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%%* ''Series/{{Revenge}}'' has the Graysons.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Scandal}}'' featured an extremely wealthy and politically powerful family that has run on this trope for generations. In more recent history the patriarch of the family was almost a presidential candidate but that was scuttled when the press found out about his secret second family in Canada. The daughter was the Attorney General of Texas but had to resign when her massive cocaine use came to light. The two sons are the current faces of the family and seem to be nice men with no real vices. In fact, Olivia is called in when the younger brother's political campaign starts to flounder because he is seen as too asexual. The solution is to get him into an ArrangedMarriage so the voting public can relate to him more. In the end, Olivia discovers that [[spoiler: he has been having a decade long affair with his older brother's wife]]. The older brother knew all about it from the beginning but did nothing because the arrangement kept the family together.

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%%* ''Series/{{Revenge}}'' ''Series/Revenge2011'' has the Graysons.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Scandal}}'' featured ''Series/Scandal2012'' features an extremely wealthy and politically powerful family that has run on this trope for generations. In more recent history history, the patriarch of the family was almost a presidential candidate but that was scuttled when the press found out about his secret second family in Canada. The daughter was the Attorney General of Texas but had to resign when her massive cocaine use came to light. The two sons are the current faces of the family and seem to be nice men with no real vices. In fact, Olivia is called in when the younger brother's political campaign starts to flounder because he is seen as too asexual. The solution is to get him into an ArrangedMarriage so the voting public can relate to him more. In the end, Olivia discovers that [[spoiler: he [[spoiler:he has been having a decade long affair with his older brother's wife]]. The older brother knew all about it from the beginning but did nothing because the arrangement kept the family together.
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* ''Series/TheMentalist'': The Harrington family from ''Red All Over'' stands out. Xander, the elder son forced his father out of the company in a hostile takeover. The younger son, Ed is a NoRespectGuy playboy who [[spoiler: who's having an affair with his stepmother and is the father of her baby, something his brother was apparently [[SecretKeeper aware of]], causing their father to think he was the son who'd cuckolded him and kill him in a fit of rage]], and both sons seem to have resented their father's attitude towards them and the family. Xander's wife and daughter seem fairly normal, though.

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* ''Series/TheMentalist'': The Harrington family from ''Red All Over'' stands out. Xander, the elder son son, forced his father out of the company in a hostile takeover. The younger son, Ed Ed, is a NoRespectGuy playboy who [[spoiler: who's having an affair with his stepmother and is the father of her baby, something his brother was apparently [[SecretKeeper aware of]], causing their father to think he Xandar was the son who'd cuckolded him and kill him in a fit of rage]], and both sons seem to have resented their father's attitude towards them and the family. Xander's wife and daughter seem fairly normal, though.

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