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Fresh Off the Boat

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Fresh Off the Boat	comment	Fresh Off the Boat is a family sitcom on ABC which premiered in the 2015 mid-season. It's the semi-autobiographical story of chef and TV food personality Eddie Huang as his Taiwanese-American family moves from Washington, D.C. to Orlando, Florida so that his father can open a steakhouse. His family is less enthusiastic about the move, but they try to fit in. It also explores the intra-family culture clash between the hip-hop influenced Eddie and his more straight-laced relatives. Randall Park and Constance Wu star as Eddie's parents Louis and Jessica.It is notable as it's the first attempt at an Asian-American sitcom in twenty years. And unlike All-American Girl (1994), it was renewed for a second season plus positive reviews. It ended its run in 2020 after six seasons, which needless to say makes it the longest-running show with an Asian-American cast in network television history.See also: Everybody Hates Chris, a show with a similar premise (semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story where a celebrity of color grows up, thus the show is set about 20 years in the past), Happy Days and The Wonder Years (the Trope Codifiers for nostalgic shows).
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_1305f045	comment	Vanity License Plate: Also counts as a Title Drop to the episode "So Chineez" as Louis puts a new plate on the van.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_16ddefda	type	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy
Fresh Off the Boat / int_16ddefda	comment	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Louis and Steve share one drink and one thing (drinking lit shots) led to another (drunken mooning) before Louis somehow ended up in the driveway with a half-eaten burrito on his chest.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_16e362fb	type	Bilingual Backfire
Fresh Off the Boat / int_16e362fb	comment	Bilingual Backfire: Louis and Jessica talk in Mandarin about the sexual harassment speaker, only for him to speak back to them in Mandarin.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Fresh Off the Boat / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Jessica imagines Honey and Marvin as her college classmates in a flashback, and is quickly called out on it by Louis.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_1a09b4f9	type	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
Fresh Off the Boat / int_1a09b4f9	comment	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Jessica and Connie compete to stay in their mother's good graces because she'll only acknowledge the existence of one of them. Connie even goes so far as to use marital problems as ammunition to try and gain her mother's sympathy.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Fresh Off the Boat / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: In "Week In Review," anytime someone says they have lice, a chord pays and people back away.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_1d2605eb	type	Adorably Precocious Child
Fresh Off the Boat / int_1d2605eb	comment	Adorably Precocious Child: Evan and Emery are surprisingly articulate for grade schoolers. Particularly when Emery waxes philosophical about love.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
Fresh Off the Boat / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: Eddie puts on a pair of aviators in the first scene. He also tends to wear a pair in his fantasies.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Fresh Off the Boat / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Louis realizes in Boy II Man why he's glad he doesn't have a daughter; if his daughter had her heart broken like Eddie did, he'd hurt the boy responsible.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_20d98ac7	type	Nine out of Ten Doctors Agree
Fresh Off the Boat / int_20d98ac7	comment	Nine out of Ten Doctors Agree: Parodied on "WWJD: What Would Jessica Do?", when Marvin introduces Louis to his four other dentist friends, one of whom, Ted, always disagrees with the group.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Fresh Off the Boat / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Tight Two has the boys talking about who'd eat who if they were stuck on a desert island after watching Ducktales.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_2247b186	type	Minority Show Ghetto
Fresh Off the Boat / int_2247b186	comment	Minority Show Ghetto: Discussed in "Dribbling Tiger, Bounce Pass Dragon," with Jessica saying that there are no leading roles for Asian actors. The episode ends with them watching All-American Girl (1994) and deciding it's not going to last. invoked
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Fresh Off the Boat / int_22a27b19	comment	As is typical for the Alpha Bitch, all of the other women in the HOA function as Deirdre's lackeys and don't really have storylines of their own. Deirdre herself is mostly defined by her interactions with Jessica (and Honey to a lesser extent) although sometimes she serves as a Spear Carrier for the others.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Fresh Off the Boat / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: Between Marvin and his second wife, Honey. The actors who play them (Ray Wise and Chelsey Crisp) were born 36 years apart.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_23d3b406	type	Gay Bar Reveal
Fresh Off the Boat / int_23d3b406	comment	Gay Bar Reveal: Everyone but Jessica can see that she's hanging out at a lesbian bar. Louis lets her stay oblivious because she feels safe there.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_26764512	type	I Just Want to Have Friends
Fresh Off the Boat / int_26764512	comment	I Just Want to Have Friends: Eddie wants to fit in with everyone else at school, down to getting "American lunch." Jessica has this as well in trying to fit in with the other housewives in the block until meeting a friend who not only likes Stephen King, but actually enjoys her stinky tofu.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
Fresh Off the Boat / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: Louis is very oblivious whenever people are flirting with him. According to Jessica, his "love-dar" is broken. He didn't even realize he technically dated Oscar for three months.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Fresh Off the Boat / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Dave, the kid next door whom Eddie befriends has one of these. Half of his lines reference the fact he wishes his dad would return.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_292d1ccd	type	Everyone Went to School Together
Fresh Off the Boat / int_292d1ccd	comment	Everyone Went to School Together: Parodied on "Hi, My Name Is..." with Honey, Marvin and Deirdre being in Jessica's flashback cause white people look the same to her.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Fresh Off the Boat / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: "Miracle On Dead Street" for Season 2. "Louisween" for Season 3.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_2989316a	type	The Illegal
Fresh Off the Boat / int_2989316a	comment	The Illegal: Hector the cook is one of these. Surprisingly, Jessica is one as well for failing to renew her green card.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Fresh Off the Boat / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Golden Saddle is Golden Corral. Hilariously, even the closed captioning gets them confused on occasion.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Fresh Off the Boat / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The elder Huangs have lived in America for at least as long as Eddie has been alive, making them not-terribly-recent immigrants. They also arrived in Orlando by car. Within the Chinese-American community, "fresh off the boat" would be used to refernote somewhat disparagingly to families like the Huangs no matter how long they had lived here, so the trope is averted in that sense. However, in real life, it's been a long time since Asian immigrants came to the U.S. by boat. Certainly since long before the Huangs came. ABC wanted to change the title to Far East Orlando, which would preserve the reference to the Huangs' place of origin and pun on their new place of residence, but (the real) Eddie Huang insisted that the original title be kept, and he won that battle.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_2ec6e90f	type	Yet Another Christmas Carol
Fresh Off the Boat / int_2ec6e90f	comment	Yet Another Christmas Carol: In "Where Are The Giggles?", Marvin has the dream sequences convincing him he was wrong to sue the Huangs for injuring his back.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Fresh Off the Boat / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: In "We Done Son," Louis finally cuts his friend Larry out of his life so he doesn't give money to his latest scheme...called eBay. Also the commentary on Asians on TV noted under Leaning on the Fourth Wall.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_32a1f455	type	Alliterative Family
Fresh Off the Boat / int_32a1f455	comment	Alliterative Family: All three boys have names starting with the letter E. If they had a daughter, her name would've been "Emily."
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Fresh Off the Boat / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: The last scene of the series finale is set in 2008, eight years after the rest of the sixth season.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Fresh Off the Boat / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Both of the actors who play the parents suffer from this at times. Randall Park isn't even trying that hard (when he's even bothering to try) and Constance Wu has gradually toned down the accent she uses. It's completely averted by the children, whose characters are American-born and speak perfect English.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Fresh Off the Boat / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Grandma Huang is delighted that she will be able to watch her old British soaps on TV. The soap she is seen watching? Coronation Street. The young woman we see on the screen? A much younger Lucille Soong, who plays Grandma Huang (yes, she really did appear in Coronation Street). In the season 5 Christmas Episode, Jessica comments that Eddie has invited his friend Trevor to join them for Christmas dinner, only to be corrected that his name is Trent. Trent is played by Trevor Larcom.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_3e8a368e	type	Imaginary Love Triangle
Fresh Off the Boat / int_3e8a368e	comment	Imaginary Love Triangle: On several levels, between Jessica, Oscar, and Louis during college. Louis and Jessica are married, but Jessica believed that she and Oscar dated, Oscar believes that he and Louis dated.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
Fresh Off the Boat / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: In "So Chineez," Jessica fears that this is happening to the family as they get settled to life in Orlando. To fix this, she puts the boys in Chinese school and tries to get Louis to cancel the country club membership.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Fresh Off the Boat / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Jessica and Louis Huang are noticeably much nicer to their children on television than they were in real life. Eddie and the boys are also portrayed as misguided at worst, while Eddie Huang was getting into fights on a regular basis by the time he was a teenager.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Fresh Off the Boat / int_434d893c	comment	Season 2's "Good Morning Orlando" serves up a huge dose of this when Louis goes on a morning talk show to promote his restaurant, does some wacky impressions, gets his 15 minutes of fame for it, and promptly gets chewed out by Jessica for basically being Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles. So he goes back on the show to set the record straight, tries to make some serious commentary on how he as a Chinese-American shouldn't be stereotyped or marginalized, makes everyone uncomfortable, and predictably gets chewed out by Jessica for that. His ensuing realization that he's just one guy and he can't be all things to all people is a clear echo of the show's stance that it can't be expected to represent all Asian-Americans.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_43be2121	type	Logging onto the Fourth Wall
Fresh Off the Boat / int_43be2121	comment	Logging onto the Fourth Wall: In "Phil's Phaves", Louis and Jessica find a website named philsphaves.com that reviewed Cattleman's Ranch. You can visit the website if you want. And, later in the episode, Louis and Jessica have Evan make a website called phillipgoldsteinhasbadopinions.com to get back at Phillip for giving them the B- (which later changed into a C+). You can actually find that website here.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Fresh Off the Boat / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: In "Huangsgiving," Jessica is very mad at Louis for screwing up Thanksgiving, but she's bottling it up for when her family heads back to Washington DC.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Fresh Off the Boat / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: In "The Taming of the Dads," Jessica gets jury duty. During the end, Honey says she could have just said she's in the US on a green card and not gone into it.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_4623b3bb	type	Why Couldn't You Be Different?
Fresh Off the Boat / int_4623b3bb	comment	Why Couldn't You Be Different?: It's mentioned more than once that the Huangs wanted a girl, but got Evan instead.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Fresh Off the Boat / int_469e3e2f	comment	"Shaquille O'Neal Motors," Eddie explains to his father that going to the eponymous car dealer doesn't mean Shaq is going to be there—he accepts licensing money so that people can put his name on products he otherwise has no involvement in. He then mutters "Shaq Fu" in a disappointed tone. Shaq also mentions Shaq Fu with the same disappointment toward the end of the episode.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_471a505f	type	Four Is Death
Fresh Off the Boat / int_471a505f	comment	Four Is Death: Jessica's fear of the number four is the focus of "Very Superstitious". She has to sell a house at 44, 4 Street, and the number of her commission check is 4444.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Fresh Off the Boat / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Done beautifully in "Dribbling Tiger, Bounce Pass Dragon." When Evan and Emery are cast in the school play, Jessica is disdainful toward their interest in acting, explaining that they'll never see an Asian family on TV, and Asian actors will always be relegated to stereotypical supporting roles. This leads her to rewrite the entire school play into an Anvilicious expression of her view that studying to become an actor is a waste of an education. At the end of the episode, the Huangs end up watching All-American Girl (1994) on TV, leading one of the kids to comment "So, no Asians on TV, huh?", right before a disinterested Grandma asks what else is on. (Before FOTB premiered, it was frequently cited in the media as a potential Spiritual Successor to the ill-fated All American Girl, due to it being the first network sitcom about an Asian-American family to air in twenty years.) Season 2's "Good Morning Orlando" serves up a huge dose of this when Louis goes on a morning talk show to promote his restaurant, does some wacky impressions, gets his 15 minutes of fame for it, and promptly gets chewed out by Jessica for basically being Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles. So he goes back on the show to set the record straight, tries to make some serious commentary on how he as a Chinese-American shouldn't be stereotyped or marginalized, makes everyone uncomfortable, and predictably gets chewed out by Jessica for that. His ensuing realization that he's just one guy and he can't be all things to all people is a clear echo of the show's stance that it can't be expected to represent all Asian-Americans. Many celebrities make guest appearances as themselves from 20 years previous. The show occasionally has them provide flimsy excuses as to why they look much older than they should.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Fresh Off the Boat / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Jessica uses this to trap Eddie in a lie when she suspects that he did not eat the school lunch she packed for him. She asks him how he enjoyed the xiaolongbao, which she didn't actually include in his lunch, and he falls for it, claiming it was delicious.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_4ab9720d	type	I'm Cold... So Cold...
Fresh Off the Boat / int_4ab9720d	comment	I'm Cold... So Cold...: The kids Jessica hits with her car say they're feeling cold. She just nonchalantly lets them know that it's their bodies shutting down.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_4b989393	type	Cutting Corners
Fresh Off the Boat / int_4b989393	comment	Cutting Corners: Jessica enforces this on Louis's restaurant, against the will of everyone working there. She gets to the point of chastising employees for putting too many sprigs of parsley on a steak, stealing a crouton from the salad bar, giving out too many napkins, etc. She and her sister, Connie are like this as a way of trying to win their mother's love, who's an even bigger skinflint than the both of them! Connie wins the competition by admitting she stole Jessica's top, making it a "100% discount" and their mother just approves. But even Jessica finds Grandma Huang's habit of fishing coins out of wishing fountains a step too far.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_4c37b23	type	Third Line, Some Waiting
Fresh Off the Boat / int_4c37b23	comment	Third Line, Some Waiting: The Cast Calculus generally provides for this episode structure. All of the Huangs (and later, Honey and Marvin) are divvied between the A story and the B story... but since there are 6-8 characters, whomever is left out will generally appear in a brief and largely comedic C story.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Fresh Off the Boat / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Played for laughs in the third season premiere stinger when Alison shows Eddie a headline of Shaq being traded to the LA Lakers.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Fresh Off the Boat / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first episode featured more direct racism that Eddie has to face at school, instead of the Innocently Insensitive and passive-aggressive events that make up the drama for the rest of the series. The first season as a whole featured narration performed by the Real Life Eddie Huang. This was dropped in Season 2 due to behind-the-scenes drama and the real Huang wishing to distance himself from the show.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_519c2e3a	type	Trashcan Bonfire
Fresh Off the Boat / int_519c2e3a	comment	Trashcan Bonfire: One of Eddie's friends lights one up in The Stinger of "Bring The Pain" as he tosses his Cleveland Browns jacket in after hearing a rumor they'd be moving cities.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_53830d	type	The Internet Is for Porn
Fresh Off the Boat / int_53830d	comment	The Internet Is for Porn: In "Huangsgiving" Eddie's cousin Justin shows him how to look for pictures of sexy ladies on the computer, since pictures of sexy ladies is what the internet is, according to Justin.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_55365db5	type	City Mouse
Fresh Off the Boat / int_55365db5	comment	City Mouse: A downplayed version, as they're moving from DC to the suburbs of Orlando. But they find the giant grocery store intimidating and miss the "relaxing" atmosphere of the Taiwanese markets in DC (jam packed full of people screaming about food in Mandarin).
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Fresh Off the Boat / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: Oscar, Jessica's gay ex-boyfriend, believed that he and Louis dated for three months in college using the fact that they had weekly dinners and shared a dessert as proof. Louis points out that they were broke college students and couldn't afford separate desserts.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_565ce678	type	Game Show Appearance
Fresh Off the Boat / int_565ce678	comment	Game Show Appearance: The Season 4 premire has Jessica and Honey competing on Wheel of Fortune.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
Fresh Off the Boat / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: "Blind Spot". Eddie sees his brother come down with chicken pox, realises he can back out of making a project for the upcoming science fair if he also got it, and ends up doing enough research on chicken pox to get started on his own project.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Fresh Off the Boat / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: In "Fall Ball," Louis has an important announcement for his employees that will change their lives... but we never find out because he gets distracted by the Fall Ball preparations.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_5fddf001	type	Germans Love David Hasselhoff
Fresh Off the Boat / int_5fddf001	comment	Germans Love David Hasselhoff: In-universe, everyone in Taiwan loves the movie Ghost (1990).
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_5ff8fb1d	type	Big Man on Campus
Fresh Off the Boat / int_5ff8fb1d	comment	Eddie's other rival Philip Goldstein, the only other Asian at Abraham Lincoln Middle School, is last seen in season 2. The disappearance of any characters who dislike or challenge Eddie, along with the solidification of his crew, inadvertedly turns him into a Big Man on Campus, drastically altering the dynamic of school scenes.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Fresh Off the Boat / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: In "The Taming of the Dads," the Huangs' address is shown as 808 Meadowbridge Lane.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Fresh Off the Boat / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Louis gives an epic one when Jessica's ex-boyfriend Oscar admits that he had a crush on him.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_669c4caa	type	Produce Pelting
Fresh Off the Boat / int_669c4caa	comment	Produce Pelting: Jessica manages to knock a young man unconscious from a pretty good distance - with an onion. Happens again in Miracle On Dead Street when Jessica flings an egg at one of the running teenagers, and in the dark!
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_66cef86d	type	School Play
Fresh Off the Boat / int_66cef86d	comment	School Play: Evan and Emery's class play is just the kids wearing costumes and running amok. Jessica rewrites the play, making it about how being a doctor or lawyer is better than being an actor, and featuring mostly her sons.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
Fresh Off the Boat / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: Jessica with an onion to knock a "dine and dasher" down.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_6c7136b7	type	Tactful Translation
Fresh Off the Boat / int_6c7136b7	comment	Tactful Translation: When Emery's teacher is explaining to Jessica her (very complicated) sticker/grade system, Jessica mutters something in Chinese subtitled as "The woman is crazy". The teacher asks Emery for a translation and he says "She gave you an alligator with sunglasses (the top grade)".
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Fresh Off the Boat / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: In "Shaquille O'Neal Motors," Jessica considers losing out on free floormats when she and Louis bought the minivan to be this.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Fresh Off the Boat / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	In the season 5 Christmas Episode, Jessica comments that Eddie has invited his friend Trevor to join them for Christmas dinner, only to be corrected that his name is Trent. Trent is played by Trevor Larcom.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Fresh Off the Boat / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Oscar, Jessica and Louis' ex-boyfriend. The man is flaming, but Jessica doesn't realize he's gay.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_7390323c	type	Sticky Fingers
Fresh Off the Boat / int_7390323c	comment	Sticky Fingers: Let's just say that both Jessica and Grandma Huang have a very liberal interpretation of the word "free".
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Fresh Off the Boat / int_7426582d	comment	Discussed as well: In "Dribbling Tiger, Bounce Pass Dragon," when Evan and Emery are cast in the school play, Jessica calls acting a dead-end career for them. Their only chance of finding work is as a Token Minority in some show.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_7580e1bb	type	Straw Loser
Fresh Off the Boat / int_7580e1bb	comment	Straw Loser: Eddie's friends, as a unit, serve this function. During the show's six-season run, all of them remain single and are explicitly said to have never dated anyone (unless you count the episode when all of Eddie's friends are "dating" all of Alison's friends) just so we know they haven't been romancing when we haven't been watching; mostly they seem happy to live vicariously through Eddie (this point is explicitly made in season 4 after he and Alison break up, and Walter remarks that "she was like all our first girlfriend"). This is to make Eddie's own lackluster love life look more successful by comparison. None of them seem to have anything going on in their lives outside of their friendship with Eddie (which they lampshade in a season 5 episode when they finally tire of his endless rambling about Tina), except for Trent who gets a job working at Cattleman's and is the only one of Eddie's friends who is given a substantial amount of screentime without Eddie also being present.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
Fresh Off the Boat / int_777baed3	comment	"Sisters Without Subtext" uses the gag to spook Connie when Jessica, being openly proud of Connie's decision to go back to school, says genuinely supportive words, and the subtitles simply match whatever Jessica is saying. It then gets played to ridiculous effect when Jessica and Connie start duetting Miss Celie's Blues (Sister) and the subtitles play out an entire conversation in which Jessica apologies to Connie (with a few sidebars).
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Fresh Off the Boat / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: In "The Fall Ball," Grandma Huang's boyfriend dies and Jessica's only just finding out that everyone knew the guy.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Fresh Off the Boat / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: The pilot features Walter, a black kid, calling Eddie a "chink." The entire cafeteria goes silent, and Eddie's face gets increasingly furious. Cut to principal's office, where the principal has Louis and Jessica in for Eddie starting a fight; they then call the principal out on why Walter isn't in for calling Eddie a "chink." (Also notable on a meta level: "Chink" is apparently something you can say on network TV uncensored, even if it gets a TV-14 rating.) The first season finale "So Chineez" has Eddie berating a classmate for insulting China, which he only did after following Eddie's lead. In the third season episode, "Neighbors with Attitude" (the title itself a reference to the legendary rap group), Jessica calls her Neighborhood Watch Association "NWA". Eddie recommends changing the name, but when asked why he runs into this problem.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_7a2d9301	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
Fresh Off the Boat / int_7a2d9301	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: One of the kids dresses up as The Mask twice and people fail to recognize who he is. Especially during Halloween! In the Halloween episode, Louis mistakes Emery and Evan's Hannibal Lecter and lamb costume for a UPS delivery lamb wheeling a lazy goalie.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Fresh Off the Boat / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: "And how was your relationship with your father?" asked by Grandma Huang. This makes Louis reconsider how hard he was being on Eddie, all justified by the fact his father was always tough on him.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_7ba00b55	type	Superstition Episode
Fresh Off the Boat / int_7ba00b55	comment	Superstition Episode: "Very Superstitious".
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Fresh Off the Boat / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jessica gives a speech on sexual harassment which... leads to the restaurant actually needing to take a real class to be certified, as she immediately harassed everyone.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_806c21c8	type	Fight Unscene
Fresh Off the Boat / int_806c21c8	comment	Fight Unscene: Eddie's fight with the black kid in the cafeteria isn't shown. There's a Gilligan Cut to the principal's office in which the principal tells Eddie's parents most of the sordid details.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
Fresh Off the Boat / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: Jessica drops a casserole of mac and cheese when she realizes she's begun assimilating into white culture.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_8263ed2a	type	The Whitest Black Guy
Fresh Off the Boat / int_8263ed2a	comment	The Whitest Black Guy: Explored in "So Chineez." Jessica flips out when she realizes that even she is beginning to identify with white culture, causing her to actively try to act more traditionally Chinese.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_82a631b8	type	Present-Day Past
Fresh Off the Boat / int_82a631b8	comment	Present-Day Past: In "Workin' the Ween" , there are four trick-or-treaters dressed as Britney Spears in her infamous "...Baby One More Time" sexy schoolgirl attire, even though the music video was released in 1999 and the episode took place in 1998. In "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", Eddie plays a game called The Sims, which was released in 2000 and takes place in 1999. "Clean Slate" takes place in 1996, however, Eddie takes Simon to a Build-A-Bear Workshop, which didn't get founded until 1997.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_83446504	type	Ska
Fresh Off the Boat / int_83446504	comment	Ska: In "Huangsgiving," Eddie's cousin Justin replaces listening to grunge music with listening to ska music.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_838de192	type	Chickenpox Episode
Fresh Off the Boat / int_838de192	comment	Chickenpox Episode: Eddie's subplot in the episode "Blind Spot" has him try to catch chickenpox from Evan so he can skip school and not go to the science fair, while Evan tries to infect Emery so he can't win the science fair. However, Eddie's research on how to catch chickenpox ends up being good fodder for a science fair project. Jessica's gay ex-boyfriend Oscar also catches chickenpox at the end of the episode.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_85bbb76c	type	Suckiness Is Painful
Fresh Off the Boat / int_85bbb76c	comment	Suckiness Is Painful: Eddie is clutching his head when he has to suffer through listening to Frank Stallone while making a mixtape.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_85e7c12f	type	Puppy-Dog Eyes
Fresh Off the Boat / int_85e7c12f	comment	Puppy-Dog Eyes: Heck, it's pretty hard not to resist Evan's.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Fresh Off the Boat / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: In the Season 2 episode "Michael Chang Fever":
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
Fresh Off the Boat / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: A recurring theme. Jessica's mother initially favored her until she moved to Orlando, when she then began to favor Connie. Louis appears to be the favorite of both his parents, his late father and his mother (who does, after all, live with him). Her mother is very fond of her other son however and even goes to live with him for a time. Jessica seems to favor the intelligent, studious, and obedient Evan over his two older brothers, however several episodes throughout the show's run make clear her actual favorite is her eldest "problem child", Eddie; her constant frustration with him (and vice-versa) just makes it difficult for them to bond most of the time. Louis doesn't heavily favor any of his three sons over the others, though he doesn't interact or bond much with Evan since he so clearly favors Jessica.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_89cf0914	type	Parental Sexuality Squick
Fresh Off the Boat / int_89cf0914	comment	Parental Sexuality Squick: Louis and Jessica gross the kids out whenever they kiss or even say affectionate things to each other in front of them. Inverted in "Love and Loopholes", when Emery is disappointed that his parents are spending Valentine's Day doing their taxes instead of something romantic. They try to kiss in front of him to prove their romance is still alive, and they turn out to be the ones who are squicked out by it.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_8a800d36	type	Bilingual Dialogue
Fresh Off the Boat / int_8a800d36	comment	Bilingual Dialogue: Grandma Huang only speaks Mandarin, but seems to have no trouble understanding English as evidenced by her interaction with her monolingual grandsons and her understanding of the O.J. Simpson trial broadcast with her sister-in-law.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_8e3f39b3	type	Parody Episode
Fresh Off the Boat / int_8e3f39b3	comment	Parody Episode: The main plot of "Jessica Place" gradually morphs into a parody of MelrosePlace, complete with 90s-inspired opening sequence and dramatic musical stings whenever a plot twist is revealed. Courtney Thorne-Smith even makes an appearance near the end.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Fresh Off the Boat / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: Towards the end of "Pie vs. Cake", the show briefly shifts to comic book-esque style while Stan Lee reads Eddie and Emery's comic submission.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_91489a9a	type	Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names
Fresh Off the Boat / int_91489a9a	comment	Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names: Discussed in the episode "So Chineez," in which Jessica is afraid that her children will forget their roots.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_9350a0b9	type	The Tape Knew You Would Say That
Fresh Off the Boat / int_9350a0b9	comment	The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Evan and Emery tape over the Chris Rock special that Eddie had surreptitiously taped in the middle of the night. They knew exactly when to say "Don't say 'hell'" right after he blurts out "What the hell?", but then the trope is subverted when they thank him for the compliment, assuming he would call them nerds, and he doesn't.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_961c6c22	type	Cutaway Gag
Fresh Off the Boat / int_961c6c22	comment	Cutaway Gag: The show uses this from time to time to contrast the Huang's new life in Orlando with their old life in D.C.'s Chinatown, which they describe as familiar and comforting, but as the flashbacks show them... not so much.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_9952b10b	type	Re-Release Soundtrack
Fresh Off the Boat / int_9952b10b	comment	Re-Release Soundtrack: The Season One DVD kept all the hip-hop tracks intact, but the Cattleman's Ranch commercial at the end of the pilot used a replacement instrumental track.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_9aaad071	type	HA HA HAâ€”No
Fresh Off the Boat / int_9aaad071	comment	HA HA HA—No: Jessica says this while reading an ad for a job that requires "team players". She crosses it off the list after laughing.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_9d6f3607	type	Fag Hag
Fresh Off the Boat / int_9d6f3607	comment	Fag Hag: Jessica and Connie's mother absolutely adores Oscar (Jessica's gay ex-boyfriend). She even calls him "Chow Chow".
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_9f2ca67b	type	Gaydar
Fresh Off the Boat / int_9f2ca67b	comment	Jessica's broken Gaydar is consistent with the series since she wouldn't know if a man is gay even when it is obvious in front of her eyes. Taken a step further with lesbians, since she didn't even know they existed until the fourth season.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_a01a8ac7	type	Grunge
Fresh Off the Boat / int_a01a8ac7	comment	Grunge: Eddie's cousin Justin goes from loving hip-hop to embracing Grunge, complete with downbeat attitude, flannel shirts, and a desire to move to Seattle. Eddie disparages it as "White Woman" music.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Fresh Off the Boat / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly-Long Gag: Louis's brother-in-law trying to log on to the Internet. This being 1995, it ain't much of an exaggeration.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
Fresh Off the Boat / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Louis believes in this trope, with some limits. He won't give paid vacation to Mitch, for example, because "your job is a vacation from poverty."
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_a3cf9ef6	type	…And That Little Girl Was Me
Fresh Off the Boat / int_a3cf9ef6	comment	…And That Little Girl Was Me: Jessica mentions in "Dribbling Tiger, Bounce Pass Dragon" that "there was once a little girl that all she wanted was a sparkle time beauty horse but instead got something even better: a strong work ethic." It later turns out near the end of the episode that it was herself.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_a46eb25d	type	Election Day Episode
Fresh Off the Boat / int_a46eb25d	comment	Election Day Episode: "Citizen Jessica" is about the 1996 Presidential election between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. Emery even gets aggressively defensive of Bob Dole and acts hostile towards anyone who doesn't endorse Dole.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Fresh Off the Boat / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Jessica's excellent singing getting cut off by herself to snap about something.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_a5a24920	type	Big Breast Pride
Fresh Off the Boat / int_a5a24920	comment	Big-Breast Pride: Connie, Jessica's sister, is certainly pleased with her implants.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Fresh Off the Boat / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Various figures of the 1990's make appearances as 20-years-younger versions of themselves. Scottie Pippen shows up to dish out tax advice. Ed Love does an MTV news bulletin and busts out his catch phrase: "C'mon, son!" Jeremy Lin works alongside Louis in a sweatshop flashback in "The Fall Ball." Shaquille O'Neal makes a cameo as the brains behind "Shaquille O'Neal Motors" and talks about how he regrets...Shaq Fu. He also lampshades his noticeable difference in appearance by commenting that he's let himself go in the off season. DMX appears in "We Done Son," hiring Eddie to take care of his baby daughter. Reason he looks so old? Fatherhood ages you. Billie Jean King shows up in "Michael Chang Fever" offering to coach Emery in Tennis. Michael Bolton shows up after Buying a controlling stake in Louis's restaurant in an attempt to compete with the Kenny Rogers Roasters restaurant chain (Rogers, however, is played by a stand-in) Subverted with Stephen King. Jessica spends an entire episode looking for him, only to narrowly miss him several times and receive a restraining order.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
Fresh Off the Boat / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: Oscar and Jessica still get along fine. Oscar thinks that he and Louis are this as well, but Louis obviously doesn't think they ever dated.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_a79671cc	type	KidAnova
Fresh Off the Boat / int_a79671cc	comment	KidAnova: Emery. He manages to score himself a girlfriend on the first day of school, and each time he's seen with a girl, it's a different one — sometimes there's one on each arm! This irritates Eddie, who Emery is convinced is single because he "wants it too much".
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Fresh Off the Boat / int_a8559a9f	comment	The first season as a whole featured narration performed by the Real Life Eddie Huang. This was dropped in Season 2 due to behind-the-scenes drama and the real Huang wishing to distance himself from the show.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
Fresh Off the Boat / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: In "Very Superstitious," the mechanical bull has ominous red eyes and a ominous sounding low, mechanical moo.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Fresh Off the Boat / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Jessica alternates between this and browbeating everyone around her through sheer volume. Walter, the black kid at the cafeteria (See Pretty Fly for a White Guy).
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_aec43c5f	type	Thanksgiving Episode
Fresh Off the Boat / int_aec43c5f	comment	Thanksgiving Episode: "Huangsgiving" in Season 2 and "No Thanks-giving" in Season 3.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Fresh Off the Boat / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: The basic premise of the show. An ad run not long before the show started explaining that the title was meant to refer to this sort of scenario.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Fresh Off the Boat / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Oh, HELL no!" Usually uttered by Jessica, but Eddie has used it as well, and Louis used it once in Persistent Romeo.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_b0bce7aa	type	Selective Obliviousness
Fresh Off the Boat / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: Jessica can't tell if someone is gay even if it's pointed out to her.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Fresh Off the Boat / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Downplayed with Jessica, since the only time she hits Eddie on the show is Played for Laughs, by attacking him with a giant plushie to demonstrate why not to date rape.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_b4a44588	type	Tough Love
Fresh Off the Boat / int_b4a44588	comment	Tough Love: In Eddie's words, "my family loved each other, but we expressed it through our actions and micro-managing, so when someone said I love you, something was up." Louis attempts this in an episode, but his mother informs him that he may be going too far with it.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Fresh Off the Boat / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Emery, a grade-schooler, is the one having the most success in the Huang family in Orlando. Wyatt, the replacement host. He's handsome, an actual cowboy, charismatic, and absolutely perfect for the restaurant. This earns him resentment from Louis, who is unnerved by his perfection, and Mitch, whom he replaced.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_b6b6355f	type	Politeness Judo
Fresh Off the Boat / int_b6b6355f	comment	Politeness Judo: Louis and Jessica get into their fair share of judo matches when Louis's brother Gene comes to visit, including fighting over who gets to carry his luggage, who pays for dinner, how to give back the $200 Jessica owes Gene without him noticing, etc.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_b6db5695	type	Political Overcorrectness
Fresh Off the Boat / int_b6db5695	comment	Political Overcorrectness: Parodied in "The Real Santa". The Christmas show at the school has Panny the Pan-Cultural Seasonal Entity. Nobody likes him and he gets chased out of the school.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Fresh Off the Boat / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The Distant Finale unsurprisingly shows Eddie to be a restaurateurnote though the finale is set in 2008 and the real Eddie Huang didn't open his first restaurant until 2009 (with Trent running things so Eddie can attend his brother's graduation), Emery as an actor featured in commercials, and Evan as a graduate of Harvard University. Jenny is still alive at age 80 and is attending her grandson's graduation, as are Jessica and Louis.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_b8fb4944	type	Slow-Loading Internet Image
Fresh Off the Boat / int_b8fb4944	comment	Slow-Loading Internet Image: Eddie and Justin have to contend with this in "Huangsgiving", so they have to choose carefully which celebrity photo they want to download. Eventually they opt for Tracy Chapman, and are disappointed at how chaste the final image is.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_b9d42f06	type	Plug 'n' Play Friends
Fresh Off the Boat / int_b9d42f06	comment	Plug 'n' Play Friends: Subverted and later played straight in "Phillip Goldstein". The entire faculty assumes Eddie and Phillip will be instant best friends because they are the only Chinese kids in the entire school, but they end up hating each other. At the end of the episode, Walter, who called Eddie a "chink" in the first episode, has a rather sudden change of heart and befriends Eddie a few episodes later after seeing him wearing a Beastie Boys shirt.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_bc1faa80	type	Mirror Scare
Fresh Off the Boat / int_bc1faa80	comment	Mirror Scare: Evan attempts to give Emery the chicken pox after the latter takes a shower.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Fresh Off the Boat / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: It's not a good idea to call Eddie a "chink".
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Fresh Off the Boat / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Jessica beans a fleeing youth with an onion at a distance of about fifty yards. She repeats the feat with an egg in the dark.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_bf3d0873	type	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
Fresh Off the Boat / int_bf3d0873	comment	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: The Denim Turtle is Jessica's favorite hangout, and also a lesbian bar. It took her four seasons to figure it out.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Fresh Off the Boat / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: 1995 was the last year in which 80s culture was prevalent, as shown by some of the clothes (flannel shirts and plastic shades aside from some remnants of "flattops", middle-parted cuts and '80s Hair). Not to mention the Wild West-themed restaurant Eddie's dad invests in and the family's boxy, fake-wood-bedecked first generation Chrysler minivan.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_c28692cf	type	Mystical Jade
Fresh Off the Boat / int_c28692cf	comment	Mystical Jade: Believed in-universe. Louis has had a lucky jade pendant his whole life, and when he takes it off for even a moment, he feels like he's being affected until he puts it back on. Given there's no Magical Realism in this sitcom, the pain and voices were likely all in his mind.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Fresh Off the Boat / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Extremely common. Eddie's rival in season 1, Brock, disappears after the second season premiere. Eddie's other rival Philip Goldstein, the only other Asian at Abraham Lincoln Middle School, is last seen in season 2. The disappearance of any characters who dislike or challenge Eddie, along with the solidification of his crew, inadvertedly turns him into a Big Man on Campus, drastically altering the dynamic of school scenes. Mitch and Nancy, the two most prominent employees at Cattleman's Ranch, stop appearing after season 3, though the actors return for a brief flashback in season 5 to retroactively explain their disappearance. Although Eddie breaks up with his first girlfriend Alison at the start of season 4, the two remain friends and she continues to appear through the rest of the season. But come season 5, she's nowhere to be seen.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Fresh Off the Boat / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Louis, to remarkable extremes.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Fresh Off the Boat / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Eddie's victory strut with Grandma turning on a boombox may remind some viewers of the "Thug Life" meme. "The Shunning" is a shout out to The Shining, as the works of Stephen King are a major theme of the episode. "So Chineez" has Eddie giving a speech that's almost a word-for-word reference to Joe Pesci's famous "Do I amuse you?" speech from ''Goodfellas, only this time it's talking about China being amusing, not himself. When Jessica dons a qipao and hair ribbons in "So Chineez," Eddie says she looks like Chun-Li. In "Week in Review", when Evan is banished outside due to having lice, he and Jessica hold their hands up to opposite sides of the window in an obvious homage to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Jessica even quotes Spock: "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Both Square One TV and Chris Rock's Bring the Pain HBO special get a shout-out when the Huang brothers fight over which one to watch on TV in the season 2 finale.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Fresh Off the Boat / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Grandma is never referred to by her first name until Season 2's "My Name Is...", when she reveals that her American name is Jenny.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
Fresh Off the Boat / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: In the pilot, Eddie's classmates react with disgust after seeing Eddie's noodles, thinking it's worms. Jessica makes stinky tofu for the neighborhood moms in "The Shunning."
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Fresh Off the Boat / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: The show compared to the real Eddie Huang's life, whose memoir inspires the series. So much so that Huang has basically condemned the series for keeping out the more violent parts of his life that sparked his interest in rap and hip hop to begin with.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Fresh Off the Boat / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: Subverted, they do, it's just that in the television show the Huangs are not as abusive to their children as they were in real life. In fact, the reason they get called is because the new guidance counselor at Eddie's school thinks his arm got broken due to child abuse due to Eddie telling Blatant Lies about how he got into a gang fight, to become class president.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Fresh Off the Boat / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Eddie imagines his father playing "Taiwanese basketball" as an over-the-top Wuxia battle scene, with players flying around. Later when Eddie's team decides to play rough with the other team and score the most fouls, the game is shown with similar cartoony action.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_d279dcf8	type	Serial Numbers Filed Off
Fresh Off the Boat / int_d279dcf8	comment	Serial Numbers Filed Off: In-Universe, the reason why Cattleman's Ranch keeps getting confused for a Golden Saddle is cause Louis copied it to look like it since he couldn't pay the fee to own a franchise.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Fresh Off the Boat / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Grandma, despite not appearing to speak English or understand much of what's going on around her, seems to have a really good sense of humor about most situations. She's somewhere between this and a Cloudcuckoolander. She's also revealed to have quite an active social life.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Fresh Off the Boat / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Steve's describes his car as a brand new '95 Miata to the one cop in all of Orlando who knows that the color Steve is describing was discontinued in '93. This reveals that the car Steve's been bragging about was bought used and that Steve's furniture business has actually fallen on hard times as well.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Fresh Off the Boat / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Often subverted in regards to the main family - Eddie keeps thinking his parents are going to ground him or lecture him for his actions throughout various episodes, but oftentimes, his parents understand that the situations he gets into are as a result of his trying to fit in or better handle a situation out of his control. When they do ground him, it's for things like getting his ear pierced, or lying to win a presidential election. Straighter examples include Eddie's parents not being pleased with the way the principal handles Eddie's fight with Walter in the pilot, and Jessica getting pissed that Philip didn't hold up his end of an arrangement with Eddie.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_d5656fbe	type	The Unpronounceable
Fresh Off the Boat / int_d5656fbe	comment	The Unpronounceable: Eddie's Chinese name is this to his teacher on the first day of school. Evan deals with this when trying to open a bank account. The banker can't pronounce his Chinese name no matter how many times he's corrected.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_d5a060a8	type	Interchangeable Asian Cultures
Fresh Off the Boat / int_d5a060a8	comment	Interchangeable Asian Cultures: When discussing a video game, one of Eddie's classmates states that he thought Eddie was Japanese. In "Year of the Rat", when the Huang family shows up to the Asian American Organization of Orlando's Chinese New Year event, they discover to their dismay that the organization is run by white folks and the resulting celebration is an awkward mishmash of Asian cultures, including Indian and Russian.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_dbc93276	comment	This Is Going to Be Huge: Everyone assumes Shaq Fu will be amazing, but it's one of the most infamously bad games of all time. Later episodes acknowledge this.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_e0d20ea6	comment	Intentionally Awkward Title: The show is based on Eddie Huang's book of the same name, but the network was originally going to call the show Far East Orlando to get around the politically incorrect title. Huang lobbied to keep the book title, and it stuck.note For those wondering, "fresh off the boat" is a usually derogatory term for recent immigrants, although the word "fresh" has its own connotations in hiphop culture, which plays a major role too.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Two customers at the restaurant tell Mitch they're splitting the bill. Mitch rips it half.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_e378370c	comment	But Not Too White: A frequent comedic device. In "Dribbling Tiger, Bouncing Pass Dragon", Barefoot Dave wears old-school basketball shorts, revealing so much pasty white thigh that it reflects the light and blinds his opponents. Trent, being a ginger, is considered the very whitest of Eddie's white friends, which is sometimes exploited for gags. He expresses worry that redheaded people will die out (a commonly-reported urban legend in The '90s), he comments that he knows how it feels to be oppressed now that he's a high school freshman (to the disbelief of Eddie and Walter), and his favorite condiment is (of course) mayonnaise. In one thanksgiving episode, Oscar brings along his new boyfriend, who is so white that the actor appears to have been coated with white foundation. Even the other white characters seem vaguely put off by him.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Although it is officially an adaptation of the Fresh Off the Boat memoir, only the core cast of characters (Eddie, Louis, Jessica, Emery, Evan, and Grandma Huang) and the setting (Orlando, Florida) along with a few biographical details (the Huangs are originally from Taiwan and moved from Washington, D.C., where all three boys were born, to support Louis in running a western-themed steak house in Orlando) are used. The real Eddie Huang eventually parted ways with the production after the lives of the characters depicted onscreen became too divergent from his own.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_e58e0124	comment	Pokémon Speak: Dimitri, a large boy on Eddie's school basketball team.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_e7cb46d3	comment	Satellite Character: Eddie's friends are an example of a group of satellites. They are never seen without him (until season 5 when one of them, Trent, gets a job working at Cattleman's) and don't really have any meaningful interactions with the characters outside their friend group. Emery's "girlfriends" in the early seasons are even more blatant. They only exist to follow Emery around and fawn over him. As is typical for the Alpha Bitch, all of the other women in the HOA function as Deirdre's lackeys and don't really have storylines of their own. Deirdre herself is mostly defined by her interactions with Jessica (and Honey to a lesser extent) although sometimes she serves as a Spear Carrier for the others. The staff at Cattleman's mostly only appear at the restaurant and interact mainly with Louis.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The Huangs can tell if something is amiss with one another if they start expressing platitudes like "Love you!".
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_e96fe76d	comment	Hobbes Was Right or Rousseau Was Right: Discussed. A debate arises between Louis and Jessica over whether people are inherently good or evil (and therefore whether Louis, as the restaurant owner, should "kill 'em with kindness" or spend the bare minimum of money on things like garnishes and napkins that they use for free) based on a group of high school kids dining and dashing; Louis believes that they can be talked out of it while Jessica believes they have to be forcefully dealt with. The kids go through with the dashing, seemingly proving Jessica right and Louis wrong. However immediately after they do so, Louis's employees foot the bill expressly because Louis is a good person, showing that Louis may have actually have had a point.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Dimitri, the star basketball player on Eddie's basketball team, is about as tall as a grown man and has a deep voice. Turns out he's 11 and a half.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License – Geography: In 4x06, Nicole mentions to Marvin that the tent he gave her isn't large enough for her. He responds with "We'll go to Big 5 and get a new one." Big 5 Sporting Goods is an outlet store that is primarily west coast based, with its furthest location from its headquarters in El Segundo based in Texas. There are no Big 5 Sporting Goods stores in Orlando, Florida.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_eab212a8	comment	Period Piece: The '80s: 1995 was the last year in which 80s culture was prevalent, as shown by some of the clothes (flannel shirts and plastic shades aside from some remnants of "flattops", middle-parted cuts and '80s Hair). Not to mention the Wild West-themed restaurant Eddie's dad invests in and the family's boxy, fake-wood-bedecked first generation Chrysler minivan. The '90s: The setting for the show is between 1995 and 1997. Complete with scenes of mothers rollerblading in day-glo outfits. Also, 90s hip hop for the soundtrack. The episode "Success Perms" in particular is rife with 90s references with the OJ Simpson trial, Gangsta Rap vs Grunge and very slow internet dial ups.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_eddb470c	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?: Mitch brings up the fact he slept with Nancy basically to let people know that they had sex. A variant, the teacher who gives Nicole detention really wants people to know she's married thus has been active.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: Around Jessica's family. As Louis puts it, "sometimes you have to spend money you don't have to make it look like you have money you don't spend." In other words, they're consuming conspicuously in order to look like a much more well-off family being frugal.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: To show Steve's continued fall on hard times, he's reduced to driving a beaten-up Geo Metro with a faulty ignition when he and his family visits for Thanksgiving in Season 2.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: In "We Done Son," Jessica decides to cut off her relationship with Honey because the latter dared to question her spending $500 a month on a fortune teller while dismissing Honey's own ideas to make the house-flipping a success. When she sees how lonely Grandma Huang is after cutting off friends from her own life for the smallest slight, Jessica decides to make amends... and tells Honey that she will forgive her. Naturally, Honey does not accept this.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_f5418d03	comment	Kitschy Local Commercial: Louis makes one of these for his restaurant in the first episode. It leans on just about every Wild West and redneck stereotype imaginable, to the extreme discomfort of his white employees, who all play roles in the ad.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_f645ee0d	comment	Never Win the Lottery: Game show variant. Louis appears on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and blows it on the $32,000 question (which, had he been correct, he would have been guaranteed to take home no matter what happened). He still went home with $1,000 which is not nothing, but even in the year 2000 it wouldn't have gone very far.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: In-Universe, Eddie and his friends (minus Dave) come to the theory that Tupac Shakur faked his death.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Many of Cattleman Ranch's patrons think it's actually a Golden Saddle franchise. This gag informs the plotline of "Showdown at the Golden Saddle." Jessica's excellent singing getting cut off by herself to snap about something. The fact that the Huangs have been trying and failing to have a daughter is occasionally brought up. "This school/cafeteria is ridiculous!" Jessica's broken Gaydar is consistent with the series since she wouldn't know if a man is gay even when it is obvious in front of her eyes. Taken a step further with lesbians, since she didn't even know they existed until the fourth season. The Huang Family knows that there's something is off whenever one of them says "Love you" to another. Individual episodes sometimes have their own internal running gags: "License to Sell" has an almost literal example where Honey keeps stumbling upon members of the Huang family hiding while on her jogs. "Very Superstitious" has Vanessa trying too hard to make raunchy jokes, and Mitch being increasingly frustrated with her. Shaq Fu's status as one history's great disappointments is semi-regularly touched upon. Every time Jessica talks to Connie subtitles appear to show us what they're really saying.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_fab3b838	comment	Everything Is Racist: The Huang family can easily be offended of Asian stereotypes. Jessica in particular is very thin-skinned and will try to make friends with people just for being Asian/Chinese, which of course makes her a hypocrite because then she's the one being racist.
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: Conversations between Jessica and her sister Connie that sound only marginally passive-aggressive on the surface are subtitled to reflect the nasty things they really feel about each other. At the end of "Success Perm," having bonded over the course of the episode, they say openly vitriolic words, but the subtitles show their genuine affection. "Sisters Without Subtext" uses the gag to spook Connie when Jessica, being openly proud of Connie's decision to go back to school, says genuinely supportive words, and the subtitles simply match whatever Jessica is saying. It then gets played to ridiculous effect when Jessica and Connie start duetting Miss Celie's Blues (Sister) and the subtitles play out an entire conversation in which Jessica apologies to Connie (with a few sidebars).
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Fresh Off the Boat / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Shaquille O'Neal Motors' head manager's office contains a door that has peeling paint across the top of the frame. Aside from a brief comment, it's not mentioned again until the stinger, where it's shown that the paint is peeling because Shaq constantly forgets to duck when coming to and from work.
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