantly chewed her out for not showering him with praises. When Hillary keeps arguing without backing down, he cheats on her with her best friend, Lisa, out of spite, and threatens to divorce her. However, Hillary takes it in stride and divorces him.
    • "When I went to meet my boyfriend's parents, they accused me of having had too much plastic surgery…": Adam seemed to be a loving boyfriend towards Hillary, if a bit corny as he laid it on too thick with his compliments about her beauty. However, when he took her to his parents' house, he didn't defend her when the couple took mean-spirited jabs at her looks while accusing her of getting plastic surgery. Moreover, he played such verbal abuse off as hilarious to the point Hillary called her parents and sister over to teach them a lesson.
    • "The wedding planner told me that my wife was with another man...": Layla seemed to be a loving, kind girlfriend towards Alan. However, as they go to a wedding service to finally tie the knot, the planner reveals to Alan that his bride went to the venue with another man yesterday. When Alan initially shrugged it off thinking it was someone else, the planner showed him condemning CCTV footage and revealed the lover's name as Max. When Alan confronts her, the cheating woman reveals that she will marry Max instead; it turns out she five-timed to pit them against each other. Much to Layla's dismay, the wedding planner was hearing behind the doors and both she and Alan exposed her affairs to Max, who gives her a huge dressing-down for her trouble before calling off the wedding.
  • Blaming the Cuckold:
    • Andy's parents try to hide their son's cheating, but claim that even if their son cheated, it would partially be the fault of Helen for not being a good wife.
    • Kevin blames his wife Helen for his cheating, claiming that he wouldn't need to cheat if Helen didn't "stress him out" and was the perfect wife. Later, when his parents hear his excuses, they don't buy them and rightfully blame him for his cheating.
  • Blue with Shock:
    • "The CEO of my company was marrying my late wife...": Alan became blue in the face after finding out his late wife Sally was still alive marrying his rich best friend George. George himself even lampshades it by comparing him to ice cream in reference to the blue popsicle he's holding.
    • "My childhood friend stole my fiancé from me...": Both Steve and Malena turn blue in their faces on their wedding day (which the latter stole from Helen) after Helen invited the cheaters' coworkers and parents as originally planned instead of their close friends. She even lampshades it while jokingly asking if it's trending.
  • Breeding Slave: In "My younger sister bragged about stealing my husband..." this is Erika's eventual fate after marrying Noah and accidentally taking on his debt before Andy and his gang took both her and her parents away; she is forced to give birth constantly for childless couples willing to adopt.
  • Bullying the Disabled:
    • Aiden who is Lucy's boss bullied her for being in a wheelchair. He poured wine on her in a restaurant, but it later turned out that she is the owner of the restaurant and she had reported him to HR, resulting in his dismissal.
    • Mia and her husband Marlin started as a loving couple, but after he decided to quit his job as a teacher to become a writer and work a part-time job, he became abusive towards her for being in a wheelchair.
  • Business Trip Adultery: Kevin lied to his wife Helen about his boss calling him late at night for a business trip so he can leave Helen to die of her sickness while she was 8 months pregnant after lying.
  • Calling the Old Man Out: A man hogs a seat and was inconsiderate to the women (who were pregnant) at a hospital. His daughter, who he drove to the hospital gave him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and it got to him, so he decided to change so that he'll see his grandchild.
  • Cheater Gets Cheated On:
  • Clear My Name: Helen was accused by Sean and his lawyer Don of stealing $50,000 from him under the pretense of marrying him despite the fact that she is 12 years old and got arrested by a police officer. It later turned out that Helen's older sister Karen is the culprit and framed her for the crime. When this is brought to light to the three men, all three men apologized to Helen, and Karen was arrested.
  • Cold Opening: Later episodes show a sneak preview of the story, usually the climax before the title card.
  • Corrupt Politician: Ted is a corrupt politician that has been taking bribes from Helen's father.
  • Daddy DNA Test:
    • "We were hiding to surprise my wife, but she came in with her lover...": After catching his wife Natalia red-handed and sued her and her lover for damages, he realized a DNA test on his daughter Jane. While Roger's wife told him that Natalia cheated on him for years, he resolved to take care of Jane anyway.
    • "Found out that my wife was cheating on me… Then…": When Oliver's in-laws badgered him to take care of his ex-wife Brooke's baby despite evidence that the baby wasn't his, he told them he would do so if the DNA test returned positive results, causing them to back down.
    • "My wife, innocent and pure, was about to give birth, when our doctor showed us a shocking truth...": Alan secretly realized a DNA test on his baby son, Charles, after seeing he had blue hair rather than Alan's red. After the doctor who checked on the couple, Dr. Washington, was arrested for forging medical reports and histories, including the previous tests, Melanie and Helen confirmed that Alan wasn't the real father and exposed Lisa's affair with a guy named Mitch. Moreover, Lisa's mother paid Dr. Washington to forge the DNA test results to make sure Alan stayed married to Lisa.
  • Dance Party Ending: Every episode ends in a sequence where Hikari, Akashi, and Midoriko dance (as their younger selves) on a platform in front of a crowd of people.
  • Deadly Gas: In "My girlfriend dumped me because she hated my family's diner, but now I run a 5-star restaurant!", Layla and her new boyfriend Shane dump lots of ammonia into Alan's family restaurant in retaliation for "spreading rumors about her" (in reality, because he was with another woman, Hillary).
  • Delicate and Sickly: Hillary suffers several heart conditions and was kicked out by her parents because of it, living a hard life until she met David, who seemed caring but revealed his abusive personality once they married.
  • Digging Yourself Deeper: In "There was another woman in my house after I came back from giving birth," Helen came home early after giving birth back in her hometown. Her husband, Steve, tried to cover up his affair with Thea and came up with increasingly convoluted excuses to take her out of the home to buy time for his mistress, but Helen went in anyway and found out.
  • Disowned Sibling:
  • Domestic Abuse:
  • Dub Name Change: In the original Japanese version, all characters have set Japanese names but have different localized names in the English version; even the three main characters' English names differ from story to story. Later episodes do retain the original Japanese names.
  • Dream Intro:
  • Dream Reality Check: Connor bites his father Alan after waking up to verify he's dreaming, remarking he tasted better in his dreams. Hillary remarks that the dream Alan tasted like filet mignon.
  • Driven by Envy: When Simmons wasn't scouted to be on the soccer team and found out that his teammates were picked instead, he began to mistreat them. He even went as far as to cancel a reservation at Alec's family restaurant out of spite and greed (He was planning to pocket some of the money that the group was going to pay for the restaurant).
  • Driven to Suicide: In "My former fiancee came back to haunt me but my friends came to save the day!" After being dumped by Melanie, beaten up, and pissed on by her new boyfriend Mark, Alan contemplates suicide and goes to a building notorious for frequent suicides until he meets Miranda, who also contemplated suicide because her boss harassed her at work. This leads to both desisting before becoming a couple.
  • Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Akashi looked more feminine in early Japanese stories. Curiously, his old design remains in the title card.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: Early episodes of the Japanese version had a short intro showing the main characters busting trouble and the title wasn't spoken during the title card.
  • Education Mama: Sarah from "My twin daughters were split up. The daughter that lived with me turned out to be happy but…" badgered her husband Alan into letting her enroll their twin daughters Maya and Mia into private school. When Maya passed the test but Mia didn't, Sarah, and by extension, the former, started to mistreat the latter for being a "failure" until she demanded a divorce from Alan and took custody of Maya while leaving Mia with him.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Karen's boyfriend is ultimately revealed to be a gold digger that only approached Karen because of the belief she was a successful woman. However, when he finds out she has a daughter she was neglecting and abandoning her, he's furious and breaks up with her over it.
  • Excrement Statement: Mark gives Alan a severe beating following the reveal that the latter's fiancée, Melanie, cheated on him with the former. When Mark asks for the bathroom and Melanie suggests he find one at a nearby convenience store, he drops it and relieves himself on Alan as a final insult while Melanie laughs at the poor guy.
  • Faking the Dead: Sally faked her death after finding out Alan didn't earn enough money for her liking, all with the help of her parents. Three years later, Alan finds her alive at his best friend George's wedding as the bride. Moreover, Sally even threatened Alan with ruining him if he dared to expose her.
  • False Rape Accusation:
    • Sharon accused Alan of sexual harassment to her father after he found her passed out on the floor and using an AED on her. As a result, Alan loses his reputation and gets fired from his job. Moreover, the father-daughter duo came over to the house with a lawyer and threatened to have the police involved unless he paid Sharon $100,000 in damages.
    • "I bring my wife to her lover's restaurant for a 'fancy dinner' for our anniversary; I expose her…": When Alan and his lawyer hold the former's cheating wife Meghan and her lover, Mr. Burgess, accountable, she accused her lover of threatening her into sex. While she was willing to report it to the police despite the lawyer's warnings, she backpedals when the man reveals she's going to be arrested for perjury.
  • A Family Affair:

  • Fat Bitch: Sarah is an overweight woman who puts down Helen on her wedding day and demanded she takes off her dress to let her wear it despite being too big to fit inside it. When Helen said no too many times, Sarah burned the wedding dress while Helen was wearing it.
  • Food Slap: In "My fiancé was wasted during our wedding, and told everyone he got my younger sister pregnant," a drunken Clark throws wine at Hillary's dress after he reveals his affair with her sister, Andrea. And this is just when Hillary's wedding starts to get ruined...
  • Forced Miscarriage:
  • Formerly Fat: Thomas from "My family refused to go with me overseas and abandoned me with nothing, but 10 years later..." was fat at the start of the story, but after returning from the working trip to France with his business partner and fiancée Lana, he has lost weight.
  • Formerly Fit: In the end of "My sister abused her second daughter so I took her in as my own." [sic] after Kiara's friends scare off her abusive biological parents, her mother calls Alan to beg for money. She then reveals that Karen, her favorite daughter, became an emotionally weak quitter who slacked around the house and gained a lot of weight in the process, the latter over which the mother compares her to Kiara when she was young.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Minami was disliked by the other moms due to her bossy attitude and bad table manners. This led to them conspiring against her after Hikari found out that she was stealing fish from the restaurants that she forced Hikari to take her to.
  • From the Mouths of Babes: Helen tells her father Ken that that her mother Natasha had lots of bruises in her body, all bigger than chickenpox. While he surfed the Internet to find out the cause of her bruises, he stumbles upon a bondage blog and finds out she was cheating on him with someone who shared her bondage kink.

     Tropes G to L 
  • The Gambling Addict:
    • Akashi's mother was addicted to gambling to the point where she stole his money given by his grandparents and even once abandoning Akashi to go to the pinball machine. She ran off and forced Akashi's father to repay the debt.
    • Daiki had been skipping work to go to the pachinko parlors. He had been gambling away the family's funds and is now in debt. When his parents and wife Hikari found out, he was divorced and his parents disowned him.
  • Gambling Ruins Lives: Ken's father is not only a huge gambler, but extremely hypocritical about his gambling; despite criticizing Helen's father for gambling, he's MUCH worse. Helen's father is a bartender who only gambles with his allowance money and has zero debt. Meanwhile, Ken's father makes a lot more money than Helen's due to being a real estate agent, yet is in debt to Loan Sharks due to the severity of his addiction.
  • Gosh Darn It to Heck!: Some episodes have characters use the word 'frick'.
  • Henpecked Husband:
    • In "My wife and daughter hated me but then..." Alan was mistreated by both his wife Karen and his daughter Sadie for being fat and not making enough money as a construction worker. While Karen cut his pay to have more money for make up and Sadie's tuition, he kept working hard until he caught Karen dating a younger man. When Alan confronted her, she not only admitted to cheating, but also admitted to marry men for their money. Moreover, it's revealed that Karen used most of his money to buy designer stuff and this was the real reason of their financial woes. Angered, he divorces Karen and takes all the family's cash cards with him.
    • "My wife signed the divorce papers as a joke so I submitted it": Thomas Smith was bossed around by his wife Marina for anything and everything. When he refused to go to her parents' house as usual because the Morrison family verbally abused him, she threatened divorce by leaving papers on the table. When Marina demands via LINE his complete and absolute obedience in exchange for not going through with the divorce, Thomas calls it quits and turns in the papers.
    • "My family refused to go with me overseas and abandoned me with nothing, but 10 years later...": Thomas was always abused by both his wife, Abigail, and their daughter, Marion, for being fat, old, and not providing enough money for their liking. Eventually, the mother-daughter duo's abuse escalated when Abigail demanded a divorce right as he announced he was moving overseas to France. After he obliges, he takes an early flight to France and tells his boss, Mr. Hendrix about it before leaving his work to Alan.
  • Hostess Club: In one episode, Hanna works at a hostess bar and her most frequent customer is Jonathon. Another customer named Steve entered the club and kept making fun of Jonathan for supposedly looking poor, much to Hanna's chagrin. Once Hanna has had enough of him, she tricked him into ordering drinks that he can't afford, appealing to his need to be seen as rich.
  • House Husband: Alan is bullied by his father-in-law for deciding to be one. He even brought his friends over to make him stop.
  • I Want My Mommy!: In "My wife, innocent and pure, was about to give birth, when our doctor showed us a shocking truth...": Lisa does this after her husband Alan reminds her that Dr. Washington has been arrested for deliberately flubbing Alan's DNA test, and therefore, her mother will follow him soon once the bribe goes public.
    Lisa: No, no no!!! Mommy, help me!!!
  • Identical Stranger: "Coworker tells me she is pregnant with my husband's child... who is dead..." - When Mary came to Rose's bar for reassurance when her subordinate Natalie stole her husband Aaron, the bartender reveals the man Natalie snatched was actually an Aaron lookalike who did questionable things under his name.
  • Imperiled in Pregnancy: In stories starring Midoriko, Hikari, or another female character as an expectant mother, her pregnancy will be threatened by either an abusive mother-in-law, violent delinquents with a bone to pick with her, or both.
  • Inheritance Backlash:
    • Neal was hoping to get the inheritance from his dying father so he can get rich and spend money on his mistress. Unfortunately for him, his wife and father made it so that Neal inherits debt instead. He tried to take it back, but he had already accepted it.
    • Clifford forced his mother Mrs. Thompson to draft him a will where she leaves her inheritance to him. This backfired as Helen explained that the fact he forced her to draft a will in his favor renders it null and void. Mrs. Thompson drafted another will under the watch of a lawyer where she left everything to Helen.
  • In Love with Looks: Roger dumped his ugly but good-hearted girlfriend Tara for her beautiful but cruel sister Misty. He openly admits that the only reason he dated Tara at first is because he wanted to live off her money but decided that having to get hitched to an ugly girl wasn't worth it.
  • Innocently Insensitive: June kept saying horrible things to his mother Hillary. It was later revealed that his grandmother taught him those words due to her resentment of Hillary because her husband and son supposedly paid more attention than her.
  • In Vino Veritas: Whenever the protagonists are having a wedding, the antagonist will get drunk and reveal his affair to the guests, as well as what they really think of the protagonist.
    • "The day of the wedding, my boss got drunk...": Alan's boss, Mr. Sean, got drunk at Alan and Sarah's wedding and revealed his affair with the bride. Moreover, Sarah herself confirmed and gloated about how Alan would inherit his father's company and provide for her and Sean's baby in her belly. However, once Alan's father declares he won't have any association with Sean's company, over which most of the guests leave the wedding.
    • "My fiancé was wasted during our wedding, and told everyone he got my younger sister pregnant": Clark gets drunk at his wedding with Hillary and reveals he had an affair with the bride's sister, Andrea, and got her pregnant. Moreover, he gloated that he was going to have his affair even after marrying Hillary. Furthermore, Andrea herself joined in to mock Hillary for being "ugly" before Clark threw wine at her dress.
    • "My wife and her guy friend were making out at our wedding": Thalia gets drunk in her wedding day and proceeds to kiss a playboy named Cliff in front of Alan, whom she married earlier. When Alan took her to task, she and the playboy dismisses it as whining while telling Alan he should be grateful for being picked as her husband. This drives Alan to storm out of his own wedding and lamenting not taking heed to Rose's advice on how to pick the right woman. When Thalia kept diminishing her past action the next day, Alan decided to move out and call some people to punish both lovebirds.
  • Insurance-Motivated Murder: In this story, Hillary finds out her abusive husband David put life insurance on her and plotted to kill her in a way that makes it look like an accident to claim the money and spend it on his mistress.
  • I Have No Son!:
  • I Will Tear Your Arms Off: In "A JERK dumped my friend for her younger sister and said she was ugly..." Hillary threatens her brother, Alan, with tearing his arms off and then beat him with them if he ends up breaking Tara's heart.
  • Jabba Table Manners: Minami always stuffs her face with food much to the disgust of the other moms.
  • Kill the Parent, Raise the Child: In "My sister and her husband died so I took their children in but..." Theo and his sister Megan were raised by their aunt and uncle, who they simply refer to as their mom and dad, after their biological parents died in a car accident. Twenty years after Megan and her husband allegedly killed themselves, Theo's adoptive parents drunkenly confess that they hired a gang member to kill Megan and her husband after Megan found out that they had killed the biological parents for the inheritance money.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: The antagonists will always be busted.
  • Lethal Chef:
    • The chef of a Chinese restaurant puts inedible things like rocks and grass in the food. Hailey and her friend Michelle couldn't finish the food on time and the chef wouldn't let them leave without finishing the plate. They reported the chef to the health department and they suspended his business and it eventually shut down.
    • Serena is so bad at cooking that her curry sent her husband Akashi to the hospital when he tried to eat it. Fortunately he survived and he got his grandmother to teach Serena how to cook.
  • Lethal Negligence: Rose is a neglectful mother who tries to threaten Helen into watching her daughter for her, which Helen refuses every time. In order to try and force Helen to make her watch her daughter while she can goes overseas to have an affair, she lies to her husband, Andrew, that she gave the baby to Helen breaks Helen's car window, tosses the baby inside the car, in the middle of the summer, knowing that if she were overseas, Helen would have no choice but to watch her baby for her. Unfortunately, Helen and her husband Alan are also overseas, meaning that the baby has been trapped in a hot car for five days. When Rose learns this she insists that Helen and Alan go back and rescue the baby so she can enjoy her vacation, and hangs up. Fortunately, Helen calls her mom, who takes the baby to the hospital before any permanent damage happens and Rose is is punished by being locked in a car for an entire month by Andrew.
  • Locked in a Room: After catching his fiancee Mary doing baby play with manager Kevin in the bathroom, Aaron locked them in the bathroom by barricading the doors with heavy boxes and then called his parents, in-laws, and his boss to come over.
  • Lust Makes You Dumb: In "My husband got paralyzed waist down after accident during an affair," Andy went with his mistress to the mountains in response to his wife, Heather, catching him on the affair despite being caught earlier on. As expected, a bear appeared and pushed down the family car while they were having sex inside it. As a result, Andy became comatose and paraplegic while his mistress died from the impact.

     Tropes M to R 
  • Manchild:
    • "My husband got paralyzed waist down after accident during an affair": A paraplegic Andy starts whining when his wife Heather presents him with the divorce papers for cheating on her in the woods, and his whining ended up driving Heather's fiancé, their son Kevin, and eventually her away. It doesn't help his case that Andy begs his mom to carry him towards Heather when she leaves him with the divorce papers and even in the epilogue, he still throws tantrums.
    • "My childhood friend stole my fiancé from me...": After Malena steals Steve from Helen, she forces the latter to plan the wedding on her terms. When Helen asks her what she wants in their wedding, she replies with "lots of flowers and a big yard, and unicorns, and a colorful cake," to which Helen wonders if Malena has the brain of an elementary school student.
  • Miles Gloriosus:
    • Some punks attempted to challenge Alan to a beatdown bragging about how they know karate. Unfortunately for them, Alan turned out to have actual karate skills and was able to defeat one of them. The other punk backed down afterwards.
    • Alan claimed that he's part of the mafia to get out of paying the cancellation fees at Aaron's restaurant. Unfortunately for Alan, Aaron knows the real mafia, and they forced Alan to pay for the food and the cancellation fee.
  • Mistaken for Undead: In "My former fiancee came back to haunt me but my friends came to save the day!" Alan goes to a building notorious for frequent suicides until he meets Miranda, who also contemplates suicide because her boss harassed her at work. At first, he mistook Miranda for a ghost because of how suddenly she appeared. Miranda herself starts to think the same because he brought it up until he takes Miranda to the police station to file a lawsuit against Mark, where he realizes she isn't a ghost.
  • Momma's Boy:
  • Ms. Red Ink: Akashi's mother got into debt as a result of her gambling addiction. She stole money from her husband and even borrowed money to do more gambling.
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: After being turned down by Alan too many times, Melanie pulls out a knife to kill both Miranda and Sarah. Alan told them to flee as he prepared to defend them until Rose, Todd, and Helen intervened and restrained her.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Sean has this reaction when he's told that Sienna had died due to him shooting her multiple times with an airsoft gun and comes clean about what his mother, Sara has been telling him to do. Thankfully, it turned out to be a lie to get Sara and Sean to take responsibility, but Sean still changes for the better, having learned his lesson.
  • Never Suicide: Megan and her husband died by falling off a cliff together. When her brother Theo came to take her kids in, his parents claimed it was a suicide. However, Theo investigated and found out his sister and brother-in-law were murdered. Moreover, the siblings' parents weren't even their parents; the couple engineered a car crash on the siblings' real parents to get their inheritance. Furthermore, they hired a gang member to kill both Megan and her husband because she knew about their schemes.
  • Not Actually His Child: In "My baby is blond with blue eyes…I don't think that he is mine…" After returning from her trip to Hawaii, Erika announced her pregnancy to her husband, Akashi, who was overjoyed to finally be a dad. However, his joy turns to anger when the baby turns out to be blond with blue eyes. Erika tries to lie, but Akashi has none of it and storms out of the hospital. Afterward, a tanned Midoriko spots him crying on a bench and reveals that on the trip to Hawaii, Erika slept with a bunch of American tourists. Eventually, Akashi confronts his cheating wife and demands a divorce despite her protests.
  • Not Blood, Not Family: Kiara's parents favored her sister Karen for being cuter, to the point where they abandoned Kiara and allowed Alan and Melanie, Kiara's maternal uncle and his wife, to adopt her. Years later, Kiara's parents want her back; they want to use her and insist that they have the right because they're Kiara's biological parents. When Alan and Melanie insist they are Kiara's parents because of the family registry and alongside the fact that her biological parents outright said that they didn't consider Kiara their daughter, Kiara's biological parents insist that Alan and Melanie aren't "real" parents because Kiara's mother was the one who gave birth to Kiara and that Melanie isn't family at all because she isn't biologically related to Kiara.
  • Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: "A terrible Mom leaves her baby in the car to go have an affair...": Rose was an obnoxious mom friend of Helen's who always badgered her into raising the former's baby daughter Heather. When Helen turned her down one too many times, Rose stuffed Heather into Helen's car to make sure she was forced to comply, but Helen reveals she went overseas with her husband Alan. However, Rose also went overseas and tried to have Helen pick her up. It turns out Rose was having an affair and didn't want to be a mom anymore.
  • Obnoxious In-Laws:
    • Hikari's mother-in-law looked down on her for using a wheelchair thinking that she's not a good wife for Akashi. She took her wheelchair and broke it.
    • Mrs. Romano starts off as a subversion, being nice to Morgan while she dated the former's son Aidan. However, she starts to abuse Morgan once they married and compared her to her other daughter-in-law Hannah, who is married to Mrs. Romano's eldest son, Karter.
    • Sarah bosses her sister-in-law Helen around and steals her stuff whenever she comes with her father, Alan. What's more, her son Sean is just as obnoxious and often bullies Helen's baby daughter Sienna.
    • "My husband got paralyzed waist down after accident during an affair": Heather is chastised at the hospital by her in-laws for "not being a good wife" to their son Andy after he became paraplegic from an accident at the mountains where he cheated on her.
    • "Father-in-law almost killed my baby": Hikari's father-in-law took her daughter Momo to show her off to his friends at the casino despite the girl's severe asthma. As expected, she had an asthma attack and the staff called an ambulance. When Hikari took her FIL to task, he excused himself with saying childcare was a "woman's job". This drives her mother-in-law to divorce him for his negligence.
    • "Someone convinced my daughter I was having an affair, but who...?": Alan's mother-in-law didn't trust him with either his daughter Sally or his wife Jasmine, picking on his appearance every time they meet.
    • "My Mother-in-law destroyed my new car the day I got it...": Katherine's mother-in-law bullied her for not graduating high school. Moreover, she pretended to be senile to fool her son Ryan into thinking Katherine was at fault.
    • "My son's wife uninvited me to their wedding...": Trevor's fiancée Thalia refused to invite Helen, her future mother-in-law to her wedding and acted very disrespectful to her. When the two went into debt, they were forced to ask Helen for money, but she refused, since the couple had stolen her credit card and instead reported them to the police and cut ties with Trevor.
    • "May mother-in-law threw away my parents' keepsake" [sic]: Helen's mother-in-law constantly picked on her for not being a good enough wife for Oliver. Moreover, the abusive hag forced her to eat only her and Oliver's leftovers. Helen stayed in the marriage since she had no parents nor a place to live if she divorced him. However, the MIL went too far by throwing away the salted rice bran pot that Helen got from her late mother, and Oliver sided with his mother on doing so.
  • Ocular Gushers: Being a Vyond animation, child characters cry high-pressure teardrops.
  • Only Cares About Inheritance:
    • Matthew is an especially repugnant example of this trope; he physically and verbally abuses his dying, elderly, mother, not even trying to hide the fact that he wants her to die quickly so he can get her inheritance faster. He refuses to put his mother in a nursing home and forces his wife Hilary, who actually cares for Matthew's mom, to watch her because he wants to save as much of his mother's money as possible. Matthew doesn't bother spending time with his mother on her deathbed, instead spending his time in Hawaii with his mistress Sandra. When he hears from Hilary that his mother is dead, he cheers at her death and rushes to the funeral to collect the inheritance. At the funeral, Matthew and Sandra show up and explain that they plan to get married after Matthew divorces Hilary. Hilary agrees to the divorce under the condition that they don't split assets, which Matthew and Sandra are happy to hear until they find out via Video Will that Matthew's mother left Matthew nothing and gave the inheritance to Hilary, and since Matthew agreed to not divide any assets, it means he won't get a cent of his mother's inheritance.
    • Miles is the estranged brother of Harrison, who, unlike the latter didn't care about his father. Miles and his wife Raelynn show up to Mile's father's funeral and start making a ruckus, much to the other attendees' disgust. When Harrison tries to get them to leave, Miles agrees only if Harrison agrees to discuss giving up the rights to their dad's estate, which Harrison does. During the funeral, Miles and Raelynn secretly alter the contract to claim that Harrison will automatically give the estate to Miles. Unfortunately for the couple, the estate of Miles's and Harrison's father was cheap and ends up being destroyed by a landslide, causing Miles and Raelynn to go into debt.
  • Opaque Nerd Glasses: Midoriko sports them, complete with the spiral swirl. She is also the nerd of the three protagonists.
  • Parental Neglect: Alan's mother neglected him to go out with her boyfriends, leaving him with little money for food, forcing him to spend little on food to last a month. Fortunately Melanie and her family took him in and gave him a better life.
  • Parking Pay Back: Elisha parked her RV on Michelle and her husband's private parking space without their permission. Michelle locked the RV and the gate with chains and padlocks and left for her vacation. When they returned a week later, Elisha and her husband Joseph yelled at Michelle and her husband, saying that they had to carry all the equipment by foot. Michelle exposed the couple's trespassing at the neighborhood meeting and they were forced to move out due to nobody speaking to them after that.
  • Playing Sick: Lina from "My parents favored my sister over me and she turned out to be a devil" faked illness to get attention from her parents and get her older sister, Helen, in trouble. However, Helen is the only one who sees right through her and can't do anything until she meets Alan, who fakes getting married to Lina in order to expose her true colors to the guests.
  • Police Are Useless: Kevin was arrested by a cop because a man named Ted is accusing him of marriage fraud (which was committed by his twin sister), even though he's a man. It was only when the twin sister was revealed that he was let go. Alan recorded the entire conversation between Kevin and the officer. The recording was sent and the police officer was let go.
  • Pop-Up Texting: The characters will frequently communicate with each other by texting. The texting is shown by a phone overlay though later episodes use the LINE style which is closer to the Japanese channel.
  • Promoted to Parent: Theo had to take his sister Megan's baby sons Alan and Andrew after his abusive parents claimed she and her husband took their own lives. When he took the babies to work, his boss made him a full-time employee and his coworkers helped him raise the kids.
  • Rage Breaking Point: Several early stories feature the protagonist's "anger level" which usually goes up whenever the antagonist upsets them. When it reaches 100%, they snap.
  • Resigned in Disgrace: Megan's father voluntarily resigns from his position as a TV company CEO after Alan held a surprise party for Megan's pregnancy to expose her affair to the guests since the ensuing scandal ruined his company's image. While the man held no ill will towards Alan, he kicked Megan out of the house for her trouble.
  • Rich Bitch: Jackie looks down on Darcy and Jessica, because they dressed poorly in her eyes. She even goes as far as to criticize their table manners at a upscale restaurant that all three went to. It is later revealed that Jessica is a CEO's daughter and that Jackie lost her secretary job when her company went bankrupt and now works as a janitor in Jessica's company building. Jessica decided not to renew her contract.

     Tropes S to Y 
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!:
    • "This guy who claims to be the son of a Yakuza hit me with a car while I was pregnant": Ted and his father, Kevin, came over to Melanie's hospital room after the former ran her over. He brought up his father's Mafia connections to keep both her and her husband, Alan, from suing him for damages. When Alan called over his cousin, Aaron, an actual Mafia leader, the alleged gangster paled in fear before being exposed as a fake who stole the organization's pin from a member named Matt. As a result, the mob kills Kevin and grinds him up into compost while Ted is sent off to a wealthy yet sadistic man's house.
    • "A rich College student injured a pregnant woman...": After Sean assaulted a pregnant Helen for "betraying the viewers" until her water broke, his lawyer father came over to her hospital room to pay both her and her husband, Alan, a settlement fee in exchange for their silence and constantly lied to keep them from suing Sean into oblivion, but Helen got fed up and revealed she's also a lawyer, causing the bastard to desperately worm his way out of the situation.
  • Serial Homewrecker:
  • Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love: Luke is the son of a powerful and wealthy politician who tries to use his money and status to woo Hilary. Hilary responds by telling him that not every girl he meets is gonna want him just because he's rich and powerful.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Shower of Love:
    • Mary cheats on her fiancé Aaron with his workplace manager Kevin in the bathtub. When he caught them in the act, he barricaded the doors with heavy boxes and called his parents, in-laws, and his boss to come over.
    • Megan cheats on her husband Alex with her boss Karl in the shower. However, he chose to let it be while he concocted a plan to catch them red-handed. When Megan couldn't stand the cold and Alex told her he was inviting some friends, she spills the beans and confesses to cheating.
    • Karen cheats on her husband Alex in the shower, much to his dismay once he caught them. The next time, he and his boss locked them in the bathroom in retaliation for the rumors started against him because he wasn't happy about his wife being pregnant after he caught them the first time. It turns out her lover was Mr. Uriel, who reprimanded him for his reaction to Karen's pregnancy earlier on.
  • Spoiled Brat: Megan from "The CEO's daughter had an affair..." uses her status as the CEO's daughter to gleefully abuse and cheat on her husband, Alan. When she announced her pregnancy and then revealed it was another man's child but wanted him to raise it anyway, he tried to report her to her dad only for the man to dismiss Alan's concerns and threaten to fire him if he didn't apologize to Megan.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Lina has crushed on Alex since childhood to the point of obsessing over him much to his dismay. Alex's girlfriends kept breaking up with him due to Lina harassing them. He went to a far-away university to get away from her, but Lina kept sending him messages and when he blocked her she showed up at his place believing that he couldn't take care of himself. Lina's family eventually moved when Alex told them about the stalking.
  • Stay in the Kitchen:
  • Stupid Crooks: At the end of "My husband cheated on me with my best friend, but it didn't turn out very well for them," Shawn breaks into a wealthy acquaintance's house to steal money after Alex investigated him for embezzlement and seized all his assets. However, his burglary is foiled when the guard dog bites him, his painful screams alerting the neighbors to call the cops. His ex-wife, Hillary, even remarks on how dumb that action was.
  • "Success Through Sex" Accusation: Ian is an arrogant misogynist who's offended that Hilary, a woman, is a member of the production team while he's only a member of the debugging team. He claims that Hillary's better position is because she seduced one of the higher-ups. Ian dares to tell Hillary (who's secretly recording him) that the boss is an idiot who only hired Hilary for being a young woman and that he's too stupid to recognize Ian's talents.
  • Supporting Protagonist: A few episodes star a one-off character with one of the characters of the cast being involved with them.
  • Surprise Party: In retaliation for Megan cheating on and forcing Alan to raise her lover's child and lying to her father about it, he suggested holding a surprise party in a hotel three months later and then exposed her affair to the guests. As a result, the CEO kicks Megan out of the house before resigning as the scandal ruined the company's image.
  • Sweet Tooth: In "My wife puts sugar in everything..." Alan finds out his wife, Alex, had no sense of taste. Therefore, she added ridiculous amounts of sugar to her cooking, which became a point of contention with Alan as he watched his calorie intake and he was at risk of contracting diabetes. In response, Alan hides all the sugar she bought in his secret underground compartment.
  • Teens Are Monsters: A gang of teen boys loitered in the Red Mart where Melanie worked at and even stole food and other goods from there, causing the other customers to complain. When Melanie tried to reason with one of them, it ended in the boy running her over with a car he stole.
  • Threatening to Cut Ties: The reason why Hannah destroyed her friend Millie's drawing is because Hannah's mother Shiela threatened to disown her and kick her out of the house if she didn't.
  • Three-Point Landing: The title card (which provides the page image) shows the titular Trouble Busters landing in this way.
  • Title Drop: The protagonist will yell "TROUBLE BUSTER!" at least once a story when the antagonist goes too far.
  • Trash of the Titans:
    • Melanie from "My wife cheated on me with several men and so I got revenge at a family gathering" looked at her phone for so long that the house became a pigsty whenever her husband, Alan, came home. Moreover, she always tried to shut his complaints down until Alan found out she was cheating on him.
    • Mia refused to help her sister Melanie clean even though she was living in her and Mark's house. When Melanie left due to Mark preferring Mia over her, she still didn't clean the house leading to it being dusty.
  • Traumatic Haircut: Aaron's mother shaved the back of his fiancé Helen's hair at their wedding because she didn't like her.
  • The Un-Favourite:
    • Hikari was ignored by her parents in favor of her sister Kazuya during their childhood. Years later, after Kazuya had an accident, they tried to contact Hikari and begged her to take care of them. In the end, both daughters ended up cutting ties with them.
    • Lucy was ignored by her mother in favor of her younger sister Sheila, because she was smart and her mother felt that smart children are disrespectful. They even asked Lucy not to bring her construction worker husband to Sheila's wedding on account of his job.
    • Melanie's husband and his mother preferred boys to girls and mistreated his daughter Sarah in favor of his son Kevin. When an earthquake hit, the two men refused to save the girls and left them in the rubble. However, Melanie exposed this misdeed, and the three became social pariahs and Melanie divorced her husband.
    • Ted was favored more than his brother Alan by their parents due to the latter's intellectual disability. They sold Alan to Helen's family who treated him much better. Alan eventually became successful and owns the schools that he and Ted went to while Ted lounged around the house and was on the brink of expulsion.
    • Hailey was neglected and bullied in favor of her younger sister Erika for being an introvert. Moreover, Erika looked cute enough to work as a model practically since birth and therefore, they pretended Hailey didn't exist until she announced her marriage to a CEO. When Erika stole her fiancé and called her to gloat about it, Hailey reveals she was marrying overseas and the man she "stole" was not her fiancé, but her gambling-addicted, lazy stalker.
    • Helen was looked down on in favor of her younger brother Mason, because her parents wanted a son so that her father could claim the inheritance from his father. However, Helen became a successful nurse, while Mason didn't get a job and soon disappeared at the end of the story.
    • Kiara was looked down on in favor of her sister Karen by their parents, because they think she is ugly. Fortunately Alan and Melanie took Kiara in when her parents kicked her out of the house. Years later, Kiara's parents tried to take her back, but all three refused and Kiara's friends were eventually called to kick them out.
    • "My parents favored my sister over me and she turned out to be a devil" Helen was neglected and mistreated in favor of her sickly younger sister, Lina, by their parents. Moreover, the latter took advantage of her sickness to get the former in trouble and steal any boyfriend she might have. When Helen introduced her fiancé, Alan, to their parents, the couple served only Lina's favorite foods and even convinced him to marry her instead of Helen.
    • "My twin daughters were split up. The daughter that lived with me turned out to be happy but…": After Mia failed the test while her sister Maya passed it, their mother, Sarah, mistreated the former while doting on the latter. While their father, Alan, disagreed, this escalated into Sarah demanding a divorce and the custody of Maya.
  • Universal-Adaptor Cast: Midoriko, Hikari, and Akashi usually retain their basic appearances and base personalities but they are put in different roles, relationships, and settings.
  • Upper-Class Twit: A rich couple forbade Helen from attending her son Sean's wedding to their daughter Melanie for losing her job, even offering her a decent sum of money in exchange for her parental rights and threatening to ruin Sean's life if she attends, all behind Sean's back.
  • Vandalism Backfire:
  • Villain Protagonist: This story is framed from the antagonist Andrew's point of view.
  • Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Alan is more serious than his parents, who profess to be "party people".
  • White-Collar Crime:
    • "My husband got one of the mom friends I know pregnant...": Richard has been embezzling money from his company by buying things for his mistress Chloe. His wife Hillary has been investing in the company to cover him but when she found out about the affair, she divorced and exposed him.
    • "My boss stole my wife and took my job from me…": Aiden turns out to not only have embezzled the company's funds and framed Adam for it, but upon further investigation, he also forged documents.
    • "A JERK dumped my friend for her younger sister and said she was ugly...": When Misty and her husband Roger broke into Alan and Tara's wedding to announce that Roger is the CEO of Trow Bull Construction, Alan reveals that the real CEO was actually his friend Kyle Calverson. It turns out Alan had a majority share in the company and Roger was actually an accountant who was in Kyle's sights for embezzlement.
    • "My former fiancee came back to haunt me but my friends came to save the day!": Melanie's new rich fiancé, Mark, turned out to not only have embezzled money from his company but also bullied Miranda into becoming suicidal until she met Alan and exposed Mark's harassment together.
    • "My husband cheated on me with my best friend, but it didn't turn out very well for them": Shawn has his assets seized by Alex one month after the latter's team investigated the former's embezzlement and wasteful spending of 12 million dollars despite having a $500,000 income, effectively becoming destitute. As a result, his new wife, Lisa, dumps him, his entire family rejects him, and Hillary blocks him. However, Shawn breaks into a wealthy acquaintance's house to steal money but gets arrested after the neighbors hear his painful screams from getting bit by the guard dog and call the cops on him.
  • Wicked Wastefulness:
    • Alan and Aaron are brothers-in-law who make the exact same amount of money, but unlike Alan, who's humble and only spends what he needs, Aaron and his wife Sandra are arrogant show-offs who end up in debt because of their constant need to spend money on expensive status symbols. Even after going into debt, they still insist on indulging in wasteful luxuries because they are obsessed with status.
    • Mark and Ariel are an arrogant husband and wife who make good money working at a hospital, but are in deep debt to loan sharks and incapable of paying their credit card bills because of their poor spending habits, with Mark buying his affair partners several luxury items, and Ariel constantly borrowing money from her friends.
  • Worst Wedding Ever: In "My fiancé was wasted during our wedding, and told everyone he got my younger sister pregnant," Hillary's wedding goes downhill after the groom, Clark, drank too much and revealed his affair with her sister, Andrea, and got her pregnant. Moreover, he revealed his plan to have his affair even after marrying and Andrea herself joined in to mock Hillary for being "ugly" before Clark threw wine at her dress. To aggravate the situation, their mother, Selene, fainted and Andrea held her medication hostage in exchange for having Hillary give up Clark. However, when the groom proceeds to rip the bride's dress out of spite, Terry wakes up and exposes Andrea's second affair. While Andrea tried to deny it, Hillary snooped through her phone and called the man to expose her sister's affair, with Clark on the verge of being fired for his shameless behavior. Eventually, the bride, her family, and guests all leave while the lovebirds uselessly try to play it all off as a prank.
  • You Are Fat:
  • Younger than She Looks: In this video, Helen is 12 years though she is tall. This allowed Sean to mistake her for her sister, who stole money from him and because of this, no one believed her when she repeatedly denied it.

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