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Supernanny

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Supernanny	comment	A Reality TV show produced by Ricochet which originated in the United Kingdom. It's about Jo Frost helping parents who are struggling with their children's behavior. The UK version aired on Channel 4 from 2004-2012, and the US version on ABC from 2005-2011.Professional nanny Jo Frost devotes each episode to helping a family where the parents are struggling with their child rearing. Through instruction and observation, she shows the parents alternative ways to discipline their children and regain order in their households. Frost is a proponent of the "naughty chair" theory of discipline, and is strictly opposed to spanking.In May of 2019, eight years after the U.S. version ended its run, it was announced that the show would be seeing a U.S.-based revival, set to air on Lifetime rather than ABC, which debuted on New Year's Eve of 2019. Watch the launch trailer here.See also It's Me or the Dog for the canine equivalent (which is also produced by Ricochet), and My Cat from Hell for the feline equivalent.
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Supernanny / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
Supernanny / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Several examples of this in families, but one notable example in "The Young Family" is Shermie and Shelby to 13-year old Dylan. They constantly invade his room and touch his things, and he feels like he has to be a parent to them over his actual parents.
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Supernanny / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Supernanny / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The other series Family SOS with Jo Frost is, in some ways, a reincarnation of this show, but often deals with much more serious issues. The kids are usually older, and parents generally have deep-seated marriage issues, a history of abuse, or other problems. Some older kids are downright violent with family members. Social issues tend to be deeper and more controversial as well; a later episode had Jo helping a teenager who had recently come out as a lesbian. The British original series is this to the American series. The British version doesn't have any goofy sound effects, and keeps the pervasively 'funny' music to scenes where children are actually doing good things, and is often released without any swearing being censored.
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Supernanny / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Supernanny / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy/Cool Old Lady: A lot of the grandparents featured on the show.
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Supernanny / int_184e7708	type	Hands-Off Parenting
Supernanny / int_184e7708	comment	Hands-Off Parenting: Sometimes.
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Supernanny / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Supernanny / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: The children who often act out at home will also usually pick on their friends as well should they happen to be over at their house. A good example of this is "The Weston Family", where Andrew picks on Anaya by drawing on her paper, then yelling at her when she tries to build with blocks.
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Supernanny / int_1c6dc230	type	Dad the Veteran
Supernanny / int_1c6dc230	comment	Dad the Veteran: Jo has helped a couple of families with dads in the service, notably the Merrills and McMillions. Tom Silva is preparing for a deployment to Iraq for up to a year and a half and while much of the focus is to help his wife handle their blended family of seven children by herself, Jo also encouraged him and his oldest daughter Meghan to work on their relationship. He gave her a pocket watch that belonged to his grandfather so that she could have something of strong sentimental value to think about him.
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Supernanny / int_20952a1	type	Product Displacement
Supernanny / int_20952a1	comment	Product Displacement: Happens in plenty of episodes as products part of popular brands such as foods, beverages, toys, etc. are blurred.
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Supernanny / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Supernanny / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: At least before Jo works her magic. Jo can also be quite sympathetic to stressed-out parents who want to do the best they can for their kids but are falling short due to extenuating circumstances, such as Dad the Veteran situations or situations where one parent is gone.
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Supernanny / int_211c82f5	type	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!
Supernanny / int_211c82f5	comment	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: See Abusive Parents; an especially bad example is the Davis family.
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Supernanny / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Supernanny / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: The name "Blythe" means happy, and Blythe Newsome is anything but; she had to move, she had a divorce, AND lost her nanny to cancer.
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Supernanny / int_32c96ed3	type	Magical Nanny
Supernanny / int_32c96ed3	comment	Magical Nanny: In every aspect except truly being magical. Jo enters troubled households, lays down the law, teaches the parents and bonds with the kids. After she feels that the family is under control and happier, Jo leaves to help another family.
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Supernanny / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Supernanny / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Throughout the episodes, it is eventually seen how Jo's support makes the kids and any less-than-pleasant parents so much kinder than they were shown in the beginning.
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Supernanny / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
Supernanny / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: There are bound to be episodes where the older siblings are abusive towards their younger siblings; for example, Andrew Weston constantly acts aggressive towards his baby brother Sean.
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Supernanny / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Supernanny / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: In a particularly dark and sad example, one five-year-old boy featured on the Extreme Parental Guidance spin-off spent most of his time dressed up in superhero costumes, and hinted at genuinely believing he had superpowers. The reason for this? His younger sister was diagnosed with a brain disorder called Rett Syndrome, and the news devastated his parents so much that they flat-out refused to talk to him for several months at a time and found it easier for him to lapse into fantasy. As a result, the boy believed that one day, he'd 'fix' his sister's brain, and began to believe he had superpowers. This affected his lifestyle, with him falling behind at school as he couldn't listen and concentrate without lapsing into fantasyland.
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Supernanny / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Supernanny / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: The Merrill kids are all adopted, two from Ghana and two from Guatemala. Some families, like the Walkers, are also raising a niece or nephew along with the biological kids.
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Supernanny / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Supernanny / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Some mild examples. In early seasons, when Jo said something like, "That's unacceptable behavior," it came out sounding like "unacceptable" had two soft C's, being pronounced as Unuhsseptable. In fact, Meghann Cooke very rudely called her on it. It improved markedly in later seasons. In some early episodes, Jo does not fully explain all techniques, or she may perform a technique slightly differently than she was known to in later years.
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Supernanny / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Supernanny / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: In the Bixley family episode, the parents are reprimanded for punishing their son for being the picky eater by giving him a fast-food meal (which he happily gobbled up), even though, prior to Jo's intervention, he was in the habit of screaming in fear of it until he threw up. Jo often deals with parents who engage in this, whether they're physically or verbally abusive, they give discipline that doesn't fit the issue at hand, or misuse Jo's techniques. One example is the Benton mom, who got so mad at one of her boys that she started giving him time-outs lasting as long as an hour. In one episode, a preschooler threatens to kill his own mother over a popsicle. In one of her Spin-Off series, the Spivey dad hits his special-needs son with a belt all because he took his charger without asking.
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Supernanny / int_50ed072	type	Music/Age Dissonance
Supernanny / int_50ed072	comment	Music/Age Dissonance: In "The Amouri Family", it is revealed that 4-year-old Hayley listens to gangster rap on her mom's MP3 player. When Jo finds out, this is one of the things she confronts the parents, Tamara and Michael about.
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Supernanny / int_5422a9ae	type	Premature Birth Drama
Supernanny / int_5422a9ae	comment	In "The Tsironis Family", three-year-old twins Teddy and Nicholas hit bite their parents, Bob and Elizabeth, and their older sister, Kate, throw their toys, and throw their food on the floor at dinner time. However, Bob and Elizabeth find it hard to discipline the twins for their bad behavior because they were born prematurely. Jo has to help Bob and Elizabeth discipline the twins by reminding them that they are healthy now and need to be disciplined for their bad behavior in the (then)-present day. Elizabeth catches on quickly, but Bob finds it more difficult because he doesn't want the twins to scream and cry.
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Supernanny / int_54adb6a3	type	Staircase Tumble
Supernanny / int_54adb6a3	comment	Staircase Tumble: "The Phelps Family" has a toddler falling down the stairs due to there being no safety gates installed.
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Supernanny / int_5619ea34	type	Blowing a Raspberry
Supernanny / int_5619ea34	comment	Blowing a Raspberry: The eldest Bowersock child does this when her mother tells her that she should be embarrassed of her messy room.
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Supernanny / int_57ca867e	type	Force Feeding
Supernanny / int_57ca867e	comment	The British miniseries Extreme Parental Guidance had some, well, extreme versions of this trope, appearing at least three times. Nine-year-old Max, for instance, would only eat custard cream cookies and had apparently never had a hot meal in his life. Four-year-old Kieran was so picky that she threw up every time she ate anything, and her mother resorted to Force Feeding just to get her to take in minimum calories.
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Supernanny / int_5b9cf82b	type	Education Mama
Supernanny / int_5b9cf82b	comment	Education Mama: The An-Duan mom played with this trope. We don't see her insisting on perfect grades, but she gets rather upset when Jo suggests that one of her sons stop seeing a language arts tutor. The reason he was seeing a tutor? At nine years old, he apparently didn't have a perfect grasp of "sentence structure" and "descriptive paragraphs." It's a bit rich, considering he and his siblings were already loaded down with activities; if his schedule wasn't so busy, he might not have even thought to need the tutor.
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Supernanny / int_612f2a40	type	Hates Their Parent
Supernanny / int_612f2a40	comment	Hates Their Parent: Some children feel this way about one or both of their parents; sometimes with justifiable reason, and other times without. One noticeable case has Maryann Agate confess how she feels about her own mother in the Reflection Room:
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Supernanny / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Supernanny / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Often to their siblings and their parents.
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Supernanny / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Supernanny / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Many of the sterner parents act like this. It's usually the dad, but there have been a couple of mothers, too. The Bowersock mother, who literally made her kids eat soap, was one. The Bixley mom from the U.K., who responded to picky eating by forcing food into her son's face, was another.
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Supernanny / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Supernanny / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Quite a few of the kids and parents are shown to have volcanic tempers, which can lead to great physical/emotional harm to one or more parties.
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Supernanny / int_64265de8	type	Multigenerational Household
Supernanny / int_64265de8	comment	Multigenerational Household: Fairly often, a family will have parents and grandparents under the same roof or in close enough proximity to be with the kids 24/7. Single mom Jency Williams even had help from her kids' great-grandparents.
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Supernanny / int_64c64cfb	type	Pink Girl, Blue Boy
Supernanny / int_64c64cfb	comment	Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Popped up with the Simmons family, who have two sets of twins, one of each sex. In the younger set, age 4, Parker wore blue in some scenes while his sister Sydney wore pink.
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Supernanny / int_651ec44d	type	Injured Limb Episode
Supernanny / int_651ec44d	comment	Injured Limb Episode: In "The Tsironis Family", Nicholas spends the episode with his right leg in a cast due to his twin brother Teddy pushing him out of their crib. In "The Cantoni Family", Mom Nina had her arm in a sling, as she was recovering from a car accident.
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Supernanny / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Supernanny / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom/Disappeared Dad: Often because of death.
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Supernanny / int_686424b6	type	Go to Your Room!
Supernanny / int_686424b6	comment	Go to Your Room!: Defied. Jo discourages having children do time-out in their bedrooms, as it is the place where they sleep and play.
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Supernanny / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Supernanny / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Wendy Agate went a little overboard by calling her bratty daughter, Maryann, an "arsehole" but Maryann had been misbehaving a little too much prior to that point. In "The Mann Family", five-year-old Naomi calls her mother, Melissa nasty and rude when Melissa tries to get her to take a nap, and at the end of the day, when Melissa asks her if she trusts her, Naomi says she doesn't, and that she's never going to. While Naomi is a defiant child who rules the house with her screaming and tantrums, Melissa resorts to spanking her children with her hands and wooden spoons when they don't obey her. Her spanking Naomi only proves Naomi's point and gives her a reason not to trust her. Not helping Melissa's case is that she says disturbing things about Naomi, such as "I want to smack her across the mouth" and "I don't want her in my house."
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Supernanny / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Supernanny / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: One episode has a 6-year-old with ADHD saying that he wants to "kill [himself] with a knife". Of course, it's an empty threat, but still...
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Supernanny / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
Supernanny / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: Jo's purple jacket and skirt, paired with glasses and a hair bun, which she wears on her observation days when she meets families.
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Supernanny / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Supernanny / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Deconstructed; "The Cooke Family" makes it clear that Paul being afraid of his wife Denise's temper has resulted in poor communication and boundaries set in the family.
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Supernanny / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
Supernanny / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: "Supernanny" for Jo, of course, which is usually used in the submission reels, and occasionally used by parents to refer to Jo in front of their kids. Jo also introduces herself to younger kids as "Jo-Jo".
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Supernanny / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
Supernanny / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: A couple of times. The Costellos had ten kids (and the mom wanted two more!); the Millers had six. Often the case in blended families.
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Supernanny / int_792fef74	type	Cute, but Cacophonic
Supernanny / int_792fef74	comment	Cute, but Cacophonic: Lord, some of these cute little kids can SCREAM. Adam Gorbea, age 2, and Dylan Van Acker, 3, were two of the biggest offenders. Charlie Woods from the UK seasons age 2, was another offender. Reese Atkinson has apparently screamed so much she damaged her vocal chords.
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Supernanny / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Supernanny / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: In a recent interview to promote the show, Jo blamed violent video games for the riots in London in August 2011. In one episode, she blamed video games for a child's behavior, even though he didn't own a console and had no friends whose homes he could visit to play video games. Jo even went so far as to create an experiment where kids would play different video games for an hour and then watch a newsreel of violent events and record their reaction. This experiment was heavily flawed, as Jo stated without any scientific evidence that the children who played a violent video game were almost immediately desensitized to violence, although if you were to take those children and pop in a real war zone, It's pretty obvious what their reactions would be. This video points out all the flaws in the supposed experiment. Popped up again with the Amouri family, but was subverted. The parents allowed their four-year-old daughter to listen to explicit songs on an MP3 player. After saying this was not okay, Jo suggested more appropriate music and applauded the parents for using it.
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Supernanny / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Supernanny / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Jo is good at saying exactly the right thing to say to get through to oblivious or resistant parents.
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Supernanny / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Supernanny / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Happened quite a few times. This could be a case of outright favoritism, or simply overlooking one child because of the bad behavior of another. Examples: The Wischmeyers, where nine-year-old Jared was both ignored because of, and blamed for, his four-year-old twin sisters' bad behavior, with the twins regularly psychologically wearing him down to the point of tears. The Daniels. Twelve-year-old Halley is a generally good kid, but Jo finds that Mom overloads her with chores to "keep her out of trouble" because of unnamed "issues." Even worse, Halley's younger sister Alexus is allowed to bully her, to the point of spitting in her face, and Mom and Dad do nothing. The McGrath and Van Acker families. Their daughters, both named Emma, are loved, but overlooked because of their brothers' respective diabetes and constant shrieking/bad behavior. In the Minyon family, fairly well-behaved son Frank Patrick is ignored in favor of his bratty younger sister Skyler. Frank Sr., the father, calls Skyler "Daddy's little princess" and says that she can do no wrong, but treats his son rather poorly. A mild case with the Tsironis family. Mom and Dad are so happy that two-year-old preemie twins Nicholas and Teddy are now healthy that they do not discipline them. They also ignore their older daughter Kate, to the point that she fakes foot cramps to get attention. Madison Colier is treated as such by her stepfather who babies his biological sons but regularly invades Madison's privacy and doesn't reward her when she deserved one.
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Supernanny / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Supernanny / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Jo is fairly calm about it, but she will hand these down to families who are particularly out of control. Parents who spank, wash their kids' mouths out with soap, or engage in similar types of discipline are likely to hear one of these speeches—and maybe more than one. Jo has also given this speech to older kids who are ungrateful or especially bratty.
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Supernanny / int_8071d6ed	type	Alcoholic Parent
Supernanny / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: One episode has Jo shouting at a father for having a couple of beers during the day.
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Supernanny / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
Supernanny / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: The younger counterparts, either boys or girls, to the Bratty Teenage Daughter trope.
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Supernanny / int_86a5c427	type	Kiddie Kid
Supernanny / int_86a5c427	comment	Kiddie Kid: A lot of the children who misbehave act much younger than their biological ages. One example is Travis Uva, whose mother still wiped him in the bathroom despite him being seven years old. Inverted with a few kids who act more mature than their ages, like the Chapman daughters, Logan Haines, and Kate Tsironis. This is especially egregious with Kate, who is only four herself. Jo tells the camera that when talking to Kate, she felt like she was talking to a teen.
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Supernanny / int_8792383c	type	Censorship by Spelling
Supernanny / int_8792383c	comment	Censorship by Spelling: Jo once did this with the word "crap," when telling beleaguered wife Kate Johnson to stop taking excessive criticism from her husband. At the time, they were in a coffee shop full of little kids, with one in time-out nearby.
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Supernanny / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Supernanny / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Sometimes. Actually averted with several, such as the teenage Chapman girls and fourteen-year-old Morgan Davis.
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Supernanny / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Supernanny / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Sometimes, the kids can have very foul mouths, and in most cases their parents really aren't that much better off either.
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Supernanny / int_96026e2d	type	Toilet Training Plot
Supernanny / int_96026e2d	comment	Toilet Training Plot: In "The Van Acker Family", Jo helps Jessica and Kevin potty-train Dylan, who does everything in his power to avoid using the potty and wearing big-boy underwear. In "The Evans Family", Jo helps Gary potty-train Dylan. It is revealed in that episode that Gary's wife, Jennifer, had potty-trained Michael and Sean before she died, and because Gary was not a part of their potty-training, he isn't sure how to potty-train Dylan.
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Supernanny / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Supernanny / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Lisa Daniels blamed Jo (who had just brought in family rules) for 2-year-old daughter Brynleigh's temper tantrum even though it was because she had not ever disciplined her previously. Even as Jo flat out told her why it happened, she didn't try to discipline Brynleigh and broke down. In "The Uva Family", Rosemarie blames her two sons, Trevor and Travis learning swear words on television shows and other people, when it's made very clear that she swears around them. Jo is not fooled one bit.
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Supernanny / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
Supernanny / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: It's not always a boy, but some of the kids are quite attached to their mothers, to the point that they don't use life skills they are perfectly capable of executing. An egregious example is seven-year-old Travis Uva, who expected his mother to wipe his bottom every time he went to the toilet.
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Supernanny / int_99e87707	type	When You Coming Home, Dad?
Supernanny / int_99e87707	comment	When You Coming Home, Dad?: Jo has dealt with her share of workaholic parents, both moms and dads. Sometimes this even happens with stay-at-home moms, like the Amouri and Larmer mothers, who are so concerned with cleaning their homes that they don't actually spend time with their kids. She has also had the occasional family with a parent deployed in the military.
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Supernanny / int_9b2923bc	type	Mooning
Supernanny / int_9b2923bc	comment	Mooning: In "The Young Family" Shelby does this to her mother at one point while getting up from her time-out.
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Supernanny / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
Supernanny / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: There have been instances where a child from at least two families—one from the Cooke family, and the other from the McKinney family—have punched the camera in anger.
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Supernanny / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
Supernanny / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Averted. When Jo meets the Baulisch parents, both of whom are deaf, she makes clear that deafness should not affect the effort and quality of parenting. In the cases where a family has a disabled child, Jo respects modifications, but otherwise treats aforementioned child like any other kid.
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Supernanny / int_a0eeac39	type	Odd Name Out
Supernanny / int_a0eeac39	comment	Odd Name Out: Gianna DeMello is the only member of her family, including parents, whose name does not begin with D. The Larmer family: mom Judy, kids John, Justin, Jessica, and Joey... and dad, Ed. The Swift family: Jack, Josh, Max, Mia, and... Sean. However, Sean gets points because Sean Swift is an Alliterative Name.
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Supernanny / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Supernanny / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: There are some parents on the show that are so wrapped up in their kid's bad behavior that they end up neglecting the more well behaved children.
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Supernanny / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Supernanny / int_a6123b72	comment	Four-year-old Cameron Smith-Clarke was beyond out of control. Allowed near-complete command of his family due to the unfortunate loss of his younger brother Josh to cot death, Cameron violently attacked other children, his parents, and his surviving brother Mackenzie, who was only a year old. His father spent the episode with one of his hands in a cast, and it's heavily implied Cameron broke that hand. To add insult to injury, the boy attacked his father's cast at one point in the episode, and the pain briefly forced him to leave the house. Cameron also holds the record for the longest tantrum seen on the show, with his fit lasting four and an half hours. All of this came about simply due to the grief of his parents. If there ever was a true Enfant Terrible in the series, Cameron definitely held that crown; he is also considered to be the show's most aggressive child in both the UK and the US as his anger was so strong to the point that Jo thinks that naughty spots won't work on him.
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Supernanny / int_aea21604	type	Even the Subtitler Is Stumped
Supernanny / int_aea21604	comment	Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: In one episode, a child's unintelligible speech is rendered as "(what?)" in the subtitles. note For context, this was when Meghan Cooke threw a tantrum for not being able to take a bath from Dad.
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Supernanny / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
Supernanny / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepfather: Phil Davis is emotionally and physically abusive and verbally belittles his stepdaughter Morgan to the point where she's in tears. He's not much better to his biological daughters either. Jason Colier mistreats his stepdaughter Madison constantly from invading her privacy on the submission reel to not rewarding her when she deserved it.
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Supernanny / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Supernanny / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Jo often deals with parents who engage in this, whether they're physically or verbally abusive, they give discipline that doesn't fit the issue at hand, or misuse Jo's techniques. One example is the Benton mom, who got so mad at one of her boys that she started giving him time-outs lasting as long as an hour.
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Supernanny / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Supernanny / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: A couple of the moms are like this, often because they feel their kids are growing up too fast. The Gormley-Brickley mother took this so far as to have her four-year-old twins still wearing diapers at night and drinking from bottles.
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Supernanny / int_b6c60ed5	type	A Mistake Is Born
Supernanny / int_b6c60ed5	comment	A Mistake Is Born: "The Fernandez Family" has Desiree revealing that her mother replied to her with "Your whole life is an accident!" at least once in response to her having a minor screwup such as accidentally dropping a cup of water.
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Supernanny / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Supernanny / int_b9c3de84	comment	Bumbling Dad: On Supernanny, if you're not a workaholic dad or a Drill Sergeant Nasty, you might be this. These are mostly the dads who prefer to sleep, play on the computer, or watch TV rather than being involved with their kids. Jo makes it clear that she doesn't find it acceptable. Some of the dads are bumbling in the sense that they want to be their kids' buddies, leaving Mom to handle all the discipline. What results is a good cop/bad cop scenario on which Jo immediately puts the kibosh.
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Supernanny / int_ba0b808e	type	Tantrum Throwing
Supernanny / int_ba0b808e	comment	Tantrum Throwing: Common for misbehaving children. For example, in "The Young Family" Shelby throws books all over the floor twice while being placed in time-out, and at one point throws a doll at her mother.
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Supernanny / int_baa90ed2	type	Wedgie
Supernanny / int_baa90ed2	comment	Wedgie: In "The Costello Family", Chaslyn gives her little brother Corban a wedgie.
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Supernanny / int_bac9f95d	type	Sweet Tooth
Supernanny / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: Dylan in the Van Acker family had this, developing such an extreme dependence on sweets he got anemia.
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Supernanny / int_bba9ea51	type	Good Stepmother
Supernanny / int_bba9ea51	comment	Good Stepmother: Stacie Fager regards her stepchildren, Sarah and Andrew, as her own and doesn't hesitate to call them "her kids." It's especially heartwarming since they haven't had any contact with their biological mother in over a year.
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Supernanny / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Supernanny / int_be009bbc	comment	The Swift family: Jack, Josh, Max, Mia, and... Sean. However, Sean gets points because Sean Swift is an Alliterative Name.
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Supernanny / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Supernanny / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: The Peterfreund dad liked to discipline his boys by placing hot sauce on their tongues—for any infraction, not just bad language. Unusual in that up to then, viewers had only seen parents who did ineffective time-outs, spanked, or just didn't discipline, period. Jo makes clear that this is crazy and will not work, but the Peterfreunds carry on, confident that it will.
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Supernanny / int_c87737d9	type	Vacation Episode
Supernanny / int_c87737d9	comment	Vacation Episode: Some episodes in the "Beyond The Naughty Step" sub-series involve whichever family Jo visited going on holiday.
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Supernanny / int_cd1b0fcc	type	Prima Donna Director
Supernanny / int_cd1b0fcc	comment	Prima Donna Director: Meghann is this in the Cooke family, often yelling at her sisters and parents when her show didn't go the way she planned.
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Supernanny / int_d6eefac3	type	Soap Punishment
Supernanny / int_d6eefac3	comment	Soap Punishment: Holly Tafoya used a squirt bottle of soap to discipline her son for telling his brother to "smell his own buttcrack". Jo was horrified, and tried to convince Holly that she was invoking Disproportionate Retribution and poisoning the boy. Sadly, the mother's ego was too over-inflated, and she saw it as a way to command the respect she thinks she deserves, causing Jo and the mother to cuss each other out. And her poor husband sits there suffering. It really has to be seen to be believed.
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Supernanny / int_d9e48d0	type	Company Cross References
Supernanny / int_d9e48d0	comment	Company Cross References: Some families have Disney movies seen in the background of their house. ABC, which aired Supernanny in the US, is owned by Disney. In "The Young Family" even though the TV is blurred out, we can see that Shelby is watching Lilo & Stitch. In "The Gorbea Family" Adam watches A Goofy Movie instead of going to bed.
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Supernanny / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Supernanny / int_d9ee7048	comment	In one of her Spin-Off series, the Spivey dad hits his special-needs son with a belt all because he took his charger without asking.
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Supernanny / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Supernanny / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: A few. The Schwartz girls call their Aunt Donna "Nonnie." The Young parents have nicknames for their two youngest boys, Makai (Kai-Guy) and Crew (Crewbie). The Jeans parents call their oldest daughter Andra "Andy" and at one point "Andy-Pandy". A few families add the "-y" suffix to their children's names; for example, Andrea Weston calling her baby son Sean "Seanny" and Blythe Newsome calling her toddler son Finn "Finny". Jo likes it when kids call her by the nickname "Jo-Jo".
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Supernanny / int_e085feeb	type	Broken Record
Supernanny / int_e085feeb	comment	Broken Record: Jo lampshades this trope when discussing Dylan Van Acker's constant demands for a diaper (he's over three years old and refuses to be potty-trained). Jo repeats "Diaper, diaper, diaper" in the confessional, in a somewhat robotic fashion.
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Supernanny / int_e35e6fbb	type	Trapped at the Dinner Table
Supernanny / int_e35e6fbb	comment	Trapped at the Dinner Table: In "The Van Acker Family", three-year-old Dylan is anemic due in part to being a picky eater. When Jo helps Kevin and Jessica enforce discipline, they serve him a dinner of chicken and peas because they are rich in iron, and refuse to let him leave the table until he eats four pieces of chicken and two peas. Dylan throws a huge fit and makes excuses to avoid having to eat his dinner.
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Supernanny / int_e502e268	type	Family Theme Naming
Supernanny / int_e502e268	comment	Family Theme Naming: Sometimes, as with the Froebrichs, all of whose children had E names (Emerson, Emmett, Emma Jo), and a couple of others. Sometimes the kids have rhyming names, or similar names, as in the case of Jordan and Jayden Hallenbeck. The Peterfreund Family has a rather humorous example. As Keith, the dad, is a flight attendant, his and Sonya's four sons are all named for things found in an airplane; Jett (jet plane), Gage (gauge), Trey (table tray), and Myles (miles).
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Supernanny / int_e5e5d228	type	Abusive Offspring
Supernanny / int_e5e5d228	comment	Abusive Offspring: Numerous episodes shows the parents being afraid of their own children as their tantrums and bad behavior worsens; fortunately, Jo always manages to set things right when she shows up. In the case of the Baulisch family, the younger children are extremely abusive to their deaf parents and hearing elder sister. The younger children take full advantage of the fact their parents can't hear and make their elder sister's life a living hell before Jo arrives.
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Supernanny / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Supernanny / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: Often, Jo will softly speak directly to the audience while in a family's home. A lot of it happens during observation. Sometimes she simply gives the camera a look that clearly says "You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!"
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Supernanny / int_e99cc683	type	Innocent Swearing
Supernanny / int_e99cc683	comment	Innocent Swearing: Subverted big-time. Some of these kids, most shockingly the little ones, not only swear like sailors, but know exactly what the words mean and why they are using them. In the American version of the Collins Family episode, the latter half of one the kid's sentences in a scene where they are making riot in the garden is censored after "Ben can go -." In the British original version, this is actually "Ben can go fuck the dog's arse."
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Supernanny / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Supernanny / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: One episode has a boy kicking his dad in the privates.
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Supernanny / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Supernanny / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Commonly averted; a lot of families give their kids popular names. Names that fall under the trope include: Sean Emma Madison Dylan An interesting case sometimes pops up when Jo meets a dad with the homophone name of Joe.
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Supernanny / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
Supernanny / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: Jo leaves a family after about a week at minimum, once they're capable of continuing her techniques and maintaining control.
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Supernanny / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
Supernanny / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: Happens a lot, with older kids being called upon to help wrangle younger siblings for their overwhelmed parents. Logan Costello, the oldest of ten, was expected to babysit all his younger siblings at the whim of his parents and act as a third dad; he was so stressed that he confided to Jo he'd had a panic attack. Melissa Baulisch was left with much of the responsibility for the little kids in her family because her parents were deaf and having a hard time with discipline. In the most egregious case, the teenage Chapman girls called Jo for help, rather than the parents summoning her. Jo found that the girls had a ridiculous schedule. They were expected to do a mountain of chores, raise their three little brothers, and homeschool themselves - and their father didn't think they were doing enough! In fact, they were so stressed that the older of the two girls, Brittany, actually passed out on camera. Eight-year-old Marli Prescott is perhaps the youngest example of this. She has six siblings, and on the submission tape, Mom is constantly heard saying, "Marli, could you..." (followed by a request for her to do some favor of chore).
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Supernanny / int_f19255b6	type	Pushover Parents
Supernanny / int_f19255b6	comment	Pushover Parents: Numerous episodes show parents constantly giving into their childrens demands in fear of their temper tantrums. To list a few; In "The Tsironis Family", three-year-old twins Teddy and Nicholas hit bite their parents, Bob and Elizabeth, and their older sister, Kate, throw their toys, and throw their food on the floor at dinner time. However, Bob and Elizabeth find it hard to discipline the twins for their bad behavior because they were born prematurely. Jo has to help Bob and Elizabeth discipline the twins by reminding them that they are healthy now and need to be disciplined for their bad behavior in the (then)-present day. Elizabeth catches on quickly, but Bob finds it more difficult because he doesn't want the twins to scream and cry. In "The Daniels Family", Lisa and Steve are far too hard on Halley, but far too lenient when it comes to disciplining their other children. A good example is when Alexus continues to play in the pool despite having been grounded from using it. Lisa doesn't even try to get her out, instead hoping for Steve to help her when he returns. Jo naturally calls Lisa and Steve out for their laziness during the parents' meeting. In "The Van Acker Family", Kevin and Jessica end up giving into Dylan's demands for junk food and diapers, which ultimately results in him being anemic and not potty-trained. Jo tells Kevin and Jessica to stop being pushovers, and decides to help them discipline Dylan and not give into his demands.
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Supernanny / int_f7a458c3	type	Dartboard of Hate
Supernanny / int_f7a458c3	comment	Dartboard of Hate: Played with in "The Davis Family". To get Phil, the father, to better understand his emotionally abusive language towards his three youngest daughters, Maddison, Tiffany, and Tori, Jo makes him throw darts at pictures of them. Because Phil really does love his his daughters deep down, he tries not to hit their pictures with the darts.
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Supernanny / int_fb4e0f18	type	Asian and Nerdy
Supernanny / int_fb4e0f18	comment	Asian and Nerdy: The parents of the Duan-Ahn family seem to want their kids to become this. Thus, they overload them with activities like Chinese school, sports, ballet, writer's workshops, and more. Jo gets them to shape up, though.
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Supernanny / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Some little kids justifiably use words like "baba", "binky", or "paci" (pacifier). Because they have small children, the parents use these as well. However, there are legitimately confusing cases of Buffy Speak. For example, little Dominic Federico whined that he was hurt in the episode featuring his family (he basically wanted attention). Dad takes him in to Mom and says Dominic wants a "hurt prize", or translated, a piece of candy meant to pacify. Jo's look says it all: The heck?
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