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The Neighborhood

245 statements
47 feature instances
9 referencing feature instances

The Neighborhood	type	TVTItem
The Neighborhood	label	The Neighborhood
The Neighborhood	page	TheNeighborhood
The Neighborhood	comment	The Neighborhood is a comedy series about a white guy named Dave Johnson (Max Greenfield), who moves along with his wife Gemma (Beth Behrs) and elementary-school aged son Grover (Hank Greenspan) from Kalamazoo, Michigan to a Southern California neighborhood populated with mostly black people. Calvin Butler (Cedric the Entertainer), his next door neighbor, finds him annoying, and tries to avoid him at all costs. Calvin's wife Tina (Tichina Arnold) on the other hand wants to get along with and is nice to them. A majority of episodes revolve around Dave trying to be friendly with Calvin.The show premiered on October 1, 2018, on CBS.Not to be confused with the American Alternative Rock band The Neighbourhood.
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The Neighborhood / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Neighborhood / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Subverted, Calvin usually thinks he is this, but comes to realize that he is overreacting in the end.
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The Neighborhood / int_286141a2	type	Unexpectedly Dark Episode
The Neighborhood / int_286141a2	comment	Unexpectedly Dark Episode: The very first episode of Season 3, "Welcome to the Movement", wasn't released too long since the death of George Floyd and covers a situation involving Trey being a victim of police brutality and racial inequities. Even the motif of the transitions in this episode has a more downbeat tone than usual.
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The Neighborhood / int_2882c8c1	type	Career-Ending Injury
The Neighborhood / int_2882c8c1	comment	Career-Ending Injury: Malcolm used to be a professional baseball player, but a knee injury put an end to his career before he made it to the major leagues.
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The Neighborhood / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
The Neighborhood / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: "Welcome to the Haunting", in which Calvin's house seems to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl. It turns out to be a prank planned on him after all the times he's pranked everyone else.
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The Neighborhood / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
The Neighborhood / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: One of the magazines in the barbershop is News Profile, presented as a stand-in for the high profile publication News Week. The arcade game Dance Floor Party in "Welcome to Bowling" is a stand-in for DanceDanceRevolution.
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The Neighborhood / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Neighborhood / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Dave is revealed to be an Army reservist who's served in the Middle East.
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The Neighborhood / int_3823c722	type	Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...
The Neighborhood / int_3823c722	comment	Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: Calvin looking through his mail in "Welcome to the Standoff".
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The Neighborhood / int_38958f33	type	Black and Nerdy
The Neighborhood / int_38958f33	comment	Black and Nerdy: Marty is an engineer who works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Near the end of season five, he quits NASA to start a electric vehicle restoration business with Calvin.
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The Neighborhood / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Neighborhood / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Marty's full name is "Martin Lawrence Butler", in reference to Martin Lawrence, with whom Tichina Arnold starred with in Martin and is good friends with.
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The Neighborhood / int_3d29edbd	type	Black Sitcom
The Neighborhood / int_3d29edbd	comment	Black Sitcom: Zig-Zagged. The Butlers are of African-American heritage, the setting is predominantly black, and many stories tackle social issues from a black perspective, but the Johnsons, a white family, get equal exposure and the growing friendship between the two families is explored.
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The Neighborhood / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
The Neighborhood / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Dave refuses to let anything, least of all Calvin's constant putdowns, drag down his mood.
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The Neighborhood / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Neighborhood / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Calvin tends to be selfish and snarky, but in the end, he always pulls through as a person and does the right thing for himself and his family.
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The Neighborhood / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
The Neighborhood / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Calvin and Tina are roughly 15-20 years older than Dave and Gemma. Calvin and Tina's sons Malcolm and Marty are only several years younger than Dave and Gemma. Grover forms good friendships with Malcolm and Marty, both of whom are old enough to be his father, as well as Tina and, eventually, Calvin.
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The Neighborhood / int_54428f7b	type	Ashes to Crashes
The Neighborhood / int_54428f7b	comment	Ashes to Crashes: In “Welcome to the Surprise“, Calvin gets his father’s ashes from his mother. Dave decides that he and Calvin should go fishing at Monica Pier with the ashes, just like Calvin’s dad used to do. While casting a line, Dave accidentally hooks the urn and sends it flying into the ocean.
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The Neighborhood / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
The Neighborhood / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Tina and Gemma are shown to be much more levelheaded than their husbands.
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The Neighborhood / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
The Neighborhood / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Dave.
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The Neighborhood / int_5c554458	type	Dumb Jock
The Neighborhood / int_5c554458	comment	Dumb Jock: Malcolm is very good at baseball, but not very book smart.
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The Neighborhood / int_5f4a2c79	type	Fishing for Sole
The Neighborhood / int_5f4a2c79	comment	Fishing for Sole: Calvin remembers catching an old tire while fishing with his dad in “Welcome to the Surprise “. Later he catches a tire and thinks it’s a sign from his father. He then decides to sell the tire at his shop.
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The Neighborhood / int_6da90c4d	type	Full-Name Ultimatum
The Neighborhood / int_6da90c4d	comment	Full-Name Ultimatum: Tina addresses Marty as "Martin Lawrence Butler" when she's annoyed with him.
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The Neighborhood / int_6e9bc71b	type	Extreme Omni-Goat
The Neighborhood / int_6e9bc71b	comment	Extreme Omni-Goat: In "Welcome to the Ring", the Butlers have to get items for Marty's traditional Nigerian proposal, one of which is a live she-goat. They get them all with hours to spare, so Calvin decides to rest his eyes for a while. When he wakes up, the goat has eaten all the other items.
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The Neighborhood / int_71a429d2	type	Power Outage Plot
The Neighborhood / int_71a429d2	comment	Power Outage Plot: In "Welcome Back to the Neighborhood", Dave installs solar panels on his home and asks to be taken off the electric grid. That night, the power goes out in the neighborhood, implied to have happened accidentally when Dave was disconnected. With Dave's house the only one with power, soon the entire block gathers around, leading to a spontaneous nighttime block party.
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The Neighborhood / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The Neighborhood / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: The idea of your loved ones being victims of cop violence is a very real fear, as demonstrated through Calvin almost losing Malcolm and Trey.
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The Neighborhood / int_78629e9c	type	Badass Pacifist
The Neighborhood / int_78629e9c	comment	Badass Pacifist: According to Logan, Dave's friend from Michigan, Dave is such an effective mediator that he was once able to get feuding warlords to make peace and become friends just by talking to them.
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The Neighborhood / int_7b5c69c8	type	Dirty Old Woman
The Neighborhood / int_7b5c69c8	comment	Dirty Old Woman: Old Miss Kim is an elderly neighbor that is portrayed as lustful and wanting to grope a gentleman.
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The Neighborhood / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Neighborhood / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: When Dave is providing his lame puns and jokes to compare himself to Dwayne Johnson, Tina sincerely laughs, much to Calvin's chagrin.
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The Neighborhood / int_8776162d	type	Because I Said So
The Neighborhood / int_8776162d	comment	Because I Said So: Calvin says this to Grover every time he refuses to do something in "Welcome to the Anniversary."
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The Neighborhood / int_9305e069	type	Fast-Forward Gag
The Neighborhood / int_9305e069	comment	Fast-Forward Gag: Used at the end of one episode when Calvin sees a snake in the hood of his car and runs away really fast, complete with dust cloud effect. Used in "Welcome to the Challenge" to show how much faster Calvin can work on the engine while Dave is talking to him. To illustrate, Calvin's rapid pace is juxtaposed to Dave's standard speaking speed.
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The Neighborhood / int_98b5f82b	type	Basement-Dweller
The Neighborhood / int_98b5f82b	comment	Basement-Dweller: At the beginning of the series, Malcolm was unemployed and still living with Calvin and Tina. As time went on, he got a job as a security guard and finally moved out of his parents' home... and into the house next door with Marty, which they are renting from their parents after Calvin and Tina bought it from their grumpy former neighbor Walter.
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The Neighborhood / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
The Neighborhood / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: After Gemma's miscarriage, the show turned dark and grimly somber with season four's "Welcome to the Porch Pirate".
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The Neighborhood / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
The Neighborhood / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: In "Welcome to the Big One", Dave is scared by an earthquake and runs out naked holding a bag of emergency supplies that covers his privates. Gemma then covers him up with the doormat.
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The Neighborhood / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
The Neighborhood / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode after "Pilot" is named "Welcome to (the) [X]" with [X] being something related to the episode's plot.
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The Neighborhood / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Neighborhood / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Grover.
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The Neighborhood / int_bbdf5f31	type	Everyone Is Related
The Neighborhood / int_bbdf5f31	comment	Everyone Is Related: In "Welcome to the Family", Dave discovers that he and Calvin are sixth cousins.
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The Neighborhood / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Neighborhood / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Gemma has hers pressed when a wealthy donor to her school indirectly referred to her as a so-called educator in “Welcome to the Mama Drama“.
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The Neighborhood / int_c19596a0	type	The Bro Code
The Neighborhood / int_c19596a0	comment	The Bro Code: Calvin and Dave each have a code, but the differences between the two codes cause conflict despite the two men having the best of intentions.
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The Neighborhood / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
The Neighborhood / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The season 3 premiere "Welcome to the Movement" is a more bleak and depressing outing set around police brutality. From Gemma's miscarriage up to the funeral, the series takes a darker, much more somber tone in "Welcome to the Porch Pirate".
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The Neighborhood / int_e313b4e7	type	Manchild
The Neighborhood / int_e313b4e7	comment	Manchild: Dave.
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The Neighborhood / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
The Neighborhood / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Dave gets more and more naive and intrusive with each passing season. And he was plenty naive and intrusive to begin with.
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The Neighborhood / int_ed46da54	type	Martial Pacifist
The Neighborhood / int_ed46da54	comment	Martial Pacifist: Dave, when he tries to have Grover apologize for beating up a bully, gets attacked by the bully's father. Dave subsequently kicks his ass.
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The Neighborhood / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
The Neighborhood / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Tina and Dave in the commercial for Calvin's auto shop. Tina overplays her part while Dave adds ridiculous motivations for his character.
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The Neighborhood / int_f2875814	type	Incredibly Lame Fun
The Neighborhood / int_f2875814	comment	Incredibly Lame Fun: Dave enjoys house painting and takes great pride in his abilities. Gemma, meanwhile, finds watching Dave paint to be a turn-on (and credits it with Grover's conception).
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The Neighborhood / int_f288cf3	type	Innocent Innuendo
The Neighborhood / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: Dave really doesn't think about how he phrases certain things.
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The Neighborhood / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
The Neighborhood / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: In "Welcome to the Feud", Terrence repeats Calvin's remark that Terence's brother Jordan spends money like a third world dictator without the fun hats. Jordan angrily responds that he has plenty of fun hats.
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The Neighborhood / int_f935efbf	type	Unnecessary Roughness
The Neighborhood / int_f935efbf	comment	Unnecessary Roughness: When Grover signs up for Calvin's basketball team, he doesn't do very well playing, so instead Calvin has him knock down the other players. When he does it during the actual game he gets disqualified for personal fouls, and subsequently suspended for the remainder of the season.
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The Neighborhood / int_faf5732b	type	I Call It "Vera"
The Neighborhood / int_faf5732b	comment	I Call It "Vera": Tina names her wigs, based on the persona she takes on when she wears them.
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The Neighborhood / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Neighborhood / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Dave is annoyingly nice, but when pushed over the edge or attacked, can put the fear of God into someone. Justified, due to his military training, where he'd have learned hand-to-hand combat.
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The Neighborhood	hasFeature	Convenient Miscarriage / int_f79e618
The Neighborhood	hasFeature	Fast-Forward Gag / int_f79e618
The Neighborhood	hasFeature	Intergenerational Friendship / int_f79e618
The Neighborhood	hasFeature	Mic Drop / int_f79e618
The Neighborhood	hasFeature	Nerds Speak Klingon / int_f79e618
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