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Smart Guy

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Smart Guy	comment	Smart Guy is a sitcom that aired on The WB for three seasons (technically, two-and-a-third, since the first season was seven episodes) from April 2, 1997 to May 16, 1999 and is the sister series to Sister, Sister (pun intended), by way of both being produced by Suzanne dePasse's production company dePasse Entertainment.note Although Smart Guy was produced by Walt Disney Television, while Paramount Television backed Sister, Sister.It stars Tia and Tamera Mowry's real-life younger brother Tahj Mowry, playing the (initially) 10-year-old protagonist T.J. Henderson, who (after being discovered as a Child Prodigy) ends up skipping from 4th-gade all the way up to 10th-grade—he's transferred to Piedmont High School, a (fictional) high school in Washington, D.C. that's also attended by T.J.'s two older siblings, Yvette (Essence Atkins) and Marcus (Jason Weaver)—in fact, T.J. ends up being put in the same grade as his older brother (much to Marcus's dismay).The show's primary focus is on T.J. trying to adjust from elementary school to high school and his trouble at fitting in not just with his significantly older classmates, but also kids his own age; secondary storylines (and in certain episodes, both the "A" and "B" storylines) usually focus on Marcus, Yvette and Marcus's best friend, Mo Tibbs (Omar Gooding). The kids are often guided in their situations and caught in their wacky schemes by Floyd Henderson (John Marshall Jones), the widowed single father of Marcus, Yvette and T.J. who runs his own roofing contracting business.Even though the series didn't last long enough to reach the 100 episodes necessary to make it to broadcast syndication (it produced and aired 51 episodes), the series has had some staying power â€“ adding to the fanbase that already watched the show on The WB â€“ during its syndication run on Disney Channel (in certain countries such as the U.S. and U.K., and Family Channel â€“ no, not that one â€“ the one in Canada) during the 2000s, and has since aired in the States on BET, Up (the former Gospel Music Channel) and MTV2, along with being available for streaming on Disney+ since its November 2019 launch.Not to be confused with the trope The Smart Guy.
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Smart Guy / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
Smart Guy / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: The end credit scene in "Break Up Not to Make Up" has Floyd discovering T.J. cooking in the nude, most of his body blocked by the wall island separating the living room and the kitchen, we see his head and shoulders though (considering his height, it would have blocked most of T.J. even if he was clothed).
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Smart Guy / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Smart Guy / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Usually averted with Floyd, however he inadvertently plays it straight near the end of "Bad Boy":
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Smart Guy / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Smart Guy / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: In "Men Working Badly," Mo's argument with T.J. about his inattentiveness to him and his flour baby is played like an unhappy couple getting a divorce. Of course, they're acting as husband and wife for a life management school project, which makes it apt in a hilarious way.
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Smart Guy / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Smart Guy / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate/Horrible Camping Trip: In the season two finale "My Two Dads," after Floyd returns from his camping trip with T.J., he complains to Yvette about all the things that went wrong during the trip and vows never to return to the camping site again. Then this happens:
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Smart Guy / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Smart Guy / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: The dirty dozens are Serious Business for Mo and Marcus, who treat it like a martial art, even bowing before and after a match. Hilarity ensues in "From A to Double D," when they attempt to instruct T.J.
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Smart Guy / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Smart Guy / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Floyd.
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Smart Guy / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Smart Guy / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual / Lost in Translation: Subverted with the former and played straight(-ish) with the latter in "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl," when Marcus and Mo catch Floyd fumbling with building a barbecue grill he purchased on the cheap (he got it at a bargain price due to it being winter), due to a translation error:
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Smart Guy / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Smart Guy / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Played for Laughs in "Gotta Dance". When T.J. gets a performing tap-dancing spot, he considers quitting upon realizing he can't master tap dancing as easily as he can with most academic subjects he's taken on. After Yvette successfully argues to Floyd that T.J. is only quitting tap because he can't hack it, Floyd insists that T.J. stick with it, in an attempt to teach his son the value of dedication to hard work. The problem? Floyd only intends T.J. to stick with tap dancing until his recital ends, whereas T.J. ends up dedicating himself to tap dancing AFTER said recital, meaning that, not only has Floyd lost his safest retirement safety net options (he states at the start of the episode that he was counting on T.J. to have a high-paying job to make Floyd's retirement-age life easier), he also has to continue to put up with the sounds of tap dancing -- which, as indicated during T.J.'s rehearsal montage, Floyd could barely tolerate, much less enjoy. Floyd is understandably disgruntled by how things unfold.
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Smart Guy / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Smart Guy / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: In "Big Picture," Yvette dates a muscular but shallow swimmer named Xavier; she begins overanalyzing her relationship with him when Floyd and Marcus assume that she's only dating him because he's good-looking. When she tries to break up with him, he arrives from swimming practice shirtless, befuddling Yvette, who asks him to meet her later when he's fully dressed. In "That's My Momma," Floyd is seen wearing only two towels (one over his neck and another over his waist), he had been taking a shower and got interrupted when Mo's mom Verla Mae knocked on the front door to find out where Mo was, after he went in search of his birth mom.
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Smart Guy / int_1c3e4c9	type	Gratuitous Animal Sidekick
Smart Guy / int_1c3e4c9	comment	Gratuitous Animal Sidekick: In "Goodbye, Mr. Chimps," in which T.J. (who volunteers in a primate research program) offers to teach a chimpanzee named Homer to teach him 20 words in order for the chimp to avoid being sent to a zoo.
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Smart Guy / int_1decf141	type	HotForTeacher
Smart Guy / int_1decf141	comment	"Crushed" crosses this with Hot for Teacher as T.J. develops a tremendous crush on his 28-year-old teacher Miss Caldwell. He gets jealous when, as a result of Yvette misinterpreting T.J.'s inviting Caldwell to the house as a means to set his father up with her, Floyd and Miss Caldwell go out on a date. Yvette makes T.J. see the error of his jealousy, and he gives Floyd his blessing to keep dating his teacher.
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Smart Guy / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Smart Guy / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Mo and Marcus.
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Smart Guy / int_1f9fac06	type	You Know I'm Black, Right?
Smart Guy / int_1f9fac06	comment	You Know You're White, Right?: Mackey, who is white, often tries to "act black" (e.g., using urban slang in a hilariously clunky manner, wearing â€œflyâ€� clothing) in an attempt to be cool. Played with further in "Sit In (a.k.a. Dawgburger Rebellion)," when he decides to do an oral report on Jackie Robinson like Marcus, Mo and Deion plan to do, only for them to object to it, and then when he gives the report at the end of the episode and receives complete silence unlike the applause that the others get. Both times, he exclaims, "it's because I'm white, isn't it?"
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Smart Guy / int_203141e3	type	Cute and Psycho
Smart Guy / int_203141e3	comment	Cute and Psycho: Janice Walker pretends to be this in "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl," when she discovers that Marcus has been reading her diary (which she sent to T.J.'s computer by accident, while file sharing their report on Lizzie Borden) to find out what she wants in a man and hatches a plot with Yvette and Alicia to get him and T.J. to confess.
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Smart Guy / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Smart Guy / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In "The Code," to get back at a rival school for "feminizing" a cafeteria mural of Piedmont's basketball starters (it's exactly how it sounds), T.J. enacts a plan to lower the grades of Truman High's basketball players so they don't qualify for their game against the Penguins. The next day, Principal Dowling informs Marcus and Mo that the list of player names they read to T.J. was found in Truman's computer room (likely dropped as Mo and Marcus were reeling T.J. back into the vent, though we don't see it fall). The dead giveaway that they were responsible? The list was from Mo's personal stationery. Chekhov's Gunman: T.J. himself in "Bad Boy," or really his voice serves as this. He decides to record three different responses ("Yes, dad?," "Dad, I'm in the bathtub. Can we talk about this tomorrow?" and "You're right, dad. I just need to sleep on it.") to questions he knows Floyd will ask when he goes to talk to him about his new hood gear, in order to make it seem as if he's still at home taking a bath. Floyd figures out that T.J. had snuck out to the arcade to see his new friend Brandi, after Marcus (who's controlling the remote to the tape recorder) plays the third response when Floyd asks what topping T.J. wanted on a pizza he was ordering. Marcus implicates himself by holding the remote while denying his involvement in the plan.
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Smart Guy / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Smart Guy / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Not May-December in the typical sense, but in "T.A. or Not T.A.", Yvette begins dating Calvin, a handsome and muscular fellow Piedmont High student who one could swear was a 20-year-old but Yvette is surprised to discover is a 15-year-old sophomore (she assumed he was a senior). Since Yvette is a 17/18-year-old high school senior, she reacts with shock to the discovery and becomes self-conscious that people might not be so understanding about it (as Mo did later in the episode, making a couple of jokes about her and Calvin's relationship). Her friend Nina, however, helps her see that age shouldn't matter if you've found someone who could be your soulmate. When Yvette heeds the advice and publicly announces that she's dating someone two years younger than her, Calvin informs her that because he knew that she felt uncomfortable, he started seeing another girl, who is a sophomore... at Howard University.
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Smart Guy / int_24afe720	type	Just Testing You
Smart Guy / int_24afe720	comment	Just Testing You: When a jittery T.J. appears on a game show in "A Little Knowledge," he accidentally hits the buzzer on his podium. Hugh Sterling, the host of Knowledge College, tells him to wait until the first question to do it, to which T.J. responds "just testing."
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Smart Guy / int_25447e30	type	"Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop
Smart Guy / int_25447e30	comment	"Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop: A normal-speed version in "The Code". However, the rope that Mo uses to lower T.J. into the Truman High computer room so he can change the grades of the school's basketball team starters winds up being too short to allow him to reach the floor. Mo tries to explain to a critical Marcus that if T.J. was a regular-sized 10th grader (which he clearly isn't), his feet would have been able to reach the floor with the length of rope that was used.
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Smart Guy / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Smart Guy / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: In "Sit In (a.k.a. Dawgburger Rebellion)," T.J. decides to stage a sit-in in the vice principal's office after Mr. Militich bans students from lunching off-campus because of students repeatedly being late to class. He gets the idea from hearing the story of his great-uncle, Meredith "Mert" Henderson, who staged a lunch counter sit-in during the civil rights era of the 1960s. Though Floyd later points out to T.J. that Mert was fighting against being discriminated because of his skin color, whereas T.J. was fighting for the privilege to eat off-campus. In "The Graduate," Yvette plans to protest a controversial congressman who has a speaking engagement at her graduation, Floyd mentions that his late wife/Yvette's mother had been active in protests during their senior year of high school. Floyd only went along with them, because she would get wound up that she would want to "go for ice cream".
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Smart Guy / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Smart Guy / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: If background dancers count. During Yvette's second dance performance in "Gotta Dance," an uncoordinated white dancer accidentally kicks a black dancer in the leg; a few seconds later, he accidentally trips the same guy as they both do a leg rotation. The two boys start a brief fight on-stage while Yvette is still dancing.
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Smart Guy / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Smart Guy / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: A.N.T. Farm (an actual Disney Channel Original Series, whereas Smart Guy only aired on DC in reruns after its network run ended); both shows have a Child Prodigy who is a Grade Skipper that attends their brother's high school.
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Smart Guy / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Smart Guy / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Yvette experiences this multiple times in "Perchance to Dream," during a series of dreams involving her and Mo getting married; this even occurs (in this case, catapulting under the covers after seeing a tuxedo-clad Mo next to her bed) during a Dream Within a Dream that occurs after she realizes the the dreams were symbolic of her difficulties committing to Princeton University, fearing being rejected by the Ivy League school and causing her to apply to "safe" colleges instead. The Stinger of that same episode features a different dream, in which Yvette professes her love for Mackey. It turns out Mackey is the one dreaming about it, but he plays with this trope in that, while he does catapult himself awake, he's thrilled with how the dream turns out.
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Smart Guy / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Smart Guy / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: As much of an oddball as Mo is, he is shown to be proficient with tools, can be a decent hair-cutter (as long as his attention isn't diverted), and becomes a pretty decent cook (with training from Yvette). Anthony in "Most Hated Man on Campus". He's the star basketball player, but only because everyone has expected him to be one since he was a kid. But thanks to T.J. helping him study in order to get at least a B in a history test to play, Anthony discovers he can be more than that and becomes a follower of Gandhi's philosophy.
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Smart Guy / int_2f5790f5	type	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
Smart Guy / int_2f5790f5	comment	Also invoked on Marcus, who unwittingly ends up asking twins out in "Brother, Brother". See I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine above.
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Smart Guy / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Smart Guy / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: T.J. at his worst. Blake Jordan in the episode "Beating is Fundamental," T.J. finds him pretentious from their first meeting and grows to outright dislike him. Blake knocks Marcus and Mo for their idea for a barber business (which they created for a school project), shamelessly hits on the much older Yvette and rigs a camera to peep at her in her bathroom, and slams T.J.'s Berserk Button by disrespecting his family to his face for being working class. T.J. calls him out for his jackassery ("Smart kids like us get a rap for being really snotty, condescending little jerks. And I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but it's completely because of you!") and gets so fed up that he punches Blake.
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Smart Guy / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Smart Guy / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: T.J., to a certain extent, in season 3. Most episodes that season had a heavier focus on Marcus, Mo, and Yvette while T.J.'s storylines were often relegated to the B-Plot. In fact, he doesn't appear at all in "Get a Job."
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Smart Guy / int_335ac42e	type	Out of Order
Smart Guy / int_335ac42e	comment	Out of Order: "Achy Breaky Heart" and "Beating is Fundamental" both appear to have been produced for season two, but were held over until season three and repackaged with that season's opening title sequence for broadcast. The key tells being the interstitial music and main sets that were used, and Marcus and T.J.'s hairstyles in both episodes. Series Fauxnale: "The Graduate," which focuses on Yvette deciding not to go to her high school graduation due to the fact that her late mother won't be there, was clearly intended to be the show's series finale (or just a season finale, if The WB had renewed it for a fourth season). However, "Never Too Young," which was presumably intended to air before "The Graduate," aired the week after that episode.
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Smart Guy / int_33818056	comment	"Walk on the Wild Side" Episode: "Bad Boy": Normally good kid T.J. starts dressing more street in order to impress Brandi, a girl he meets at an arcade. When Floyd objects to his new clothes and T.J. disagrees with his opinion, T.J. is sent to his room. He sneaks out, with Marcus using a remote to control a tape of things he knows Floyd will say when he comes to talk about it, under the guise he's taking a bath. The plan goes awry when Floyd asks what topping he wants on a pizza he's about to order, and finds T.J. wrapped up in an altercation (which he didn't start). Floyd gets T.J. that his attitude changed with his attire, and that he shouldn't have to change himself just to make friends.
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Smart Guy / int_33ba31cc	type	Grade Skipper
Smart Guy / int_33ba31cc	comment	Grade Skipper: The whole premise of the series. T.J. was a 10-year-old fourth grader who jumped six grades to the tenth. In "Goodbye, Mr. Chimps," he explains that this happened because his teachers, who originally thought he was a discipline problem due to his acting out in class, discovered that he was bored with the subjects he was being taught in the fourth grade.
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Smart Guy / int_351fc9f6	type	Sports Widow
Smart Guy / int_351fc9f6	comment	Sports Widow: Inverted in "T.J. Versus the Machine," due to it being father and daughter, rather than husband and wife. When Floyd watches a football game with a friend of his (whom later spies T.J. in the stands when the camera turns to him, off-screen), Yvette tries to talk about the colleges she's considering applying to. Yvette holds a grudge over his ignoring her, and even flips the script while she's watching Caroline in the City, and Floyd tries to talk with her about college.
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Smart Guy / int_383fe1b8	type	Embarrassing Old Photo
Smart Guy / int_383fe1b8	comment	T.J. starts his own newspaper in "Stop the Presses," after he objects to Yvette only assigning him to write puff pieces. The Weekly Veritas doesn't get any readers until he turns the paper from a serious publication into a tabloid at the suggestion of Marcus and Mo. Needless to say, the inclusion of sensationalized stories and a "Girl of the Week" centerfold feature increases readership. Yvette bribes Mo with movie passes in exchange for a story that was going to be in T.J.'s paper. As retaliation, T.J. doctors a family beach photo featuring a swimsuit-clad Yvette, editing himself and Marcus out of it, and publishes the edited photo of Yvette for the "Girl of the Week" page. Yvette is furious at being made the centerfold as revenge, as is Floyd upon learning of it, resulting in him ordering T.J. to shut down the Veritas. A regretful T.J. offers to let Yvette publish one of his baby pictures in The Piedmont Penguin, but has him do it in a final edition of the Veritas instead to preserve her journalistic integrity; Floyd, who is fond of the so-called "tush picture", approves of T.J. publishing the embarrassing picture.
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Smart Guy / int_38958f33	type	Black and Nerdy
Smart Guy / int_38958f33	comment	Black and Nerdy: T.J. Subverted, in that he leads somewhat of a normal life (he has some friends his age, even after skipping six grades from 4th to 10th, and likes to play sports), but does exhibit exceptional knowledge that may go over some of his high school classmates' heads; it's even revealed that he's read The Washington Post since he was 4 at the latest and reads The Journal of Quantum Mechanics. The series has occasionally gone back and forth to illustrate that he has some semblance of normalcy but does not understand things that a person of average intelligence would such as why The Three Stooges are funny or even contemporary slang such as "'bout it, 'bout it."
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Smart Guy / int_3aa2ac42	type	G-Rated Drug
Smart Guy / int_3aa2ac42	comment	G-Rated Drug: When Floyd buys a deluxe barbecue grill in "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl," he (and eventually Mo) develop an addiction to using it, to the point of stuffing nothing but meat in the fridge, and seeing nothing weird or dangerous about grilling in the middle of a thunderstorm. Yvette tried to hold an intervention, but it just went over Floyd and Mo's heads.
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Smart Guy / int_3ae300f2	type	Instant Cultured
Smart Guy / int_3ae300f2	comment	Instant Cultured: Averted in this case. T.J. having the interests of both a kid and a genius is a running theme, though the season two episode "Dumbstruck" has him sad that he can't get into The Three Stooges like his dad and brother.
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Smart Guy / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Smart Guy / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: What was the felony that Coach Gerber said that the teacher's union couldn't fire him for committing without "ironclad evidence" in "Below the Rim"?
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Smart Guy / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
Smart Guy / int_3c51db1c	comment	Whenever the group has to trick somebody for whatever Zany Scheme is going on, it's a fair bet T.J. will have to do this and pretend to be a regular (even overly irritating) kid.
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Smart Guy / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
Smart Guy / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: In "Big Picture," T.J. creates one in a long rant about losing creative control over his music video project to the other students involved (the blunder happens again when T.J. makes the same rant to Floyd a couple of minutes later):
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Smart Guy / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Smart Guy / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Zig-Zagged in-universe in "The Dating Game": Floyd decides to teach Marcus a lesson about how hard the real world is without a college education by taking him to work. Marcus realizes how taxing being a roofer is at first, but the plan backfires when he discovers the perks of his temporary job (including the $800-a-month salary). Floyd rectifies this by having Sonny, one of his employees, embellish the downsides of the job (among them the inability to live in adequate housing and attract the "prime babes"), causing Marcus to bail. It turns out that Sonny does have a girlfriend... and somehow also has a vacation home in Bermuda that he plans to sail to on his boat. In "Most Hated Man on Campus," T.J. tutors Piedmontâ€™s star basketball player, Anthony Williams, so the latter can pass a world history exam to avoid being pulled from the team. The rest of the school turns against T.J. when the Penguins lose a game after Anthony's newfound interest in Mahatma Gandhi and his satyÄ�graha philosophy of non-violent resistance, thanks to T.J. getting him interested while studying for the test, turns him into a gentler but worse athlete. The episode tries to paint the lesson that you shouldn't bow to peer pressure no matter how unpopular doing what's right may be to others. However, his decision to let Anthony continue to be his spiritually enlightened self rather than reverting him to his previous aggressive playing style, and back Anthonyâ€™s decision to quit the team to live on an ashram in India ends up making T.J. even more of a social pariah at school â€“ an issue that T.J. first lampshades â€“ inadvertently sending the mixed message that if you don't bow to peer pressure, you'll be even more unpopular (though Floyd does give T.J. credit for doing the right thing).
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Smart Guy / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Smart Guy / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Less on the "bastard" part, but T.J. is very good at manipulating people to get what he wants (such as in "Boomerang," when he tricks Floyd into doing his woodshop class project) or for what he thinks is someone's own good (like in "Achy Breaky Heart," when he tries to cheer up Marcus by having his ex-girlfriend and new drummer in Mackadocious pretend that she's taking Marcus back in order to get him to perform at a nightclub gig), and every once in a while an episode or subplot revolves around him doing so. To his credit, though, he is always very apologetic about it if he ever ends up hurting someone, and tends to go out his way to make amends.
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Smart Guy / int_41f26c58	type	Happy Dance
Smart Guy / int_41f26c58	comment	Happy Dance: First seen in "Brother, Brother," Marcus would break out into this on occasion; starting with "T.J. Versus the Machine," Mo usually does it along with him.
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Smart Guy / int_4345806d	type	Black Comedy Burst
Smart Guy / int_4345806d	comment	Black Comedy Burst: Most of the penultimate scene of "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl" has Marcus and T.J. being chased around the house by Marcus' Girl of the Week Janice Walker (really, Janice, Yvette and Alicia in pig masks and rainslickers, brandishing rubber meat cleavers) to teach Marcus a lesson about reading Janice's diary to find out what she wants in a man.
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Smart Guy / int_43e36f2f	type	Acrofatic
Smart Guy / int_43e36f2f	comment	Acrofatic: In "The Dating Game", after defending her honor when Deion pushes up on her yet again, the husky yet muscular Mo does a backflip after getting kissed on the cheek by Yvette.note Although it is somewhat apparent that a stunt double, who is slightly slimmer than Omar Gooding, was used for this particular stunt.
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Smart Guy / int_4413d368	type	Standardized Sitcom Housing
Smart Guy / int_4413d368	comment	Standardized Sitcom Housing: The Henderson household, although the layout is inconsistent throughout the series, Marcus and T.J.'s shared bedroom is the only room regularly seen in the show that appears the same throughout (though it is not seen for the first time until the showâ€™s third episode, "Brother, Brother"). In the pilot, the kitchen appears to be a revised layout of the Matthews familyâ€™s kitchen on Boy Meets World (Piedmont High's hallway and classroom are the exact same sets used in scenes for that showâ€™s fictional John Adams High School at the time; but also changes appearances in the following episode and again in season three). For the remainder of season one, the kitchen is slightly larger than the layout used in the later seasons and contains a flight of stairs; the stairs are moved to the living room when it is added in season two. The third season has the living room slightly rearranged with the front door moved from the back of stage center to far stage left, though the window appearing next to it remains in the same position. Yvette's room is not seen until "Perchance to Dream" in season three, and is only seen once more in "The Graduate" later that season. The house has a storage room, which is converted into Yvette's personal bathroom in season two's "Men Working Badly" (it is not seen or mentioned again after that episode).
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Smart Guy / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
Smart Guy / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: From "Gotta Dance," after a career placement test states that Mo is destined to be a motivational speaker:
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Smart Guy / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Smart Guy / int_469e3e2f	comment	A blink-and-you'll-miss-it instance in "Achy Breaky Heart," when T.J. prepares some Chocolatine (the In-Universe Suspiciously Similar Substitute to Ovaltine). Weirdly, the real world product is mentioned by T.J. three episodes later in "Beating is Fundamental."
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Smart Guy / int_47bde34c	type	Fashion-Shop Fashion Show
Smart Guy / int_47bde34c	comment	Fashion-Shop Fashion Show: During T.J.'s makeover in "Bad Boy".
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Smart Guy / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Smart Guy / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Marcus. Mo, to a lesser extent.
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Smart Guy / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Smart Guy / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger of that same episode features a different dream, in which Yvette professes her love for Mackey. It turns out Mackey is the one dreaming about it, but he plays with this trope in that, while he does catapult himself awake, he's thrilled with how the dream turns out.
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Smart Guy / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Smart Guy / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted / Oblivious Adoption: Mo. He had a happy relationship with his adopted parents, then in the episode "That's My Momma," he discovered he was adopted after walking in on a discussion between his mom and dad about whether the night of his 17th birthday party was the right time to tell him. Miffed that his parents' kept this secret from him his whole life, Mo went searching for his biological mother (with T.J. and Marcusâ€™ help), dismissing his adoptive parents. After getting a false lead, Mo meets his birth mother, a Delaware fortune teller who after a strange conversation about why she gave him up for adoption, dismisses his offer to get to know him better. At the end of the episode, Mo realizes that his adoptive parents truly care about him.
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Smart Guy / int_4b08a5f0	type	Plank Gag
Smart Guy / int_4b08a5f0	comment	Plank Gag: The reason why T.J. briefly lost his intelligence in "Dumbstruck". He was helping Marcus and Mo load lumber for a roofing job Floyd was booked to do, when Mo and Marcus failed to pay attention as T.J. laced up his shoes, and well... wham!
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Smart Guy / int_4ca758b8	type	Does This Make Me Look Fat?
Smart Guy / int_4ca758b8	comment	Does This Make Me Look Fat?: Yvette asks this about the top she's wearing in a news report about T.J.'s soda business in "The Soda Wars":
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Smart Guy / int_4d422f71	type	Throw It In!
Smart Guy / int_4d422f71	comment	Throw It In!: An in-universe example with the Rooferman commercial for Floyd's contracting business in "Rooferman, Take One". Marcus â€“ who is supposed to drip water from the bucket he's holding onto the table to simulate a leaky ceiling â€“ accidentally loses hold of the bucket, drenching Yvette. The blunder and Marcus apology ("Sorry. Bucket slipped.") is left in the finished ad.
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Smart Guy / int_4dc88e20	type	Stop Being Stereotypical
Smart Guy / int_4dc88e20	comment	Stop Being Stereotypical: In "Bad Boy", T.J. starts dressing more "hood," in an attempt to impress a girl who dresses the same way. Floyd expresses his dislike of T.J.'s new style on the basis that people will think he is a troublemaker. T.J.'s attitude begins to change, even causing him to sneak out of the house.
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Smart Guy / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Smart Guy / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: From said Wham Episode:
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Smart Guy / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Smart Guy / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The Pilot Episode has Mo and Marcus not quite so friendly towards each other as they were from the second episode on (he also doesn't seem to recognize T.J. when he sees him the first time in the episode and is even surprised of how smart T.J. is, implying that he doesn't know T.J. very well), both being rivals for the affections of Marcus's first in-series interest, Mariah (even literally fighting over her, leading T.J. to defend Marcus). It's jarring when you consider that "It Takes Two" in season three establishes that Mo and Marcus have been friends since the fourth grade.
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Smart Guy / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Smart Guy / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Recurring general louse Deion, who has several jobs over the course of the series, all of which seem to involve smoothly using someone else so he can make a buck. Amped up to eleven in "The Dating Game," where he wanted to date Yvette, only for T.J. to have her pretend to date Mo to fend off Deion's advances.
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Smart Guy / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Smart Guy / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: In "Stop the Presses," Yvette probably shouldn't have stolen the scoop for T.J.'s newspaper, but she probably didn't deserve T.J. making her the Weekly Veritas' "Girl of the Week" for doing it.
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Smart Guy / int_517f8d71	type	Delusions of Eloquence
Smart Guy / int_517f8d71	comment	Delusions of Eloquence: In "Brother, Brother," Marcus develops a smart alter-ego as part of a plan to date twin sisters by having one date himself and the other date his "twin" Marquis. He just barely manages to pull off the Marquis ruse with T.J.'s help, despite confusing Mayan pottery with Mayan poetry (something the Mayans aren't known for) and author Gabriel Garcia Marquez with a brand of Mexican food (in fairness, his date Roxanne did ask Marcus if he "devoured tons" (read) of Garcia Marquez's books).
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Smart Guy / int_51923571	type	Spinning Paper
Smart Guy / int_51923571	comment	Spinning Paper: Invoked in "Stop the Presses," when we see the first issue of the new tabloid-ized Weekly Veritas.
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Smart Guy / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Smart Guy / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Marcus, however a couple of episodes imply that he's likely more Brilliant, but Lazy. Inverted in "Dumbstruck," when he actually takes it upon himself to study when T.J.'s intelligence nosedives due to a hit to the head from 2x4s. He blanks during a class presentation of his, T.J. and Mo's World War II oral report, until T.J. reveals he's smart again to Marcus when faced with the possibility of flunking. Marcus admits (and T.J. agrees) that its not the same being the smarter older brother, and T.J. promises not to get more than 100% on tests to keep Marcus from being saddled with extra homework.
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Smart Guy / int_545d100b	type	Intelligence Equals Isolation
Smart Guy / int_545d100b	comment	Intelligence Equals Isolation: T.J. again. This fluctuates though depending on the episode, as T.J. has been shown having friends his own age and knows quite a few people closer to the ages of both his siblings.
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Smart Guy / int_5490360d	type	Foodfight!
Smart Guy / int_5490360d	comment	Food Fight: A minor one in "Love Letters": Yvette dumps a salad (which he had dumped an entire bottle of dressing on) over Mo's head, he then slaps some mashed potatoes on Yvette's face.
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Smart Guy / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
Smart Guy / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: Subverted. The season two episode "Dumbstruck" has T.J. getting hit in the head by 2x4s while helping Marcus and Mo take lumber left over from one of Floyd's roofing jobs to the garage and becoming stupid as a result. Mo suggests they hit him in the head again, but they don't because This Is Reality). T.J.'s intelligence resufaces in class halfway through the episode, but he fakes it due to his troubles fitting in. Floyd is tipped off after he finds that a copy of The Journal of Quantum Mechanics hidden in an Archie comic book, and convinces T.J. that being smart should not be something that he should hide; he finally does when presenting a World War II report with Marcus and Mo after Marcus blanks on key parts of the presentation.
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Smart Guy / int_565ce678	type	Game Show Appearance
Smart Guy / int_565ce678	comment	Game Show Appearance: In "A Little Knowledge", T.J. goes on Jeopardy!-clone Knowledge College, only to crash and burn due to a sugar high caused by coffee and candy while studying all night for the show (doing it to support his family, who is going through money problems). Marcus subs in after T.J. comes off the sugar high and gets tired, however he does no better:
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Smart Guy / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Smart Guy / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: T.J. pulls one on Floyd in "Lab Rats". Though Floyd finds out when T.J. films his motive reveal for his documentary, as Floyd is leaving the room:
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Smart Guy / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
Smart Guy / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Marcus is the foolish sibling (though foolish may be pushing it just a teeny bit) to Yvette and T.J.'s responsible.
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Smart Guy / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
Smart Guy / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: How T.J., Marcus and Mo are able to break into the Truman High computer room in "The Code".
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Smart Guy / int_5c0902e7	type	Boyish Short Hair
Smart Guy / int_5c0902e7	comment	Boyish Short Hair: Nina. Her actress, Tinsley Grimes, surprisingly manages to pull the look off, though.
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Smart Guy / int_5c385fe1	type	Profiling
Smart Guy / int_5c385fe1	comment	In season three's "Get a Job," Yvette and her friend Nina get jobs at a clothing store. Their new boss, Ms. Hendra, asks Nina (who is white) to follow Black people around the store to make sure they don't steal items. After Yvette catches Nina doing the task, Nina tells Yvette with clear disgust about being asked to racially profile Black customers. To convince Ms. Hendra that shoplifters can be of any race, Yvette sets up hidden cameras around the store, and hires Mackey (also white) and Mo to walk around the store (with Mackey, who is seen putting the items back on the display tables later on in the tape, playing the shoplifter); the tape of it doesn't convince Ms. Hendra and she effectively fires Yvette for disagreeing with her stance. Yvette has the founder and president of the store chain, who is Black, come in and pretend to browse inside the store, only to notice Ms. Hendra following him and informing her what Yvette told him about Ms. Hendra (though not mentioned, it's clear Ms. Hendra was fired afterward). A Truth in Television moment during her confrontation with Mrs. Hendra has Yvette mention that the average shoplifter is a middle-aged Caucasian female (particularly those who carry large bags, this fact is often taught in the merchandise industry).
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Smart Guy / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Smart Guy / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Mo is subjected to one (thanks to T.J.) when he is suspected of causing a fire in the chemistry lab in "Trial and Error".
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Smart Guy / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Smart Guy / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Yvette was the only female main character, out of the five on the show.
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Smart Guy / int_5e5cf652	type	Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
Smart Guy / int_5e5cf652	comment	Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die: Coach Gerber's attempts at a Rousing Speech are anything but. From "Below the Rim," to the basketball players: From "The Graduate," during his commencement speech:
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Smart Guy / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
Smart Guy / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: In "Trial and Error," Mo (whose basketball playbook was left in the labroom) is kicked out of school after being Wrongly Accused of setting a fire in Piedmont High's chemistry lab. T.J. volunteers to clear Mo's name (while simultaneously trying to prove that he's fit to play in the school's production of Inherit the Wind) and convinces Principal Whitfield to hold a mock trial at school, though the testimony makes Mo seem guilty. T.J. and Mo break into the school later that night to find chemistry teacher Mr. Bringleman's burned gradebook so T.J. can perform a chemical examination, which determines that a cigarette that Bringleman had smoked between classes (a violation of school policy) was left carelessly on his desk. T.J. gets Bringleman to admit his negligence and confess that he blamed Mo for it because "he was the one that was flunking, anyway!".
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Smart Guy / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
Smart Guy / int_615fdb1f	comment	The opening Dream Sequence in "Perchance to Dream" has Marcus asking why T.J. is playing "ice skating music". T.J. points out that the songnote "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" is a "timeless musical expression of the union of two individuals". Marcus has a radically different suggestion:
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Smart Guy / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Smart Guy / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Pretty much everyone in the family is good at giving these, especially T.J. Often accompanies a Beat joke.
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Smart Guy / int_63c2119c	type	Grounded Forever
Smart Guy / int_63c2119c	comment	Grounded Forever: Invoked word-for-word in "Never Too Young," when Floyd confronts T.J. about lying to him about not drinking alcohol at a former classmate's birthday party.
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Smart Guy / int_642594ea	type	Pygmalion Plot
Smart Guy / int_642594ea	comment	Pygmalion Plot: In reverse and without the "falling in love" bit (considering who serves as the Henry Higgins of the story). In "Bad Boy," Marcus and Mo help T.J. act more "hood" to impress Brandi, a new friend he met earlier in the episode at an arcade, after she comments that he dresses "corny". T.J. learns enough slang to get by, but the plan blows up in his face when he starts Becoming the Mask and adopts a rebellious attitude, ends up in a fight (that he tried to stop) with another group of kids at the arcade after insulting one of them (who assumes that T.J.'s tough), and Floyd finds out that he snuck out the house after forbidding T.J. from dressing like a "thug" and sending to his room.
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Smart Guy / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Smart Guy / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: T.J. (melancholic), Floyd and Yvette (choleric), Mo (phlegmatic), and Marcus (sanguine).
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Smart Guy / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Smart Guy / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: T.J., Yvette and Marcus' mother already passed away prior to the start of the series. This is first mentioned in the third season episode "Beating is Fundamental," when he mentions that he's a widow to a single mother of an Insufferable Genius. This also serves as a major plot point later that season in the episode "The Graduate," in which Yvette decides to boycott her graduation due to a controversial politician's appearance as the graduation speaker, only to hold firm on her decision when she finds out the congressman cancelled due to his arrest; it's revealed that Yvette doesn't want to go because her mother won't be there to support her, a talk with Marcus reminiscing about their mom helps change her mind about not attending.
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Smart Guy / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
Smart Guy / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: "The Soda Wars" features Mr. Breslin, a Corrupt Corporate Executive who's the CEO of Colonel Bubble Soda... and also, a middle-aged man who decides to go to war against a 12-year-old! Breslin launches a campaign to bring down Admiral T.J. soda, before it encroaches on Colonel Bubble's business by enticing T.J.'s teenage consumer base with contests, buying up their distributor's caramel syrup supply and having the D.C. health department write up T.J. for numerous code violations in the garage where he makes the soda. It causes a case of Tyrant Takes the Helm as T.J. battles to keep his business going. After successfully driving T.J. out of business, Breslin then buys off a reporter T.J. had confront Colonel Bubble about its practices with an offer to work as a correspondent for a cable news channel his company owns, leading T.J. to launch into a speech about the corruptness of corporate America.
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Smart Guy / int_6b11ff57	type	Soapbox Sadie
Smart Guy / int_6b11ff57	comment	In "The Graduate," Yvette plans to protest a controversial congressman who has a speaking engagement at her graduation, Floyd mentions that his late wife/Yvette's mother had been active in protests during their senior year of high school. Floyd only went along with them, because she would get wound up that she would want to "go for ice cream".
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Smart Guy / int_6b353f78	type	Only Known by Initials
Smart Guy / int_6b353f78	comment	Only Known by Initials: What T.J.'s full name stands for is never revealed during the course of the series.
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Smart Guy / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Smart Guy / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: T.J. occasionally takes things he's passionate about to some extreme. Such as: "Below the Rim": T.J. substitutes for Coach Gerber after he has a breakdown and bails during a basketball game. His coaching style becomes akin to that of Lou Piniella or Mike Ditka, yelling at players and arguing with referees. It even goes as far as T.J. asking Marcus to injure an opposing player. Floyd pulls T.J. out of the game, and teaches him a lesson about teamwork. "Stop the Presses": T.J. decides to start his own newspaper when he becomes disgruntled with editor Yvette assigning him puff pieces for the school's paper, The Piedmont Penguin. When nobody reads his paper, Marcus and Mo convince him to attract readers by putting in tabloid features. He enacts revenge against Yvette for buying Mo off with movie passes in exchange for giving her some photos for a story he was going to put in The Weekly Veritas, by editing a family beach photo and making a swimsuit-clad Yvette the Veritas' "Girl of the Week". After Floyd shuts down his paper, T.J. apologizes to Yvette for what he did and offers to put an embarrassing childhood photo of him (known as "The Tush Picture") in one last issue of the Veritas. "The Soda Wars": Angry with Colonel Bubble raising its prices, T.J. starts making his own low-cost soda, Admiral T.J. When Colonel Bubble's CEO launches an all-out attack on T.J.'s company before it encroaches on their business, T.J. becomes something of a tyrant trying to keep his soda company afloat, raising prices in the process. He ends up being forced to shut down his company, causing T.J. to confront the CEO and his board with a CMOA speech about corporate greed.
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Smart Guy / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
Smart Guy / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: Mo is revealed to be one in "Love Letters". Yvette teaches him how to cook for his Osso Bucco assignment, and ends up sparking Yvette's jealousy when the family raves about his cooking. It leads to a Food Fight, when the two both work in the kitchen on making dinner.
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Smart Guy / int_7043a964	type	Grammar Nazi
Smart Guy / int_7043a964	comment	Grammar Nazi: Sidney Bloom, a retired English teacher whom Mo and Yvette manage to drive out of a competition to win a car by intentionally using gratuitous slang in "Love Bug". The plan doesn't work, since Sidney snuck back into the car and hid in the trunk, causing Yvette (the last contestant still inside the car) to lose. He even uses the same improper grammar he decried Mo and Yvette for using to rub his victory in Yvette's face.
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Smart Guy / int_707bb8ce	type	Pair the Spares
Smart Guy / int_707bb8ce	comment	Pair the Spares: A non-romantic example in "Men Working Badly". Mo and T.J. are paired as husband and wife for their life management skills assignment, since they were the last ones to make it to class, on account of Mo (who was driving T.J. to school) taking a 38-block detour to follow Salt-N-Pepaâ€™s tour bus across town.
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Smart Guy / int_7220ed55	type	Token White
Smart Guy / int_7220ed55	comment	Token White: Nina and Mackey. There are a few other characters that serve as this, in fact, all but two of Yvette's friends are this throughout the series.
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Smart Guy / int_738fa379	type	New Job Episode
Smart Guy / int_738fa379	comment	New Job Episode: Season three's "Get a Job".
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Smart Guy / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
Smart Guy / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: Mr. Ferret, T.J.'s smarmy co-worker in "Working Guy". "It's Fer-ray," not Fer-ret (as T.J. derisively mispronounces it as).
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Smart Guy / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
Smart Guy / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: Played with and inverted in "Can't Buy Me Love," Yvette buys Mo at a servant auction in order to teach him about feminism (this after he knocks the WNBA). Mo is exasperated with being subjected to relentless feminist teachings, so Mo takes T.J.'s advice to get Yvette to stop incessantly trying to force her viewpoints on him by agreeing with her positions non-stop. Mo constantly comes to Yvette either talking about feminism or asking about what his opinions on various feminist subjects should be. Mo lowers the boom on her, when an exasperated Yvette tells him that he should form his own opinions. Oddly, some of the stuff Yvette taught Mo stuck, when he turns down Marcus's offer to watch a tape of the 1998 film The Players Club (which centers around a woman who starts working as a stripper while trying to finish her education), because he thinks some of the filmâ€™s subject matter objectifies women. The final scene has Marcus and Mo watching a WNBA game, but only because they find the female players attractive.
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Smart Guy / int_78c9ebbf	type	Gretzky Has the Ball
Smart Guy / int_78c9ebbf	comment	Gretzky Has the Ball: "T.J. Versus the Machine". Listing everything the episode got wrong about chess would take way too long, but a couple of examples to note, black pieces move first on the chessboard in one scene, and T.J. states that an initial move using the knight piece is a crazy idea, despite it being a popular opening IRL.
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Smart Guy / int_797d10	type	Celebrity Star
Smart Guy / int_797d10	comment	Celebrity Star: Destiny's Child guest stars in the aptly-titled season three episode "A Date with Destiny," offering T.J. the opportunity to be in their music video and later the chance to go on a world tour with them.
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Smart Guy / int_79b5990c	type	Mr. Vice Guy
Smart Guy / int_79b5990c	comment	Mr. Vice Guy: While T.J. can be kind-hearted and helpful when he wants to be, he can also be very selfish and manipulative. Many times has he set out with every intention of solving the problem the episode revolves around, only to become competitive and egotistical over the course of the episode, resulting in him caring more about getting his way than fixing the problem that he originally intended to solve, only to be forced to rectify the situation after being confronted about the error of his ways.
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Smart Guy / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Smart Guy / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: T.J., as revealed in the episode "T.J. Versus the Machine". He loses to a supercomputer named Socrates in a match, and has to be convinced by Marcus (who makes matters worse when T.J. finds out that he and Mo were going to bet against him) to do a rematch. Weirdly, it's Marcus who gives T.J. the idea to make ridiculous moves on the board to stump Socrates, confusing the computer to the point of overheating, allowing T.J. to make a move to beat him.
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Smart Guy / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Smart Guy / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In "The Soda Wars," T.J. gives one to Mr. Breslin and his board at Colonel Bubble, which serves as a Take That! about corporate greed.
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Smart Guy / int_83adab21	type	One-Neighbor Neighborhood
Smart Guy / int_83adab21	comment	One-Neighbor Neighborhood: Mo is the only regularly featured neighbor. The only other neighbors mentioned are his parents, which we only see in season three's "That's My Momma".
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Smart Guy / int_8554af5f	type	Streaking
Smart Guy / int_8554af5f	comment	Streaking: This is Mackey's M.O. for a group prank against Yvette and the rest of Piedmont Highâ€™s graduating senior class (in retaliation for their prank on T.J., Marcus, Mo and the other juniors), which involved him running naked to the podium during Piedmontâ€™s graduation ceremony and shouting "Class of '99 bites, 2000 rules!" before running off-stage. While T.J., Marcus, and Mo all repeatedly shoot down the idea, he does get to do it for real when T.J.'s own class prank (a device that launches pancake batter) fails to work at the crucial moment. That being said, some of the reactions he garners aren't that negative, either.
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Smart Guy / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Smart Guy / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Anne-Marie Johnson played Miss Williams, Piedmont High's guidance counselor, in the pilot episode, even getting an And Starring credit in the episode (she was written out when the show was picked up to series).
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Smart Guy / int_8687f945	type	What Were You Thinking?
Smart Guy / int_8687f945	comment	What Were You Thinking??: Invoked by Floyd, when he finds out about T.J.'s meddling into the Marcus and Yvette's relationships for a school project in "Lab Rats".
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Smart Guy / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
Smart Guy / int_8748f851	comment	Brainy Brunette: Yvette Henderson; at times, this is more an Informed Ability, others it's incorporated into the storyline.
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Smart Guy / int_8af45dbd	type	Wild Teen Party
Smart Guy / int_8af45dbd	comment	Wild Teen Party: In "Henderson House Party," T.J. throws a party, while Floyd is out of town attending a homebuilders' convention, in order to increase his popularity (Mo places a $5 cover charge for the attendees; surprisingly, it doesn't hamper the turnout). Marcus catches wind of this after seeing Mo arrive at the house, just before the partygoers do. Unfortunately for T.J., everyone thinks Marcus was the one who threw the party. It's not all too bad for T.J., as he meets the younger sister of one of Marcus and Mo's classmates (even getting kissed by her when he walks her home after the party). The party gets out of control, when a guy who Nina tries to fend off thinks Mo was making a move on her, and accidentally punches another partygoer through the window while trying to deck Mo after the two shove each other. Floyd arrives early (though Marcus gets almost everyone out before he arrives, the lone except being a guy who snuck beer into the party and got drunk, who vomits on the pathway as Floyd catches Marcus and Mo escorting that partygoer from the house). Floyd blames Marcus, but after being informed that T.J. threw the party, T.J. confesses after finding out Marcus is being punished for it; Marcus admits blame since he volunteered to be in charge while Floyd was gone but chose not to be responsible and stop the party earlier (giving into the idea when two girls believed Marcus was the one who threw it, after reminding T.J. that Floyd said no parties were allowed while he was away), and both brothers are grounded (though they are forced to attend Yvette's all-female adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov).
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Smart Guy / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Smart Guy / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Played with in "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl," Janice starts acting like this when she, Yvette and her friend Alicia conspire to teach Marcus a lesson when they find out that Marcus made himself into Janice's perfect guy after reading her computer diary (which Janice mistakenly sent while file sharing her and T.J.'s report on the Lizzie Borden trial). It leads to a horror film parody when the three each dress up as a killer trying to off Marcus and T.J. Janice reveals herself, and as she makes them think she's going to chop them up with meat cleavers (which are actually made of rubber), she brings in the other two girls to lower the boom on them. Marcus apologizes to Janice, and then promptly asks her out on a date, to her dismay.
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Smart Guy / int_8d08960c	type	Two-Timer Date
Smart Guy / int_8d08960c	comment	Two-Timer Date: In "Baby, It's You, and You, and You," Yvette, Floyd and Marcus each set T.J. up with dates for the upcoming dance, but because they didn't tell the other (and because T.J. fears saying "no" to their choices would disappoint his family), he winds up accepting all three dates. Mo's plan to hide it makes things hilariously worse: Marcus and T.J. try unsuccessfully to keep the three girls (all of whom are T.J.'s age) from meeting each other, and Mo comes over just to hang out with Marcus and T.J., forgetting he was supposed to be at the dance â€” with his date! â€” and apparently about the whole plan to wrangle T.J.â€™s date dilemma to boot. After everyone finds out about the mess, T.J. ends up taking all three dates to the dance! Also invoked on Marcus, who unwittingly ends up asking twins out in "Brother, Brother". See I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine above. Mo's girlfriend Tracy, in "It Takes Two," is this. Marcus catches her with another boyfriend while he and Floyd are at the mall. After initially deciding not to tell Mo due to a bad experience Floyd had when a friend of his didn't believe him when he told the guy that his girlfriend was seeing someone on the side, Marcus decides to tell Mo â€“ only for him to think Marcus doesn't like Tracy. After Mo issues an ultimatum that he and Tracy need to get along or he'll lose him as a friend, Marcus tells Tracy what he knows. He catches Tracy in a movie theater, and manages to get her other man to run into Mo and reveal that she's been seeing him.
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Smart Guy / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Smart Guy / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "That's My Momma," in which Mo finds out that he's adopted and searches for his birth mother. Wham Line: From said Wham Episode:
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Smart Guy / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
Smart Guy / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: T.J., obviously. He is proficient in most school subjects (except wood shop), he is a Polyglot (though this is somewhat of an Informed Ability, it's only shown twice such as in "The Dating Game," where he recites to Yvette the ways "no" can be said in different languages), and he was even regularly reading The Washington Post by the time he was 4.
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Smart Guy / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Smart Guy / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Invoked in "Trial and Error," when Mo tries to get T.J. to see that he didn't set the fire in the chemistry lab. Mo even notes three stories where kids who were able to see the truth about someone: Frankenstein (whose monster killed a little girl and threw her in a lake), Shoeless Joe (who was banned from baseball) and The Emperor's New Clothes... only the third example checks out (since a kid did know that the emperor was really naked and not wearing new clothes).
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Smart Guy / int_93253bcd	type	LampShading
Smart Guy / int_93253bcd	comment	In "Perchance to Dream," T.J., Marcus and Mo start a homework helpline to help students with their study subjects, and charging them per call to afford to buy new music equipment for Mackadociousâ€™ band gigs. (T.J.'s the only one giving hints and answers to callers for obvious reasons.) It becomes so successful that they add additional phone lines to handle all the calls, as Marcus and Mo become money-hungry. After Mackey gets a "D-" on a math midterm (due to Marcus and Mo limiting the length of the calls T.J. takes to increase call volume, therefore allowing them to make more money, preventing T.J. from giving more thorough help), Floyd puts the hotline back on track, paring them back down to one line. He then lampshades how unnecessary Mo and Marcus are to the project when Mo asks what they are going to do when T.J. is taking calls.
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Smart Guy / int_94d7b230	type	Cut a Slice, Take the Rest
Smart Guy / int_94d7b230	comment	Cut a Slice, Take the Rest: In "Something Wicked This Way Comes", while staying at the Henderson's house, Mo walks into the kitchen as Floyd gets a slice of chocolate cake. Floyd offers Mo a slice, asking for "the least little sliver". As Floyd prepares to cut, Mo twice asks for a bigger slice, Floyd then gives him half the cake when the size of the slice is just right.
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Smart Guy / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Smart Guy / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: A major joke in the show is the contrast between T.J. being a Wise Beyond His Years genius and being a naive immature kid at the same time.
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Smart Guy / int_96dea090	type	D.I.Y. Disaster
Smart Guy / int_96dea090	comment	D.I.Y. Disaster: In "Men Working Badly," Marcus fails to reinforce the floorboards after he, Floyd and T.J. put in the bathtub in the bathroom they're building for Yvette. It ends up falling into the kitchen... with T.J. (who was busy putting together the tub fixtures) inside it! T.J.'s birdhouse at the end of "Boomerang" also qualifies, as it immediately collapses when shop teacher Mr. Petrasik sets down his coffee cup on the desk it's on.
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Smart Guy / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
Smart Guy / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: Colonel Bubble is the In-Universe equivalent to Dr. Pepper. It is mentioned in a couple of episodes, and serves as a major plotline in "The Soda Wars"note The episode in which T.J. creates his own soda business to provide a cheaper alternative to Colonel Bubble, after the company raises prices. The soda T.J. creates, Admiral T.J., in that episode is a Brand X of a Brand X, as the name (and for that matter, the labeling) parodies Colonel Bubble. A blink-and-you'll-miss-it instance in "Achy Breaky Heart," when T.J. prepares some Chocolatine (the In-Universe Suspiciously Similar Substitute to Ovaltine). Weirdly, the real world product is mentioned by T.J. three episodes later in "Beating is Fundamental."
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Smart Guy / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Smart Guy / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Mo, on occasion. Occasionally fluctuating between this and simply being Book Dumb, he has been shown having the ability to sleep standing up (in "Get a Job") and once (in "Dumbstruck") thought a haberdasher â€“ a person who sells clothing and accessories â€“ was a measurement of bacon â€“ which, as Floyd interestingly points out, Mo confused with a rasher (the latter case was during a conversation in which Marcus told Floyd about what he learned while studying, and brought up that Harry S. Truman once worked as haberdasher before becoming President of the United States).
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Smart Guy / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Smart Guy / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: From "Gotta Dance," when T.J. asks Mr. Tierney, the dance teacher, if he struggled when he first started dancing:
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Smart Guy / int_a00f2ac9	type	First Kiss
Smart Guy / int_a00f2ac9	comment	First Kiss: Between T.J. and Vanessa, the younger sister of Marcus' friend Tony, in "Henderson House Party"... although it's not referred to as such.
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Smart Guy / int_a1fedb67	type	Parental Obliviousness
Smart Guy / int_a1fedb67	comment	Parental Obliviousness: Hillary, Blake Jordan's mother in "Beating is Fundamental," is so in awe of her son's genius that she is completely unaware of how obnoxious and conceited he is, to the point where she refuses to believe that Blake was the one who provoked T.J. into hitting him when Floyd tries to discuss their fight. Usually averted with Floyd, with one major exception. In "Never Too Young," T.J. lies to Floyd when he asks him if he saw any kids drinking alcohol at a former classmate's birthday party a couple of days before. Floyd refuses to believe Yvette when she tells him that she thinks T.J. had been drinking. He finds out the truth from Rich and Kevin, two ex-classmates of T.J.'s, after catching T.J. holding a bottle of Peppermint Schnapps they give him. As Yvette states later on, the plot illustrates to parents that they should be aware that their children are not immune to succumbing to peer pressure and that they should discuss the topic with their kids.
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Smart Guy / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
Smart Guy / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Floyd is this in the end, despite making mistakes on occasion.
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Smart Guy / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Smart Guy / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: "Strangers on the Net" features T.J. and his friend Karen buying bootlegged computer games from a guy they met in a chat room; meanwhile, Yvette, Marcus and Mo try to fix the new car the latter two boys bought. Midway through the episode, T.J. discovers that the man is a child predator, turning it into a Very Special Episode; the last three scenes switch between the humorous "B" plot with Yvette, Marcus and Mo, the serious "A" plot with T.J., and then back to the comedic "B" plot in that order. "Never Too Young" deals with T.J. succumbing to peer pressure by underage drinking at a party and then lying to Floyd about it; it switches back-and-forth between this plot, and Marcus and Mo becoming lunch ladies as punishment for accidentally hitting Vice Principal Militich with bread pudding.
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Smart Guy / int_a4ca50be	type	Collective Groan
Smart Guy / int_a4ca50be	comment	Collective Groan
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Smart Guy / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Smart Guy / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Whenever the group has to trick somebody for whatever Zany Scheme is going on, it's a fair bet T.J. will have to do this and pretend to be a regular (even overly irritating) kid. "Dumbstruck" also has him do this after a hit to the head makes him actually stupid; after his intelligence returns, he decides he likes how people treat him better when he's not smarter than them. He ultimately stops acting unintelligent after Floyd delivers An Aesop about not pretending to be dumb to fit in, and he, Marcus and Mo land themselves in danger of failing an oral book report in class.
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Smart Guy / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Smart Guy / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Inverted with Floyd, averted/subverted with Vice Principal Militich and played somewhat straight with Coach Gerber.
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Smart Guy / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Smart Guy / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Mo and T.J. have something of a friendship (though "Henderson House Party" has Mo state he thinks of T.J. as a brother) even with the six-year age difference; however, Mo is usually a Nice Guy and is Marcus' best friend, so he's known T.J. for as long as he's known Marcus.
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Smart Guy / int_a9c0f93f	type	Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult
Smart Guy / int_a9c0f93f	comment	Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult: "Book Smart" shows Mr. Delk confiscating students' hats and later even T.J.'s computer in class. Both T.J. and Marcus try to have Floyd sign notes to retrieve their respective laptop and hat, though Floyd only signs T.J.'s, citing that him getting back his computer (given that T.J. was taking subject notes to discuss with Delk) was more important than Marcus trying to get back a hat that "make[s him] look like a banana".
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Smart Guy / int_ab89e132	type	Men Are Uncultured
Smart Guy / int_ab89e132	comment	Men Are Uncultured: Seemingly, Floyd, Marcus and Mo are this. Averted with T.J., who is pretty worldly.
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Smart Guy / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Smart Guy / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: While trying to stop Yvette from dancing with another guy before Mo comes back with his present for her in "The Dating Game," T.J. changes the song during a school dance from an R&B song to the U.S. national anthem... then to "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and then to a French instruction tape, before Yvette stops him.
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Smart Guy / int_ac9cac61	type	Scare 'Em Straight
Smart Guy / int_ac9cac61	comment	Scare 'Em Straight: When Marcus works a few days with Floyd on his roofing business and enjoys it, causing him to think about dropping out of school to work full-time, Floyd has one of his workers amp up some of the worst aspects of this profession, such as said co-worker claiming he lives out of his car, highlighting the bad weather they endure, and claiming one older co-worker Marcus thinks is in his fifties is actually a 30-something who is physically broken from the grueling work. This makes Marcus run back to school.
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Smart Guy / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Smart Guy / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Describes the reaction on T.J. and Coach Gerber's faces when a cannon rigged to spray pancake batter at the graduating seniors in "The Graduate," accidentally sets off on Floyd and Yvette after the ceremony when everyone else leaves, after T.J. slams the remote to activate the cannon on a chair in disappointment over the plan's failure. T.J. then asks Coach Gerber (who's living in the school due to tax issues with the IRSnote A possible Continuity Nod to "Can't Buy Me Love" from earlier in season three, when T.J. makes out an honest tax return after his original prepared filing for Gerber has overtly dishonest deductions) if he could hide out with him.
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Smart Guy / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Smart Guy / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Mostly T.J. and Yvette, though they definitely both get it from Floyd. Even Mo gets in on the act sometimes, though usually with him it's less deadpan and more "cheerfully snide" one-liners.
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Smart Guy / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Smart Guy / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Much of the showâ€™s basic premise deals with the pre-adolescent T.J. struggling to fit in with the older high school students, though a few episodes (like â€œBad Boyâ€�) also highlight similar issues he has fitting in with kids closer to his own age.
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Smart Guy / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Smart Guy / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: In the cold open of the season three episode "Crushed," Marcus, Mo and T.J. each fantasize about their attractive teacher, Ms. Caldwell. Mo and Marcus daydream about her wearing a red leather bustier, tempting them with an inferred invite for a night of, well... (Marcus' fantasy adds a pizza to the night of fun). T.J. fantasizes about Caldwell asking her to come to her house to watch a Discovery Channel special on structural isomers, clad more conservatively in a sundress. Marcus and Mo give looks of confusion, implying they might have found T.J's fantasy a bit odd.
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Smart Guy / int_b0e81c37	type	A Simple Plan
Smart Guy / int_b0e81c37	comment	A Simple Plan: Several.
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Smart Guy / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Smart Guy / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Guy: One-time character Lester, in "The Code," so much so that Marcus suggests he switch to decaf coffee.
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Smart Guy / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Smart Guy / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Comes up in the end credit scene of season two's "Something Wicked This Way Comes." Earlier in the episode, Floyd spied Yvette when she arrives outside the house with her college-age boyfriend. Later, Marcus comes back with his date, Yvette asks if he's going to spy and says that it isn't necessary since if Marcus makes a move, it won't go anywhere, leading Yvette to call him out on this; surely enough, Marcus (off-screen) makes a move on his date and gets smacked in the face. Yvette gets Floyd's point then.
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Smart Guy / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Smart Guy / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: "Love Letters" has one mixed with Little Boy Seeks Big Girl. T.J. tutors Nina Duperly, a classmate that Marcus tries to woo with T.J.'s help (not realizing that she's just as shallow as he is). When Floyd asks about it during a conversation where T.J. admits he's helping Marcus pull a Cyrano, T.J. denies he likes Nina; later, T.J. tries to derail Nina and Marcus' relationship unknowingly to the former, but later realizes that those two are better suited for one another after confessing his crush to Nina. A variant in "Break Up Not to Make Up". Marcus breaks up with his girlfriend Dana for being too controlling. After finding out from Mo that Marcus is over her, she invites Mo to an Outkast concert she planned on seeing with Marcus. T.J. inadvertently reveals this to Marcus while Mo tries to address it (after he went out with Dana to the concert), causing a rift between the two older boys, since Marcus' feelings for Dana are still there somewhat. Floyd helps Marcus and Mo see that they should talk things out. "Crushed" crosses this with Hot for Teacher as T.J. develops a tremendous crush on his 28-year-old teacher Miss Caldwell. He gets jealous when, as a result of Yvette misinterpreting T.J.'s inviting Caldwell to the house as a means to set his father up with her, Floyd and Miss Caldwell go out on a date. Yvette makes T.J. see the error of his jealousy, and he gives Floyd his blessing to keep dating his teacher.
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Smart Guy / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Smart Guy / int_b9c3de84	comment	Bumbling Dad: Generally averted with Floyd, he is often on top of everything that goes on with his kids.
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Smart Guy / int_bc6c6c90	type	Drop-In Character
Smart Guy / int_bc6c6c90	comment	Drop-In Character: Mo. Made into a Running Gag at how often he hangs out at the Henderson house. He even falls asleep there in season two's "Bad Boy" and Floyd is unable to wake him until he calls his mother, arising him when she tells Floyd that cooking bacon is the way to get him up. Floyd sometimes treats him as a third son especially if it involves doing something T.J. and Marcus have no interest in, such as breaking in Floyd's new BBQ.
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Smart Guy / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Smart Guy / int_bc74ef27	comment	Blake Jordan in the episode "Beating is Fundamental," T.J. finds him pretentious from their first meeting and grows to outright dislike him. Blake knocks Marcus and Mo for their idea for a barber business (which they created for a school project), shamelessly hits on the much older Yvette and rigs a camera to peep at her in her bathroom, and slams T.J.'s Berserk Button by disrespecting his family to his face for being working class. T.J. calls him out for his jackassery ("Smart kids like us get a rap for being really snotty, condescending little jerks. And I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but it's completely because of you!") and gets so fed up that he punches Blake.
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Smart Guy / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Smart Guy / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: "Stop the Presses": To make amends with Yvette for putting an edited photo of her in a swimsuit in his newspaper, T.J. offers to print an embarrassing baby photo of him in the publication's last issue. T.J. is surprised when she agrees to the idea.
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Smart Guy / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Smart Guy / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Most of Yvette's friends disappear after one or two appearances without explanation. The only one to stick around longer is Nina, her main best friend in season three.
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Smart Guy / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Smart Guy / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: T.J. and Karen towards Mark in "Strangers on the Net," although it's done to drive the episode's internet safety aesop. It's not a good idea for any kid to buy bootlegged computer games from an adult male who contacts kids on a chat room, and go to their house to see a game he made. You never know if he could be a serial child predator using this as a ruse to try to molest kids. T.J.'s friend Karen is a worse judge, as she was willing to stay there, though he wised up and got her out of there before Mark could do anything.
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Smart Guy / int_c56b5de7	type	Mis-blamed
Smart Guy / int_c56b5de7	comment	Misblamed: Marcus is mistakenly blamed by Floyd for throwing the Wild Teen Party that T.J. threw in "Henderson House Party," then Yvette tells her father that someone else was responsible; T.J. walks in, surprised Floyd came home early, and confesses everything. Marcus takes the blame anyway, since he was the one in charge of the house.
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Smart Guy / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Smart Guy / int_c75df49a	comment	In "Don't Do That Thing You Do"note The title itself is a Shout-Out to the 1995 musical comedy film That Thing You Do!, Ernie (a DJ-turned-music producer who emceed the Battle of the Bands contest earlier in the episode and T.J. hires to give Mackadocious an offer for a phony gig as revenge for being kicked out the band after he shows up Marcus with his keyboard playing ability during the contest), talks to Floyd about managing T.J.'s music career. Ernie mentions that T.J. needs to present an image that people will remember (describing as examples, Mickey Mouse's ears, Michael Jackson's gloves, and Prince's infamous buttcheek-exposing pants from his 1991 MTV Video Music Award performance), T.J. then comes out wearing the signature early '90s vertical afro worn by Kid 'N Play's Christopher Reid (who guests as Ernie and sports cornrows in the episode), only to topple on the floor while dancing due to the weight of the hairstyle.
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Smart Guy / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Smart Guy / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The reason why Yvette originally refused to attend her high school graduation in "The Graduate," at first, was because she was protesting a right-wing congressman's appearance as the ceremony's speaker (though it's not hinted that this was an excuse until later, when the congressman goes on the lam days before the ceremony, and she still decides against going). She later confesses it is because her deceased mother won't see her graduate.
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Smart Guy / int_c8bea31b	type	K-I-S-S-I-N-G in a Tree
Smart Guy / int_c8bea31b	comment	Kissing In A Tree: In "Perchance to Dream", during one of Yvette's dream sequences, Marcus recites this while serving as the minister of Yvette and Mo's wedding.
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Smart Guy / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
Smart Guy / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: Virtually every episode, except for the Pilot and most notably "That's My Momma", had a main plot and "B" story, with one revolving around T.J. and the other involving Marcus with/without Mo or Yvette. The show often alternated which character received the B plot, and sometimes which one received the A plot; Marcus and Mo were often part of the A plot in a given episode.
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Smart Guy / int_ca9c252f	type	This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself
Smart Guy / int_ca9c252f	comment	This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Done by Marcus of all people in "Boomerang," when he informs Floyd that T.J.'s been using his dad to complete his wood shop project.
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Smart Guy / int_cca8c07b	type	"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name
Smart Guy / int_cca8c07b	comment	"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: In "T.J. Versus the Machine," Marcus' pep talk to T.J. to get him to agree to a chess rematch against a supercomputer he lost to earlier that episode creates a combination of this and Overly Long Name (on account of him barely being able to come up with a metaphor using just T.J.'s first and middle initials):
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Smart Guy / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Smart Guy / int_cdac8795	comment	Gene Hunting: In "That's My Momma," Mo discovered he was adopted after walking in on a discussion between his mom and dad about whether the night of his 17th birthday party was the right time to tell him. Miffed that his parents' kept this secret from him his whole life,note His adoptive mom, Verla Mae, reveals (nearly veering into overt detail before Floyd stops her) that she and her husband Delroy adopted Mo after they were unsuccessful in conceiving a child of their own. Mo went searching for his biological mother, dismissing his adoptive parents. After getting a false lead, Mo meets his birth mother, a Delaware fortune teller who after a strange conversation about why she gave him up for adoption, dismisses his offer to get to know him better. At the end of the episode, Mo realizes that his adoptive parents truly care about him.
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Smart Guy / int_ceb854cb	type	The Door Slams You
Smart Guy / int_ceb854cb	comment	The Door Slams You: Marcus has the bathroom door slamming in his face in the episode "Men Working Badly," when he's working behind the door just as T.J., and later, Mo comes bursting in and again, when Mo leaves after his argument with T.J. over raising their flour child.
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Smart Guy / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Smart Guy / int_cf92fea8	comment	Usually averted with Floyd, with one major exception. In "Never Too Young," T.J. lies to Floyd when he asks him if he saw any kids drinking alcohol at a former classmate's birthday party a couple of days before. Floyd refuses to believe Yvette when she tells him that she thinks T.J. had been drinking. He finds out the truth from Rich and Kevin, two ex-classmates of T.J.'s, after catching T.J. holding a bottle of Peppermint Schnapps they give him. As Yvette states later on, the plot illustrates to parents that they should be aware that their children are not immune to succumbing to peer pressure and that they should discuss the topic with their kids.
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Smart Guy / int_d08fdb92	type	LittleBoySeeksBigGirl
Smart Guy / int_d08fdb92	comment	"Love Letters" has one mixed with Little Boy Seeks Big Girl. T.J. tutors Nina Duperly, a classmate that Marcus tries to woo with T.J.'s help (not realizing that she's just as shallow as he is). When Floyd asks about it during a conversation where T.J. admits he's helping Marcus pull a Cyrano, T.J. denies he likes Nina; later, T.J. tries to derail Nina and Marcus' relationship unknowingly to the former, but later realizes that those two are better suited for one another after confessing his crush to Nina.
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Smart Guy / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Smart Guy / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!!: Even though it's a Disney-produced series, since Smart Guy aired on a broadcast network, it's averted and played straight depending on the episode. A few episodes, generally during season three, feature utterances of "hell" and "damn".
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Smart Guy / int_d2431598	type	Asleep in Class
Smart Guy / int_d2431598	comment	Asleep in Class: In "Lab Rats," Mo falls asleep during a wildlife documentary presented in class, and wakes up when the lights turn on, trying to cover that he knew what was going on ("Lion King. Five stars, first feel-good film of the year"). One of Mo's teachers in "Below the Rim" states that this is routine for him. In "Get a Job," Mo asks Marcus how they're gonna get any sleep now that they have a late-night hosting gig at a local radio station, which they accepted despite Floyd's objections. Marcus' response: "in geometry class, like we always do!"
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Smart Guy / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Smart Guy / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Yvette. In "Something Wicked This Way Comes", she's dating a college student. The following season in "T.A. or Not T.A.", she refuses to date a sophomore because he's younger than her. He actually ends up dumping her for a college student!
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Smart Guy / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Smart Guy / int_d54f84cb	comment	Yvette experiences this multiple times in "Perchance to Dream," during a series of dreams involving her and Mo getting married; this even occurs (in this case, catapulting under the covers after seeing a tuxedo-clad Mo next to her bed) during a Dream Within a Dream that occurs after she realizes the the dreams were symbolic of her difficulties committing to Princeton University, fearing being rejected by the Ivy League school and causing her to apply to "safe" colleges instead.
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Smart Guy / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Smart Guy / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: In "Baby, It's You, and You, and You," Shirley (a girl Mo asked to be his date to the school dance) accepts Mo's invitation to the dance after he recited a poem. When Shirley brings it up when Mo introduces her to Marcus, it turns out that the "poem" is actually the lyrics to The Temptations' "My Girl" (Mo claims his alteration, changing the "girl"s to "Shirl"s, as his version when Marcus calls him out on it).
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Smart Guy / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Smart Guy / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "Gotta Dance," T.J. shakes his head, hands over his top hat and baton to Mr. Tierney and walks off, when he finds out he has to practice a split during dance rehearsal.
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Smart Guy / int_dca6a9d	type	Start My Own
Smart Guy / int_dca6a9d	comment	Start My Own: Each time this happens, the success doesn't last: T.J. starts his own newspaper in "Stop the Presses," after he objects to Yvette only assigning him to write puff pieces. The Weekly Veritas doesn't get any readers until he turns the paper from a serious publication into a tabloid at the suggestion of Marcus and Mo. Needless to say, the inclusion of sensationalized stories and a "Girl of the Week" centerfold feature increases readership. Yvette bribes Mo with movie passes in exchange for a story that was going to be in T.J.'s paper. As retaliation, T.J. doctors a family beach photo featuring a swimsuit-clad Yvette, editing himself and Marcus out of it, and publishes the edited photo of Yvette for the "Girl of the Week" page. Yvette is furious at being made the centerfold as revenge, as is Floyd upon learning of it, resulting in him ordering T.J. to shut down the Veritas. A regretful T.J. offers to let Yvette publish one of his baby pictures in The Piedmont Penguin, but has him do it in a final edition of the Veritas instead to preserve her journalistic integrity; Floyd, who is fond of the so-called "tush picture", approves of T.J. publishing the embarrassing picture. In "Perchance to Dream," T.J., Marcus and Mo start a homework helpline to help students with their study subjects, and charging them per call to afford to buy new music equipment for Mackadociousâ€™ band gigs. (T.J.'s the only one giving hints and answers to callers for obvious reasons.) It becomes so successful that they add additional phone lines to handle all the calls, as Marcus and Mo become money-hungry. After Mackey gets a "D-" on a math midterm (due to Marcus and Mo limiting the length of the calls T.J. takes to increase call volume, therefore allowing them to make more money, preventing T.J. from giving more thorough help), Floyd puts the hotline back on track, paring them back down to one line. He then lampshades how unnecessary Mo and Marcus are to the project when Mo asks what they are going to do when T.J. is taking calls. In "The Soda Wars," when the cost of a can of Colonel Bubble soda went up to over a dollar, T.J. began to create his own (Admiral T.J.). However, Colonel Bubble catches on to the early success of Admiral T.J. Soda at Piedmont High, and the company's president wields his power to stop them in their tracks before Admiral T.J. encroaches on their territory. T.J. tries his best to keep the company going even after Colonel Bubble buys the caramel syrup supply T.J. relied on to make his soda, and begins raising his soda's prices. After T.J. is forced to shut down his business after Colonel Bubble calls the health department on him, he storms the company's offices and reams them for their behavior (T.J. is also offered a job with Colonel Bubble â€“ complete with exceptional pay and benefits â€“ after he graduates school, to which he rejects in speech, though he later reveals to Floyd that he did take the business card in case he changes his mind).
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Smart Guy / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Smart Guy / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Between Mo and Yvette, more and more as the show went on. Two episodes focus on this: season two's "The Dating Game," when the two pretend to be a couple to keep Deion away from Yvette, when Mo starts to fall for her; and season three's "Perchance to Dream," when Yvette tries to get to the bottom of a series of dreams where she marries Mo and asks him out on a date to see if the dream meant that they should be together (it didn't).
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Smart Guy / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Smart Guy / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: T.J. himself in "Bad Boy," or really his voice serves as this. He decides to record three different responses ("Yes, dad?," "Dad, I'm in the bathtub. Can we talk about this tomorrow?" and "You're right, dad. I just need to sleep on it.") to questions he knows Floyd will ask when he goes to talk to him about his new hood gear, in order to make it seem as if he's still at home taking a bath. Floyd figures out that T.J. had snuck out to the arcade to see his new friend Brandi, after Marcus (who's controlling the remote to the tape recorder) plays the third response when Floyd asks what topping T.J. wanted on a pizza he was ordering. Marcus implicates himself by holding the remote while denying his involvement in the plan.
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Smart Guy / int_dceccabf	type	Cat Fight
Smart Guy / int_dceccabf	comment	Cat Fight: In "Break Up Not to Make Up," T.J. tries to stop one between Yvette and her friend Leslie by jumping into their fight over an ex-boyfriend of Yvette's whom she finds out that Leslie dated, and fully stopped by Coach Gerber.
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Smart Guy / int_de4d1d28	type	Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?
Smart Guy / int_de4d1d28	comment	Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering??: This exchange from "Perchance to Dream," before Marcus reveals his idea to start a homework hotline:
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Smart Guy / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Smart Guy / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: "T.A. or Not T.A." features a female student named Rosalinda (who Marcus dated earlier in the episode, in an ill-conceived method of learning Spanish by having her speak the language to him the entire night). Rosalinda is then named the new teacher's assistant for the Spanish class Marcus and Mo are in, she is introduced to the class to begin her instruction, wearing an outfit that really accentuates her curves. Needless to say, Marcus and Mo find incentive to stick with the class; Mo even comments that "[he and Marcus] might have to stay after class". During a volleyball game in gym class in "Break Up Not to Make Up," T.J. guide a pretty blonde student named Jennifer (whose gym uniform includes a cropped shirt) to pretend to bend down to tie her shoe in order to allow a member of his team to make a serve. Yvette considers it morally reprehensible, until T.J. points out that whoever wins the game does not have to run laps, asking Jennifer to "do what the kid says." Mackey and another male student on the other team look in awe when Jennifer bends down, allowing the ball to bounce off Mackey's head, giving T.J.'s team the extra point.
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Smart Guy / int_e18a3c59	type	Hilarious Outtakes
Smart Guy / int_e18a3c59	comment	Hilarious Outtakes: Only shown once during the series, in the closing credits of "The Soda Wars".
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Smart Guy / int_e4f05faa	type	Jaw Drop
Smart Guy / int_e4f05faa	comment	Jaw Drop: T.J. does this in "The Graduate" when the cannon he put in the podium to spray the graduating seniors with pancake batter sprays Yvette and Floyd after the ceremony.
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Smart Guy / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Smart Guy / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Joshua Gibran Mayweather plays Cordell Ross in the episode "Can't Buy Me Love," a preppy and obnoxious student who buys Marcus in a school servant auction (hiring a girl as a front to place the bid for him). Marcus gets fed up with his bossiness and takes him to task, only to find out from him later that he bought him because he just wanted a friend. Cordell's mannerisms and wardrobe are quite similar to that of Carlton Banks.
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Smart Guy / int_e57081e5	type	Artistic License – Chess
Smart Guy / int_e57081e5	comment	Artistic License â€“ Chess: â€œT.J. Versus the Machineâ€� made just about every chess error you could ever see, as well as making a few completely new ones. In addition to having the board set up wrong, one scene has the player using the black chess pieces make the opening move, and T.J.'s solution to defeating an advanced chess computer was to make completely nonsensical moves, which would have never worked in real life. (In fact, the move that was deemed to be "nonsensical" was moving the knight out first, which, according to chessgames.com's database, is actually the third most popular opening move among professional players, out of 20 possible opening moves, making this not even wrong.)
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Smart Guy / int_e5ba0ea1	type	Therapy Backfire
Smart Guy / int_e5ba0ea1	comment	Therapy Backfire: Happens in "From A to Double D," when T.J. uses his knowledge of psychology to get to the root of why Tucker has been bullying him about his ears, after T.J.'s crack about his father being so ugly he got arrested for mooning touches a nerve (since Tucker's dad really did go to jail). Tucker starts bullying another student just after their session is over, though T.J. sees it as a compromise since he's not the subject of Tucker's bullying anymore.
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Smart Guy / int_e621b159	type	A-Cup Angst
Smart Guy / int_e621b159	comment	A-Cup Angst: The season three episode "From A to Double D" features Yvette auditioning for a role in a play, but being passed over for a less talented but more developed actress. She then proceeds to stuff her bra to see if she would have gotten the part if she was bustier. Yvette does get the part, but (after some inner conflict) decides that getting breast enhancement surgery isn't for her.
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Smart Guy / int_e6f961a1	type	Garage Band
Smart Guy / int_e6f961a1	comment	Garage Band: Marcus' band Mackadocious is a subversion, in that they only practice in the garage and actually get gigs.
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Smart Guy / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
Smart Guy / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Mo's "maybe she can give me some [acting] tips" line (listed under Freudian Slip) and part of the scene where Yvette has T.J. enlarge her breasts to the point where T.J. "can't see [her] head anymore" in a computer rendering of what she'd look like with larger breasts were cut from the Disney version of "From A to Double D" (part of the latter scene in which T.J. enlarges Yvette's breasts in the rendering to a reasonable size is left in, though).
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Smart Guy / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Smart Guy / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: T.J. gives one in a minor recurring gag (in which he tilts his head toward the camera with a look that exclaims "how pathetic" or "really?"), seen mainly during season two. It first appears in the second season premiere "Primary Brothers," when Marcus suddenly goes along with T.J.'s idea to have him join the race for student council president (after his own campaign spectacularly flops due to lack of student interest), after a girl assumes that Marcus is running when she sees T.J.'s "Henderson for President" poster. In "Big Picture," T.J. gives one when Yvette meets a hunky but not-too-smart swimmer and accidentally fails to "remember how to point" (the exact words she said earlier about guys being shallow), after Yvette talks to one of her friends about how guys prefer looks over substance when it comes to women. T.J. gives the look again in "Achy Breaky Heart" (likely an episode carried over from season two that aired early in the third season) after Marcus and Mo give their approval for T.J.'s choice for a new drummer... who happens to be a girl in their age group, so yeah...
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Smart Guy / int_e9e35e8f	comment	In "Rooferman, Take One",note (the episode in which TJ talks Floyd into making a commercial for his business, but it ends up airing in the middle of the night rather than during prime time as the sales manager of the station they sell it to omits that the ad's contractually promised 8:00 to 10:00 slot is actually between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m.) after Floyd discusses his roofing businessâ€™ advertising contract with a representative for (the fictional) WDCS-TV, the latter mentions the station's upcoming coverage of the Super Bowl, confidently predicting it will be close. Later, the family is watching the game, and it's anything but, with the New Orleans Saints routing the Indianapolis Colts, 54-3, at halftime.note In real life, Super Bowl XXXII (which was held on January 25, 1998, four days after the episodeâ€™s original airing) saw defending Super Bowl XXXI champions, the Green Bay Packers, lose to the Denver Broncos, 31â€“24.
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Smart Guy / int_eb6912	type	Pretty Fly for a White Guy
Smart Guy / int_eb6912	comment	Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Invoked word-for-word by Yvette in "The Graduate", when Mackey streaks at the senior class graduation after T.J.'s pancake batter cannon prank fails.
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Smart Guy / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Smart Guy / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: In a season five episode of Sister, Sister, T.J. is hired as an S.A.T. tutor to the girls (apparently being flown in to do it, as Sister, Sister is set in Detroit, while Smart Guy is set in Washington, D.C.). Ray, Tamera's father, even title drops the series.
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Smart Guy / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Smart Guy / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Marcus has a few moments of this in regards to T.J. (particularly in the Pilot Episode), but they are caused by his insensitivity, frustration with his brother or lack of good judgement, he is not actually a mean person and usually recognizes what he did wrong by the end of the episode.
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Smart Guy / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Smart Guy / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: In "Love Bug," just as Marcus is about to kiss Erica Drew while on their house date, T.J. calls Marcus to pick him up after he falls ill after inadvertently eating shellfish hidden in the stuffing at a sleepover.
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Smart Guy / int_ecee5a56	type	A Lady on Each Arm
Smart Guy / int_ecee5a56	comment	A Lady on Each Arm: T.J. has not two, but three girls on his arm at the end of "Baby, It's You and You and You", after the spectacular failure of a plan by Marcus and Mo to keep the girls from running into each other leads him to decide to take the three dates set up by Marcus, Yvette and Floyd to the Piedmont school dance. Mo gets this treatment during the episode "Gotta Dance" when an aptitude test indicates that he's best suited as a motivational speaker and brings with it the popularity with the ladies. Unfortunately for him, this is undone at the end of that episode when Vice Principal Militich informs him that his actual aptitude test result got mixed up with another student's, revealing his best-suited career path as:
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Smart Guy / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
Smart Guy / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: In "Love Bug," T.J. runs into the bathroom to throw up after eating oysters (he's allergic to shellfish) hidden in the stuffing at a sleepover. Not even puking up seafood deters him from being the smart guy: Carl, one of Marcus and Deion's friends who attended a house party at the Henderson house that Marcus had broken up moments earlier, vomits on the walkway in "Henderson House Party," just as Floyd comes home while they are carrying Carl out.
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Smart Guy / int_ee77f7f0	comment	Wall Slump: Mo does this after Marcus shoves him against the locker doors (as part of Marcus' plan to impress his crush Janice, which Mo was in on) in "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl".
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Smart Guy / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Smart Guy / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. Reagan Gomez (then credited as Reagan Gomez-Preston) and Tinsley Grimes play characters named Nina in different seasons (the African-American Gomez plays Nina Duperly, Marcus and T.J.'s love interest in "Love Letters;" Caucasian Grimes plays Nina [No Last Name Given], Yvette's best friend in several season three episodes).
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Smart Guy / int_f0fc8518	type	High-School Dance
Smart Guy / int_f0fc8518	comment	High-School Dance: Once a Season. Depicted in "Baby, It's You, and You and You" (season one), "The Dating Game" (season two) and "A Date with Destiny" (season three).
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Smart Guy / int_f1176f36	type	Second-Person Attack
Smart Guy / int_f1176f36	comment	Second-Person Attack: "Beating is Fundamental" has T.J. punch Blake Jordan after the latter disses T.J.'s family for being working class, which then goes to a Hit Flash wipe to Floyd asking T.J. (from T.J.'s point of view) "you hit him [Blake]?!.
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Smart Guy / int_f1462f0b	type	Smoking Is Not Cool
Smart Guy / int_f1462f0b	comment	Smoking Is Not Cool: Invoked twice by T.J. in the teaser of "The Code," before he is caught holding the cigarette Mo dropped on the boys' bathroom floor by Principal Dowling: A few seconds later, after Marcus and Mo leave:
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Smart Guy / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Smart Guy / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: T.J., being a genius, delves into this on occasion. He gets called out on it in "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl," when he stumbles upon a computer diary entry from Janice, a girl whom he is working on a Lizzie Borden report withnote Janice's diary accidentally ends up on T.J.'s computer as they are file-sharing their reports.. Noting this, T.J. later has to break down his previous statement in Laymen's terms, during a meeting with Janice about their report:
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Smart Guy / int_f2ced7b8	comment	Surprise Party: In "That's My Momma," Mo's parents Delroy and Verla Mae arrange for Mo's birthday party to be held at the Henderson house (since their home is being fumigated due to an infestation of Australian bulldog ants that arrived at their house via a mail-order meat shipment). Mo finds out about the party beforehand from a phone message, however when Mo gives a hammy expression of surprise, Marcus, T.J. and Yvette are definitely not convinced.
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Smart Guy / int_f75cf3bd	type	Terrible Interviewees Montage
Smart Guy / int_f75cf3bd	comment	Terrible Interviewees Montage: In "Don't Do That Thing You Do," the members of Marcus' band Mackadocious audition for a replacement for their keyboardist, who broke his finger. One guy plays well but is on the run from the police, the second auditionee is an attractive girl who is mediocre at the keyboard (though Mo likes her) and the third is an accordion player who treats the instrument as Serious Business.
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Smart Guy / int_f9c3ecc6	type	Series Fauxnale
Smart Guy / int_f9c3ecc6	comment	Series Fauxnale: "The Graduate," which focuses on Yvette deciding not to go to her high school graduation due to the fact that her late mother won't be there, was clearly intended to be the show's series finale (or just a season finale, if The WB had renewed it for a fourth season). However, "Never Too Young," which was presumably intended to air before "The Graduate," aired the week after that episode.
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Smart Guy / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: An occasional running gag has Marcus and Mo doing a "happy dance," which varies depending on the episode which it is featured. Marcus does it for the first time in "Brother, Brother," Mo joins him in doing the dance for the first time in "T.J. Versus the Machine".
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Smart Guy / int_fb56b948	type	My Sister Is Off-Limits
Smart Guy / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: T.J.'s reaction to Blake trying to peep into Yvette's bedroom using a jerry-rigged camera in "Beating is Fundamental".
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Smart Guy / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Smart Guy / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: In "Stop the Presses," to get back at Yvette for bribing Mo to give her a scoop for the school newspaper that was intended for his own tabloid The Weekly Veritas, T.J. decides to make her the "Girl of the Week" in his paper. Mesmerized by seeing T.J. seamlessly edit the both of them out of a photo taken of them and Yvette â€“ who's clad in a one-piece swimsuit â€“ at the beach on a Photoshop analogue, Marcus asks T.J. to cut Yvette out of the picture next; T.J. then has to explain the plan to him. This exchange in "Goodbye, Mr. Chimps," when Marcus and Mo figure out that they wound up in a pyramid scheme concocted by Deion to sell Alpha Boost 2000 nutrition bars:
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Smart Guy / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Smart Guy / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In "Rooferman, Take One",note (the episode in which TJ talks Floyd into making a commercial for his business, but it ends up airing in the middle of the night rather than during prime time as the sales manager of the station they sell it to omits that the ad's contractually promised 8:00 to 10:00 slot is actually between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m.) after Floyd discusses his roofing businessâ€™ advertising contract with a representative for (the fictional) WDCS-TV, the latter mentions the station's upcoming coverage of the Super Bowl, confidently predicting it will be close. Later, the family is watching the game, and it's anything but, with the New Orleans Saints routing the Indianapolis Colts, 54-3, at halftime.note In real life, Super Bowl XXXII (which was held on January 25, 1998, four days after the episodeâ€™s original airing) saw defending Super Bowl XXXI champions, the Green Bay Packers, lose to the Denver Broncos, 31â€“24. In "Dumbstruck," Floyd and Yvette find out that T.J. (whose IQ temporarily declined after accidentally being hit by two 2x4s) has regained his intelligence after the former finds a copy of the Journal of Quantum Mechanics hidden inside a decoy Archie comic book. Floyd "recalls" a story from said comic when confronting T.J. about hiding his smarts, with the latter playing along until Floyd reveals it was made up and knows T.J.â€™s started reading his science magazines again. After Floyd advises T.J. that he shouldnâ€™t have to pretend heâ€™s unintelligent in order to fit in (while leaving it to his son whether to come clean), T.J. remarks that Floydâ€™s fictional Archie storyline was pretty clever, and suggests it be submitted to Archie Comics. During The Stinger, Floyd is shown on a computer writing an extension of the scene he made up, supposedly to send it to Archie Comics.
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Smart Guy	hasFeature	Breakthrough Hit / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Catapult Nightmare / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Child Prodigy / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Confusion Fu / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Digital Piracy Is Evil / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	F-- / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Feigning Intelligence / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	G-Rated Drug / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Grade Skipper / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Grounded Forever / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Happy Dance / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Hollywood Spelling / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	I Was Just Joking / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Improbably High I.Q. / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Innocent Prodigy / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Just the Way You Are / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Kid Com / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Kitschy Local Commercial / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Magic Feather / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Middle Name Basis / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Monochrome Casting / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	One-Letter Name / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Opinion-Changing Dream / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Playground Song / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Playing Cyrano / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Profiling / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Pronouncing My Name for You / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Start My Own / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Status Quo Game Show / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Strategy, Schmategy / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Straw Loser / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Super Bowl Special / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Therapy Backfire / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Token White / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Too Dumb to Fool / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Two-Timer Date / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Versus Title / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Written-In Absence / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Ordered to Cheat / int_124e4ce9
Smart Guy	hasFeature	Plank Gag / int_124e4ce9

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