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Living Single

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Living Single	type	TVTItem
Living Single	label	Living Single
Living Single	page	LivingSingle
Living Single	comment	Living Single is a sitcom that ran from 1993 to 1998, beginning a year before Friends. It featured an ensemble cast of New York twentysomethings living in the middle-class Park Slope section of Brooklyn. The one obvious distinction is that the cast was African-American. The show gained points for showing Black people succeeding in corporate America, from law to stocks to entrepreneurship.One of the show's main draws was its realistic depiction of women. The ladies have a varying range of personality traits and body types, which is never a plot point. The two male characters live next door, and while they're seen as annoying at first, they soon develop friendships with the women and eventually romance. The main characters are: Khadijah James (Queen Latifah, who sings the theme song): An ambitious journalist who runs her own magazine, Flavor. Her various romances drive the plots of several episodes. Synclaire James-Jones (Kim Coles): Khadijah's quirky cousin and secretary at Flavor. Is also an aspiring comedic actress. Dates and eventually marries Overton. Regine Hunter (Kim Fields): A childhood friend of Khadijah's. She's a fashion-conscious boutique-buyer on a hellbent quest to marry a rich "Chocolate Ken", as she puts it. Maxine Shaw (Erika Alexander): Another childhood friend, and sharp-tongued attorney. Later delves into politics. Is known for her constant bickering with Kyle but develops an on-and-off relationship with him. She doesn't actually live with the girls but has her own apartment across the street. Kyle Barker (Terrence C. Carson): Overton's best friend and roommate, a handsome but vain stockbroker/jazz musician. His sparring with Maxine does nothing to hide their mutual sexual attraction. Overton Wakefield Jones (John Henton): The building's superintendent and a Cleveland Browns fanatic. Has a sense of humor which leads to his attraction to Synclaire. Ira Lee "Tripp" Williams (Mel Jackson): Introduced in Season 5, he moves into Synclaire's room after she moves in with Overton. He's an aspiring songwriter who has a thing for the new tenant across the hall.Shares a universe with Half & Half as Erika Alexander and Terrence C. Carson reprised their roles in a guest appearance.
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Living Single / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
Living Single / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: In the episode Come Back Little Diva, Khadijah, Synclaire and Max run into Regine, who has moved out, at the laundromat. Regine greets them by saying “Hey ladies!... Khadijah.” Regine and Khadijah's argument on a talk show was the reason for Regine moving out in the first place.
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Living Single / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Living Single / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Regine is usually mortified by her mother's behavior (not to mention her taste in clothing), although its shown they have a lot in common and really do love each other.
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Living Single / int_1697f7a0	type	Straw Vegetarian
Living Single / int_1697f7a0	comment	Straw Vegetarian: Regine becomes a vegetarian because she saw it was good for you and could keep you young looking on a daytime talk show. Despite the shallow reasoning which led her to become a vegetarian in the first place, she does end up remaining one permanently from that episode forward.
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Living Single / int_1a09b4f9	type	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
Living Single / int_1a09b4f9	comment	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Khadijah & her sister Stephanie. Different in that they grew up in different households and Stephanie had the benefit of their father being around while she grew up.
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Living Single / int_1aa08f77	type	Multiple Endings
Living Single / int_1aa08f77	comment	That particular episode was in fact the subject of an audience voting event.
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Living Single / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
Living Single / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Khadijah and Scooter
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Living Single / int_1d294a0b	type	Fake-Hair Drama
Living Single / int_1d294a0b	comment	Fake-Hair Drama: To Regine's annoyance everyone seems know she is wearing a wig. But they all agree it's a great one. Scooter later gifts her with "100% human hair" but still counts as this trope since it is still not hers.
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Living Single / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Living Single / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Kyle and Overton up until the 5th season.
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Living Single / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Living Single / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: After a particularly bad date in Mystery Date, Khadijah actually turns towards the camera and blames the audience for it. That particular episode was in fact the subject of an audience voting event. In "A Kiss Before Lying," Kim Fields gives an impeccable and fleeting Aside Glance while her character Regine claims to have never heard of Eastland School, which is the very school her character Tootie attended in The Facts of Life.
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Living Single / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Living Single / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: At least twice in the series they refer to Khadijah, played by Queen Latifah, as acting like a 'Queen', one use of this joke included an Aside Glance though, so it wasn't as subtle. One Such example -
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Living Single / int_20952a1	type	Product Displacement
Living Single / int_20952a1	comment	Product Displacement: The beginning of "The Naked Truth" has the friends eating Pizza Hut pizza with the logo obscured with black masking tape.
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Living Single / int_20b2cb65	type	Taped-Over Turmoil
Living Single / int_20b2cb65	comment	Taped-Over Turmoil: An episode has an annoyed Regine talking about the time Synclaire had taped over her copy of The Thorn Birds with The Richard Bey Show.
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Living Single / int_20b5cce7	type	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune
Living Single / int_20b5cce7	comment	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The Title Theme Tune was performed by Queen Latifah.
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Living Single / int_2292c854	type	Between My Legs
Living Single / int_2292c854	comment	Between My Legs: Of Max during the episode The Glass Ceiling when she poses nude.
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Living Single / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Living Single / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: From the episode Great Expectations.
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Living Single / int_23cc7485	type	I Want Grandkids
Living Single / int_23cc7485	comment	I Want Grandkids: Regine's mother. Nearly every interaction she has on screen somehow manages to mention her desire for Regine to 'settle down & get some beans in that oven!'
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Living Single / int_24c685bf	type	Good Bad Girl
Living Single / int_24c685bf	comment	Good Bad Girl: Regine.
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Living Single / int_25f0ed12	type	Hollywood Tone-Deaf
Living Single / int_25f0ed12	comment	Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Regine, to the point the characters jokingly suggest her voice is punishment from God for Khadijah missing church.
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Living Single / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Living Single / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Khadijah's father left her and her mother when she was young, although they seem to have reconciled at some point before the show's timeline (somewhat).
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Living Single / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Living Single / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: "Trick or Trust" from Season 2. Ahead of going to a costume party, Regine gets Khadijah paranoid about Scooter cheating on her. Meanwhile, with Max being dismissive of Halloween, Overton and Synclaire try to get her in the right spirit by scaring her.
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Living Single / int_2a154192	type	Impossibly Tacky Clothes
Living Single / int_2a154192	comment	Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Regine's mother loves to dress like this (and encourage Regine to do the same). Ironically the boutique Regine works at becomes a place like this - Le Rag Bin - and her mother shows up to shop there the first day it does.
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Living Single / int_2b68b7fa	type	Sickeningly Sweethearts
Living Single / int_2b68b7fa	comment	Sickeningly Sweethearts: Overton and Synclaire, who are a rare case of this throughout the dating process - complete with kissy faces and cutsey pet names - and after they are married. They even joke about planning to have twins named Syncloverton and Overclaire.
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Living Single / int_2d409194	type	Unsettling Gender-Reveal
Living Single / int_2d409194	comment	Unsettling Gender-Reveal: A female assumed as male example (sort of) by Max in a Gay Bar, when a man tries to pick her up assuming she's actually a Drag Queen.
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Living Single / int_30de7a51	type	Chivalrous Pervert
Living Single / int_30de7a51	comment	Russel for Regine, although he mostly comes off as a Chivalrous Pervert. They are somewhere between Slap-Slap-Kiss and Abhorrent Admirer as while he usually ends up pissing her off eventually it's only by the end in most situations as he usual ends up charming her during some point at any given exchange. Eventually this leads to nothing, as Russel eventually tired of waiting for her to wait around for her to decide on him one way or another. When she did want to actually give him a chance, while at Synclaire and Overton's wedding, he'd moved on.
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Living Single / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Living Single / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Regine does not like being called her childhood nickname of Nay-Nay. Kyle has the childhood nickname of "Lumpy". He also used to be known as "Meatball" (to Overton's "Spaghetti").
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Living Single / int_33900b7	type	Dresses the Same
Living Single / int_33900b7	comment	Dresses the Same: During one episode where the girls go out, Regine, who thinks she's wearing a one of a kind dress, is shown throughout the rest of that setting running after women in the same dress to mess theirs up.
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Living Single / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Living Single / int_34dcfc96	comment	At the end of "Talk Showdown", after being embarrassed on the talk show by Khadijah, Regine announces that she is moving out. Even as she is serious about it and packs her bags, Khadijah still makes fun of her. Also, when she is leaving out the door, she mentions to her, "oh, yeah, there's one thing that I forgot to say." When Khadijah asks what sarcastically, she replies on the verge of tears "I forgot to say goodbye."
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Living Single / int_389b0e	type	Title Theme Tune
Living Single / int_389b0e	comment	Title Theme Tune: The theme song is titled "Living Single", sung by none other than Khadijah herself, Queen Latifah.
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Living Single / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
Living Single / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: Kyle, moreso early on.
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Living Single / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
Living Single / int_3cb6468e	comment	Synclaire in general is usually either this, or Bad Liar.
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Living Single / int_3f2e21a1	type	Prince Charming Wannabe
Living Single / int_3f2e21a1	comment	Prince Charming Wannabe: Ivan tries desperately to be suave and romantic towards Khadijah, but at best he comes off as a Stalker with a Crush. Played for Laughs, and seen more a Precocious Crush.
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Living Single / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Living Single / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: From Five Card Stud, hustling/cheating at poker is perfectly acceptable as long as you do it against a Straw Misogynist.
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Living Single / int_45a559cf	type	Wardrobe Malfunction
Living Single / int_45a559cf	comment	Wardrobe Malfunction: Max steals a dress from Regine to attend a function at the mayor's house. What Regine didn't tell Max was the dress is actually a prop tear-away dress for a catfight scene in her Soap Opera, Palo Alto. Hilarity Ensues. Regine warned her not to wear it but wouldn't say why and max took it anyway.
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Living Single / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Living Single / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: Both Maxine and Kyle, at the end end up more enlightened & family focused and less career oriented by the show's end.
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Living Single / int_4a5fb630	type	Post-Robbery Trauma
Living Single / int_4a5fb630	comment	Post-Robbery Trauma: Happens to Regine after she gets her purse stolen, as she starts annoying Khadijah and Synclaire with her obsession of getting hi-tech security system ... then the same mugger (who now had Regine's driver's license and keys) breaks into the apartment and robs them. Soon after all the main characters (Max and the boys included) are suffering for fear of their safety.
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Living Single / int_4c9d2176	type	Formerly Fat
Living Single / int_4c9d2176	comment	Formerly Fat: Kyle, though it's only mentioned once or twice in passing, as well as by Overton's uncle Smoke Eye who still calls him by his childhood nickname 'Lumpy'. Notably, he never had issues with this nor did it make him insecure though it was something he didn't mention often. The reactions to him at his high school reunion implies that he was teased about it. It's more likely something that he's managed to put behind it rather than never having issues in the first place.
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Living Single / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Living Single / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The episode in which the girls install a complex security system after being robbed, although for a moment is about to end with Khadijah refusing to live scared, ends with a police siren in the background and all the girls unable to sleep due to fear of their safety. Plus, not only was the robber not caught, but probably never will be. At the end of "Talk Showdown", after being embarrassed on the talk show by Khadijah, Regine announces that she is moving out. Even as she is serious about it and packs her bags, Khadijah still makes fun of her. Also, when she is leaving out the door, she mentions to her, "oh, yeah, there's one thing that I forgot to say." When Khadijah asks what sarcastically, she replies on the verge of tears "I forgot to say goodbye." The ending of the episode when Kyle left for London, after he got on the plane:
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Living Single / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Living Single / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The pilot features a number of differences unique to that episode such as: Regine's relationship with the girls is much frositer, almost completely antagonistic with Khadija with almost no implication that they have been friends since childhood. Overton's demeanor is more a Manchild, introduces a quickly written out Running Gag of him telling a lie to completely recant it in his next line of dialogue. The girls live in a completely different apartment, that opens out to a terrace, features white décor, and has a larger first floor with rooms in the back.
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Living Single / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Living Single / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: An escalating Cycle of Revenge occurs between Regine and Max in the episode Mr. Big Shot. Max wants to borrow a dress Regine is working on for her Soap Opera Palo Alto for a function at the mayor's house, and Regine won't let her have it. Turns out the dress is actually a tear-away dress for a cat-fight on the soap, but when Regine discovers Max stole the dress anyway, she decides not to try and warn her and let Max be publicly humiliated instead. If that wasn't enough, after Max discovers Regine knew the dress was a prop and didn't try to warn her after she stole it, Max completes a long list of things to get back at her, including: letting the air out of her tires, putting sugar in her gas tank, canceling her credit cards, ordering two dozens pizzas to be delivered in the morning, and fixing her up on a date with RuPaul.
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Living Single / int_52f2c74c	type	Mating Dance
Living Single / int_52f2c74c	comment	One episode had the two in a literal Masochism Tango, complete with insults and ending with Kyle leaving Max on the floor and walking away without helping her back up again.
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Living Single / int_54243cf7	type	Parrot Exposition
Living Single / int_54243cf7	comment	Parrot Exposition: We get this exchange in A Kiss Before Lying. Interesting to note, all the characters already knew who Greg was, so this bit of exposition is purely for the audience's benefit.
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Living Single / int_56691220	type	Even the Girls Want Her
Living Single / int_56691220	comment	Even the Girls Want Her: An inversion of Experimented in College, Max's college roommate harbored a rather large crush on her, which was a large part of the reason said roommate never came out to her (although she did come out to Khadijah, who agreed in keeping it from Max for her own good).
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Living Single / int_59f5238	type	D-Cup Distress
Living Single / int_59f5238	comment	She then switches to D-Cup Distress when she had to get a breast reduction because her large breasts were causing chronic back pain and again in real life when Queen Latifah did the same.
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Living Single / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
Living Single / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: Max's old college roommate tells her that she's a lesbian and about to marry a woman. She then reveals that her crush on Max was when she realized she was a lesbian.
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Living Single / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Living Single / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Overton is afraid of clowns.
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Living Single / int_5c9737b5	type	Public Exposure
Living Single / int_5c9737b5	comment	Public Exposure: Synclaire agrees to do a nude scene for a play in the episode Raw Talent. Definitely Played for Laughs. Partially Averted by Max when she steals a dress from Regine that she didn't know was a prop tear-away dress for a Soap Opera. Good thing she decided to wear underwear! One episode features Regine & her boyfriend Keith having sex on the roof and her mother catching them afterward. Another episode features Max posing nude for Keith for one of his paintings.
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Living Single / int_5d09da4c	type	For Your Own Good
Living Single / int_5d09da4c	comment	For Your Own Good: The reason Khadijah doesn't tell Max about her one-night stand with the college professor that Max had a crush on, or that Max's college roommate was a lesbian and had a crush on Max.
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Living Single / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Living Single / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Max is constantly eating the girls' food, yet remains thin.
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Living Single / int_63c6a75c	type	Evil Lawyer Joke
Living Single / int_63c6a75c	comment	Evil Lawyer Joke: Averted, if you can believe it. Max may be aggressive and ruthless, but even Kyle comments that as much as they bicker, he respects her as a professional and competent lawyer.
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Living Single / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Living Single / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: While Max can come across as a Straw Feminist she does have her moments, such as when she lampshades the fatal flaw in wanting a big, strong man around to protect a woman from an armed attacker, pointing out that the only thing a man has that woman does not would not stop a bullet.
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Living Single / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Living Single / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: It's no coincidence that "Regine" is French for "Queen", given her diva-like personality.
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Living Single / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
Living Single / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Regine, who was caught having sex with one of her boyfriends on the roof by her mother still gets razzed a bit over it once in a later season.
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Living Single / int_6fc530a4	type	Offscreen Breakup
Living Single / int_6fc530a4	comment	Offscreen Breakup: For several episodes Khadijah was dating anesthesiologist Charles, but after some time he just disappears from the show altogether. Khadijah explains that Charles was so busy working at the hospital, the two just ended up growing apart.
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Living Single / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Living Single / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: Overton Wakefield Jones. There was also the time the garbagemen were on strike, and Alderwoman Shaw tried to get them back to work. After they started dumping trash outside her apartment, Max apologized. The strike leader then laid it out for her, along with gestures showing the ascending levels of power in the city.
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Living Single / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Living Single / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Khadijah's childhood friend and new beau Scooter gets put onto this not long after the two hook up, as he is asked to go touring with one of the groups he represents. The two share a failing long-distance relationship for awhile before they finally call it quits. The Bus Came Back: Scooter does pop back up a few times, to re-ignite the relationship between himself and Khadijah, to propose to her, then officially break up, and then finally getting back together with Khadijah again near the end of the series.
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Living Single / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Living Single / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Kyle and Max.
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Living Single / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Living Single / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs, and seen more a Precocious Crush.
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Living Single / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
Living Single / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: Max will occasionally slip into this from time to time, although since the format of the show centers around a Four-Girl Ensemble she's rarely, if ever, called out on it. Played for Laughs every now and again when it turns out the feminist example she's rambling on about turns out to be linked to an old ex-boyfriend that she still misses. In one episode Khadijah actually reveals Max's worst nightmare is to be a stay-at-home mom who's subservient to her husband ("barefoot and pregnant"), and actually enjoying it.
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Living Single / int_797d10	type	Celebrity Star
Living Single / int_797d10	comment	Celebrity Star: The show features an unusual amount of celebrity guest stars, typically sports stars, singers and actors either As Himself or as relatives and friends of the main cast. Examples include Dean Cain, Gladys Knight, Brian McKnight, Heavy D, TLC, Naughty by Nature, Evander Holyfield, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Melvin and Mario Van Peebles, and many others.
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Living Single / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Living Single / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Khadijah has a Queen Latifah poster on her bedroom wall.
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Living Single / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Living Single / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Kyle delivers one to Lester, the bully who made his High School life a living hell.
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Living Single / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
Living Single / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: During the first season finale Max recommends that her wealthy client seek a pre-nuptial agreement with her fiancé, although does so without first getting approval from the firm's partners. This advice leads her client's fiancé to call off the wedding, and said client to blame Max for the recommendation, causing Max's subsequent suspension from the firm.
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Living Single / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Living Single / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Most of the cast has a chance to ham it up from time to time, but Kim Fields gets to do it at the end of every one of the revamped opening credits. After her credits pop up, she starts pantomiming with trumpet before dramatically lipsyncing with the last note of the song.
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Living Single / int_847257ff	type	My Biological Clock Is Ticking
Living Single / int_847257ff	comment	My Biological Clock Is Ticking: After Max delves into her Past-Life Memories, she realizes after numerous lifetimes of being a man, this is the first time she's ever been a woman. As such, she realizes her purpose in life is to be a mother, and thus, needs to have a baby.
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Living Single / int_85bcc5a8	type	Lampshaded Double Entendre
Living Single / int_85bcc5a8	comment	Lampshaded Double Entendre: Max's campaign slogan when running for Alderwoman, when she says "Ride the Maverick . . . she means it!"
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Living Single / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Living Single / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: What Happened To The Dog?: Kyle and Overton's dog, Sanford, appeared in all of one episode and is never heard from again. Strange case in that we're also told they've had the dog for a few months when the episode starts although he was never seen before.
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Living Single / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
Living Single / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Khadijah's old basketball rival, Denise Hatcher. Not only does she, a professional woman's basketball player, challenge Khadijah, who hasn't played in years, to an unfair basketball game because she claims Khadijah cheated to win an MVP trophy years ago, but then after admits she lied the whole time about Khadijah cheating, and takes the trophy anyway. What a Jerkass.
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Living Single / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
Living Single / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Kyle, at one point in the series he even manages to get his tailor to remain the particular way he does his collars for him the "Barker Lapel".
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Living Single / int_8b5801b2	type	Talk Show Appearance
Living Single / int_8b5801b2	comment	Talk Show Appearance: In the episode "Talk Showdown", the girls going on a talk show named Delia where they are portrayed as "The Roommates From Heaven". Eventually, petty arguments, secrets and other embarrassing tidbits spill out that culminates in Regine and Khadijah falling out and the former briefly moving out.
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Living Single / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Living Single / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Ivan for Khadijah, some of things he says to her can get really creepy, but its always Played for Laughs. Regine for Grant Hill, even after its obvious Grant only has eyes for Khadijah. At one point Max even says Regine's a disgrace to desperate women everywhere. Russel for Regine, although he mostly comes off as a Chivalrous Pervert. They are somewhere between Slap-Slap-Kiss and Abhorrent Admirer as while he usually ends up pissing her off eventually it's only by the end in most situations as he usual ends up charming her during some point at any given exchange. Eventually this leads to nothing, as Russel eventually tired of waiting for her to wait around for her to decide on him one way or another. When she did want to actually give him a chance, while at Synclaire and Overton's wedding, he'd moved on.
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Living Single / int_8ca20b69	type	Out-of-Character Moment
Living Single / int_8ca20b69	comment	Out-of-Character Moment: During the show's Christmas Episode Kyle states his preference for celebrating Kwanzaa, a holiday dedicated towards sharing as opposed to the commercialism of Christmas. This is the same Kyle who works for a brokerage firm and once claimed Greed as a business asset. Lampshaped immediately afterwards, however, when Kyle excuses himself to supervise a hostile takeover. It does fit in, however, with his love of all things from the African culture.
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Living Single / int_90bc139e	type	Justified Title
Living Single / int_90bc139e	comment	Justified Title: The end of the series, Overton and Synclaire are Happily Married, Max and Kyle end up together, Regine finds her "Chocolate Ken", Tripp hooks up with the upstairs neighbor, and Khadijah runs off with Scooter in the final scene of the series, the show literally ends when all of the main cast are no longer "Living Single".
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Living Single / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Living Single / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Scooter does pop back up a few times, to re-ignite the relationship between himself and Khadijah, to propose to her, then officially break up, and then finally getting back together with Khadijah again near the end of the series.
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Living Single / int_944cd768	type	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up
Living Single / int_944cd768	comment	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: Lester Tate, Kyle's old High School bully.
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Living Single / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Living Single / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Lampshaded in "Her Cups Runneth Over". An ice cream man suffers a heart attack after overexerting himself trying to reach over to give a peanut buddy cone to Overton. When Overton and a neighborhood boy visit him in the hospital, the man yells at him and accuses him of trying to "finish him off", to which Overton talks about he is overweight (as well as an old man). He freaks out so much, he ends up giving himself another episode.
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Living Single	hasFeature	Living Single / int_973d220f
Living Single / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
Living Single / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Regine and Tripp (as Khadijah remained impartial between them), Regine is feminine, snobbish, and uptight while Tripp is a laid-back stereotypical bachelor/homeboy.
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Living Single / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Living Single / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Synclaire, though Overton isn't far behind.
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Living Single / int_a5a24920	type	Big Breast Pride
Living Single / int_a5a24920	comment	Big-Breast Pride : Regine calls this trope into action while explaining her "Date Laugh". She then switches to D-Cup Distress when she had to get a breast reduction because her large breasts were causing chronic back pain and again in real life when Queen Latifah did the same.
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Living Single / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Living Single / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Minor example with Maxine "Max" Felice Shaw, although she was referred to by her first name much of the time, as well. Major examples include Regina "Regine" Hunter, Khadijah's on/off again boyfriend Terrence "Scooter" Williams, and 5th season newcomer Ira Lee "Tripp" Williams.
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Living Single / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Living Single / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Max ... almost. With the exception of Khadijah (her best friend), everyone else can see (and often point out) how cold and harsh Max can be, how insulting she is towards everyone and antagonistic she can be towards men in particular, and, of course, how she just invites herself over and eats all of the other girls' food (and never pays them back for any of it).
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Living Single / int_aa9fcfed	type	Embarrassing Middle Name
Living Single / int_aa9fcfed	comment	Embarrassing Middle Name: Max seems very unwilling to divulge her middle name. It's Felice.
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Living Single / int_abc28948	type	Straw Misogynist
Living Single / int_abc28948	comment	Straw Misogynist: Lawrence from the episode Five Card Stud, although he seems to rubber band between being an alright guy to acting chauvinistic until the end of the episode, where he turns into a full Straw Misogynist. Sometimes Kyle is a lesser example of this, but he usually gets called out on it.
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Living Single / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Living Single / int_ad1ab367	comment	The Masochism Tango: Kyle and Max's on again/off again love/hate fest. One episode had the two in a literal Masochism Tango, complete with insults and ending with Kyle leaving Max on the floor and walking away without helping her back up again.
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Living Single / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Living Single / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Kyle and Max, especially toward each other.
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Living Single / int_ae43d443	type	Soap Within a Show
Living Single / int_ae43d443	comment	Soap Within a Show: the Soap Opera Regine works as a costume assistant for, Palo Alto.
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Living Single / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Living Single / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: It had a couple:
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Living Single / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Living Single / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: We learn Max's idea of this trope in the aforementioned Cool and Unusual Punishment. Its so bad, she wouldn't even wish it on Regine!
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Living Single / int_b2b73f0	type	Foot Popping
Living Single / int_b2b73f0	comment	Foot Popping
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Living Single / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Living Single / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Synclaire.
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Living Single / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Living Single / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Regine's mother with her guilt-tripping, her interference into Regine's life, nagging about Regine being single, and Impossibly Tacky Clothes is one (Maxine also recognizes her as a Manipulative Bitch, or as she put it "a pro"). In her introductory episode, she is contrasted with Khadijah's mother Rita, who has a easygoing relationship with her daughter until Regine's disagreements with her mother puts Rita close to being in the smothering camp.
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Living Single / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Living Single / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Maxine Shaw, Attorney at Law. To put the amoral aspect into perspective, while Regine is working as a wedding planner she discovers the groom's, her friend Darryl's, fiancé is only marrying him for his money. Max advises Regine to keep her mouth shut, comparing the situation to her own law practice in that there was nothing wrong in cashing in on the pain and suffering of others. This is likely more of a reaction to a prior experience in where she advised a high powered client to get a prenup, her fiancé left her, and Max not only got suspended but also had her career stalled until she quit.
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Living Single / int_b5dded87	type	Gossipy Hens
Living Single / int_b5dded87	comment	Gossipy Hens: Regine is the biggest hen of them all, not even court-ordained community service with monks under a vow of silence could keep her mouth shut. Though her mother is an extremely strong rival in this area. And woe to anyone the two decide to gossip about together.
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Living Single / int_b8a13baa	type	Meat Versus Veggies
Living Single / int_b8a13baa	comment	Meat Versus Veggies: When Regine becomes a vegetarian, she attempts to force her roommates to be the same by throwing out all the meat in the apartment. Her roommates counter this by throwing out all her veggies and having a huge meat-only BBQ in the backyard. This backfires on everyone, however when Regine snaps and demands everyone's meat products for herself.
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Living Single / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Living Single / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Khadijah and Max, or Overton and Kyle. Khadijah & her little sister Stephanie certainly count as well as Overton & his sister Olivia. Considering that Max is short for Maxine, this mostly applies to Kyle only both within the group and with his own little brother, Damon.
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Living Single / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
Living Single / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: Happens with Overton's Mother's Day gift of less than pleasant smelling perfume.
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Living Single / int_bc6c6c90	type	Drop-In Character
Living Single / int_bc6c6c90	comment	Drop-In Character: Maxine has her own apartment, but is rarely seen there. Lampshaded the first time the cast is there in person.
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Living Single / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Living Single / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do NOT break Khadijah's glass giraffe that her Nana gave her!
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Living Single / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Living Single / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Brooklyn, to be precise.
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Living Single / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Living Single / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Overton and Synclaire.
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Living Single / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Living Single / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: Played with in the episode where Max fights the garbagemen on strike. See Disproportionate Retribution below
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Living Single / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Living Single / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Daughter: Printed word for word on a pillow sent to Synclaire from her mother, due to her breaking the family tradition of getting her great aunt Ada's "okle-dokle" to get married before her engagement to Overton.
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Living Single / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Living Single / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: For a while Regine is involved with an organization called E.L.B.O.W. - 'Enterprising Ladies Benefiting Our World'
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Living Single / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Living Single / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Regine with a side of corn bread in On The Rebound, when Khadijah's caught kissing Grant Hill. Overton gets one when Khadijah threatens to flip a troll doll to decide if Synclaire should stay in Brooklyn or get shipped back home to Minneapolis.
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Living Single / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Living Single / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Kim Fields as "Regine"
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Living Single / int_c42400d1	type	Gamer Chick
Living Single / int_c42400d1	comment	Gamer Chick: Maxine, though it is not a huge part of her character she has been shown to pass her time with the game boy and import from Japan. Khadija has a milder but still mentioned interest in video games.
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Living Single / int_c8f5c41d	type	Supermodel Strut
Living Single / int_c8f5c41d	comment	Supermodel Strut: Played straight by Max when the girls are trying to teach Sinclaire how to do a sexy strut, but sadly averted when Synclaire's "Sexy Walk" looks more to say "I have bunions and look at my butt" according to Khadijah.
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Living Single / int_c9c313ed	type	LastMinuteHookUp
Living Single / int_c9c313ed	comment	Last Minute Hook Up: Kyle and Max, Khadijah and her boyfriend, Scooter.
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Living Single / int_c9ebcaae	type	Never Lend to a Friend
Living Single / int_c9ebcaae	comment	Never Lend to a Friend: Khadijah is against borrowing money from friends. Unlike the usual examples of the trope, this is because Khadijah cannot handle being in debt to a friend and will go crazy trying to pay them back, even if said friend is perfectly content in waiting.
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Living Single / int_d0347bf0	type	Four-Girl Ensemble
Living Single / int_d0347bf0	comment	Four-Girl Ensemble
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Living Single / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Living Single / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Khadijah accuses Regine of being one.
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Living Single / int_d0c13631	type	Mrs. Robinson
Living Single / int_d0c13631	comment	Mrs. Robinson: In "Grumpy Old Man," Khadijah says she is looking forward to turning 30 "because of 20-year-old men, looking for Mrs. Robinson."
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Living Single / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Living Single / int_d1cedb73	comment	They are somewhere between Slap-Slap-Kiss and Abhorrent Admirer as while he usually ends up pissing her off eventually it's only by the end in most situations as he usual ends up charming her during some point at any given exchange. Eventually this leads to nothing, as Russel eventually tired of waiting for her to wait around for her to decide on him one way or another. When she did want to actually give him a chance, while at Synclaire and Overton's wedding, he'd moved on.
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Living Single / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Living Single / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Khadijah's grandmother, Grammy James.
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Living Single / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Living Single / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: You could pretty much interchange this any combination of Khadijah, Regine, Max and Kyle.
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Living Single / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Living Single / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Russel is pretty much constantly asking Regine to make her boobs bounce for him.
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Living Single / int_dfe888e0	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
Living Single / int_dfe888e0	comment	Can Not Tell A Lie: While she is usually a master of deception, by the end of the series Regine is struck honest by the man who ends up being her true love. Synclaire in general is usually either this, or Bad Liar.
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Living Single / int_e7ecdeb0	type	Weight Woe
Living Single / int_e7ecdeb0	comment	Weight Woe: Averted, as all the varied body types were presented as both desirable and beautiful. In fact, amongst all their dating misadventures throughout the series, body image was the only thing never referenced or made an issue of.
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Living Single / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Living Single / int_e8e3807	comment	In "A Kiss Before Lying," Kim Fields gives an impeccable and fleeting Aside Glance while her character Regine claims to have never heard of Eastland School, which is the very school her character Tootie attended in The Facts of Life.
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Living Single / int_edfacbac	type	Covert Pervert
Living Single / int_edfacbac	comment	Covert Pervert: During an episode when they are settling down to watch a porn video featuring an actor who looks just like Overton, Synclaire is truly enthusiastic about it.
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Living Single / int_ee7885fa	type	Southern-Fried Genius
Living Single / int_ee7885fa	comment	Southern-Fried Genius: Overton.
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Living Single / int_f165cf2c	type	Last-Second Word Swap
Living Single / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap: Regine gets one in She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother, when complaining about her mother just before she realizes the company she's keeping.
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Living Single / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Living Single / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Purposely lampshaded in "Come Back, Little Diva" when Regine moves into a new apartment complex after fighting with her old friends and housemates. In place of Khadijah, Khadijah's cousin Synclaire ("Woo, woo, woo"), Overton, Kyle, and Max, her housewarming party guests include Lakeisha, Lakeisha's cousin Polly ("Hush, hush, hush"), Orville, Karl, and Sam. While all of the other established characters are competitive with their substitutes, Maxine encourages Sam's equally voracious appetite.
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Living Single / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
Living Single / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: One of the prerequisites to being Regine's "Chocolate Ken" is having a lot of extra money to spend on her. She goes back and forth with this but instead settles on only wanting to date men with a purpose or motivation in life. She eventually settles down with A millionaire anyway, however.
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Living Single / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Living Single / int_f9f2c33	comment	Overton's demeanor is more a Manchild, introduces a quickly written out Running Gag of him telling a lie to completely recant it in his next line of dialogue.
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Living Single / int_fb17af62	type	Rhymes on a Dime
Living Single / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: In the episode where Regine & her boyfriend are caught by her mother having sex on the roof Maxine puts out a newsletter entitled 'Mom goes poof over roof goof'
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Living Single / int_fb56b948	type	My Sister Is Off-Limits
Living Single / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: Overton is less than pleased when he discovers that Kyle is dating his sister, Olivia. Averted with Khadijah's half-sister, Stephanie, to whom she practically begs Ivan to take out to get her off her hands for the night.
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Living Single / int_fb9e25e9	type	Team Mom
Living Single / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Khadijah.
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Living Single / int_fc7c4f92	type	Canon Immigrant
Living Single / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: Kyle and Max resurfaced in UPN's Half And Half, along with their daughter, Kyla, whom Max was pregnant with in the final episode. Milton The Baker from a Different World, showed up.
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Living Single / int_fdbd6162	type	With Friends Like These...
Living Single / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: Max and Regine, Regine has stated outright the only reason she puts up with Max is because Khadijah forces her to. Also Max and Kyle, although there's more Belligerent Sexual Tension involved there.
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Living Single / int_ff66d4c1	type	Not So Similar
Living Single / int_ff66d4c1	comment	Not So Similar: Maxine, when Khadijah says she is just like Regine because of her flirting. Max says she only does it for fun while Regine is in it for the money.
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Living Single	hasFeature	Accidental Hero / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	African-American Media / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Bedmate Reveal / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Between My Legs / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Big Applesauce / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Bilingual Bonus / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Burger Fool / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Character Name Alias / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Class Reunion / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Does Not Like Men / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Does This Make Me Look Fat? / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Dresses the Same / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Drop-In Character / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Ensemble Cast / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Fake-Hair Drama / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Foot Popping / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Formerly Fat / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Four-Girl Ensemble / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	"Friends" Rent Control / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Glurge Addict / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	I Want Grandkids / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Imagine the Audience Naked / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Impossibly-Low Neckline / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	It's Okay to Cry / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Let's Just Be Friends / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	seeAlso	Living Single
Living Single	hasFeature	Long Last Look / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Loving Bully / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Maternally Challenged / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Meat Versus Veggies / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	New Jack Swing / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Nice Character, Mean Actor / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Pop-Culture Isolation / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Post-Robbery Trauma / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Prenup Blowup / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Public Exposure / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	"Rashomon"-Style / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Raw Eggs Make You Stronger / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Rejected Marriage Proposal / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Removed from the Picture / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Right Through the Wall / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Roommate Com / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Same Surname Means Related / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Sassy Black Woman / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Shared Universe / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Shower of Awkward / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Sibling Triangle / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Similar Squad / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Smithical Marriage / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Southern-Fried Genius / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Standardized Sitcom Housing / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Straw Vegetarian / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Talk Show Appearance / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Taped-Over Turmoil / int_b4196ef8
Terrence C Carson	seeAlso	Living Single
Living Single	hasFeature	The Cast Showoff / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	The Dandy / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	The Friends Who Never Hang / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	The Masochism Tango / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	The Thing That Would Not Leave / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Unexpected Virgin / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame / int_b4196ef8
Living Single	hasFeature	Worst Wedding Ever / int_b4196ef8

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