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Still Standing

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Still Standing	comment	Still Standing is a family Sitcom that aired on CBS for four seasons from 2002-2006, characterized by notoriously bad parents. Despite this fact, their three kids are actually (relatively) well-adjusted.Set in Chicago, Bill Miller (Mark Addy) and his wife Judy (Jami Gertz) have never really given up their high-school antics, despite having three children to raise: brainy Brian (Taylor Ball), spoiled Lauren (Renee Olstead), and strange little Tina (Soleil Borda). Judy's unlucky-in-love sister Linda (Jennifer Irwin) often pops in to trade barbs with Bill. The end of episodes usually deal with a role reversal by having the kids teach a lesson to the adults.Has nothing to do with the Glurge-filled Strawman Political autobiography penned by a Miss USA contestant, the documentary/stand-up series about troubled small towns in Canada, or the Elton John song "I'm Still Standing".
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Still Standing / int_1153199	type	Fat and Proud
Still Standing / int_1153199	comment	Fat and Proud: Bill is out of shape, overweight, and proud of it.
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Still Standing / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
Still Standing / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Al is getting remarried, and Bill is annoyed by his soon-to-be stepbrother Billy. Then again, he's about thirty years older than him, and much of it is due to jealousy.
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Still Standing / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
Still Standing / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: From "Still Hangin' Out" (Season 2, Episode 20): The lamp when Judy is naked and rubbing lotion on herself while Matthew Halverson (son of neighbors Ted and Kathy) is watching by jumping on the trampoline that she and Bill had mistakenly positioned under the window.note The plot of the episode is that Bill and Judy were competing with Ted and Kathy over whose house was the coolest place at which the neighborhood kids could hang out. The trampoline was one of Bill and Judy's ideas.
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Still Standing / int_14b85a5f	type	Fat Idiot
Still Standing / int_14b85a5f	comment	Fat Idiot: Bill has these moments from time to time.
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Still Standing / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Still Standing / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In one episode, Bill's mother Louise is planning to get married, which delights Bill as he thinks she'll stop her constant meddling once she has someone else to pay attention to. Just as Bill is saying that everything is going smoothly, in comes his father Al announcing that he's planning to stop the wedding and remarry Louise.
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Still Standing / int_186c2c62	type	Diet Episode
Still Standing / int_186c2c62	comment	Diet Episode: One episode sees Linda date a younger and extremely physically fit man, which prompts Bill and Judy to try to exercise more. Unfortunately, they're both horribly out of shape, but that doesn't stop them from trying to hide their pain from one another.
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Still Standing / int_1e989916	type	Smuggling with Dolls
Still Standing / int_1e989916	comment	Smuggling with Dolls: In "Still Holding," Bill still owns the teddy bear he used to hide marijuana back in high school - named "Smokey from Mellow Stone Park." Lauren accidentally donates the bear to Tina's pediatrician for his anti-drug toy drive, without realizing it still has pot in it. Bill and Judy spend the remainder of the episode trying to steal it back from the doctor (it ends up in the hands of his granddaughter, who Lauren is babysitting for).
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Still Standing / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Still Standing / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Brian, again.
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Still Standing / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Still Standing / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When Judy is plotting a scheme to get the The Rolling Stones (Band) tickets from their friends, you can see Tina walking into the kitchen, picking up a large cutting knife, then walking off. And then Lauren runs in looking scared.
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Still Standing / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Still Standing / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Lauren is actually a very good singer. Her actress has also appeared on stage for charity and on the radio.
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Still Standing / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Still Standing / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Since Al's stepson is named "Billy", he begins to call older Bill "Bumpy".
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Still Standing / int_33ba31cc	type	Grade Skipper
Still Standing / int_33ba31cc	comment	Grade Skipper: Despite Linda being a few years younger than Judy and Bill, she graduated high school the same year that they did because she was academically gifted.
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Still Standing / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
Still Standing / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: When a lesbian couple move in next door, Bill fantasizes about them and thinks a plant holder in their living room is a sex apparatus.
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Still Standing / int_342f0ffa	type	Discriminate and Switch
Still Standing / int_342f0ffa	comment	Discriminate and Switch: Bill telling Judy that Brian's employer likes the White Sox in Still Our Kids:
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Still Standing / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Still Standing / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Mark Addy slipped in and out from his natural British accent and his character's American accent.
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Still Standing / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
Still Standing / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Brian.
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Still Standing / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Still Standing / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Bill's and Judy's attempts to cover up their latest schemes often rely on this. In just one example, Judy discovers that Bill prepared a bad version of one meal to get out of cooking, then made a good version for himself and hid in the bathroom to eat it.
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Still Standing / int_4766ca14	type	Volleying Insults
Still Standing / int_4766ca14	comment	Volleying Insults: This is pretty much the entirety of Bill and Linda's interaction with each other.
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Still Standing / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
Still Standing / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Louise, Bill's mother, frequently butts in on Judy's parenting and tries to steal her thunder. Unlike most examples, though, a big part of the obnoxiousness is that Judy and Louise have a lot in common, and Judy doesn't like to be reminded of that. Averted with Judy's mother Helen, who gets along great with Bill.
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Still Standing / int_4efe80e1	type	Lazy Bum
Still Standing / int_4efe80e1	comment	Lazy Bum: Bill can lean toward this, and he's even proud of it (or at the very least doesn't bother to correct those who call him out). In one example, the doorbell rings:
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Still Standing / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Still Standing / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The living room and kitchen looked completely different in the pilot and were on opposite ends of the house.
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Still Standing / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
Still Standing / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Tina, by far the youngest family member, is often seen as the most clever.
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Still Standing / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Still Standing / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: In one episode, after Bill takes Brian to a strip club for his 18th birthday, the family starts getting worried because Brian keeps going all the time, quitting his tutoring job with the school and even the sleaze-bag strip club owner says he doesn't like what Brian's doing with the girls. When they storm the back room to confront him and see him... tutoring the girls to get their GEDs. Then the truth is revealed (the girls paid better than the school, sleaze-bag doesn't want the girls to leave, etc.)
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Still Standing / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Still Standing / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Bill and Judy are both this. Neither of them did well in school and have no post-secondary education (well, technically Bill did go to college briefly, but flunked out after a few weeks). Lauren is also said to get poor grades in school and slacks off when it comes to homework. This is all in contrast to Linda and Brian, with Linda even skipping a few grades.
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Still Standing / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Still Standing / int_561dab6b	comment	Brian being Mistaken for Gay, which is in nearly every post-season 1 episode.
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Still Standing / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Still Standing / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Averted - Judy might have more common sense and be less hotheaded, but she's still as thickheaded and immature as Bill.
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Still Standing / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
Still Standing / int_583ec33e	comment	Bill and Linda's Snark-to-Snark Combat.
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Still Standing / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
Still Standing / int_5860c090	comment	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: The Halversons act as this to the Millers.
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Still Standing / int_5c9ccf46	type	One of the Kids
Still Standing / int_5c9ccf46	comment	One of the Kids: Bill and Judy. Made even worse due to the fact they have three children. Perry, Linda's recurring boyfriend and eventual husband, also acts this way. He's notably one of the only people on the show who genuinely gets along with Tina, who's a Creepy Child.
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Still Standing / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Still Standing / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Bill.
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Still Standing / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
Still Standing / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: One episode involves Brian being embarrassed about his penis size in the showers after gym class. While Bill and Judy assume the issue is that he is underwhelming, it's eventually explained that the problem is that he "stands out" over everyone else.
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Still Standing / int_68a171b6	type	Sadist Show
Still Standing / int_68a171b6	comment	Sadist Show: A lot of the things that Bill and Judy do to their kids would probably get them in trouble with Social Services in real life.
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Still Standing / int_69cc2a27	type	Hilariously Abusive Childhood
Still Standing / int_69cc2a27	comment	Hilariously Abusive Childhood: You can bet Brian, Lauren, and Tina will have some...interesting stories of the constant taunting and belittling from their parents. But they tend to mean well and really love their kids. Their failures in parenting are usually just fleeting jokes. The last episode is kind of an easy one to use as evidence, with Judy and Bill breaking down over Brian leaving for college, but it's only one a bunch of moments where it's easy to root for (at least Judy) them for showing just how much they love their kids. It's hinted that Bill had one, in one episode he mentions that his father made him fight a dog to settle a bet.
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Still Standing / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Still Standing / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Brian and Lauren's middle names are Hops and Barley, respectively.
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Still Standing / int_702c2de3	type	Line-of-Sight Alias
Still Standing / int_702c2de3	comment	Line-of-Sight Alias: Subverted. Brian claims he's holding a condom in his wallet for a friend named Dorian. The parents ground him, thinking he made up the name while staring at the front door. Turns out he actually has a friend named Dorian, but the condom really was Brian's.
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Still Standing / int_71038217	type	Wrench Wench
Still Standing / int_71038217	comment	Wrench Wench: Judy changes the oil in Bill's car.
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Still Standing / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Still Standing / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Well, sister-sister incest, actually. In one episode, Judy thinks she got groped by her mother-in-law's boyfriend while he was hugging her, so she tries to recreate the moment with her sister Linda by hugging her and grabbing her ass. Both of them seem to enjoy it (Judy even makes a comment about Linda having tight glutes). Linda lampshades this later on when Judy wears tight pants in order to try and see if the boyfriend will try to grab her ass again.
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Still Standing / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
Still Standing / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Tina, the youngest Miller (she seems to be about seven), could get extremely creepy at times. The fact that she was often the cleverest member of the family and able to be The Chessmaster before entering third grade was occasionally acknowledged In-Universe.
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Still Standing / int_7ac5c1de	type	Unishment
Still Standing / int_7ac5c1de	comment	Unishment: In the pilot, Lauren misbehaves, and Bill responds by telling her to go to her room. When Judy reminds Bill she has a TV and a stereo in her room, he then gets wise and tells her to go to his room.
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Still Standing / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Still Standing / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: While Bill and Judy aren't good parents themselves to their three children, they relate with Brian the least, even announcing that they won't know who he is if he fails at something. One time, they even stole money from him. Linda is heavily implied to have been this with her parents - who direct most of their attention and concern to Judy, routinely ignoring her whenever she attempts to seek their approval (Gene even turns up the volume on the TV when she tries talking to him about her own achievements).
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Still Standing / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Still Standing / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: Two in-universe examples were mentioned, Played for Laughs: In one, Judy mentioned how Bill once wanted to build a treetop casino because it wouldn't be subject to "the laws of the ground." In another, Bill wanted to share a beer with Brian to recreate a memorable father-son bonding he had done with his father before Brian leaves to study abroad in Italy. When teenaged Brian asks if that's illegal, Bill tells him airports are like International Waters and immune from local law. This one is averted though, as he readily admits he's lying, he just wanted Brian to shut up.
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Still Standing / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Still Standing / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In "Still Parading," Fitz's son Scotty asks Brian on a date, revealing himself as a Manly Gay. Bill and Judy are terrified about having to tell Fitz the truth, and when they finally blurt it out, Fitz remarks that he's stunned...because he didn't realize that Scotty was ready to start telling non-family members. It turns out that Fitz and Marion are both completely aware of their son's homosexuality and don't care at all, instead supporting him. The Cold Open of one episode has Judy calling everyone into the kitchen to complain that there's been a dirty cooking pot on the table for days. She deliberately left it there to see who, if anyone, would wash it or at least move it to the sink, and storms out after saying that she fully expects it to be gone when she gets back. Bill sighs that she seems serious...and then takes out a pad and paper to ask which of them has won their bet about how long it would take Judy to comment on the cooking pot (it's Tina, who immediately demands they pay up).
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Still Standing / int_894f9af7	type	Lazy Alias
Still Standing / int_894f9af7	comment	Lazy Alias: When he has to put in a fake bid at a silent auction, Bill uses the name Mill Biller.
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Still Standing / int_8aa92e8d	type	Minor Flaw, Major Breakup
Still Standing / int_8aa92e8d	comment	Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: In "Still in School", Linda reunites with her former high school boyfriend Steve Upton. She and Steve end up sleeping together and Linda tells Judy that he's perfect in every way. Until she finds out that he doesn't like The Beatles. In high school, they broke up because Steve ordered a plain burger and Linda couldn't deal with it.
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Still Standing / int_a6c677c4	type	Not Hyperbole
Still Standing / int_a6c677c4	comment	Not Hyperbole: In one episode, little Tina comes into Bill and Judy's bed to say that she can't sleep because she's "antsy." They try to soothe her and start drifting off...only to realize that Tina is covered with actual ants, and she explains that she already told them that!
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Still Standing / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Still Standing / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: "Still Cooking" reveals that Bill has secretly become an accomplished chef after watching late-night cooking shows. He keeps it a secret because he doesn't want to do any work around the house, and when Judy finds out, he even goes so far as to deliberately ruin a meal to try to get out of making dinner. Judy catches on when Bill secretly whips up a delicious version of the same meal and tries to eat it in the bathroom. Though it turns out that Judy is turned off by Bill's effeminate behavior in the kitchen and he still gets out of it.
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Still Standing / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Still Standing / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Fitz's wife, Marion. There was an entire episode dedicated to this, with such friends being deemed "The Marion." Bill and Judy themselves have been this several times, including in the aforementioned episode.
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Still Standing / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Still Standing / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All the episodes are "Still (something relevant to the episode)" except the pilot episode.
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Still Standing / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Still Standing / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Beer and Pizza for Bill.
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Still Standing / int_b1da6ff6	type	St. Patrick's Day Episode
Still Standing / int_b1da6ff6	comment	St. Patrick's Day Episode: In "Still Parading," Bill tries to bond with Brian by helping him build a St. Patrick's Day parade float, only to modify and destroy it. Meanwhile, Lauren dreads the humiliation she's going to suffer when the uncoordinated Judy performs her Irish River Dance at the parade. Both kids end up getting a surprise: Bill dresses as a leprechaun to replace the figures he destroyed, and Judy finds that she becomes a great dancer after drinking Tina's cough medicine.
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Still Standing / int_b5060b63	type	The Lad-ette
Still Standing / int_b5060b63	comment	The Lad-ette: Judy, who was just as willing to crack open a beer and watch a Chicago Bears game as her husband Bill. She often tried to claim that she was the more "intellectual" and cultured of the pair, but often ended up getting into just as much trouble as he did. One episode even lampshaded it: Tina, the family's youngest daughter, has a spider in her room, and runs to her mother to kill it, which upsets Bill and sends him on a quest to prove his status as the "man of the house."
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Still Standing / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Still Standing / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "I thought you were watching Behind the Music?" "It was Amy Grant. There was nothing Behind the Music." "That is so wrong!" "No, what's wrong is that I'm watching The View!"
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Still Standing / int_b5785433	comment	The Cold Open of one episode has Judy calling everyone into the kitchen to complain that there's been a dirty cooking pot on the table for days. She deliberately left it there to see who, if anyone, would wash it or at least move it to the sink, and storms out after saying that she fully expects it to be gone when she gets back. Bill sighs that she seems serious...and then takes out a pad and paper to ask which of them has won their bet about how long it would take Judy to comment on the cooking pot (it's Tina, who immediately demands they pay up).
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Still Standing / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Still Standing / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Bill is always hoping for Brian to meet a girl and get laid, but gets riled up any time Lauren even mentions boys, though it is only due to him being Mistaken for Gay. This is a pretty common Double Standard in real life.
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Still Standing / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Still Standing / int_b9c3de84	comment	Bumbling Dad: Present as expected in a sitcom. But what makes this case stand out is that Bill and Judy are both incompetent parents.
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Still Standing / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
Still Standing / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: Played with in one episode-Brian starts spending more time with Linda and they do things together like see musicals, go out to dinner and even go on a carriage ride, then Lauren tells her that Brian and her are basically dating since Brian started going places with Linda after his girlfriend dumped him, so Brian is essentially looking at her as his replacement girlfriend. Linda naturally gets squicked out by this and tells Brian that they should stop seeing each other because of the "awkwardness" Brian is also sickened at the thought of it. Then at the end, Brian tries to sneak out of the house with Lauren to go see a musical and Linda catches him, Brian then realizes he's doing the same thing with Lauren that he did with Linda and gets squicked out again.
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Still Standing / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Still Standing / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Linda is implied to be this, and has a different boyfriend in most episodes, but she seems to want to get married.
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Still Standing / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Still Standing / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The overweight Bill and the thin Judy.
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Still Standing / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Still Standing / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: Bill and Judy still wish it was the eighties, when they ruled their high school.
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Still Standing / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Still Standing / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Played for Laughs in "Still Cooking." When Brian learns of Bill's prowess in the kitchen, he blurts out the news to Judy when his father refuses to bribe him to keep the secret. Bill immediately declares "From now on, Lauren is my first-born son." The payoff comes when the kids are eating later, and Brian remarks that his talking about the situation worked out well for everyone.
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Still Standing / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Still Standing / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Several of Bill's friends/coworkers, such as Carl, Jerry Bergner and Jeff Hackman were phased out of the show early on and replaced by the likes of Daniel "Fitz" Fitzsimmons, Maxwell "Mack" McDaniels and Kyle Polsky. Judy and Linda's father Gene only appeared in two episodes before vanishing.
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Still Standing / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Still Standing / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: When Joel Murray was added to the main credits in the later seasons, he was listed last as "with Joel Murray".
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Still Standing / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Still Standing / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Perry, Linda's boyfriend.
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Still Standing / int_ce993654	type	Hollywood Genetics
Still Standing / int_ce993654	comment	Hollywood Genetics: Lauren's red hair sticks out among her brunette parents and siblings. Though her maternal grandmother is a redhead, so it's not impossible.
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Still Standing / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Still Standing / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Bill and Linda have this relationship—the two snark at each other constantly, but they do get along and like each other deep down.
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Still Standing / int_d85c505	type	Racist Grandma
Still Standing / int_d85c505	comment	Racist Grandma: Bill's mother had this occasionally. At her engagement party, "Who bought me a rice cooker? My fiance is Asian, I'm marrying a rice cooker." Bill's father, Al is stated to be racist as well, but, apart from mentioning a convenience store being owned by "Romanian bastards" it comes across as an Informed Flaw.
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Still Standing / int_da484c4a	type	Drunken Master
Still Standing / int_da484c4a	comment	Drunken Master: A variation—in "Still Parading," Judy and Lauren take an Irish step-dancing class to participate in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. It turns out Judy is a horrific dancer, which confuses her, as she's always been amazing whenever she goes to parties. Linda points out that Judy was always drunk out of her mind at those parties, which gives Judy an idea—she downs some of Tina's cold medicine and finds that as long as she's high on it, she can move like she's in Riverdance.
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Still Standing / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Still Standing / int_dc020791	comment	It's Been Done: Perry writes a song that happens to have the same tune as KISS's "Rock and Roll All Nite". This is also played with in "Still Going First." Perry offers Bill a romantic poem to try to win Judy over after a fight. The end of the episode reveals that Perry actually took the words from an erectile dysfunction commercial.
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Still Standing / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Still Standing / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: In the show's first Christmas Episode, Judy takes Tina to see a Mall Santa, but the poor guy has a massive seizure while she's there, prompting her to become scared of St. Nick. Bill and Judy try to fix the problem by producing an old Santa doll...only for its head to immediately come off. Next, Judy suggests that Bill don a costume of his own to soothe Tina's phobia—but the suit he finds just so happens to be infested with spiders. Thus, when Tina enters the room, she sees "Santa" wildly flailing his arms and screaming "I'LL KILL YOU ALL!" Needless to say, it doesn't help her fears at all.
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Still Standing / int_e0804063	type	Even Nerds Have Standards
Still Standing / int_e0804063	comment	Even Nerds Have Standards: Brian likes a lot of nerdy things, but after learning that he has to take square dancing in order to pass gym class, he balks and says that square dancing is lame.
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Still Standing / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Still Standing / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Lauren, usually. This role is also sometimes filled by Perry, Linda's on-again-off-again boyfriend/fiance/husband.
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Still Standing / int_e399c1dd	type	Manly Gay
Still Standing / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: Scotty, Fitz's son, qualifies as he's a Big Man on Campus jock character who hits on Brian and even asks him out when they work on a float for the parade together.
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Still Standing / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Still Standing / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: In "Still Bill Vol. 1," Bill's dad Al bonds with his new fiancee Joy's young son Billy. Bill is hurt to see his father spending time with the boy, but later discovers that the kid genuinely loves Al and thinks the world of him. Bill then takes his father to task for his habit of making promises and breaking them, and makes Al take Billy to a science museum.
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Still Standing / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Still Standing / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Bill once took Tina to a Bar - AND GRILLE.note In all fairness, taking a child to a Bar and Grille isn't actually as bad as they made it out to be - many restaurants that are child-friendly have a bar, and some even allow children to sit in the bar (as long as they don't have any liquor) if they don't have any space to seat them in the main restaurant. Otherwise, a bar and grille will put a customer with children in an area away from the bar.
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Still Standing / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Still Standing / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Bill and Judy in the first two seasons are depicted as a slightly eccentric married couple with an unconventional parenting style but who still ultimately are good parents. By the fourth and final season, they're cartoonishly over the top about it; bonding with another couple over hating their kids (in "Still the Fun One"), telling Fitz and Marian that ganging up on Brian is something they can both enjoy as a couple, and not even caring when he angrily calls them out as "horrible, horrible people that nobody else could ever love" (in "Still a Team"). Subverted at the conclusion of the series finale when Brian moves out (for all their talk, they realize they can't go through with tearing Brian's room down and instead choose to keep it the same to prove he's always welcome in their home).
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Still Standing / int_e9c022ea	type	Secretly Wealthy
Still Standing / int_e9c022ea	comment	Secretly Wealthy: When Al is getting remarried, his fiancee Joy tells Bill that she's not marrying Al for his money, which Bill assumes means that Al lied about his finances to Joy. As it turns out, Al is a millionaire and has been hiding it for years. He won a large sum of money in a lawsuit and invested wisely, owning a stock portfolio, an apartment building, an amusement park and a few KFC Franchises.
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Still Standing / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: After Bill catches a boy in Lauren's room (who's actually tutoring her in algebra) Lauren asks Bill if he can get the door on his way out. Gilligan Cut to Bill carrying her bedroom door down the stairs.
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Still Standing / int_ed07a226	type	No More for Me
Still Standing / int_ed07a226	comment	No More for Me: In The Stinger of "Still Parading," Lauren, Judy, Bill, and Brian all do some Irish step-dancing, with the latter two in full leprechaun costumes. Tina wanders in to get her daily dose of cough medicine (which has been shown throughout the episode as capable of getting people drunk), sees the unexplained party, and says "I think I've had enough" as she dumps the bottle in the trash.
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Still Standing / int_edd102ba	type	Soul-Sucking Retail Job
Still Standing / int_edd102ba	comment	Soul-Sucking Retail Job: Bill sells toilets for a living and clearly hates it. In one episode, Judy tries to ask how his day was, and he remarks that they can save a few seconds every evening by simply assuming that it was awful.
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Still Standing / int_ede89ad6	type	Parental Hypocrisy
Still Standing / int_ede89ad6	comment	Parental Hypocrisy: The parents were complete Jerkasses in high school, so they often run into this trope when disciplining their children.
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Still Standing / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Still Standing / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Perry, Linda's recurring boyfriend and eventual husband, also acts this way. He's notably one of the only people on the show who genuinely gets along with Tina, who's a Creepy Child.
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Still Standing / int_f6b5441c	type	Right in Front of Me
Still Standing / int_f6b5441c	comment	Right in Front of Me: Bill and his co-workers are goofing off at work when a college-age fellow calls them out on it. Not realizing that this kid is their new manager, they blow him off and continue goofing.
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Still Standing / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Still Standing / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Several: Brian being Mistaken for Gay, which is in nearly every post-season 1 episode. Bill being caught doing something dangerous and/or stupid, only for Judy to be caught doing something even worse than what Bill did. Bill and Linda's Snark-to-Snark Combat. Tina's creepy child moments.
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Still Standing / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
Still Standing / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: Linda is in her late thirties and is unmarried with no children. It bothers her greatly. She does date a lot, but they never turn into anything serious due to her neurotic behavior and low self-esteem causing her to gravitate towards obnoxious men. She eventually does get married to Perry in the show's final seasons.
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Still Standing / int_fff67ce9	type	Stacy's Mom
Still Standing / int_fff67ce9	comment	Stacy's Mom: Judy plays this role for Brian's and Lauren's friends—they clearly think she's attractive and often openly ogle her. In one episode, the Millers' house becomes a popular teen hangout because a trampoline in the backyard allows guys to jump up and see Judy while changing in the bedroom. Another episode has Brian volunteering to help out at a widow's house. Bill and Judy initially think she's a little old lady—and then discover that she's played by Bo Derek.
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