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Growing Pains

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Growing Pains	comment	Growing Pains is a Dom Com which ran on ABC from 1985 to 1992.Alan Thicke and Joanna Kerns are Jason and Maggie Seaver, a Happily Married couple living on Long Island with their three children: mischievous teenager Mike, brainy Carol, and precocious Ben. Maggie has decided to return to her pre-motherhood career as a journalist, and Jason has moved his psychiatric practice into the family home.Early focus on the parents shifted quickly as Kirk Cameron's Mike became the face of the series.Behind-the-scenes turmoil shaped the series' later years. In early seasons, Mike and Ben had often teased Carol for being overweight, which was cited as a factor when Carol's portrayer, Tracey Gold, left the show to get treatment for anorexia. Another source of controversy emerged when Kirk Cameron became a born-again Christian. He started requesting script changes to eliminate risquÃ© content, and insisted that fellow cast member Julie McCullough, who played the family's nanny (and Mike's fiancee), Julie, be fired due to her past appearances in Playboy. In 1991, executive producers Dan Guntzelman, Mike Sullivan, and Steve Marshall quit after Cameron telephoned Bob Iger, who was then president of ABC Entertainment, and accused them of being "pornographers". The show was cancelled the following year.Growing Pains was also notable for its use of both Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome and Cousin Oliver to combat the aging of the series regulars. Jeremy Miller, who played Ben, outgrew the role of precocious child, but didn't seem able to replace now-adult Kirk Cameron as a teen heartthrob. Chrissy, the baby the Seavers had in 1988, went from infant to school-age over the summer of 1990. In the show's last season, Mike went into teaching and brought orphaned teen Luke (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) home for the Seavers to adopt.The series spawned one Spin-Off, Just the Ten of Us, launched by Poorly Disguised Pilot.
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Growing Pains / int_12b796e	type	Phoney Call
Growing Pains / int_12b796e	comment	Phoney Call: Mike once had a phone conversation with a friend where he mentions that he wants to quit school and become an actor. Carol overhears this and Mike presses the hang-up switch with his thumb and tells the friend he was kidding. Carol isn't convinced, though.
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Growing Pains / int_1392fbe7	type	Drunk Driver
Growing Pains / int_1392fbe7	comment	Drunk Driver: Carol's boyfriend Sandy was in an accident while driving drunk. Viewers were bracing for the climatic Aesop (Sandy would recover, lesson learned, let's move on)... until Sandy bit it.
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Growing Pains / int_1460b100	type	Death Is a Sad Thing
Growing Pains / int_1460b100	comment	Death Is a Sad Thing: Mike traumatized by the death of his favorite uncle, whom we'd never seen before. Infamously in the 1989 episode "Second Chance," where Carol's boyfriend succumbs to internal injuries he suffered in a drunk driving accident.
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Growing Pains / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Growing Pains / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In "Happy Halloween", Jason and Maggie were about to take Chrissy trick-or-treating when they noticed a storm coming. Chrissy assures them it's only a little storm, then a lightning bolt hit a tree right next to them.
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Growing Pains / int_177ecc0f	type	Unexpected Positive
Growing Pains / int_177ecc0f	comment	Unexpected Positive: Maggie is doing a series of news reports about regular medical checkups, and thus undergoes all the usual tests. This is how she discovers she's pregnant. In another episode, Jason allows a pediatrician to examine him to show a teenage boy it's no big deal. This is how his hernia is discovered.
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Growing Pains / int_191535aa	type	Eiffel Tower Effect
Growing Pains / int_191535aa	comment	Eiffel Tower Effect: Subverted when Jason and Maggie go on a second honeymoon in Paris. She comes down with appendicitis and has to be hospitalized. Jason tries to cheer her up by reminding her they're still in Paris by opening the curtains to her window but instead of a view of the Eiffel Tower it's the brick wall of a building a few feet away.
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Growing Pains / int_1996752	type	Long-Lost Uncle Aesop
Growing Pains / int_1996752	comment	Long-Lost Uncle Aesop: Carol's boyfriend Sandy only existed to die and let Carol learn the effects of death on her.
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Growing Pains / int_19e9b150	type	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage
Growing Pains / int_19e9b150	comment	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In the episode "All The World is a Stage", Mike takes a secret job as a singing waiter alongside his girlfriend, Kate. The second song we see them perform is the theme song. The sequence features the actor's names under certain people who are clearly not said actors, including composer Steve Dorff at the piano. He's marked as "Ashley Johnson (not even close)".
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Growing Pains / int_1cb68381	type	Pom-Pom Girl
Growing Pains / int_1cb68381	comment	Pom-Pom Girl: Most of the cheerleaders in the show (Annie from, "Long Dayâ€™s Journey into Night", the Cute, but Cacophonic girl Mike pursues in the season 3 prom two-parter, two of the girls who compete with Carol for homecoming Queen in season 4, three girls who support Mike when he runs for class President, etc.) are portrayed as energetic and friendly, although some of them also fit the unintelligent cheerleader cliche.
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Growing Pains / int_1e5df5	type	Heh Heh, You Said "X"
Growing Pains / int_1e5df5	comment	Heh Heh, You Said "X": A negative example in one episode:
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Growing Pains / int_1e6eb73	type	Birthday Party Goes Wrong
Growing Pains / int_1e6eb73	comment	Birthday Party Goes Wrong: Ben's birthday celebration gets interrupted by Maggie going into labor. The whole family proceeds to basically forget that it's Ben's birthday (not without reason) until after the delivery is finished. Ben is relieved to find that his new baby sister managed to delay entering the world long enough for it to be past midnight, meaning that they don't have to share a birthday. It's never clarified if his party gets a do-over, though.
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Growing Pains / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Growing Pains / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Several extreme examples. One of which involved actual drawing on the TV screen. Also averted (or perhaps completely turned on its head) by actually showing a fourth wall in the "Meet the Seavers" episode.
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Growing Pains / int_1e7c13c	type	Class Princess
Growing Pains / int_1e7c13c	comment	Class Princess: In "Long Dayâ€™s Journey into Night", Carol is befriended by a popular girl named Annie who is a cheerleader and drama club member with a good sense of humor and nice car. She is disappointed to learn Annie first began hanging out with her as an excuse to date Mike, but Annie also has fun with Carol, wants to stay friends with her, and apologizes for her mixed motives. In "Homecoming Queen", Formerly Fat straight-A student and Extracurricular Enthusiast Carol's fellow nominees (including two cheerleaders) are all pretty and popular people who make Carol feel hopeless and out of place. However, it turns out that all four of them respect Carol for how many clubs she's part of, and feel that they aren't important and popular enough to be Homecoming Queen nominees. The five girls quickly bond and Carol isn't upset about losing to one of them.
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Growing Pains / int_20314beb	type	Cousin Oliver
Growing Pains / int_20314beb	comment	Cousin Oliver: Both Chrissy (born in Season 4) and Luke (Adopted by the Seavers in Season 7).
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Growing Pains / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Growing Pains / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Ben has a literal realization of this after Mike and Carol inform him what's really happening when Jason and Maggie stay in bed late on Saturday mornings. Mike himself has a similar realization in the same episode after witnessing Jason flirting with an attractive woman at the gym.
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Growing Pains / int_20d6f4ea	type	Photo Montage
Growing Pains / int_20d6f4ea	comment	Photo Montage: The opening sequence goes through how the characters grew up.
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Growing Pains / int_21c95ce9	type	Anti-Alcohol Aesop
Growing Pains / int_21c95ce9	comment	Anti-Alcohol Aesop: The show had a Very Special Episode where Carol's boyfriend Sandy (played by Matthew Perry) is in a drunk driving accident. Mike later has to tell his sister, who initially doesn't believe him, that Sandy died as a result of his injuries.
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Growing Pains / int_2731a2ef	type	Professional Maiden Name
Growing Pains / int_2731a2ef	comment	Professional Maiden Name: While having legally taken her husband's name, Maggie Seaver uses her maiden name of Malone in her professional life. It was even lampshaded in the first reunion movie.
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Growing Pains / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Growing Pains / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: Season 6's "Happy Halloween" two-parter. When a thunderstorm hits on Halloween night and trashes their plans, the Seavers stay in to tell ghost stories, including a Invasion of the Body Snatchers spoof and a Beware of Hitchhiking Ghosts tale.
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Growing Pains / int_2c3ff5e8	type	Truncated Theme Tune
Growing Pains / int_2c3ff5e8	comment	Truncated Theme Tune: If you hear B.J. Thomas and his partner at the time harmonizing on "Don't waste another minute on your crying", odds are good it's from the syndicated package. More noticeable with Jennifer Warnes than with Dusty Springfield.
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Growing Pains / int_2cf282ea	type	She Is All Grown Up
Growing Pains / int_2cf282ea	comment	She Is All Grown Up: Essentially the focus of the episode where Carol is nominated for homecoming queen. Even big brother Mike reluctantly admits that she's pretty.
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Growing Pains / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Growing Pains / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: In "Ben Cheats", Jason punishes Ben for getting a poor grade on a test, even after refusing to cheat, then declines to relent on his punishment when they learn his classmates cheated, passed and were lauded for their accomplishments. Jason uses this as a teaching example that sometimes the bad guys win and get away with it. "Sometimes, they even win the White House."
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Growing Pains / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Growing Pains / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Gordon Jump's fresh off the boat Irish accent as Maggie's father has to be heard to believed.
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Growing Pains / int_360aa1f	type	Fan Disillusionment
Growing Pains / int_360aa1f	comment	Fan Disillusionment: Ben catches his favorite rock star, played by Brad Pitt, cheating on his wife.
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Growing Pains / int_3731d33c	type	I Got Bigger
Growing Pains / int_3731d33c	comment	I Got Bigger: An episode revolved around Ben being afraid to go back to school because on the last day before the summer break, a bully threatened to beat him up when school started back up. By the end of the episode, he's forced to face the bully only for the bully to realize that Ben had a growth spurt over the summer and was now a head taller than he was. Realizing he doesn't have a chance, the bully runs off.
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Growing Pains / int_38b05ae7	type	Poorly Disguised Pilot
Growing Pains / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly Disguised Pilot: "How The West Was Won", for Just the Ten of Us. Coach Lubbock, the central character of Just the Ten of Us, was an established recurring character on the show, although his domestic life — a rather large family, with another baby on the way — was not seen or even alluded to until the episode which was used to spawn the spinoff.
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Growing Pains / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Growing Pains / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: We never find out what was in the trunk of Mike's car, which he was worried the police would find.
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Growing Pains / int_3fafbfd4	type	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
Growing Pains / int_3fafbfd4	comment	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Chrissy somehow manages to go from newborn to kindergarten in less than two years.
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Growing Pains / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
Growing Pains / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: In one episode, Jason tells Mike that if he tells the truth about something he did, he'll be severely punished. And if he lies, Jason will find out the truth, and then he'll severely punish Mike. Lampshaded when Mike says he doesn't see any advantage in telling the truth, until Jason gives him a death glare, at which point he says it's obviously clear to him.
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Growing Pains / int_44f6517d	type	Beach Episode
Growing Pains / int_44f6517d	comment	Beach Episode: The majority of "Aloha" is set on a beach.
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Growing Pains / int_461a335a	type	Workout Fanservice
Growing Pains / int_461a335a	comment	Work Out Fanservice: In "How the West Was Won Part 2", Coach Lubbock's daughter Cindy (who Mike and Boner have big crushes on) is seen working out in a yoga outfit.
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Growing Pains / int_46754750	type	Inadvertent Entrance Cue
Growing Pains / int_46754750	comment	Inadvertent Entrance Cue: In "How the West Was Won Part 1", after Mike and Boner meet Coach Lubbock's daughter Cindy, they ask if he has any other daughters that look like her. Her equally attractive sister Wendy walks into the room seconds later.
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Growing Pains / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
Growing Pains / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: In Name Only. Ben insists on naming his new baby sister Chris, after an old man he befriended in the hospital who is implied to be dying.
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Growing Pains / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Growing Pains / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: Mike Seaver goes from clever, charming slacker with a heart of gold, to a responsible adult who looks after Luke (correlated with Kirk Cameron's conversion to Christianity.)
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Growing Pains / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Growing Pains / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Spin-off Just the Ten of Us aired its final episode in May 1990, having been abruptly cancelled and then yanked off the schedule after the summer hiatus ended. The following October in the "Happy Halloween" two-parter, Ben (while telling a ghost story) claims the Lubbock family just disappeared without a trace.
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Growing Pains / int_4a5fb630	type	Post-Robbery Trauma
Growing Pains / int_4a5fb630	comment	Post-Robbery Trauma: In "Gone But Not Forgotten", the Seavers come home to find that a burglar had been there and spend the episode preparing themselves in case the burglar ever returns.
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Growing Pains / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
Growing Pains / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Maggie's father is unbelievably rude and nasty to Jason, despite Jason being the kind of son-in-law one would pick out of a catalogue (a doctor, well-off, etc). It appears he's still angry at the two for running off and eloping, but given how long ago that was and that the two are clearly happy together, he just comes off like a jerk. It's especially bad given that Maggie's mother, while The Ditz, adores Jason, and Maggie and Jason's mother get along fine.
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Growing Pains / int_4c9d2176	type	Formerly Fat
Growing Pains / int_4c9d2176	comment	In "Homecoming Queen", Formerly Fat straight-A student and Extracurricular Enthusiast Carol's fellow nominees (including two cheerleaders) are all pretty and popular people who make Carol feel hopeless and out of place. However, it turns out that all four of them respect Carol for how many clubs she's part of, and feel that they aren't important and popular enough to be Homecoming Queen nominees. The five girls quickly bond and Carol isn't upset about losing to one of them.
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Growing Pains / int_4e351021	type	The B Grade
Growing Pains / int_4e351021	comment	The B Grade: Played in an interesting way. Carol makes out with her boyfriend instead of reading a book assigned for English class. She takes a pop quiz the next day and still gets an "A". The anguish begins after Mike looks over her test and points out she used a lot of big, intellectual sounding words and essentially confused the teacher into giving her an "A".
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Growing Pains / int_51ffa973	type	On the Money
Growing Pains / int_51ffa973	comment	On the Money: In "Carol In Jail", Mike is in traffic court, facing a $500 fine for various violations. The presiding judge muses that his granddaughter is looking for a car and he'd be willing to buy Mike's - for $500.
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Growing Pains / int_53211774	type	Multi-Part Episode
Growing Pains / int_53211774	comment	Multi-Part Episode: Numerous; There's "Aloha", "Dance Fever", "The Obscure Objects Of Our Desire", "How The West Was Won", "Family Ties", "The Looooove Boat", "The New Deal", "Happy Halloween", "Let's Go To Europe", "Stop, Luke and Listen/In Vino Veritas" and "The Last Picture Show". All of them are two-part episodes (except "Let's Go To Europe", which has three parts) and all of them (except "Stop, Luke and Listen/In Vino Veritas") have the Part 1/Part 2 naming scheme.
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Growing Pains / int_55719ceb	type	Service Sector Stereotypes
Growing Pains / int_55719ceb	comment	Service Sector Stereotypes: The "bartender" variant is played with when Maggie is about to have a baby. While in the hospital, Ben worries about being replaced as the baby in the family, and laments to another patient in the hospital named Chris who happens to work as a bartender. Towards the end of the episode however, Ben begins to realize that Chris is dying. After his new sister is born, the family goes with his suggestion to name her "Chrissy".
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Growing Pains / int_55f4dd10	type	What Are You in For?
Growing Pains / int_55f4dd10	comment	What Are You in For?: The pilot had Mike in jail for crashing into a police car. One of his cellmates asks this question to which he replied, "I shot a man just to watch him die."
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Growing Pains / int_59b9f4df	type	You Are Fat
Growing Pains / int_59b9f4df	comment	You Are Fat: Mike and Ben used to joke about Carol's weight, which infamously didn't go over well in real life.
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Growing Pains / int_5ab267e1	type	F--
Growing Pains / int_5ab267e1	comment	F--: Subverted when Mike is telling his parents what grade he got on a test. He begins with "I..." and Ben blurts out, "An 'I'?! That's worse than an F!" (it turns out it was a more typical grade (a C or a D).)
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Growing Pains / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Growing Pains / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Usually played straight, although occasionally subverted by Mike.
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Growing Pains / int_602bf60a	type	Sorry That I'm Dying
Growing Pains / int_602bf60a	comment	Sorry That I'm Dying: Show Within a Show-style. Mike's big acting break (or so he thinks) is when he gets a gig on a Police Procedural as a cop who gets shot in a shootout, saying something like "I guess I'll never get to [something]." But when it's shown on TV his one line gets cut.
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Growing Pains / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
Growing Pains / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: "Meet The Seavers", where Ben has a dream that he's the star of a sitcom.
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Growing Pains / int_626d5022	type	Birthday Buddies
Growing Pains / int_626d5022	comment	Birthday Buddies: Played with in the episode "Birth of a Seaver". Maggie goes into labor with Chrissy on Ben's birthday, leaving Ben upset about being ignored until he has a heart-to-heart talk with a dying elderly man in the hospital named Chris. But the labor takes so long that by the time the baby is finally born, it's past midnight, and Ben is relieved that he won't have to share his birthday with his new sister after all. He even names his sister after the dying man.
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Growing Pains / int_64972c10	type	Flashback Effects
Growing Pains / int_64972c10	comment	Flashback Effects: Parodied when Maggie and Jason demand that Ben explain himself. When they ask why he's hesitating, he declares, "I'm waiting for the ripple."
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Growing Pains / int_664c14fe	type	Revenge of the Nerd
Growing Pains / int_664c14fe	comment	Revenge of the Nerd: Gender flipped; Mike asks out a hot girl, only to discover he used to tease her for being "Bucktooth Becky".
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Growing Pains / int_66cef86d	type	School Play
Growing Pains / int_66cef86d	comment	School Play: Mike plays George in Our Town.
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Growing Pains / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
Growing Pains / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Both boys and girls in the early seasons have few qualms about ogling attractive members of the opposite sex, although some memorable examples are only described secondhand and not shown. In multiple episodes, Carol's friends Debbie and Shelly are unapologetic about how they like to lustfully watch members of the boys swim and basketball teams practicing for their sports. In "A Star is Born", Carol refers to the leading lady in the School Play as "Monica 'Draws a Crowd in her Gym Shorts' Shackleford" while explaining Mike's eagerness to play the male lead in the play.
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Growing Pains / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Growing Pains / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Carol missing the perfect attendance record by a day is treated with almost as much seriousness by Carol and Maggie as Coach Lubbock's firing from the same episode.
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Growing Pains / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
Growing Pains / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: Carol started attending Columbia University.
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Growing Pains / int_6ba2b94f	type	Trapped in TV Land
Growing Pains / int_6ba2b94f	comment	Trapped in TV Land: Ben goes through this in "Meet The Seavers", where he becomes an actor on the show.
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Growing Pains / int_6e1e6488	type	Moving-Away Ending
Growing Pains / int_6e1e6488	comment	Moving-Away Ending: The show ends with Maggie, Jason, Ben, and Chrissy moving to Washington, D.C. because Maggie's been offered a top-notch job as a journalist there. Mike and Carol decide to remain in New York. After the cars are loaded and the family shares one final picnic on the empty floor, they make their way out, with Carol looking back and tearfully telling the house, "Goodbye."
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Growing Pains / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
Growing Pains / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: In one episode, Mike prepared cheat notes on the soles of his shoes for an important test. However when doing the test, Mike found that he was able to do the test honestly since he legitimately knew the answers. However, Mike's notes are discovered at the end and the teacher logically assumes he used them to cheat and it takes the rest of the episode for Mike to convince his parents and teacher of the truth. Both to allow him to prove that he knows the material and for his parents and teacher to drive home the point that preparing to cheat is wrong in itself, Mike retakes the test, on top of the desks, barefoot and his underwear to make sure he is using no unauthorized materials. In another episode, this philosophy is subverted. Ben has the opportunity to cheat on a test, but does not; he ends up getting a bad grade, and is scolded by his parents. His friends do cheat, get excellent grades, and are rewarded by their parents. Ben's father is forced to concede that, in reality, cheaters prosper and win very often (saying that "in some cases, they even win the White House", an obvious reference to Watergate), although he does say that being honest can be far more rewarding in the long run.
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Growing Pains / int_73d4b01a	type	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It
Growing Pains / int_73d4b01a	comment	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: In "Ben's Movie", Ben gives himself top billing for everything, writing, directing, producing and starring. He does give the rest of the cast credit, in tiny writing squeezed onto one title card.
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Growing Pains / int_73e51847	type	Missing the Good Stuff
Growing Pains / int_73e51847	comment	In "There Must Be A Pony", Chrissy thinks fun things happen after bed time, so Jason lets her stay up late to see nothing exciting happens at night. Unfortunately, a string of events occur that result in a party.
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Growing Pains / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Growing Pains / int_754df088	comment	Carol was Put on a Bus because actress Tracey Gold entered treatment for anorexia after Joanna Kearns brought the issue to the attention of the producers and Gold's family.
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Growing Pains / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
Growing Pains / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: As shown in "How The West Was Won", Coach Lubbock has seven kids, with an eighth on the way. He and his family would later star in a spinoff, Just the Ten of Us.
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Growing Pains / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Growing Pains / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Mike's character saw drastic changes in the last few seasons because of Kirk Cameron's religious conversion. Carol was Put on a Bus because actress Tracey Gold entered treatment for anorexia after Joanna Kearns brought the issue to the attention of the producers and Gold's family.
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Growing Pains / int_792fef74	type	Cute, but Cacophonic
Growing Pains / int_792fef74	comment	Cute, but Cacophonic: Mike sees an extremely hot girl at a school dance. When he talks to her he's alarmed at her annoying high and squeaky voice, on top of not being very bright. Mike tries to put up with it because she's so gorgeous but finally can't take it after a while.
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Growing Pains / int_7f746d79	type	Fired Teacher
Growing Pains / int_7f746d79	comment	Fired Teacher: Coach Graham T. Lubbock, in the backdoor pilot to Just the Ten of Us.
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Growing Pains / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Growing Pains / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "How The West Was Won", Michael discovers that the school is going to fire Coach Lubbock due to budget cuts. After failing at every legal move to prevent this, Mike organizes a sit-in. This results in the protesters all getting arrested and the school fires Coach Lubbock immediately due to the negative attention. Michael ended up accelerating the very thing he was trying to prevent.
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Growing Pains / int_80360df0	type	Dark Horse Victory
Growing Pains / int_80360df0	comment	Dark Horse Victory: In "Michaelgate", a class election between Mike and the Big Jerk on Campus gets both candidates (and the vice-President of Mike's rival) disqualified for cheating. This causes Boner (the perpetually dumb sidekick who won a coin toss to be Mike's Vice-President) to be the only eligible person on either ticket left to win the election.
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Growing Pains / int_8071d6ed	type	Alcoholic Parent
Growing Pains / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: Not the Seavers. When Luke joins the family, Jason thinks he's drunk the alcohol from the wine cabinet. Turns out he dumped it down the sink because his alcoholic stepfather used to beat him after his mother died, which is why he ran away from home.
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Growing Pains / int_8124e7a6	type	Sudden Downer Ending
Growing Pains / int_8124e7a6	comment	Sudden Downer Ending: "Second Chance". Carol's boyfriend Sandy gets in a car accident due to him drinking and driving and winds up in the hospital. When Carol visits him, Sandy looks like he's okay and we're to believe that he'll be out in no time. Carol then comes home and Mike tells her that the hospital just called and said that Sandy had just died from internal bleeding. The last shot shows Carol in tears as Mike and their parents try to comfort her.
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Growing Pains / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Growing Pains / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: "Happy Halloween" ends with Carol dating the Grim Reaper.
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Growing Pains / int_853f8327	type	Unconfessed Unemployment
Growing Pains / int_853f8327	comment	Unconfessed Unemployment: In "Taking Care Of Business", Mike is given a car as a gift from his parents. Shortly afterwards, Mike loses his job at World Of Burgers because he took the fall for a co-worker's mistake. Not wanting to tell his parents out of fear of losing the car, Mike got a job at a car wash but continued to pretend he still worked at World Of Burgers, including wearing his WOB uniform when he left/came home, and dumping grease on himself before he came home to really make it look like he'd been working there.
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Growing Pains / int_87bc3595	type	Through-the-Years Credits
Growing Pains / int_87bc3595	comment	Through-the-Years Credits: The opening sequence shows real photos of the actors at various stages in their life.
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Growing Pains / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Growing Pains / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: Mike was explaining something through Flashbacks. When he doesn't immediately continue his story at one point, Maggie asks him what's wrong, and he replies, "I'm waiting for the ripple!"
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Growing Pains / int_89102272	type	Artistic Title
Growing Pains / int_89102272	comment	Artistic Title: The show's intro was basically a slideshow of the characters growing up.
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Growing Pains / int_89cf0914	type	Parental Sexuality Squick
Growing Pains / int_89cf0914	comment	Parental Sexuality Squick: Zigzagged in the episode "Jason Flirts, Maggie Hurts". Mike and Carol are pretty matter-of-fact about what Jason and Maggie are doing on their late Saturday mornings. Ben is more stunned than disgusted and eventually accepts it to the point of cheering Jason when he mentions, "Your mother and I are heading to bed."
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Growing Pains / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Growing Pains / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: While most of the series had the sort of plots one would expect from an 80's sitcom, many an episode took those plots and did a 180 on them, most notably the Drunk Driver episode described below.
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Growing Pains / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
Growing Pains / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Look at the women in the picture on top of this page. Yeah. And between's Kirk Cameron's perm and Alan Thicke's not-quite mullet the first couple of seasons, it's safe to say the guys weren't immune either.
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Growing Pains / int_8dd7a356	type	Long Last Look
Growing Pains / int_8dd7a356	comment	Long Last Look: In the final episode, the family is splitting up; Maggie's new job is relocating her, Jason, Ben, and Chrissy to Washington, DC, while Mike and Carol are staying in the New York area. With their furniture on the moving truck, they have a picnic on the floor of the living room to indulge in a Bottle Episode before leaving. As they make their final exit from the house, Carol looks back at the empty rooms and calls, "...goodbye."
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Growing Pains / int_921d06e8	type	This Explains So Much
Growing Pains / int_921d06e8	comment	This Explains So Much: When Carol complains about her nomination for Homecoming Queen in the eponymous episode, she says that Homecoming Queens never do anything consequential with their lives. Maggie argues that she was Homecoming Queen, and Carol says "that explains so much."
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Growing Pains / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Growing Pains / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Carol returns for the series finale after spending part of the final season in London, and therefore not on the show. There's a small scene where Mike calls Luke, who was written out a few episodes earlier.
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Growing Pains / int_92a642f1	type	Credits Jukebox
Growing Pains / int_92a642f1	comment	Credits Jukebox: At least nine different versions of the theme were used at one point or another during the series' run. Most of those were performed by country-pop singer B.J. Thomas, either solo or with one of two duet partners, Dusty Springfield or Jennifer Warnes. In addition, an a capella version was played during the sixth and part of the seventh season, with the original B.J. Thomas-Jennifer Warnes duet version rotating with the a capella version during the seventh year. And then there was a special Halloween version for the show's 1990 Halloween special. For the closing credits, a synthesized-heavy instrumental version of the theme was played most often. However, during special episodes, different music was played. For instance, a "sad" ending score was used for the episode "Second Chance" (over a nighttime shot of the house) in lieu of the regular theme. And during the Halloween episode, a Halloween-version was played.
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Growing Pains / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Growing Pains / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: After having been absent for most of the final season, Carol comes back from London in the series finale.
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Growing Pains / int_94be6b61	type	Coordinated Clothes
Growing Pains / int_94be6b61	comment	Coordinated Clothes: In "Michaelgate", the Schwartz Twins, a pair of cheerleaders who volunteer to help Mike with his campaign, always wear identical sweaters, boots, skirts, earrings, and hair accessories.
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Growing Pains / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
Growing Pains / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: The opening of one episode has a subversion of the "husband goes to check out a strange noise in the night while the wife stays safely in the room" scenario, where both Jason and Maggie Seaver carefully investigate a potential robber while brandishing a hockey stick and ice skate respectively as makeshift weapons, which turns out to be their son Mike sneaking back into the house after staying out past curfew.
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Growing Pains / int_99926ad3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Growing Pains / int_99926ad3	comment	Inter-Service Rivalry: The Seaver kids' paternal grandfather is an ex-MP and their maternal grandmother's boyfriend is ex-Army. The two only take about ten seconds to smugly insult each other's branch of the military during their first meeting.
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Growing Pains / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Growing Pains / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In "How the West Was Won Part 1", Mike and Boner find a resumÃ© on Coach Lubbock's desk shortly before they visit his house. During that visit, they learn that Lubbock is about to lose his job, which is the reason he has a resumÃ© lying around.
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Growing Pains / int_a56d9d60	type	Opening Credits Cast Party
Growing Pains / int_a56d9d60	comment	Opening Credits Cast Party: The beginning and ending of the opening credits showed the Seavers standing together outside their house for a family portrait. The reprise changed every year, as the characters went back into the house leaving one of them to mug for the camera. In the last two seasons, we stay inside and focus on the family mantle, where the family portrait stands.
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Growing Pains / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Growing Pains / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Played for Laughs in one episode. It's Chrissy's first day of school, and teenaged Ben warns her about doing things that will make her unpopular, like sitting in the front of the class and eating green Jello. Except the rules for teenagers are different from those of little kids, and, in following Ben's rules, Chrissy finds herself ostracized. Made worse when a series of circumstances force Ben to do the very things he warned Chrissy against; when he complains of this, Chrissy accuses him of lying to her.
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Growing Pains / int_ac36578e	type	Or Was It a Dream?
Growing Pains / int_ac36578e	comment	Or Was It a Dream?: In "This Was Your Life", Ben dreads the idea of having his tonsils removed - leading Ben to state that he doesn't "want to be a Seaver". After a cab driver brings him home, he discovers that his life was replaced with that of another boy. After waking up from his surgery, he sees the boy who replaced him on a gurney. In "Meet The Seavers", Ben is upset that his parents don't remove his punishment - even after hugging them, and saying that he loves them. As a result, he wishes that he could be in a TV show. He then finds himself on the set of Meet the Seavers - which is very similar to, well, Growing Pains. After he wakes up, he's relieved to be home. However, after turning on the television set, Mike/Kirk begs Ben to let him out.
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Growing Pains / int_afab5e94	type	Reunion Show
Growing Pains / int_afab5e94	comment	Reunion Show: Two of them were made in the early 2000s: "The Growing Pains Movie" (2000) is about Maggie campaigning for Senate against her former boss, with the rest of the family helping her to win. "Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers" (2004) is about Jason and Maggie trying to sell their old house, causing friction between them and their children.
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Growing Pains / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Growing Pains / int_b06bbf4b	comment	In "This Was Your Life", Ben dreads the idea of having his tonsils removed - leading Ben to state that he doesn't "want to be a Seaver". After a cab driver brings him home, he discovers that his life was replaced with that of another boy. After waking up from his surgery, he sees the boy who replaced him on a gurney.
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Growing Pains / int_b30b0aac	comment	Real-World Episode: Ben wishes his life were more like TV, and wakes up to discover his entire life is a television show called Meet the Seavers. All the actors are referred to by their real names, and members of the production crew feature prominently. At one point Kirk Cameron, who usually plays Ben's older brother Mike, confides to Ben that he actually is Mike, and has been trapped in the real world for years.
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Growing Pains / int_b6c6296c	comment	Wacky Waterbed: When Mike moves out of his parents' house to an apartment over their garage, one of the first purchases that demonstrates his "independence" is a waterbed, which is used in assorted comedic ways for the remainder of the series.
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Growing Pains / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: When Jason talks to Carol about her plans for after high school. Carol said she was going to go to college, get her bachelor's degree, then her master's, then her doctorate, with Jason asking the question each step of the way. When she asked, "Isn't a doctorate good enough for you?", he pointed out that she needed to leave school and go out into "the real world" to get a job at some point.
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Growing Pains / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: A likely reason for Mike's poor scholastic habits in the early seasons, and the focus of several episodes. The petulant episode focusing on Mike's inability to study is probably Season 3's "Nasty Habits," where he mightily struggles to focus on writing a term paper for his composition class, one the high school senior needs to help him stay on track to graduate on time.
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Growing Pains / int_b97f8642	comment	Razor Apples: In a Halloween Episode in which the Seavers tell each other scary stories, Maggie tells an overly Anvilicious story involving trick-or-treaters being given apples with fuses on them (as in bomb fuses.)
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Growing Pains / int_ba4d38b4	comment	Boxing Lesson: "The Fiver Fingers of Ben" from season 7 has Ben learn karate after encountering school bully Razor.
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Growing Pains / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: In one episode, Ben learns that the morality of celebrities should not be a factor in whether or not we enjoy the art they produce. It wasn't why we became their fans in the first place.
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Growing Pains / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Jason and Maggie go through the whole series with no problems in their marriage.
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Growing Pains / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Growing Pains / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The family gets a dog in a Christmas episode, but then he's never seen again.
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Growing Pains / int_c3c0768c	comment	Soldiers at the Rear: Jason's widowed mother's new boyfriend is a retired soldier who implies that he spent most of his service stateside.
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Growing Pains / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: Starting in the fourth season, the show taped several different versions of the shot in the main title where the family goes into the house. Whoever was the last to go into the house would usually be the focus of that week's episode. A variation was used in the final season. The previous year, the theme song was revamped as an acapella version. Fans did not approve, so while retaining the opening titles of the previous season (with Leo DiCaprio added in), the familiar BJ Thomas/Jennifer Warnes version of the theme returned, last used in 1990. However, for somber episodes, as well as the series finale, the acapella theme was used. Also, special openings and closing themes were used for special episodes (the Hawaii and Halloween episodes, for example). The episode where Maggie goes into labor, the opening sequence comes to halt at the final scene.
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Growing Pains / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In the finale, Jason comments that if they move to Washington, D.C., he might get to meet Joan Lunden. Word of God stated that this line was specifically included because at the time, tabloids were speculating that Alan Thicke and Joan Lunden were romantically involved.
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Growing Pains / int_c7e7529c	comment	Five Stages of Grief: Season 5's "Teach Me," set five months after Sandy's death, where Jason's parents make a well-intentioned attempt to set Carol up with a new boyfriend. The date itself seems to be your typical Bad Date ... until Jason and Maggie see clear signs about how Carol is behaving. At home, Carol breaks down and admits she is still in grief and shock over Sandy's death and that her accepting her grandparents' offer to date was a way to mask her denial.
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Growing Pains / int_c87737d9	comment	Vacation Episode: The two-part Season 3 premiere, "Aloha", where Jason makes the family go on vacation, and it doesn't go well.
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Growing Pains / int_c9be3d9	comment	30 Minutes, or It's Free!: In the episode "The Home Show," the Seavers are having to set up a party at the last minute, because Jason used an old calendar to set the date. When a pizza is accidentally delivered to their house instead of the neighbors, Jason starts to tell the delivery guy his mistake, until Mike reminds him they need the food for the party. Jason thinks for a second then says, "We ordered five pizzas, not one, and that was 31 minutes ago, so they're free."
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Growing Pains / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: The first Reunion Show mentions that the Seavers bought a new house a few blocks from the old one, and has Carol marrying a man with a son. In the second one, Carol and her now differently-surnamed husband are expecting their first child, and the plot revolves around what is supposedly the house from the series, though given the conversion from a stagey sitcom to a realistic TV-movie, you'd be hard pressed to recognize it.
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Growing Pains / int_cc28f3bf	comment	Not That Kind of Doctor: Used in one episode, where Dr. Seaver has to help a young girl give birth. When she hears his title, he admits that he is a Psychiatrist, not a Medical Doctor, but assures her that he is still trained in basic medicine. This is Truth in Television, given that you have to earn an M.D. to be a psychiatrist.
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Growing Pains / int_cceab1c4	comment	Special Aesop Victim: In "Second Chance", Carol's boyfriend Sandy gets into a car accident caused by his drunk driving. While at first it seems like everything was going to be ok after Carol talked Sandy out of drinking after visiting him in the hospital, the last few minutes has Mike telling Carol at home that Sandy ended up dying from internal injuries.
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Growing Pains / int_cdb1c635	comment	Side Bet: When Mike graduates from high school, Carol finds a note in her purse reminding her of an ancient bet they made as children that he would never graduate. Cue a Flash Back to the conversation.
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Growing Pains / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Growing Pains / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: In-universe in "Second Chance" (the drunk driving episode), when Carol initially refuses to believe that Mike had gotten a phone call saying that Sandy had died from his injuries. In previous episodes where Sandy was featured, Mike (and Ben) had made cruel jokes about Sandy, and in "Second Chance" they were relentlessly taunting Carol when he was late (without explanation) for their date ... until they got a phone call saying Sandy had been in an accident. So when Carol (and Jason and Maggie) are told the news, Carol screams at Mike, tells him he just pulled off his worst joke ever and begins to tell him she never wants to speak to him again ... but a somber, clearly shaken Mike presses on with the details and it is clear that he is telling the truth.
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Growing Pains / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Aside from the possible "crap" example above, never mentioned, despite two grown women in the house. (Chrissy was too young to have started.)
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Growing Pains / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Growing Pains / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: In-Universe example: In one episode, Mike needs to leave the set of a soap opera he's on shortly before the filming of an important episode involving his character. The producer decides "there is no Mike Seaver, just air!"
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Growing Pains / int_d5d37e3f	comment	Scantron Picture: Mike scores high on an IQ test after drawing a picture of a tree on the answer sheet.
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Growing Pains / int_d6181478	type	Beware of Hitchhiking Ghosts
Growing Pains / int_d6181478	comment	Beware of Hitchhiking Ghosts: In a Halloween episode, Mike claims he had met a beautiful teen-aged ghost named Kara, who had died 17 years earlier in a car accident. An in-joke in the episode is that, along the way, Mike and Kara stop at a roadside bar, where a talent show â€” featuring all of the guests dressed as dead celebrities â€” is taking place. Of course, Mike's making up the entire tale.
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Growing Pains / int_d7abaf48	type	One Crazy Night
Growing Pains / int_d7abaf48	comment	One Crazy Night: One episode starts out as a supply run for a class project and turns into a night on the town chasing girls.
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Growing Pains / int_d8e40b47	comment	El Spanish "-o": During the European vacation episode, Mike tries to bluff his way into a Spanish wedding by saying, "We are amigos of el groomo."
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Growing Pains / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Growing Pains / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Just the Ten of Us.
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Growing Pains / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: Mike Seaver became the fan favorite early on similar to Alex from Family Ties.
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Growing Pains / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Growing Pains / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: In one episode, Carol becomes popular when she reveals to her soap opera-obsessed roommated that her brother is on a soap opera. When other members of her roommate's soap opera fan club think she might be lying, she tells them she knows who shot Mike's character (because Mike had been practicing the line over-and-over around her). Carol brings them to the studio, right after Mike left the show. Due to leaving before the filming of that episode, the producer decides "There is no Mike Seaver, just air!" They then look at that episodes script to prove she was right about the episodes killer, only for the script to change who the killer was (due to it being leaked in a soap opera newsletter). In "There Must Be A Pony", Chrissy thinks fun things happen after bed time, so Jason lets her stay up late to see nothing exciting happens at night. Unfortunately, a string of events occur that result in a party.
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Growing Pains / int_dd891949	type	Who Writes This Crap?!
Growing Pains / int_dd891949	comment	Who Writes This Crap?!: In "Ed, We hardly Knew Ye", after Maggie's father dies, his spirit is sent back to earth to say all the things to his loved ones that he didn't say while he was alive. He has a list in his hands, and a nice touching scene where he apologizes to his daughter for never taking her fishing like he promised. He then turns to his son-in-law Jason and starts to express his regret that they never had a good relationship. Mid-apology, however, he stops himself, saying that he does not feel this way and wondering who the heck wrote the list for him.
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Growing Pains / int_e2f5760	comment	House Husband: Subverted. Jason is the stay-at-home parent, but he runs his psychiatric practice out of a home office.
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Growing Pains / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The show is essentially a gender-swapped Family Ties with the smart, studious sibling Alex/Carol constantly clashing with the popular but shallow sibling Mallory/Mike. And then there's the younger, blonde sibling caught in the middle, Jennifer/Ben. Both show's even had their own late addition baby that rapidly aged between seasons, Andy/Chrissy.
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Growing Pains / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Growing Pains / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Episodes "This is Your Life" (season 3, episode 10) and "Meet the Seavers" (season 6, episode 21).
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Growing Pains / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: In one episode, Mike's buddy Boner gives a highly offensive report in a public speaking class about female anatomy. So offensive (the report included a poster of a bikini-clad model) that, at the end of the report, one of the girls is seen holding her mouth while she rushes out of the classroom.
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Growing Pains / int_f1641c35	comment	Ridiculous Procrastinator: "Nasty Habits," sees Mike put off writing an important term paper until the night before it is due. Everything distracts him â€“ even the then-brand-new song "Could've Been" by teen pop singer Tiffany.
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Growing Pains / int_f5988a03	comment	Teachers Out of School: "Ben and Mike's Excellent Adventure" has Mike, Ben and Eddie in a car when they see Principal Dewitt coming out of a store. Mike and Eddie duck out of sight before Ben points out "You guys graduated two years ago!" They pop back up.
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Growing Pains / int_f829585a	comment	Beauty Is Bad: In "Thank God It's Friday", Mike and his friends Boner and Eddie get invited to a college party, meet some hot girls and get pressured to take drugs so they can become as popular as the girls. Cue the aesop.
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Growing Pains / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Boner. At the time, it was just a nickname, but nowadays the word is more associated with a penis erection.
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Growing Pains / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: In "Long Day's Journey Into Night", a popular girl befriends Carol just so she can get close to her brother, Mike. Carol feels hurt about being used. In another episode, Mike's friend Boner wanted to take Carol to a dance. Mike was upset at first but later accepted the pairing. Yet another episode saw Mike coming home from school and explaining to his father that he beat up one of his friends. It seemed that his friend told Mike a rumor that Carol and her boyfriend were sleeping together. Mike didn't understand why he got so upset until his father explained this trope to him.
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Growing Pains	hasFeature	Not That Kind of Doctor / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	On the Money / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	One Crazy Night / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Or Was It a Dream? / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Phoney Call / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Pom-Pom Girl / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Post-Robbery Trauma / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Produced by Cast Member / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Professional Maiden Name / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Real-World Episode / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Rearrange the Song / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Reunion Show / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Ridiculous Procrastinator / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Scantron Picture / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	School Play / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Sexy Sweater Girl / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	She Is All Grown Up / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Soldiers at the Rear / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Sorry That I'm Dying / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Special Aesop Victim / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Spin-Off / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	The Couch / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	The Pete Best / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Theme Tune Extended / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	30 Minutes, or It's Free! / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	This Explains So Much / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Through-the-Years Credits / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Time-Delayed Death / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Trapped in TV Land / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Truck Driver's Gear Change / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Truncated Theme Tune / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Uncle Sam Wants You / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Unconfessed Unemployment / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Unexpected Positive / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Vanity Plate / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Vomit Discretion Shot / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Wacky Waterbed / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Wag the Director / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	What Are You in For? / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Who Writes This Crap?! / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Workout Fanservice / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Writers Suck / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	You Are Fat / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Floorboard Failure / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Hey, It's That Place! / int_c307f555
Growing Pains	hasFeature	Opening Credits Cast Party / int_c307f555

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