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The Neighbors
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The Neighbors is an American television science fiction sitcom airing on ABC, premiering in the Fall 2012 season. The series, set in New Jersey, revolves around the Weavers, a dysfunctional family that has relocated to a gated townhouse community called "Hidden Hills". Everything seems very much like the perfect suburban community, except for one difference... everyone in Hidden Hills is an alien. Not as in "crossing the border" alien, but genuine Little Green Men aliens from the planet Zabvron. The Zabvronians have adopted as their own the names of sport celebrities, receive nourishment through their eyes and mind by reading books rather than eating, and cry out green goo from their ears. They've been stuck on Earth for 10 years, awaiting instructions to return home.As the first real humans in Hidden Hills, the Weavers end up trying to teach humanity to their alien neighbors, while learning how to be a better family of their own.Despite an initially rocky start, the show picked up enough positive reviews in the latter half of the first season to earn a second season. On Fridays. A fact which did not go unnoticed by the show itself, as the Friday Night Death Slot trope is referenced several times in season two. It was axed after the second season, despite a third clearly being planned.Nothing to do with the Australian soap opera Neighbours, with Regis Philbin's daytime game show, with Tommy Wiseau's sitcom for Hulu, or the Spanish series The Neighbor (in singular). Compare to 3rd Rock from the Sun.note Which actually gets a Shout-Out in this series. | |
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Aliens Speaking English | |
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Aliens Speaking English: All the Zabvronians, Jackie and Dick can also speak Spanish. | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: Zabvronians don't need to eat, apparently gaining all their nutrients from reading. Also the females fertilize the males' eggs which the males carry to term in a sac on their back. Larry's third pregnancy is complicated by the fact that he's doing it while in human form. They have two tongues. Amber is... intrigued. They come from plants, which results in a grassy scent about them. They cry out of their ears. | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage An episode that starts with Reggie thinking Amber is getting back together with him. Larry tries to alleviate the awkward silence by singing the opening theme. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Larry's father has been trying to communicate with him for a while by sending messages on pieces of toast. Larry claims to have not gotten them, and this is true because he gave the toaster receiving it to the Webbers. Dick lampshades the problem with this method by calling it very inconvenient. Also counts as both a Callback and a Brick Joke since in previous episodes Larry expresses a dislike of toasters and Dick is entranced by their new toaster. Becomes a Cliffhanger when in the last scene Marty eats part of a message marked "Warning: Invasion Imminent!" | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Debbie and Jackie evolve into this by season two, with occasional forays into Les Yay. Lampshaded in the same episode when Larry and Jackie try to find 3rd and 4th best friends among the other Zabvronians only to realize that they have zero chemistry. Especially since they're all warriors rather than socializers. | |
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Theremin | |
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Theremin: Used as both a theme song and as background transition music. As of the second season the sting that served as an opening theme has been replaced by an actual theme song, but can still be heard within the show proper. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Debbie in response to Marty playing in the ballpit Larry got him for Christmas. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Marty at least had some focus throughout the series because of how he could bounce off of Larry Bird and occasionally Dick Butkus. Debbie, on the other hand, was often put into the role of Only Sane Man and left to roll her eyes at the trouble the other characters caused. | |
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Ditto Aliens | |
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Ditto Aliens: Played with. To Zabvronians, all humans look pretty similar. They differentiate the Weavers through smell. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Crosses over into Funny Background Event but when Larry, who is making a movie, comments that Dick keeps ruining his scenes by looking at the camera, Dick looks at the camera (the audience that is). | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser: Larry dresses as the sexiest person he knows for a role playing exercise. To him, that means dressing as Jackie, complete with mini-skirt. Even Marty finds Larry oddly attractive this way, and wonders if Larry shaved his legs for it. | |
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HypocriticalHumour | |
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Hypocritical Humour: Larry's schtick at times, though usually due to differences between Zabvronian culture and human culture. For instance, Larry can pilot spaceships just fine... but is deathly afraid of driving a car. Other times, it flies the other way and Larry just needs to figure out the Zabvronian analog to a human tradition. | |
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A Planet Named Zok | |
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A Planet Named Zok: Zabvron | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Amber, insofar as she seems like your stereotypical snarky emo-teen but actually is more of a Deadpan Snarker in the vein of Daria than anything else. | |
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Flowery Insults | |
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Flowery Insults: Occurs in "It Has Begun". Jackie insults Dick's choice of reading (philosophical treatises). He retorts that she reads Nicholas Sparks. | |
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Full-Name Basis | |
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Full-Name Basis: The Zabvronians call the humans by their full name. | |
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Immigrant Parents | |
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Immigrant Parents: One of the essential traits to the Zabvronians is this. Larry worries in one episode that Reggie and Dick will forget about Zabvron and their alien way of life. | |
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Ascended Meme | |
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Ascended Meme: The handegg meme gets mentioned in season two during a football episode. | |
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End-of-Series Awareness | |
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End-of-Series Awareness: All over the place in "It Has Begun...". Ultimately averted though as the show was renewed for a second season. Done again during the season 2(And ultimately series) finale. | |
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Mister Seahorse | |
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Mister Seahorse: Male Zabvronians are the ones who carry babies to term in a sac located on their backs. Unlike a seahorse, however, they are actually pregnant and not just carrying a fertilized egg in a pouch. Larry falls pregnant in season 2, leading various characters to muse about what might happen during the birth, because no Zabvronian has ever had a child while in human form. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development Combined with The Generation Gap and Immigrant Parents highlighting the matter, Reggie develops from a gawky outsider into a confident comfortable teenager over the course of season one as he settles into life on Earth/among humans. The What the Hell, Hero? mini-speech he gives to Amber at the end of season one is very clearly something he would have never done at the start of the series. Larry goes from human isolationist and, to an extent, dismissive of human culture and technology, to enjoying and indulging in various aspects of human culture. Especially when it's similar to something he's done before such as warfare and subterfuge (April's Fools Day... in November) and politics (PTA meetings). | |
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Leg Focus | |
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Leg Focus: Jackie's wardrobe seems to revolve entirely around short skirts that expose her legs, which is noted In-Universe. | |
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man | |
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Played with in Reggie and Dick. Reggie really is sensitive, but his Zabvronian upbringing means that he can be insensitive or oblivious to human emotions. Likewise, Dick is otherwise a very manly character (assertive, confident, etc)... except he's absolutely terrible at athletics by both human and zabvronian standards much to his mother's chagrin. In other cases, Dick comes across as a Renaissance Man or even Metrosexual - he's very empathetic to female motions, enjoys cooking and being paternal, and so forth. | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
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Metaphorgotten: Larry keeps lapsing into this during "Family Conference": | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A mild version in Larry and a lot of it comes from the combination of differing social norms and that he's the Supreme Leader of the Zabvronians on Earth. Amber has her moments, too, particularly with her younger siblings. Unsurprisingly, the two of them have a snarky respect for each other and have a lot in common. They even insult alike. One suspects that if they were closer in age and, you know, not completely different species, they'd probably be a match made in snark. | |
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Aliens of London | |
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Aliens of London: Larry and Jackie cite that they picked British English accents while learning to speak English because they think said accents are the best. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Direct quote from Larry: "This is real life, kids. It’s not TV! We are a family of aliens living amongst humans and every week we tackle a new problem together, and learn that while we may be from different backgrounds, even planets, family dynamics are in fact universal. It’s real life, kids, it’s not TV!" Crosses over into Funny Background Event but when Larry, who is making a movie, comments that Dick keeps ruining his scenes by looking at the camera, Dick looks at the camera (the audience that is). In the episode, "This Just Got Real", Jackie prepares for dinner with Debbie's friends from New Jersey by watching episodes of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Then, during dinner, after she makes a quip or insults one of the other women, she turns to the camera and comments on what she just said. "It Has Begun" has Larry basically describe the structure of the current episode... right down to the time the show ends (9 PM EST). Later in the episode, when discussing his desire to stay on Earth to his father who wants to evacuate Hidden Hills, he measures the time in seasons before correcting himself into years. "The One With Interspecies Friends" has a few and also crosses over into Shout-Out's. The title is a reference to Friends which also gets a reference in the opening ("Wait, Courtney Cox did something before Cougar Town?!") as well as a self-deprecating one when Marty suggests watching some network television ("[Watch network TV] on a Friday? Pfft!" — The Neighbors' time slot being Fridays). In the same episode, the narration of the animal documentary Amber and Reggie watch through out the episode also describes the events of the episode itself. "Shark Tank airs on Friday on ABC after, Blah, Blah, Blah. The "Blah, blah, blah" being this show. Debbie winks and grins at the camera just before the cut to black that leads into the intro song in the episode. In "Thanksgiving is No Shmuck Bait", Jackie and Larry phrase holiday events in sitcom terms. When Jackie's parents show up unexpectedly Larry yells "Cut to commercial!" — which they do. At the end of the show Larry finds out his in-laws are staying after the holiday, Larry whimpers "Oh, my God it's a two-parter!" In Close Encounters of the Bird Kind Dick invites three famous people for a talking head show. | |
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Animorphism | |
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Animorphism: Kevin the alpaca. | |
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Little Miss Snarker | |
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Little Miss Snarker: Dick gets his fair share of one-liners in. | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Mistaken for Gay: Reggie gets this from Amber when he's about to tell her he likes her. | |
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Really 700 Years Old | |
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Really 700 Years Old: Both Jackie and Larry are revealed to be at least over 470 years old. | |
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One Drink Will Kill the Baby | |
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One Drink Will Kill the Baby: Directed Towards Amber. | |
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Named After Somebody Famous | |
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Named After Somebody Famous: All the Zabvronians. They believed that humans worshiped athletes, and so took their names. Justified in that though the Zabvronians read a lot so you'd expect them to know better, they don't know how human literature works and so they ended picking up the literature that's mass printed and popular. Which means pop culture magazines and the like. Jackie's Zabvronian name is Debbie Callahan. Debbie Callahan is the name of the female cop from the Police Academy series. We also meet a Commander Bill who has no need for a human name either. | |
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We Don't Suck Anymore | |
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We Don't Suck Anymore: Ads for the show have taken to saying things like, "Critics are changing their minds about 'The Neighbors!" Another ad for the show starts off saying "Here's what critics used to think about The Neighbors" and then showed a huge mass of negative reviews for the show. Then it says "Now here's what critics NOW think of The Neighbors" and then it shows all of the positive reviews the show recently got. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: During a fight, Larry tells Jackie that her parents will inevitably abandon her for the latest cause of the day and that he'll have to pick up the pieces when it's all over. The in-laws prove him right. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Last name anyway. You have the obvious Bird/Weaver connection but there's also Bird itself since birds of a feather flock together and the Zabvronians are fairly close knit and, at least initially, isolationist. | |
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Sexiness Score | |
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Sexiness Score: In "Mother Clubbers", Larry and Jackie are both surprised by how many men hit on Jackie, and Debbie has to point it out it's because Jackie looks like a 10/10 Head-Turning Beauty on Earth, which shocks them both since on their home planet, Larry was considered the beautiful one, and is distressed they look like a Ugly Guy, Hot Wife couple. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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In the first scene of the Christmas Episode, it's established that Zabvronians (or at least Larry) think that coffee cups can only be used by those that they reflect as the truth (i.e. Larry's "World's Greatest Father" mug). In the very next next scene Reggie hands Amber an "I'm with Stupid" mug. | |
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The Neighbors / int_76a5eaf8 | type |
Spotlight-Stealing Squad | |
The Neighbors / int_76a5eaf8 | comment |
Spotlight-Stealing Squad: The show was supposed to be about how a human family would cope in a community made entirely of aliens. But the humans, especially the younger children, were quickly pushed aside so that the focus could be put on the Fish out of Water antics of the Bird-Kersees. The 2nd Season's Expository Theme Tune even goes so far as to state that it's the humans who are imposing on the aliens rather than the other way around. Marty at least had some focus throughout the series because of how he could bounce off of Larry Bird and occasionally Dick Butkus. Debbie, on the other hand, was often put into the role of Only Sane Man and left to roll her eyes at the trouble the other characters caused. | |
The Neighbors / int_76a5eaf8 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_76a5eaf8 | |
The Neighbors / int_79c34029 | type |
The Nose Knows | |
The Neighbors / int_79c34029 | comment |
The Nose Knows: Dick can smell an ant farm. Good thing Larry sprayed it with Train scent.. Also counts as a Callback to the fact that Zabvronians have a strong sense of smell. | |
The Neighbors / int_79c34029 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors / int_79c34029 | |
The Neighbors / int_7a368a80 | type |
Comic Role Play | |
The Neighbors / int_7a368a80 | comment |
Comic Role Play: When Larry and Jackie think their marriage is in a rut, they decide to do some roleplay to spice things up. So they meet in a bar, each as the sexiest person they can think of... which turns out to be each other. In The Stinger for the same episode, Reggie and Jane play Pizza Boy Special Delivery, but completely miss the point and never get to the sex part. | |
The Neighbors / int_7a368a80 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors / int_7a368a80 | |
The Neighbors / int_7a3dd888 | type |
Real Men Wear Pink | |
The Neighbors / int_7a3dd888 | comment |
Real Men Wear Pink: Played with. When Max asks for a Princess Leia doll (emphasize on doll), Marty is worried at first... not that Max might be gay but rather that he won't have anything in common with Max. Marty winds up accepting that Max might have different tastes and standards and so buys Max an entire doll collection. Turns out, Max just wanted a Leia doll because she's hot. | |
The Neighbors / int_7a3dd888 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_7a3dd888 | |
The Neighbors / int_7b8b3def | type |
Celebrity Paradox | |
The Neighbors / int_7b8b3def | comment |
Celebrity Paradox: One wonders why the Zabvronians that look like George Takei and Mark Hamill aren't commented on by the humans. That said, since those humans know they're appearance-changing aliens, it might not be as big a deal as it would seem. | |
The Neighbors / int_7b8b3def | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_7b8b3def | |
The Neighbors / int_7c9dcc1 | type |
THeUnfavorite | |
The Neighbors / int_7c9dcc1 | comment |
The Unfavorite: Dick Butkus' suggestions in family meetings are frequently shot down almost reflexively by Larry Bird, only for Larry to enthusiastically agree when someone else makes the same suggestion moments later. It may have something to do with the fact that Dick was a surprise while Reggie Jackson, his older brother, was a planned pregnancy. Larry occasionally shows that he does have great amounts of affection for his younger son, it's just that his penchant for grandiose plans frequently involves putting Dick down before a grand reveal. To the point where Dick assumes that it's Jackie Joyner-Kersee who's responsible for the good things in his life. | |
The Neighbors / int_7c9dcc1 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_7c9dcc1 | |
The Neighbors / int_7eebe99c | type |
The Alcoholic | |
The Neighbors / int_7eebe99c | comment |
The Alcoholic: Debbie Weaver. The aliens call her out on this a lot. | |
The Neighbors / int_7eebe99c | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_7eebe99c | |
The Neighbors / int_816a4e80 | type |
Star Wars (Franchise) | |
The Neighbors / int_816a4e80 | comment |
Max wants a Princess Leia doll for Christmas. Larry does it one step better. In itself shouting out to two of the movies when she says "Help me, Max Weaver, you're my only hope"; while at the same time wearing Leia's slave costume from the "Return of the Jedi". In the same episode, Abigail gets a Rarity doll. | |
The Neighbors / int_816a4e80 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_816a4e80 | |
The Neighbors / int_835d1cd2 | type |
Satellite Love Interest | |
The Neighbors / int_835d1cd2 | comment |
Satellite Love Interest: Jane. She really has no personality or interest other than getting Reggie. Somewhat of a Deconstruction of One True Love sitautions because of it. | |
The Neighbors / int_835d1cd2 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_835d1cd2 | |
The Neighbors / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
The Neighbors / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: Jackie, at least insofar as she tries to model her human persona around. In practice, she's something like a Stepford Snarker - loving, loyal, supportive, and puts up with her husband's antics, but perfectly willing to call him out as needed. | |
The Neighbors / int_83a903f6 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_83a903f6 | |
The Neighbors / int_88359b23 | type |
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy | |
The Neighbors / int_88359b23 | comment |
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Amber and Reggie's relationship and general personalities are like this. In their case, they mimic less the outwardly aspects of the trope and more the internal ones. Amber is emotionally private who has a certain sense of personal pride in that, Reggie is very flighty and is prone to hysterics. | |
The Neighbors / int_88359b23 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_88359b23 | |
The Neighbors / int_884e513b | type |
Medium Awareness | |
The Neighbors / int_884e513b | comment |
Medium Awareness: The new theme song knows "...we'll be done in 30 minutes". | |
The Neighbors / int_884e513b | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors / int_884e513b | featureConfidence |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_884e513b | |
The Neighbors / int_8976acda | type |
Civil War | |
The Neighbors / int_8976acda | comment |
Civil War: Apparently Larry and Jackie met during an inter-galactic war. And as it turns out, Larry was on one side (the established Empire) and Jackie was a freedom fighter on the other side. The two of them faced off in battle and well... the rest is history. | |
The Neighbors / int_8976acda | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_8976acda | |
The Neighbors / int_8a1215e0 | type |
Bratty Teenage Daughter | |
The Neighbors / int_8a1215e0 | comment |
Bratty Teenage Daughter: Amber. Big time. | |
The Neighbors / int_8a1215e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Neighbors / int_8a1215e0 | featureConfidence |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_8a1215e0 | |
The Neighbors / int_8f900ccd | type |
Overly Long Name | |
The Neighbors / int_8f900ccd | comment |
Overly Long Name: Toks Olagundoye is actually short for Olatokunbo Susan Olasobunmi Abeke Olagundoye. | |
The Neighbors / int_8f900ccd | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_8f900ccd | |
The Neighbors / int_943f7a7e | type |
Wiki Walk | |
The Neighbors / int_943f7a7e | comment |
Wiki Walk: In "One Night in (Lou Ferrigno's Hibachi) Heaven", the Bird-Kershees Google "How to spice up your marriage" and get distracted by recipes for spicy chicken. | |
The Neighbors / int_943f7a7e | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_943f7a7e | |
The Neighbors / int_94be6b61 | type |
Coordinated Clothes | |
The Neighbors / int_94be6b61 | comment |
Coordinated Clothes: The alien members of the gated community all dress identically. The main alien family may dress in a slight variation, but they still color-coordinate with the community and with each other. The father-and-son and mother-and-daughter have always worn matching theme Halloween costumes, but this year the son decides to go out with his new school friends as a zombie and the daughter "goes slutty" by declaring that she and a neighbor boy will go as "hot doctor and slutty nurse." Due to the fact that the neighbor boy is a Cloud Cuckoolander alien, he assumes that he is supposed to be the slutty nurse. | |
The Neighbors / int_94be6b61 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_94be6b61 | |
The Neighbors / int_9c4003a1 | type |
One True Love | |
The Neighbors / int_9c4003a1 | comment |
One True Love: Played with. On one hand, Zabvronians really do have soul mates. On the other hand, just because there is a perfect match doesn't mean someone actually wants that match. | |
The Neighbors / int_9c4003a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_9c4003a1 | |
The Neighbors / int_9edfdf1f | type |
Studio Audience | |
The Neighbors / int_9edfdf1f | comment |
Studio Audience: Inspired by a Nick@Nite holiday marathon, Jackie and Larry invite a studio audience to the Weavers Thanksgiving. | |
The Neighbors / int_9edfdf1f | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors / int_9edfdf1f | featureConfidence |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_9edfdf1f | |
The Neighbors / int_a00f2ac9 | type |
First Kiss | |
The Neighbors / int_a00f2ac9 | comment |
First Kiss: Amber and Reggie share one in the final moments of Season One. She also learns he has two tongues. | |
The Neighbors / int_a00f2ac9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Neighbors / int_a00f2ac9 | featureConfidence |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_a00f2ac9 | |
The Neighbors / int_a1575551 | type |
Living Prop | |
The Neighbors / int_a1575551 | comment |
Living Prop: All the other Zabvronian neighbors. Lampshaded when the Bird-Kersees talk to them to find additional friends only to realize that they all have zero personality. | |
The Neighbors / int_a1575551 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_a1575551 | |
The Neighbors / int_a2000308 | type |
Bowling for Ratings | |
The Neighbors / int_a2000308 | comment |
Bowling for Ratings: "Close Encounters of the Bird Kind" | |
The Neighbors / int_a2000308 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_a2000308 | |
The Neighbors / int_a2e96d18 | type |
Just the First Citizen | |
The Neighbors / int_a2e96d18 | comment |
Just the First Citizen: Larry's position among the Zabvronians, at least those on Earth. Larry considers this his occupation, forcing Jackie to go out and bring in the bacon possibly for the whole alien community. He gets better though once Jackie and the Weavers call him out on it. That said, his comparatively limited knowledge of human culture combined with his natural impulse to take over tends to get in the way. At one point, he mistakes a real estate ad for a job posting until Jackie points it out. | |
The Neighbors / int_a2e96d18 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_a2e96d18 | |
The Neighbors / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
The Neighbors / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: In "Larry Bird Presents an Oscar-Winning Film by Larry Bird", Larry Bird's movie wasn't footage of Max Weaver's attempt to win a spelling bee but an homage of an attempt by his son, Dick Butkus. It is a happy emotional event when it seems that Larry Bird learned something important about family when the tape cuts to footage from some log Larry Bird has been keeping on the Weavers, including on watching them sleep at night. | |
The Neighbors / int_a4c37cbe | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_a4c37cbe | |
The Neighbors / int_a5096c48 | type |
Joisey | |
The Neighbors / int_a5096c48 | comment |
Joisey: But not the usual out-of-state view of the Garden State, but rather the native New Jerseyan's self-perception of NJ being a state of suburbia and weird, paranormal stuff ("Weird NJ"). To nobody's surprise, series creator Dan Fogelman is from River Vale in Bergen County. Larry attempts to kidnap Jackie's coworker. | |
The Neighbors / int_a5096c48 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_a5096c48 | |
The Neighbors / int_a5e0c01 | type |
As Himself | |
The Neighbors / int_a5e0c01 | comment |
As Themselves: The Shark Tank Sharks in We've Jumped the Shark (Tank)! Erik Estrada and Carrot Top in Oscar Party. Noted Science Guy, Mr. Bill Nye in Close Encounters of the Bird Kind | |
The Neighbors / int_a5e0c01 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_a5e0c01 | |
The Neighbors / int_aa368af0 | type |
Two Scenes, One Dialogue | |
The Neighbors / int_aa368af0 | comment |
Two Scenes, One Dialogue: Happens in "The One With Interspecies Friends". Amusingly, the two conversations are about how dissimilar the Weavers and Bird-Kersees are. In "Any Friggin' Sunday"', Marty and Jackie quote a passage from the movie Any Given Sunday he to the men, she to the women (and Reggie). | |
The Neighbors / int_aa368af0 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_aa368af0 | |
The Neighbors / int_aa9fcfed | type |
Embarrassing Middle Name | |
The Neighbors / int_aa9fcfed | comment |
Embarrassing Middle Name: Dick Beef Butkis. | |
The Neighbors / int_aa9fcfed | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_aa9fcfed | |
The Neighbors / int_aec3d8b2 | type |
Expository Theme Tune | |
The Neighbors / int_aec3d8b2 | comment |
The 2nd Season's Expository Theme Tune even goes so far as to state that it's the humans who are imposing on the aliens rather than the other way around. | |
The Neighbors / int_aec3d8b2 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_aec3d8b2 | |
The Neighbors / int_b01abe4f | type |
Catchphrase | |
The Neighbors / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: George Takei gets in his "Ooooh my!" during his appearance on the show. | |
The Neighbors / int_b01abe4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Neighbors / int_b01abe4f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_b01abe4f | |
The Neighbors / int_b13bb418 | type |
Alien Among Us | |
The Neighbors / int_b13bb418 | comment |
Alien Among Us: Double time. The Zabvronians are the only ones of their kind on this planet, and the Weavers are the only human family in their community. | |
The Neighbors / int_b13bb418 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_b13bb418 | |
The Neighbors / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
The Neighbors / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Starting in Season Two, the Zabvronians make several jabs at NBC's The Today Show after ABC's Good Morning America started beating its rival in the ratings. | |
The Neighbors / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_b53077b3 | |
The Neighbors / int_b58c51d8 | type |
My Beloved Smother | |
The Neighbors / int_b58c51d8 | comment |
My Beloved Smother: Jackie in season two, though far less intrusive than most examples. For instance, she dislikes Jane and prefers Amber mostly because Jane would take Reggie half-way across the galaxy whereas Amber would mean Reggie stays on Earth. | |
The Neighbors / int_b58c51d8 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors / int_b58c51d8 | |
The Neighbors / int_b5b4b077 | type |
The Ace | |
The Neighbors / int_b5b4b077 | comment |
The Ace: Abby Weaver. Although she is the youngest of the characters, she's shown the ability to quickly master new abilities, including alien technology. Her skills are such that Max, her older brother, laments when Amber talk her into trying out for hockey and she immediately dominates a sport she's never played before. He was under no illusions about his ability in the rink, he just wanted to do something that Abby wasn't interested in so that he might have chance of making the team. Amber takes pity on Max and tells Abby to intentionally get cut from the try out. | |
The Neighbors / int_b5b4b077 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_b5b4b077 | |
The Neighbors / int_b7bc7d28 | type |
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! | |
The Neighbors / int_b7bc7d28 | comment |
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Happens to Dick in "It Has Begun." After the titular statement is stated by his grandfather, Dick gets distracted by an episode of Malibu Country. | |
The Neighbors / int_b7bc7d28 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_b7bc7d28 | |
The Neighbors / int_b89ab683 | type |
Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
The Neighbors / int_b89ab683 | comment |
Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Jackie to Larry, depending on the situation. Same for Debbie to Marty. | |
The Neighbors / int_b89ab683 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors / int_b89ab683 | featureConfidence |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_b89ab683 | |
The Neighbors / int_b9d334b2 | type |
Aerith and Bob | |
The Neighbors / int_b9d334b2 | comment |
Aerith and Bob: Amusingly, all the Zabvronian names we've heard are seemingly similar to English names. It's only Zabvron itself that is unusual. | |
The Neighbors / int_b9d334b2 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_b9d334b2 | |
The Neighbors / int_bec0417c | type |
Happily Married | |
The Neighbors / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: Both couples. | |
The Neighbors / int_bec0417c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Neighbors / int_bec0417c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_bec0417c | |
The Neighbors / int_bf74d357 | type |
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife | |
The Neighbors / int_bf74d357 | comment |
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Amusingly, the reverse was true on Zabvron for Larry Bird and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Larry is rather distraught to learn that it's the other way around on Earth. Also Debbie is substantially more attractive than Marty. | |
The Neighbors / int_bf74d357 | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_bf74d357 | |
The Neighbors / int_c1e2c633 | type |
Academic Athlete | |
The Neighbors / int_c1e2c633 | comment |
Academic Athlete: Jackie on Zabvron was this. | |
The Neighbors / int_c1e2c633 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_c1e2c633 | |
The Neighbors / int_c26e2b1 | type |
New Powers as the Plot Demands | |
The Neighbors / int_c26e2b1 | comment |
New Powers as the Plot Demands: In the early episodes, there were some Zabvronian abilities that are never brought up again such as the community's emotional state mirroring Larry's. That said, some powers like the shapeshifting are said to change after puberty, once a Zabvronian has matured into who they are. | |
The Neighbors / int_c26e2b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Neighbors / int_c26e2b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_c26e2b1 | |
The Neighbors / int_c676a2f8 | type |
Blah, Blah, Blah | |
The Neighbors / int_c676a2f8 | comment |
"Shark Tank airs on Friday on ABC after, Blah, Blah, Blah. The "Blah, blah, blah" being this show. | |
The Neighbors / int_c676a2f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_c676a2f8 | |
The Neighbors / int_c6b8d37a | type |
Cliffhanger | |
The Neighbors / int_c6b8d37a | comment |
Becomes a Cliffhanger when in the last scene Marty eats part of a message marked "Warning: Invasion Imminent!" | |
The Neighbors / int_c6b8d37a | featureApplicability |
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The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_c6b8d37a | |
The Neighbors / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
The Neighbors / int_c75df49a | comment |
The entire conversation between Grandfather (George Takei) and Commander Bill (Mark Hamill) is basically one big Shout-Out to their respective sci-fi franchises. | |
The Neighbors / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Neighbors / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Neighbors | hasFeature |
The Neighbors / int_c75df49a | |
The Neighbors / int_ce0b2b21 | type |
Monochrome Casting | |
The Neighbors / int_ce0b2b21 | comment |
Monochrome Casting: Averted. Since Zabvronians don't understand how human race works, they picked bodies that were a sample of human variation. It's quite possibly the most ethnically diverse cast on American network television (not that that's difficult.) Played with in one episode where a country club invites the Birds and the Weavers to join them. The Weavers are worried that the only reason the Birds are invited is because of their diversity. | |
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Crop Circles | |
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Crop Circles: Jackie makes one of these in a field when she is upset. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Larry refuses to get Dick an antfarm and won't listen to anyone saying otherwise... because he already got Dick an antfarm. To maintain the surprise, Larry is pretty mean even for him and he even gets in a reverse-What the Hell, Hero? speech to Debbie. It looks like he'll be a Karma Houdini when... during his reveal to Dick, Jackie rolls in the antfarm. Which prompts Dick to thank Jackie much to Larry's chagrin. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Reggie gives Amber a minor one in "It Has Begun" for clearly being interested in Reggie yet never actually doing anything about it, resulting in Reggie constantly getting emotionally hurt. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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The father-and-son and mother-and-daughter have always worn matching theme Halloween costumes, but this year the son decides to go out with his new school friends as a zombie and the daughter "goes slutty" by declaring that she and a neighbor boy will go as "hot doctor and slutty nurse." Due to the fact that the neighbor boy is a Cloud Cuckoolander alien, he assumes that he is supposed to be the slutty nurse. | |
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Named After Their Planet | |
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Named After Their Planet: Zabvronians the species come from the planet Zabvron. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
The Neighbors / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: Abigail and Max. They're close enough in age that they're in full sibling rivalry mode, but when push comes to shove, they'll stick close. By the season one finale, Abigail and Max have become childhood Bash Brothers, being inseparable and often getting into hijinks with each other... with Dick becoming their Sitcom Arch-Nemesis (in some ways). But this also goes to show how close the children have become despite being different races. Larry and Marty flip between this and Heterosexual Life-Partners. | |
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Anal Probing | |
The Neighbors / int_d8ad2130 | comment |
Anal Probing: Larry mentions having done this. | |
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Amusing Alien | |
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Amusing Alien: Well it is a sitcom about human/alien interaction. | |
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Manchild | |
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Manchild: Larry can come across as this sometimes, especially once he becomes comfortable with human culture. It goes with the overall Hypocritical Humor aspect of the show since Dick, his youngest son, tends to act more like a parent and father than Larry does. Marty too on occasion. | |
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Musical Episode | |
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Musical Episode: "Sing Like A Larry Bird" | |
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Friend to All Living Things | |
The Neighbors / int_e21faf11 | comment |
Friend to All Living Things: Dick, at least in regards to insects. When the Birds and Weavers go camping, Dick spends the entire time covered in insects and everyone else uses him as living insect repellent. | |
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A-Cup Angst | |
The Neighbors / int_e621b159 | comment |
A-Cup Angst: Amber, momentarily, in "Good Debbie Hunting" when Jane starts to dance. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Reggie asks Dick to sidekick him... so Dick side kicks him. | |
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Pretty Fly for a White Guy | |
The Neighbors / int_eb6912 | comment |
Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Larry Bird even mentions it word for word and it really fits his personality. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: With Shark Tank which follows it on ABC's Friday Night Lineup. | |
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Ensemble Cast | |
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Ensemble Cast: Any given episode might focus on the Weavers or the Bird-Kersees in equal measure. And more often than not, there will be a mix of alien and human in any storyline (Dick and Marty seem to be a common pairing). | |
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The Generation Gap | |
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The Generation Gap: A recurring theme in the series is how the older generation, alien and human alike, differ from the younger generation and how these differences are universal. Larry and Marty bond a lot over this sort of thing as do Jackie and Debbie. | |
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The Starscream | |
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The Starscream: Jackie's siblings were imprisoned for trying to overthrow Larry. Larry also becomes one when he joins the PTA. | |
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Last Episode, New Character | |
The Neighbors / int_f09b6509 | comment |
Last Episode, New Character: The human couple that moves in at the end of season two. They would have served as a foil to the main cast had the show been renewed for a third season. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: Reggie occasionally in regards to Jane. Though not so much because she's attractive by human terms (they're both aliens after all) but usually because she's being accompanied by or similar to something he actually wants. Generally lasts for the scene though as he's usually comes back to his senses and goes back to Amber. | |
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Fictional Holiday | |
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Fictional Holiday: Challoweenukah : a combination of Halloween and Hanukah. | |
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Sufficiently Advanced Alien | |
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Sufficiently Advanced Alien: Played with. In some ways, Zabvron is an advanced alien society (they do have space ships after all and can communicate through toast). In other ways, Zabvron is a lot like any other society, regardless of technology level. There are quirky cultural traits, there are traditions from older times, and there are aspects that are simply bizarre to outsiders. | |
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Mile-High Club | |
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Mile-High Club: Larry and Jackie, of course, comically miss the point, thinking it involves going into the airplane lavatory and... watching on their GPS as the plane travels one mile. | |
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Running Gag | |
The Neighbors / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: A minor one with the Bird-Kersee's refrigerator. Since they don't eat food the way they do, we see them use it for various related purposes - putting books in it in one episode, putting a fire extinguisher in it in another. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke A meta-one. An early season two episode mentions Terms of Endearment and how Marty doesn't understand why Debbie likes it. Later in the season, they unintentionally re-create a scene from the movie. Another is the fact that Zabvronians watch the Weavers sleep. In the first scene of the Christmas Episode, it's established that Zabvronians (or at least Larry) think that coffee cups can only be used by those that they reflect as the truth (i.e. Larry's "World's Greatest Father" mug). In the very next next scene Reggie hands Amber an "I'm with Stupid" mug. The animal documentary. In the first episode it's established that the Zabvronians gain nourishment by reading. Later, when Larry and Marty are hanging out, Marty is drinking a beer, and Larry is reading a book about mixed drinks. | |
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Cut Short | |
The Neighbors / int_ffa0483f | comment |
Cut Short: The Bird-Kerseys take on the role as the last of their kind. Larry Bird is pregnant. A new family moves in. And the series ends. | |
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