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The Brothers García
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The Brothers García is an American sitcom that premiered in 2000 on Nickelodeon and ended in 2004. It was among the first projects of Sí TV, an effort to produce programming featuring Latino characters, but aiming it at a diverse audience. (Sí TV have since launched its own cable television network, which later became known as nuvoTV, and is now the Fuse sister channel FM.)The series aired on the programming block Nick on CBS from March 14 to September 11, 2004, where the series ended its initial run. Reruns on The N started on April 7, 2008, and ended in June 2008. This series has some similarities to the style of The Wonder Years and Everybody Hates Chris, with an older version of the main character narrating each episode in a witty and sarcastic manner.The show revolves around the Garcias, a Hispanic family of six living in San Antonio. There are three brothers: Carlos, the popular one who's most likely to get into trouble; George, the slightly nerdy one, and Larry, the youngest (who narrates every episode). There's also a sister, Lorena, and of course, the parents.In April 2021, it was announced that a ten-episode sequel series, titled The Garcias, would be produced for HBO Max, with the original cast all reprising their roles. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Larry and Lorena are usually antagonistic towards each other in the way young siblings would be, but they do love one another when the chips are down. | |
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Half-Identical Twins: Averted when it comes to Larry and Lorena. The two have drastically different skin tones (Lorena is much darker skinned) and hair colors. As the show goes on, Lorena is also visibly taller than Larry. | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents | |
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The pilot episode portrayed Sonia as especially embarrassing, out of touch with her kids and particularly smothering towards Larry - also with a slightly gossipy, ditzy way of speaking. These traits were toned down considerably in the series. | |
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Spiky Hair | |
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Spiky Hair: Carlos has this style. One episode shows him charging his mother's customers $1 to spike it for them after she cuts it. He gives Larry the same style at the end of said episode. | |
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Go-Getter Girl | |
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Go-Getter Girl: Discussed by Lorena in one episode where she takes a personality quiz to see if she qualifies for one. | |
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Always Someone Better | |
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Always Someone Better: Carlos to his rival Butter. | |
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HotForTeacher | |
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Hot for Teacher: Larry for his teacher Miss Aztecka. | |
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Parents as People | |
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Parents as People: There are a few episodes where Larry reflects on seeing his parents as people who have their own flaws and problems too. | |
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The Prima Donna | |
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The Primadonna: Maria de los Ojos Verdes y Grandes is proved to be this when Lorena visits the set of her favorite telenovela. | |
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Hollywood Tone-Deaf | |
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Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Averted. Lorena aspires to be a singer and her singing is fairly passable. | |
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Camp Straight | |
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Camp Straight: Carlos is a Pretty Boy who is very into his looks. He's also a massive ladies' man. | |
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Token Minority Couple | |
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Token Minority Couple: Averted pretty well with girls of many different ethnicities serving as love interests. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: All the time for viewers who are fluent Spanish speakers. | |
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HypocriticalHumour | |
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Hypocritical Humour: Sonia's mother lectures the family on how much they've changed since winning the Lottery but when she goes mad tearing up the house when she hears the Lottery ticket is missing. After getting a lecture from her mother, Sonia mimics her. She then catches the kids watching and tries to warn them not to ever mock someone as she just demonstrated. | |
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You Just Had to Say It | |
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You Just Had to Say It: Larry's narration says this after the Gilligan Cut example above. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Carlos and Lorena are the two shallowest characters but get episodes showing their depths. | |
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Lovable Alpha Bitch | |
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Samantha also is hyped up as playing a bigger part as Carlos's girlfriend - and is something of a Lovable Alpha Bitch. In the series proper, she's just a regular girl at school in a supporting role. | |
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Magical Nanny | |
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Magical Nanny: When Sonia is too busy with work in the salon, she gets a friend of their aunt's to look after the house. She ends up sorting things out just in time for the end of the episode. | |
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"Walk on the Wild Side" Episode: Larry gets sick of being called a goodie two shoes and tries to throw a Wild Teen Party that predictably gets out of control. | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy: Carlos isn't exactly dim but he just lacks focus and tends to procrastinate. | |
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Traumatic Haircut | |
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Traumatic Haircut: Larry's attempted Important Haircut turns into this after his siblings scare him about the barber in question cutting people's ears off. One where the haircut is traumatic for the hairdresser too. Thanks to Lorena spilling some tea while Sonia is working on a famous talent scout, this happens to the woman in question. Oddly enough the haircut proves traumatic for Sonia - as she loses her confidence afterwards. | |
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Magical Security Cam | |
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Magical Security Cam: The family manages to film an entire commercial in the salon without Sonia noticing despite having only one camera. The end commercial includes closeups that wouldn't be possible if they were trying to keep the camera hidden. | |
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse | |
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Carlos claims that he's under a lot of pressure to maintain his good looks - getting a roll of the eyes from everyone else. However in one episode where he inexplicably starts failing with girls, it shatters his self-esteem. | |
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Blithe Spirit | |
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Blithe Spirit: Deconstructed when the mad Tia Gabbi comes to visit. She gives the kids certain advice that ends up landing them all in detention and Sonia has to explain to her that the kids need rules and proper guidance for a reason. | |
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Broken Aesop | |
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Broken Aesop: "You Go Girl" - Lorena feels excluded by her brothers due to being the only girl in the family. The moral is sadly broken by the fact that the boys don't exclude Lorena because of her gender - they exclude her because she's constantly trying to get them into trouble. What's more is that she clearly doesn't want equality; she just wants to cause mischief. For example, she makes Ray miss a hockey game in the name of equalitynote He bought four tickets - for himself and the boys - because they all like going to games together. He points out that he didn't buy Lorena a ticket because he took her to a game before and she hated it. So she makes her father miss a game he was looking forward to just to be a Troll. The boys' low moment - causing Lorena's friends to storm out of an activity - is exactly the same as what Lorena had done earlier in the episode. It's pointed out that the boys were wrong to behave that way, but Lorena gets a free pass because she claims she just wanted to be included. "Larry's Curse" - Larry breaks an antique Aztec relic that is said to bring bad luck. Unlucky things inexplicably start happening - such as a virus that destroys all of Ray's computer files, Carlos suddenly failing with girls, Sonia losing her confidence after a catastrophe in the salon and the beds keep breaking. At the episode's end, Ray gives a speech about how there's no such thing as bad luck, and Larry chides himself for being so superstitious. Except that the bad luck stops happening after Larry and Abuelita have cleansed the house. And it's not just Larry cooking up childish theories - this stems from Abuelita's beliefs too. In a similar vein, the Aesop that God is not someone to bargain with or to fear punishment gets broken by the fact that: a) Sonia immediately felt better when Lorena promised to stop watching her novelas, and b) she fell back ill as soon as Lorena broke the promise. That's one hell of a cosmic coincidence. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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After getting a lecture from her mother, Sonia mimics her. She then catches the kids watching and tries to warn them not to ever mock someone as she just demonstrated. | |
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Big Brother Bully | |
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Big Brother Bully: Carlos and George both bully Larry. Ray's brother Ed does the same. | |
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Graceful Ladies Like Purple | |
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Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Lorena the wannabe pop star/actress wears a lot of purple. | |
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Important Haircut | |
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Larry's attempted Important Haircut turns into this after his siblings scare him about the barber in question cutting people's ears off. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: The pilot episode portrayed Sonia as especially embarrassing, out of touch with her kids and particularly smothering towards Larry - also with a slightly gossipy, ditzy way of speaking. These traits were toned down considerably in the series. Samantha also is hyped up as playing a bigger part as Carlos's girlfriend - and is something of a Lovable Alpha Bitch. In the series proper, she's just a regular girl at school in a supporting role. | |
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Uncanny Valley Makeup | |
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Uncanny Valley Makeup: Lorena tries to look like a famous model visiting her mother's salon. The result is... slightly creepy (especially considering she's fourteen). | |
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Hairstyle Malfunction | |
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Hairstyle Malfunction: When Lorena finally gets to meet Maria de los Ojos Verdes y Grandes, the actress is a diva and insults everyone. Lorena throws a lettuce head at her - and knocks her wig off! | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The pilot episode has a few: The kitchen and living room sets are completely different. The house appears much smaller and there's a minor plot point that implies things are pretty tight financially (Ray having to sell wrestling tickets to pay for repairs to the salon). In the series the family was retooled to being comfortably middle class. Carlos is much younger than he is in the series proper, and his personality is more Bart Simpson-esque. It looks as though they were going to portray him as a child at first, but then aged him up to be a teenager. The actress playing Abuelita appears as the star of Lorena's in-universe novela. This before the Running Gag of Lorena worshiping the much younger Maria de los Ojos Verdes y Grandes. The Garcia house is shown having a swingset, and a pretty big backyard where they stage a wrestling match. The series never showed a back garden again, instead having a conservatory. The boys are shown as being big fans of Professional Wrestling, with Ray seemingly being one too. In the series, they're standard sports fans and the tradition is that Ray takes them to hockey games. The tone is far more Kid Com - the brothers staging a wrestling match to earn money, Ray and the older boys getting stranded on the side of the road, Sonia being an overbearing mother - in stark contrast to the Slice of Life /Coming of Age Story it later became. | |
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Golden Moment | |
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Golden Moment: At the end of every episode, Larry ending his narration with "everything for the family" in Spanish. | |
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Women Are Wiser | |
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Women Are Wiser: Inverted. While Ray and Sonia are both very capable parents, Sonia is the more irrational one and most likely to flip out. Ray frequently has to calm her down though he does have his moments as well. | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Carlos and Lorena are the foolish ones, while George and Larry are the responsible ones (to an extent). | |
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Flawless Token | |
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Flawless Token: One episode has Ray stopped for speeding by a male and female cop. The male cop is overweight, balding and is willing to go easy on Ray while the female cop is tall, thin, cleanly dressed and gives him a ticket. | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: For Sonia, it's rodents. And ants. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: One episode deals with this and Lorena eventually confesses how hard it is being the only girl in the family. However the show is not actually an example of the trope as while Lorena and Sonia are the only women in the family, the show has plenty of recurring female characters such as Sandy, Samantha, Lindsey, Nicole and all of Carlos's love interests. | |
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The Casanova | |
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The Casanova: Carlos is a sixteen-year-old version. | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: George in early episodes. This was eventually dropped when the actor lost weight. | |
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Long List | |
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When Ray goes behind Sonia's back to get Abuelita to pick chili peppers with them, Abuelita runs through a Long List of what they'll need for the day. When she gets to Ray, she says he'll need warm blankets. | |
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You Go, Girl! | |
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You Go, Girl!: Deconstructed in an episode with the same title. Lorena decides she's sick of being overlooked for being a girl and tries to get involved in what the boys do. Except she doesn't like their activities and just causes mischief. It's pointed out at the end that equality means that men and women get the chance to do the same things. Simply doing them for the sake of it doesn't really accomplish anything. | |
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Manly Tears | |
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Manly Tears: Carlos, see Very Special Episode below. | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: George lets his girlfriend Carly sleep in Larry's room, prompting... | |
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Soapbox Sadie | |
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Soapbox Sadie: Lorena decides to become one at the end of one episode. She launches into a spiel about how processed foods are covered with pesticides that harm animals. Sonia promptly tells her the food is free-range and she shuts up and starts eating. | |
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Full-Name Ultimatum | |
| The Brothers García / int_6da90c4d | comment |
Full-Name Ultimatum: Lampshaded by Larry ("Sometimes I think parents only give you middle names to let you know when you're in big trouble"). | |
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But Not Too Foreign | |
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But Not Too Foreign: Sonia and Larry seem to have more Spanish influence in their English speech than do the other characters. | |
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Sibling Seniority Squabble | |
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Sibling Seniority Squabble: Larry and Lorena do this quite a bit since Lorena is one minute older than Larry. | |
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Mirror Monologue | |
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Mirror Monologue: Lorena when preparing for an audition. | |
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Not Listening to Me, Are You? | |
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Not Listening to Me, Are You?: Sonia is showing Ray dresses to wear to a work party and he's just busy reading his speech. Sonia cops on when she holds up a sock and he says "that's the best one yet". | |
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First Gray Hair | |
| The Brothers García / int_79cd85f0 | comment |
First Gray Hair: Discussed. | |
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Real Men Wear Pink | |
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Real Men Wear Pink: Carlos learns An Aesop about this when he is forced to take a job as a perfume boy (which involves wearing a pink smock). A girl he likes stops by the shop and says she doesn't mind it at all. Elsewhere, when he mistakenly thinks Sonia is pregnant, he realizes that the girls will love him even more when he shows off that he can take care of a baby. | |
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Slice of Life | |
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Slice of Life: Most plots are the kids dealing with typical teenage and preteen issues. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| The Brothers García / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: One Lent episode had the kids giving up their favorite things (George's video games, Lorena's flirting, and Larry's sweets), and eventually succumbing to temptation. At the dinner table, each child stands up and announces their "crime"...followed by Sonia declaring "And I bought a pair of really expensive shoes today." They all stare at her blankly—especially considering she hadn't given up shopping, or anything, for Lent in the first place—and she follows up: "Well, I feel bad about it." When Ray goes behind Sonia's back to get Abuelita to pick chili peppers with them, Abuelita runs through a Long List of what they'll need for the day. When she gets to Ray, she says he'll need warm blankets. | |
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Informed Deformity | |
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Informed Deformity: Sonia mentions she has way too many grey hairs, but none of them is visible to the audience. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Dysfunction Junction: Less severe than most examples, as the parents are slightly more together. But with four teenagers in the house, it does get pretty dysfunctional. | |
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Be a Whore to Get Your Man | |
| The Brothers García / int_8498284 | comment |
Be a Whore to Get Your Man: A mild example, as this is a family sitcom, so all Lorena does is wear a tube top and don lots of makeup to try and get a boy to notice her. It's Deconstructed when he shows interest in another girl who isn't wearing makeup at all. Sonia gives Lorena a Be Yourself speech and suggests the boy went for the other girl because she was more confident in her own skin. | |
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Foreign-Language Tirade | |
| The Brothers García / int_84dbbd8c | comment |
Foreign-Language Tirade: Lampshaded when Larry refers to Ray's habit of ranting in Spanish as "going Ricky Ricardo". | |
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Mistaken for Pregnant | |
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Mistaken for Pregnant: Thanks to some bad eavesdropping Larry thinks Sonia is going to have a baby when she's really just preparing to babysit a friend's baby. When the baby gets dropped off at the house, the kids assume it was adopted instead. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
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Broken Pedestal: Lorena gets to visit the set of her favorite telenovela and meet the star. Turns out the star is a hammy (and callous) diva. | |
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Unnecessary Makeover | |
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Unnecessary Makeover: In-universe. Sonia feels she doesn't need a makeover but is convinced into getting one by Sandy and Samantha. Further exemplified by The Reveal being she looks exactly the same. | |
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Bratty Teenage Daughter | |
| The Brothers García / int_8a1215e0 | comment |
Bratty Teenage Daughter: Lorena fits this to a tee although she's a lot younger than the usual examples. | |
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Wild Teen Party | |
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Wild Teen Party: Larry and George throw one while the parents are away. They actually do get away with it but end up confessing to the parents anyway, along with a whole list of other stuff. The parents are so stunned by this stream of honesty that they ground the kids for a week and call it even. | |
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Cerebus Retcon | |
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Cerebus Retcon: The Running Gag of Abuelita's salsa that has a secret recipe gets Played for Drama in Season 3 - where she reveals that she keeps the recipe secret because it gives her a reason to be needed by the family. | |
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The Brothers García / int_8b67aba7 | |
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Theme Twin Naming | |
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Theme Twin Naming: Lorena and Lorenzo. Also two side characters Mario and Dario. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
| The Brothers García / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: Lorena prays to God that she will stop watching novellas for a whole month if Sonia recovers from her flu (yes seriously). Sonia recovers but immediately relapses when Lorena watches the show. | |
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Resentful Outnumbered Sibling | |
| The Brothers García / int_92306ed9 | comment |
Resentful Outnumbered Sibling: Lorena is the only girl among the Garcia siblings and her dislike of this situation is occasionally touched on. The best example is the episode "You Go Girl", where Lorena says that she sometimes wishes she was born to a family of girls. | |
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Not So Above It All | |
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Not So Above It All: Ray and Sonia can take the moral high ground plenty of times, but they end up getting sucked into the wackiness more often than not. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
| The Brothers García / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: When Larry trains to eat Ray's salsa, clips are shown of George and Carlos trying. | |
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Samus Is a Girl | |
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Samus Is a Girl: One episode deals with the family adopting a teenager from El Salvador named Alex Fernández. Cue the the kids all worrying about what it'll be like with another boy in the house. Their reaction changes when Alex turns out to be a girl. | |
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The Beautiful Elite | |
| The Brothers García / int_a2484b0e | comment |
The Beautiful Elite: Lorena loved watching telenovelas that are all about beautiful rich people. | |
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Kid Com | |
| The Brothers García / int_a666bf00 | comment |
The tone is far more Kid Com - the brothers staging a wrestling match to earn money, Ray and the older boys getting stranded on the side of the road, Sonia being an overbearing mother - in stark contrast to the Slice of Life /Coming of Age Story it later became. | |
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Imagine Spot | |
| The Brothers García / int_a7382a73 | comment |
Imagine Spot: Larry has a Romeo and Juliet inspired one only for the girl to snap him out of it and ask if he was listening. | |
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The Friend Nobody Likes | |
| The Brothers García / int_a861560f | comment |
The Friend Nobody Likes: Lorena is disliked by her siblings due to her smug attitude and tendency to snitch on them. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
| The Brothers García / int_b06bbf4b | comment |
Be Careful What You Wish For: Lorena wishes for a sister. So she gets Alex - who is a lazy manipulator that Lorena herself has to call out. In the same episode, Ray demands that his children become more knowledgeable about the world around them. Cue them taking all the sections of the newspaper from him at breakfast. | |
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Metaphorically True | |
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Metaphorically True: Lorena selling candy bars to help kids at risk. Sonia gives the actual truth. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
| The Brothers García / int_b9d334b2 | comment |
Aerith and Bob: A strange example considering that it's set in the present day, but we have Spanish names such as Lorena, Carlos and Sonia as well as English names like George, Ray and Larry. Justified for the last two, being shortened forms of "Raimundo" and "Lorenzo". George would be an Anglicized form of the Spanish name Jorge. | |
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CoolAunt | |
| The Brothers García / int_bb0150c8 | comment |
Cool Aunt: Tia Gabbi is this at first, but she proves to be a negative influence on the kids. | |
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Cool Mask | |
| The Brothers García / int_bb067aba | comment |
Cool Mask: Larry (see Pro Wrestling Is Real below). | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
| The Brothers García / int_c007c53 | comment |
Cool and Unusual Punishment: When Carlos fails a Spanish test he is forced to watch novellas with Lorena for the whole day and must report to the family in Spanish at dinner. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
| The Brothers García / int_c2cedbfc | comment |
Big "NO!": When Lorena finds out the make-up she's trying to wash off is waterproof. | |
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Affirmative Action Girl | |
| The Brothers García / int_c3286c8f | comment |
Affirmative Action Girl: In-universe example when the family temporarily adopts a girl from El Salvador. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Lorena makes a deal with God that she'll stop watching novellas for a month if Sonia recovers from her flu. Sonia recovers - but then reveals that she got really into the novellas that she had previously despised, because she watched it while she was sick. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
| The Brothers García / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The Bauer family move in next door to the Garcias and Larry starts a romance with Carrie. She is never seen nor mentioned after this episode. | |
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Couch Gag | |
| The Brothers García / int_c4d09d24 | comment |
Couch Gag: The opening credits for the first few seasons would show clips of the characters from the episode in question. The fourth season went with standard opening credits. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
| The Brothers García / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Fan Disservice: In-universe example from the first episode where the boys stage a backyard wrestling match. One girl tells George he needs to put his shirt back on. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The hairdryer in Sonia's salon is named R2D2. | |
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Chatty Hairdresser | |
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Chatty Hairdresser: The mother, Sonia, is one. | |
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Pro Wrestling Is Real | |
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Pro Wrestling Is Real: Double subverted. The boys stage a backyard wrestling match and have Larry wrestle George and say Larry will win. However George hears a girl cheering for him and pins Larry anyway. | |
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Cool Old Lady | |
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Cool Old Lady: Sonia's mother. | |
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Latino Is Brown | |
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Latino Is Brown: Downplayed. Most of the Hispanic characters on the show fit the mold of 'black hair, light brown skin' - although Lorena's skin is slightly darker than her family's. But Samantha, the daughter of Sandy, is fair-skinned and blonde haired. | |
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Global Ignorance | |
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Global Ignorance: Carlos doesn't know the difference between Austria and Australia, and thinks Central America means Kansas. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Parodied when another family moves in next door and a big feud starts with each of the family members having a rival, except Larry who was in love with the family's youngest daughter. It even gets a Romeo and Juliet Imagine Spot. | |
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Cosmetic Catastrophe | |
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Cosmetic Catastrophe: One episode has Sonia rushed off her feet trying to fix the hair of women who were unfortunate enough to be subjects at Annabelle's Beauty School. One girl wanted her hair bleached and the hairdresser in question used actual bleach. Lorena dons a lot of make-up against Sonia's wishes and has to rush home and clean it off before dinner. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: Subverted when Ray acts as a substitute teacher at the school. Carlos and George simply pretend they're not related. Tiny the bully reveals his last name is George as well, though George didn't know this. And in another episode there is a girl called Loretta at the house (similar sounding to Lorena and Sonia says it so quickly it's easy to mistake it for something else). There's a set of twins where one is called Mario, and one of Lorena's love interests is also called Mario. | |
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Never a Self-Made Woman | |
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Never a Self-Made Woman: Averted. While everyone is known as a member of Larry's family (it's from his perspective), Lorena and Sonia do get plenty of plots for themselves that don't revolve around their relationships with men. | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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Bad "Bad Acting": Sonia when she tries to shoot a commercial for her salon. | |
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Brainless Beauty | |
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Brainless Beauty: Carlos gets this at times. Highlights include not knowing the difference between Austria and Australia, and thinking Central America means Kansas. | |
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Proud Beauty | |
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Proud Beauty: Carlos knows he's good looking and will happily tell anyone. | |
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Never Win the Lottery | |
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Never Win the Lottery: The family legitimately win the lottery but it turns out that a hundred other people also won it so they only win about $1400, which is after they've gone wild with the spending. | |
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Youngest Child Wins | |
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Youngest Child Wins: Invoked by Larry and Lorena. When giving group punishments, the parents usually go in order of age. As this leaves the twins last, they're able to give Sonia a "but we're your babies" look to get lesser punishments. What's more is that the parents know they're doing this, but can't resist it anyway. Larry is also the youngest of the family (a minute younger than Lorena) and is the main protagonist. He also seems to be the most moral and responsible of the kids, and he's also the only one who doesn't go mad in the lottery episode. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Ray has a special salsa sauce that only he can eat, the other boys trying several times to eat it but finding it too hot. | |
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Big, Thin, Short Trio | |
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Big, Thin, Short Trio: The eponymous brothers. There's the chubby George, the skinny Carlos and the short Larry. | |
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Dialogue Reversal | |
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Dialogue Reversal: Sonia tells Ray to not be annoyed with George's new look, saying he's just expressing himself. When she flips out at what Lorena is wearing to school Larry sarcastically says "isn't she expressing herself?". | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Lorena wins a competition that gives her a lifetime supply of lettuce and a trip to LA to meet her favourite soap star, which is the focus of that episode's plot. At the end of the episode, they find several crates of lettuce outside the front door. In an episode with Sonia's birthday, she jokes that if Ray can't get her a certain vintage watch, she'll be happy with pyjamas instead. The kids buy the watch from the store not knowing Ray has been holding it. So his eventual present to Sonia? Pyjamas of course. | |
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