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3rd Rock from the Sun
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A '90s Sitcom in which a team of aliens come to Earth disguised as a human family in order to study mankind. A very similar premise to Mork & Mindy, but had enough nutty humor to make up for it. The series lasted from January 1996 to May 2001, and featured a total of 139 episodes in six seasons.As the Solomon family, the aliens infiltrate the Ohio college town of Rutherford where mediocrity reigns despite it being a Quirky Town. The commander of the aliens is Dick Solomon (John Lithgow), a pompous Manchild with an ego the size of Jupiter playing the role of a professor of physics at nearby Pendleton University. His "sister" Sally (Kristen Johnston) is a seasoned commando now "the" woman, his "son" Tommy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a crotchety information officer going as a teenager, and "the brother" Harry (French Stewart) is a... well, technically he's the communications officer, but is really The Ditz with an antenna in his head. Their original species also doesn't have different genders, leading to much confusion and Lampshade Hanging of human gender dynamics in their new forms.The local Earthlings include Dick's insecure office mate and love interest Dr. Mary Albright (Jane Curtin), her Sassy Secretary Nina Campbell (Simbi Khali), Sally's cop boyfriend Officer Don Orville (Wayne Knight), and the Solomons' eccentric landlady Mrs. Dubcek (Elmarie Wendel). The more the Solomons view Humans Through Alien Eyes, the more they realize that Humans Are Special.Not to be confused with the song and album by Joe Diffie, nor with fellow NBC sitcom 30 Rock. | |
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Secret Identity | |
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Secret Identity: At various times, Mary and the university staff have interpreted Dick's elusiveness about his past as him being either a political activist on the run from the feds, a secret agent, or a serial killer/terrorist. | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: Played for a lot of laughs; the most consistent description of what the Solomons really look like is that they resemble purple tubes. Beyond that, that show is rife with jokes about exactly what their real forms are, each more confusing than the last. | |
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15 Minutes of Fame | |
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15 Minutes of Fame: This happens to Sally after she punches out Mark Hamill in a restaurant. When Mary tells a jealous Dick that this is Sally's "fifteen minutes of fame," he interprets it literally and is maddened by her "fifteen minutes" lasting considerably longer than that. It ends after a few days, however, causing Sally to start acting like a White-Dwarf Starlet. | |
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I Was Quite a Looker | |
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I Was Quite a Looker: Mary, twenty years ago. Dick gets ahold of her nude photos from back then and shows them to her. | |
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Creator Cameo: Randy Newman appears as the pianist accompanying Harry's performance of "Life Has Been Good to Me". | |
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Scenery Censor: Played with in an episode where Harry walks around naked in the kitchen, while people in the foreground "coincidentally" move objects in the line of view of his crotch in perfect synchronization with his movements. | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: While Dick, Sally, and Harry manage to humiliate Tommy on countless occasions, Sally's overbearing manner makes her the worst offender. | |
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Crosses the Line Twice | |
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When a car mechanic who is fixing Sally's car keeps talking to Harry about it instead of Sally, Sally eventually gets the guy's attention by giving him one of these. With a pair of pliers. Which she then forgets to remove. Until she eventually does so with an apologetic little giggle. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: "Collect Call For Dick" where Dick gets obsessed with collecting tiny stuffed animals called "Fuzzy Buddies" at the cost of his finances, health, and self-respect. The "intervention" at the end of the episode absolutely reeks of this trope. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: This is how the Solomons appear to everybody else for a majority of reasons, mainly due to Dick's egomania, Sally's rage, Tommy's lust, and Harry's... everything. There're also those times when they forget they're supposed to be related and either call each other by the wrong word or act way too intimate than being related would allow. This is taken to the extreme in The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary, when Mary does a film based on the Solomon's family life. To cover up their alien identities they end up making themselves look even more screwed up than usual. Sally's "outed" as a lesbian, Tommy's outed as a bed wetter (which is true), Dick is accused of being physically abusive, and Harry pretends to be an alcoholic so he can get more screentime. When it finally gets to be too much, Tommy reveals the big secret they've been trying to hide: Dick's not his father. Straighter examples of this trope on the ongoing side are the Albrights and the Dubceks. Mary's parents are horrible people who dumped all their emotional baggage on her for her entire childhood, her mother's a vindictive, controlling, racist drunk, and her father's a cheat. The two constantly split up, and at one point Mary's father began dating Sally. Her brother and sister are no better. Roy let Mary take the blame when their parents discovered his collection of Playboys (a move which put her in therapy for a few years) and tries to get women to sleep with him by lying about getting abducted by aliens. Renata, Mary's sister, is relatively more successful than she is and enjoys destroying Mary's happiness any chance she can get, even trying to steal Dick from her. It's a wonder Mary isn't even more messed up than she is now. The Dubceks, on the other hand, are much more pleasant to deal with despite Mamie and Vicki being rampant, self aware nymphomaniacs, with Mamie being the grandmother of more than one illegitimate grandchild and an implied stoner, and Vicki acting as though she's in a bad porno most of the time. Oh, and the time she tried to kill Harry's girlfriend after marrying the Big Giant Head. | |
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Straw Vegetarian | |
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Straw Vegetarian: Dick Solomon becomes one of these as a Compressed Vice, reverting to his normal meat-eating ways at the end of the episode. | |
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Genre Shift: A common B story was to have Sally and either Harry or Tommy engage in sudden behavior change. For example, after Sally starts dating a man named Tony The Butcher, Sally starts acting like an Italian mob girlfriend, and Tommy starts behaving like a Goodfella. In addition, most early Sally/Don scenes all were taken straight out of Film Noir. | |
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Protest by Obstruction | |
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Protest by Obstruction: Played with. Harry accidentally chains himself to a tree without knowing they were going to cut it down. | |
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Diet Episode | |
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Diet Episode: In "Moby Dick," Dick goes on a diet after he starts overeating to deal with the stress of his break-up from Mary. Later we find out Mary is also stress eating. | |
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Voices Are Not Mental | |
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Voices Are Not Mental: When Dick and Sally go through their "Freaky Friday" Flip their voices don't switch. Their unique speech patterns and Lithgow and Johnston's performances make it clear who's in which body. | |
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Always Someone Better | |
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Always Someone Better: Dr. Liam Neesam (John Cleese) is this to the Solomons, especially Dick. He's an alien just like them, but is so much more competent at everything (including, apparently, the Big Giant Head). | |
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The Couch | |
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The Couch: Which wasn't a couch at all, but three chairs and an ottoman. The roof of their apartment probably qualifies as well. | |
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Those Two Guys: Surprisingly, in some episodes, Tommy and Harry have this dynamic. | |
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No Sympathy | |
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No Sympathy: Tommy in "Dick Solomon of the Indiana Solomons". After Janine learns that she's adopted, Tommy (who is excited she's not actually "related" to him) calls her up for a date: | |
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6 Is 9 | |
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6 Is 9: Parodied. | |
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Psycho Ex-Girlfriend applies also to Sally, especially with the early men she dates. She's aggressive, domineering and obsessive, which drives a few men away before she meets Don. | |
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Emotional Maturity Is Physical Maturity: Averted. The actual ages of the aliens don't correspond with the ages of their human bodies, and it shows. Tommy, the oldest of the group, is easily the most level-headed member of the group even though he's physically a teenager. Partially enforced by hormones though. Tommy's worst moments usually come regarding his girlfriends. | |
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Also, can't forget her "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: | |
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Chekhov's Gag | |
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Chekhov's Gag: "Tricky Dick." Born out of feelings of bitterness, Dick and Mary engage in an ever-escalating prank war. Amongst Dick's ideas are removing Mary's desk, getting a garage to add massive speakers and flame decals to her car, and sending her a fake letter from the President. Mary, however, gets Dick with a big one: getting Dick stuck to his desk with thermal bond epoxy. As Dick is slowly removed from his desk, they finally agree to end it and act like adults..... just before they hear the loud, booming noise of Mary's car being returned from the shop. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: As the core cast is so insane, an outsider is often needed for the job. Initially, it was Mary - until she was developed as pretty quirky herself. Then it was August, Tommy's first girlfriend, during her run with the show. Later, Don often played the part, especially in conversations with Sally where she takes up some ludicrous position about their relationship. He doesn't tell her she's wrong when it plays to his advantage. Of all people, Harry is this in "Collect Call for Dick". When Dick first begins to get obsessed with collecting every Fuzzy Buddy in existence, Harry puts it into perspective by saying they already have a bunch of them. Then later, when there's an ultra rare Fuzzy Buddy of which only thirty were made due to a manufacturing error: | |
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Wants a Prize for Basic Decency | |
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Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: One episode involved Harry and Tommy finding a wallet; when they returned the wallet to the person, they were irritated that they didn't get a reward. So they devised schemes to get the guy to pay up. | |
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Practically Different Generations: Despite not actually being siblings. As part of their charade as the Solomon family, Harry and Sally are Dick's brother and sister, even though there's a significant age gap in their Earthling formsnote French Stewart and Kristen Johnson are 19 and 22 years younger, respectively, than John Lithgow, who was in his 50's during the show's run but looked older due to his receding gray hair; if they'd posed as his children along with Tommy, it would've been slightly more plausible. | |
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Sick Episode: The second episode of the show, "Post Nasal Dick", features the entire Solomon family getting a cold. Dick fights it, though, so he can attend a wedding with Mary. | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles: Elmarie Wendel (Mrs. Dubcek), Simba Khali (Nina), and Wayne Knight (Don Orville) got added to the opening titles by season 4. | |
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That | |
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That: In "The Fifth Solomon," Harry becomes friends with an insurance salesman, who wants to sign him up for insurance. One of the questions he asks is if Harry smokes. | |
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Rogue Juror | |
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Rogue Juror: "Eleven Angry Men and One Dick." | |
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Cock Fight | |
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Cock Fight: Dick and Neesam over Mary. Later, Harry and The Big Giant Head over Vicki. "Superstitious Dick" has a variant; Alissa has a crush on hockey star Stenstrom. Tommy is naturally jealous and goes to tell Stenstrom, who's in the dark about Alissa's crush, to stay away from his girl. But Tommy's words don't register, because Stenstrom doesn't speak a lick of English outside of "Stay in school, don't do drug" and "Okay." | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_29c480a3 | type |
Good News, Bad News | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_29c480a3 | comment |
Good News, Bad News: Dick once used this phrase when there was no good news. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2a090d00 | type |
Lampshade Hanging | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2a090d00 | comment |
Lampshade Hanging: Characters in late seasons discuss some of the show's oddities. For example, why do the same college students study under Dick for six years? Because they never pass his course. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2a3e0069 | type |
Amazonian Beauty | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2a3e0069 | comment |
Amazonian Beauty: Sally, Nina, and Janice. Deconstructed in Janice's case; she hates how much people try to test her mettle after seeing how big and strong she is. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2b5ab7c1 | type |
Analogy Backfire | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2b5ab7c1 | comment |
Analogy Backfire: In "Same Old Song and Dick," Dick tries to convince Mary that they need to spice up their relationship, and says they should be more like Romeo and Juliet. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2b5ea43c | type |
Bland-Name Product | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2b5ea43c | comment |
Bland-Name Product: Possibly. After Mary pokes the Mr Potato Head toy Dick keeps on his desk with about three dozen pencils, Dick exclaims "My Mr Potato Man!" This could ether be the producers not wanting to say the actual name and/or just another 'alien misnamed something' joke. Riverdance - King of the Jig. Playboy Magazine got the similarly-named Playpen Magazine. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2b88f42 | type |
Chain Letter | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2b88f42 | comment |
Chain Letter: Dick and Mary each receive one in "Superstitious Dick." | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2d88e42c | type |
Gender Bender | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2d88e42c | comment |
Gender Bender: Sally Solomon wasn't female before coming to Earth (whether the aliens have genders, and what they're like is not elaborated on), and initially wasn't pleased at the change. Dick has his share of a feminine side, too, especially in the emotions he expresses, including but not limited to, his mood swings. He or Sally equally could play a woman. Perhaps the reason the Big Giant Head chose Dick for the temporary switch with Sally? | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2decf5dd | type |
Silly Simian | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2decf5dd | comment |
Silly Simian: Another alien attempts to turn Earth into Super Monkey World as a tourist attraction. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2df4fa08 | type |
Omniglot | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2df4fa08 | comment |
Omniglot: The Solomons seem to have learned every Earth language in preparation for their trip, or at least a couple dozen. Dick reads a newspaper in a different language almost every episode. When they got cable, they switched to a Spanish-speaking channel and all started speaking Spanish — until they realized what they were doing. They can also speak (at least some) animal languages. For instance, in the second season episode about thanksgiving, Dick hears turkeys on television. He later tells the others that the turkeys were talking about an apocalypse (What made this more hilarious was the reporter on tv earlier jokingly saying that the turkeys seemed to know what was headed their way). In a season one episode, Harry has a conversation with a dog. This may be an unidentified form of Neural Implanting: in one episode Harry and Dick are locked in a stairwell together for over a day, during which Dick begins talking to his 'inner voice'. In a throw-away line, Harry says his inner voice began speaking to him too, but he didn't know what it said because he doesn't speak French. Obviously it was just intended as a one-line joke, but if one ponders it, it probably means that Harry has the French language stored somewhere in his brain, he just can't access it. However, this theory is also somewhat damaged by the fact that in a Battle of Wits between Dick and Tommy, they show off using their language skills. (Tommy wins, apparently having mastered all the languages Dick challenges him with, and correcting Dick's faulty grammar.) It's also an Actor Allusion, given that Harry is played by French Stewart. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2ef005ab | type |
Vocal Evolution | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2ef005ab | comment |
Vocal Evolution: Harry's voice in the first season (and part of the second) was originally more nasal, lower-pitched, and nebbish. Eventually, as he gained more range, his voice changed to more raspy and rough, which only made his lines funnier. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2ef005ab | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2f36d97 | type |
Older Than They Look | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2f36d97 | comment |
Older Than They Look: Tommy is the oldest alien, and acts Alter Kocker when he decides to retire and give up on acting his human age in "Portrait Of Tommy As An Old Man." He also hams up the Alter Kocker when, in the final season, they learn that their mission is at an end. The others point out that he always 'acts old' when they reach the end of the mission, but he actually takes the end of the mission much harder than initially suggested, breaking down during their going away party, a reaction he apparently hasn't had before. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2f36d97 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2f52c0af | type |
Accidental Pervert | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2f52c0af | comment |
Accidental Pervert: In "Shall We Dick," Alissa accidentally walked in on Don changing for the dance, and Sally assumed she did it on purpose to get a peek at Don's goods. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2f52c0af | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2fa14a9b | type |
Freudian Couch | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2fa14a9b | comment |
Freudian Couch: Dick lies down on one during therapy in "A Nightmare on Dick Street." | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_2fa14a9b | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3126c34a | type |
Insufferable Genius | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3126c34a | comment |
Insufferable Genius: Dick Solomon. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3126c34a | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_31c5e7fb | type |
Starfish Aliens | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_31c5e7fb | comment |
Starfish Aliens: We never get to see the Solomons' true forms, but what little we hear about them sounds positively Lovecraftian. The only consistent detail is that they are purple tubes. Or at least a major part of them is a purple tube. Presumably, they must have some kind of head, as their ruler has (Or is) a Big Giant one. Or he could be the Big Giant Head of the organization, not literally have a big head. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_31c5e7fb | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_327bebcc | type |
Season Fluidity | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_327bebcc | comment |
Season Fluidity: More towards the "fluid" category, due to most every episode being a stand-alone plot that can be watched independently, but there is continuity, especially in the romantic relationships. Example: Dick and Mary are broken up? You're watching a season 3 episode. Sally and Don are broken up? You're watching a season 4 episode. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_327bebcc | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_32c94ad9 | type |
Troublesome Pet | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_32c94ad9 | comment |
Troublesome Pet: When Dick gifts Mary a Golden Retriever, it quickly goes pear shaped, as the dog likes to dry hump. A lot. That's not even the worst of it's qualities either. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_32c94ad9 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_33f1c576 | type |
Not Helping Your Case | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_33f1c576 | comment |
Not Helping Your Case: In "Dick "The Mouth" Solomon", when Don thinks Tommy's working for the mob: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_33f1c576 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3490a19b | type |
Please Dump Me | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3490a19b | comment |
Please Dump Me: Dick can't tell Janet, who's been assigned as his wife, to leave because she's the niece of the Big Giant Head. He instead decides to try and drive her away by acting like a "repulsive creep", but only lasts a few minutes before apologising to her for being so mean. Janet eventually leaves after Dick explains to her that they don't have to be together just because her uncle said so. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3490a19b | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_353f2b06 | type |
"Die Hard" on an X | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_353f2b06 | comment |
"Die Hard" on an X: The screenplay Professor Suter's been working on for the last four years is described as "Die Hard, but in an office building." Dick remarks that they already made that film. Suter replies: "...Up yours." | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_353f2b06 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_36215b80 | type |
Sex Sells | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_36215b80 | comment |
Sex Sells: In "The Physics of Being Dick", Dick tries to lure teenagers to his booth at the high school fair by displaying posters of bikini-clad women. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_36215b80 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_36754cc7 | type |
"Freaky Friday" Flip | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_36754cc7 | comment |
Sally accidentally does this to herself during the "Freaky Friday" Flip. The first time she sits down while in Dick's body she instinctively crosses her legs only to yelp in pain because she crushed the "goods". Harry advises her to wear a sports cup until she gets used to the different anatomy. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_36754cc7 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_37499c8 | type |
OnceAnEpisode | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_37499c8 | comment |
Once an Episode: Sitting on the rooftop to close out the episode. Not quite once an episode, but Harry does receive a message from the Big Giant Head fairly frequently. It's regularly used as a plot device to kick off the episode's hijinks. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_37499c8 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_374c339d | type |
I'll Kill You! | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_374c339d | comment |
I'll Kill You!: When the Big Giant Head first arrives on Earth and begins hitting on Vickie, Harry's first reaction is to smash a beer bottle and lunge at him, while screaming this trope. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_374c339d | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_37a6a66a | type |
Instrumental Theme Tune | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_37a6a66a | comment |
Instrumental Theme Tune: A Surf Rock-inspired theme, to be exact, though they tried a more swing-oriented version in season 5, which didn't stick. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_37a6a66a | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_38c493f1 | type |
End-of-Series Awareness | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_38c493f1 | comment |
End-of-Series Awareness: It happens at the end of the second to last episode "The Thing That Wouldn't Die Part 1" where the big giant head communicates to the Solomon’s that their mission is cancelled and that they will return to their home planet in their original bodies. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_38c493f1 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_392372f9 | type |
Actor Allusion | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_392372f9 | comment |
It's also an Actor Allusion, given that Harry is played by French Stewart. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_392372f9 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_39ed1c8a | type |
Conspiracy Theorist | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_39ed1c8a | comment |
Conspiracy Theorist: Dick becomes one in "Paranoid Dick" when he suspects Mary of soon being replaced as dean. Ironically, Mary ended up getting removed as dean because she and Dick snuck into Judith's office to see if they could find any proof that Mary was on her way out (she wasn't). | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_39ed1c8a | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3a9bbb12 | type |
Man, I Feel Like a Woman | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3a9bbb12 | comment |
Man, I Feel Like a Woman: During the "Freaky Friday" Flip episode Tommy and Harry ask Dick-in-Sally's-body if they can touch "his" boobs. Dick is happy to let them ("be my guest, they're not mine") but Sally-in-Dick's-body threatens them with death if they try it. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3a9bbb12 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3aa2ac42 | type |
G-Rated Drug | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3aa2ac42 | comment |
G-Rated Drug: Dick becomes addicted to collecting Fuzzy Buddies in "Collect Call For Dick." All the classic tropes associated with this genre are spoofed. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3aa2ac42 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: When reminiscing, the aliens talk about a rather humorous memory that is never elaborated upon, which also provides the title for the two-part ending episode: Most of what Ms. Dubceck says is a reference to some past sexual escapade. Thankfully, the other characters don't pry. Judith once entered an episode finishing a story about how somebody had been devoured by woodland creatures. During "Dick and Harry Fall Down A Hole," the hole expert mentions an incident in Manchester where ten people went into a hole. He still has no idea how twelve people came out. Vicki once freaked out and got very nervous when she encountered two midgets who seemed to know her very well, but whatever it was that happened between them doesn't get explained. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3c0a4666 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3c6f1282 | type |
Your Mime Makes It Real | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3c6f1282 | comment |
Your Mime Makes It Real: Played with. An Evil Twin mimes a box around Dick Solomon, when he's actually activating an invisible forcefield. Just to lampshade the trope, Dick reacts with horror when he realises his efforts to subsequently escape look like a mime-impersonation. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3c6f1282 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3d2c6d30 | type |
Skewed Priorities | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3d2c6d30 | comment |
Skewed Priorities: In "A Friend in Dick", when Tommy asks for some money: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3d2c6d30 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3db4ce23 | type |
And Then I Said | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3db4ce23 | comment |
And Then I Said: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3db4ce23 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3ee91def | type |
Fantastic Comedy | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3ee91def | comment |
Fantastic Comedy: Of the Sci-Fi variety. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3ee91def | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3fa09be0 | type |
A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3fa09be0 | comment |
A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma: Dick describes an imagined conspiracy as "a riddle wrapped around an enigma fried up in a conundrum with Chinese mustard dipping sauce." | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_3fa09be0 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_403c6dbf | type |
Neural Implanting | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_403c6dbf | comment |
This may be an unidentified form of Neural Implanting: in one episode Harry and Dick are locked in a stairwell together for over a day, during which Dick begins talking to his 'inner voice'. In a throw-away line, Harry says his inner voice began speaking to him too, but he didn't know what it said because he doesn't speak French. Obviously it was just intended as a one-line joke, but if one ponders it, it probably means that Harry has the French language stored somewhere in his brain, he just can't access it. However, this theory is also somewhat damaged by the fact that in a Battle of Wits between Dick and Tommy, they show off using their language skills. (Tommy wins, apparently having mastered all the languages Dick challenges him with, and correcting Dick's faulty grammar.) It's also an Actor Allusion, given that Harry is played by French Stewart. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_403c6dbf | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_40bb59d0 | type |
Blatant Lies | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: In "The Fifth Solomon," Gary marks down that Harry doesn't smoke on the insurance forms, despite Harry repeatedly saying that he does smoke. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_40bb59d0 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_40cc0c7e | type |
Bittersweet Ending | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: The aliens return home in the series finale, but Mary doesn't dare to leave the Earth with Dick. An alternate ending (shot in case the series was ever Uncancelled) featured Dick returning moments after he had left, to "abduct" Mary. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_40cc0c7e | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_41379078 | type |
Instant Seduction | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_41379078 | comment |
Instant Seduction: In "Dick's Ark," Harry is at the check-out lane of the grocery store and asks the clerk if she wants to join him for a party. The clerk is interested and says that she gets off at eight. Harry replies, "No no, the party's at eight. You get off at nine." | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_41379078 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_42a87000 | type |
Unexpectedly Obscure Answer | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_42a87000 | comment |
Unexpectedly Obscure Answer: Averted in "Dick Behaving Badly", the answer to Dick's charades is "Two celestial bodies of equal mass sharing a single gravitational field will exhibit identical rotational properties for as long as their inertial integrity is maintained." Dick's physics friends are able to correctly guess in very short order. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_42a87000 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_42affc96 | type |
Under the Mistletoe | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_42affc96 | comment |
Under the Mistletoe: Someone hangs mistletoe in the doorway of Dick and Mary's office. Having never celebrated the holiday before, Dick assumes it's a weed growing through the frame and keeps ripping it down. Mary eventually explains the tradition when they're walking out of the office together and Dick responds by kissing her. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_42affc96 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_43a46119 | type |
Surrounded by Idiots | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_43a46119 | comment |
Surrounded by Idiots: Dick often gives this vibe to Tommy, Sally and Harry, but less as time goes on. Nina, however, gives this vibe to practically everyone for the entire show's run. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_43a46119 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_443f9d8a | type |
Ask a Stupid Question... | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_443f9d8a | comment |
Ask a Stupid Question...: Used epically in “Dick for Tat�, when Nina asks Dick whether he is haunted by learning Mary had a one-night stand with his nemesis Dr. Strudwick: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_443f9d8a | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_44606d14 | type |
Becoming the Mask | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_44606d14 | comment |
Becoming the Mask: Tommy, while in the Hootie mascot outfit in "Collect Call For Dick." So much so that he doesn't even acknowledge someone when his real name is said. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_44606d14 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_44ba9580 | type |
The Snark Knight | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_44ba9580 | comment |
The Snark Knight: Tommy. He even dated another one; August Leffler. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_44ba9580 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_44e6fde4 | type |
The Sleepless | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_44e6fde4 | comment |
The Sleepless: Don in "Charitable Dick"; Sally shares his bed and her snoring keeps him up at night. However, even the solution of Sally staying awake all night doesn't work, as she keeps inadvertently making noise. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_44e6fde4 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_45007296 | type |
Metaphorgotten | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_45007296 | comment |
Metaphorgotten: In another episode: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_45007296 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4510b368 | type |
Ambiguous Gender | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4510b368 | comment |
Ambiguous Gender: Technically, all the aliens, at least while in their true forms. It's unclear whether their species simply doesn't have genders, or if their understanding of gender and sex is so different from ours that we humans couldn't hope to understand it — similar to how they feel about our understanding gender and sex. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4510b368 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4540f3d3 | type |
UnCancelled | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4540f3d3 | comment |
An alternate ending (shot in case the series was ever Uncancelled) featured Dick returning moments after he had left, to "abduct" Mary. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4540f3d3 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4560b6bb | type |
Gag Nose | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4560b6bb | comment |
Gag Nose: In "Superstitious Dick," Mary tries to explain to Dick that superstitions are pointless, and shows him a long wooden horn, which was worn by a tribe ages ago; they thought the horn would protect them from danger. It didn't work, and the tribe was wiped out. Dick grabs the horn and puts it over his nose, not realizing it's meant to be worn over the genitals. After Mary asks him to take it off... | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4560b6bb | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_46d7e20a | type |
Sustained Misunderstanding | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_46d7e20a | comment |
Sustained Misunderstanding: From "Superstitious Dick," when Dick inquires about throwing out a chain letter: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_46d7e20a | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Poor Leon. Oh shut up, Caryn. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_47fea76b | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_499499e6 | type |
Written-In Absence | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_499499e6 | comment |
Written-In Absence: Tommy wasn't around much in the final season since he had gone off to college. As had Joseph Gordon-Levitt. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_499499e6 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_49d5f48f | type |
Of Corpse He's Alive | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_49d5f48f | comment |
Of Corpse He's Alive: In "Romeo & Juliet & Dick," Ms. Dubcek unknowingly drinks a potion that Tommy made for the school play of Romeo and Juliet which causes the person to pass out and appear dead. In one scene, the Solomons hang Dubcek's body out the window, moving her limbs and providing her voice. Eventually, they ditch that and just decide to dress Harry up as Dubcek, since people will be seeing her up close. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_49d5f48f | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4aafa707 | type |
Ping Pong Naïveté | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4aafa707 | comment |
Ping Pong Naïveté: The aliens' understanding of Earth frequently changes according to the Rule of Funny. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4aafa707 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4b08a5f0 | type |
Plank Gag | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4b08a5f0 | comment |
Plank Gag: Happens no less than five times in succession in a scene. To Harry, of course. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4b08a5f0 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4b4f6a2f | type |
Mood-Swinger | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4b4f6a2f | comment |
Mood-Swinger: Dick's confident exterior will crumble at the slightest scrutiny. Also Sally in "Sex and the Sally," after she gets on the birth control pill. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4b4f6a2f | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4b7ff688 | type |
Fake Identity Baggage | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4b7ff688 | comment |
Fake Identity Baggage: In "Dick Solomon of the Indiana Solomons", Dick gets an invitation to a family reunion meant for a different Richard Solomon. Dick decides to attend because the family hasn't seen Richard since he was a child. Dick is overjoyed to experience what it's like to have an extended family, but Richard's cousin Jacob is instantly hostile towards him. Dick soon learns that Richard's father was ousted from the family furniture business by Jacob's father, and Jacob assumes that Dick has only returned to stake a claim on the family's money since the business has been doing so well. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4b7ff688 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4c2aa31 | type |
Historical Longevity Joke | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4c2aa31 | comment |
Historical Longevity Joke: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4c2aa31 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4c6205c5 | type |
New Technology Is Evil | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4c6205c5 | comment |
New Technology Is Evil: Tommy calls Dick out this fallacy at the end of Y2Dick: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4c6205c5 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4d8ff0c | type |
Snowed-In | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4d8ff0c | comment |
Snowed-In: "Frozen Dick" | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4d8ff0c | featureApplicability |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4d8ff0c | featureConfidence |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4d8ff0c | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4db088ab | type |
I Can't Dance | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4db088ab | comment |
I Can't Dance: Demonstrated by Sally in "Dick Like Me," and callously mocked by Harry. | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4db088ab | featureApplicability |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4db088ab | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4dec4b64 | type |
Cliffhanger Copout | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4dec4b64 | comment |
Cliffhanger Copout: Season Three ended with a Cliffhanger in which Harry had been kidnapped by Vicki's old boyfriend Randy. Phil Hartman, who played Randy, was murdered shortly after the episode aired which meant the writers were forced to abandon whatever resolution they'd planned. The fourth season opens after Randy has ditched Harry at a carnival's freak show. | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4dec4b64 | featureApplicability |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4dec4b64 | featureConfidence |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4dec4b64 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: The first episode has the same set for the attic as the rest of the series, except without the stairs. They also push Mrs. Dubcek to leave through the door that leads to their bedroom. Also, Dick and Mary's office is completely different than the rest of the series. The first season had more emphasis on the military-esque chain of command; for example, the characters often ask Dick "Permission to speak freely", when they wouldn't bother with that formality as the series progressed. In the earlier episodes, it was mentioned that their identities on Earth were simply a cover for their true selves. Later episodes seem to imply that Dick, Harry et al. are their real names on whatever planet they're from. | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4f4372e9 | featureApplicability |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4f4372e9 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4f62bde6 | type |
Kavorka Man | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4f62bde6 | comment |
Kavorka Man: Don. With Sally it's understandable, as she's an alien with no knowledge of local standards of beauty (she's actually just attracted to the fact that he's a cop). However, it's played straight as Don has several good-looking ex-girlfriends as well as quite a few karaoke fangirls. | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4f62bde6 | featureApplicability |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4f62bde6 | featureConfidence |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_4f62bde6 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: Frank upstages Dick. Dick's response: | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_50b05d30 | featureApplicability |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_50b05d30 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_510e5a9 | type |
Sassy Black Woman | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_510e5a9 | comment |
Sassy Black Woman: Nina's raison d'être. | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_510e5a9 | featureApplicability |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_510e5a9 | featureConfidence |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_510e5a9 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: It starts with the four aliens in a Rambler after they arrive on Earth and it ends with them in a Rambler leaving Earth. | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5313c266 | featureApplicability |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5313c266 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_534bc834 | type |
Escalating War | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_534bc834 | comment |
Escalating War: Or prank war, in "Tricky Dick". It finally ends when Mary tricks Dick into sticking his face on his glue-filled desk. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_534bc834 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_535865be | type |
I Resemble That Remark! | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_535865be | comment |
I Resemble That Remark!: In "Sensitive Dick": When Dr. Neesam introduces himself to Sally: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_535865be | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_561dab6b | type |
Mistaken for Gay | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_561dab6b | comment |
Mistaken for Gay / Unsettling Gender-Reveal: In one episode, Sally unknowingly dates a gay man who thinks she's a gay, male crossdresser, if not Transgender, and breaks up with her when he notices she's not entirely what he expected. Dick is also mistaken for gay by one of Mary's former students. Dick misreads his innuendos and thinks that he's found a fellow alien, after visiting a gay bar with him Dick declares "Half of Broadway are aliens!". | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_561dab6b | featureApplicability |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_561dab6b | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5860c090 | type |
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5860c090 | comment |
Tommy and Alissa become this when it's revealed that Alissa's last name is Strudwick (see Sitcom Arch-Nemesis above). Although it doesn't actually stop them from dating. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5860c090 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_58626d87 | type |
Genius Ditz | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_58626d87 | comment |
Genius Ditz: Harry. He's described as only filling a seat and it's considered normal for his mind to be a complete blank, but on the other hand, he's a talented painter and he cracked the bar code. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_58626d87 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5a3b8032 | type |
The Un-Reveal | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: We never find out what the aliens' real forms look like, other then something about a purple tube. Any further descriptions only make it weirder. Further confused by the time Dick mentions they came to Earth in a spaceship that could fit in his pants-pocket. And apparently they were disappointed that as humans they could no longer lick their backs. Harry was surprised to find that eyelids have to be operated manually, and initially they're all weirded out by how many holes they have in their heads. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5a3b8032 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5aa4ec8a | type |
Ambiguous Syntax | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5aa4ec8a | comment |
Ambiguous Syntax: The name of "Big Giant Head" may refer to either the size of the character's head or them being the head of the organization. However considering the mentioning of a "Big Giant Butt" and a "Big Giant Jenny", the former apparently being the Head's superior and the latter the Head's assistant, and the additional mentioning of it being a job... Whoever runs that organization must have a strange taste in the naming of ranks. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5aa4ec8a | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5b2e1e5e | type |
Fake-Out Fade-Out | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5b2e1e5e | comment |
Fake-Out Fade-Out: In the episode "Dick For Tat," it appears that the episode is going to end in the traditional manner, with all four of them on the roof, after Dick says he just needs to "move on" with his life. Of course, he's kidding himself. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5b2e1e5e | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5b4573b1 | type |
Near-Death Experience | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5b4573b1 | comment |
Near-Death Experience: Sally, Tommy, and Harry experience this in "Near Dick Experience" when a chandelier falls on a table that they would've been sitting at had the waiter not relocated them. Dick becomes jealous that the three are now seeing life through awakened eyes (that is, they're not taking things for granted), and becomes desperate to have his own near death experience. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5b4573b1 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5b973520 | type |
Alternate Reality Episode | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5b973520 | comment |
Alternate Reality Episode: The two-parter "Dick'll Take Manhattan," complete with opening and ending credits in a different font and a remixed theme song. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5b973520 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5c300c3b | type |
The Berserker | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5c300c3b | comment |
The Berserker: Tommy, in a rare comedic variation. When provoked (usually by Dick), 9 times out of 10 he jumps right to the attack. It's generally more understandable with Dick, but he also once does this to Mary's father after the guy gives him a playful punch, which Tommy responds to by socking the elderly man in the stomach. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5c300c3b | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5c446b43 | type |
Aliens in Cardiff | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5c446b43 | comment |
Aliens in Cardiff: While Rutherford, Ohio is a fictional place, it does embody the spirit of small town Midwest America. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5c446b43 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5cd6010b | type |
Turn Out Like His Father | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5cd6010b | comment |
Turn Out Like His Father: From "Dick Solomon of the Indiana Solomons": | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5cd6010b | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5ce2c9c6 | type |
Suddenly Shouting | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5ce2c9c6 | comment |
Suddenly Shouting: Dick, frequently, usually part way through a sarcastic response to what he deems to be a stupid question. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5ce2c9c6 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: Everybody is at least a little crazy. | |
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Just Friends | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5d414804 | comment |
Just Friends: Sally and Don try this in "Dick vs. Strudwick." It doesn't work too well. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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Sally is pretty good at this herself, finding her ability to cloud men's minds an upside to being the only woman of the group. Indeed, she later gets recruited by the above mentioned aliens, who mention she has potential, but is unrefined. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5da3f522 | type |
Big Brother Is Watching | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5da3f522 | comment |
Big Brother Is Watching: Played for Laughs in "Red, White & Dick" when the household turns into a communist-esque regime: Harry announces that the house will be filled with intercoms so he's always listening. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5f207a1a | type |
Courtroom Episode | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5f207a1a | comment |
Courtroom Episode: "Sensitive Dick," in which Dick's abrasive attitude towards his students is called into question. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5f49ac76 | type |
Single-Target Sexuality | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_5f49ac76 | comment |
Single-Target Sexuality: Despite some hitches, Dick is really only attracted to Mary. When Mary asks Dick if he had sex with another woman, he answers: "No! I only do that with you!" | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_615fdb1f | type |
Dream Sequence | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_615fdb1f | comment |
Dream Sequence: "A Nightmare on Dick Street". In a subversion of this trope, Dick, Tommy, Harry, and Sally don't realize dreams are normal and think they're all going crazy. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_61b8f9e2 | type |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_61b8f9e2 | comment |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Dick's bizarre, childish behaviour is tolerated at the university because his advanced alien knowledge of physics makes him one of the best in his field. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_61b8f9e2 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6469d82f | type |
Euphemism Buster | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6469d82f | comment |
Euphemism Buster: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_64b303c0 | type |
Drunk with Power | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_64b303c0 | comment |
Drunk with Power: Dick and Sally use every opportunity to acquire and abuse power over others: a protest, a bake sale committee, a labor union, a fraternity - the list goes on. While Dick eventually sees the error of his ways by the end of the episode, Sally doesn't. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_66cdb21b | type |
Gag Penis | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_66cdb21b | comment |
Gag Penis: Dick poses for a nude painting class in one episode. Apparently, he really lives up to his name. In the next scene Mary and Nina are gawking at Mary's painting. And again when Dick sends Mary a photo album of naked pictures of himself after she has broken up with him, in an attempt to win her back. Even though she had just told him she never wanted to see him again, she is clearly tempted. Apparently, Harry doesn't have a problem in this area either. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_66f1ee39 | type |
Fantastic Anthropologist | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_66f1ee39 | comment |
Fantastic Anthropologist: The Solomons are this to humanity, while Dick's girlfriend Mary is the more conventional kind. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_67262b61 | type |
Variations on a Theme Song | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_67262b61 | comment |
Variations on a Theme Song The theme song was replace with a version by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy during season 5. In season 6, they returned to the original theme. Alternate versions were used during Christmas episodes. In Season 6, a alternate jazz version of the song was used for the two-part episode. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_69fad334 | type |
You Are the New Trend | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_69fad334 | comment |
You Are the New Trend: Dick's Salute Dance, in a gay bar, no less. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_69fb91e8 | type |
Chewing the Scenery | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_69fb91e8 | comment |
Vicki, when she shows up, usually spends a lot of time mugging and making a four-course meal of the scenery. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6a47a1e2 | type |
Knight of Cerebus | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6a47a1e2 | comment |
Knight of Cerebus: Charlotte from "Alien Hunter" makes the episode darker than most of the ones that preceded it, even more than Liam's original plan to blow up the Earth or Vicki's attempts to kill Janice and Sally. She gets Dick completely at her mercy and plans to cut his head open, and we later discover she's murdered at least several people whom she mistakenly thought were aliens too. Up until her appearance, the show's previous antagonists were just assholes (Strudwick, Lucy) or comically grandiose supervillains (Liam, Evil Dick), not actual murderers. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6ae4dedd | type |
The Unfair Sex | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6ae4dedd | comment |
The Unfair Sex: When Dick Solomon (or other male character) screw something up in a relationship, they get their comeuppance most of the time and rightly so. On the other hand when Vicki, who not only was in a loving/(lusting?) relationship with Harry but were trying to have a child together, sleeps with, gets knocked up by and marries another man, nobody seems to be fazed by it (not even Harry). Possibly justified because the man who knocked her up was their leader, The Big Giant Head and nobody wanted to say anything and risk pissing him off. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: Dick on more than one occasion. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: Fuzzy Buddies, lampooning the Beanie Babies craze at the time. Really everything the Solomons get into they do so with gusto, having zero social boundaries and self control. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6b6edbda | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6b6edbda | comment |
The Cover Changes the Gender: In the dream episode, Harry sings "Life Has Been Good to Me" from Randy Newman's Faust, in which it was sung by Bonnie Raitt. In Harry's version, "I got a good man waitin' for me" is changed to "I got a good gal waitin' for me." | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6b6edbda | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: As Don notices in one episode, the three male Solomons are named "Tom, Dick, and Harry." In addition, Dick is both a self-absorbed asshole and very ... well-endowed. Fits both definitions of "dick" pretty well, no? There's also a Harry and a Sally, which might just be a Shout-Out to a certain movie. It's only a nickname, but Sally often calls Mrs. Dubcek "Doobie." In addition to her sordid past and present, we see her in one episode rolling a joint out of Tommy's cilantro only to be disappointed that it's not marijuana. However, she still says it "beats the hell out of basil." Also, can't forget her "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6bf93fc7 | type |
FanService | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6bf93fc7 | comment |
Fanservice: Sally whenever she dresses up. When the Venusian invaders turn up at the end of season 3 they are played by some of the most beautiful women of the 90s all dolled up, including Cindy Crawford and Angie Everhart. Harry spends all of "Indecent Dick" naked after deciding to become a nudist. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6c1cc4b | type |
Everyone Looks Sexier if French | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6c1cc4b | comment |
Everyone Looks Sexier if French: French Immigrant Michele appears in the second season as Sally's love interest. So great is his French accent that he can make the entire office swoon with the line, "On my foot I have a big painful oozing bleester!" One episode had the family trying to decide what ethnicity to be. Dick asked Mary, an anthropologist, what the best ethnic group was. She claimed it was all subjective, but when he asked which ethnicity was sexiest, she immediately responded, "Italians. Smokey, swarthy, gotta have 'em." And Harry isn't bad looking either! | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6ef9d3fe | type |
Christmas Episode | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6ef9d3fe | comment |
Christmas Episode: "Jolly Old St. Dick." | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6f393c7 | type |
Calling Shot Gun | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_6f393c7 | comment |
Calling Shotgun: In "Gwen, Larry, Dick & Mary," Dick took Mary on a date to a drive-in theater, and Tommy, Harry, and Sally tagged along as well. But since Tommy called shotgun, Mary couldn't even sit next to Dick on the date, much to her annoyance. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_71152dd | type |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_71152dd | comment |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations All of Sammy Marchetti's dialogue in "Dick the Mouth Solomon". Everyone mistakes it for mobster talk, not realizing he's merely a butcher. Just one example: "Respect. People are good to me. I'm good to them. People are bad to me. Well, they're not going to be happy with what I give them, you know." No, he's not going to bump you off, he's just going to give you a substandard piece of meat. The entire episode "Frankie Goes to Rutherford", where Dick meets Frank, a man who he thinks is an alien just like him, but is merely a gay human. This leads to things like Dick going to an "alien bar" and Frank telling Dick that he has to come out to Mary. In "Dr. Solomon's Traveling Alien Show", Dick's brain is slowly deteriorating due to their status report to the Big Giant Head being late. But Harry doesn't know that when Dick finds him at the circus, resulting in this. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_720e28a4 | type |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_720e28a4 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Harry, upon his "invention" of a new color: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_727a65e0 | type |
Gaslighting | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_727a65e0 | comment |
Gaslighting: In "Eleven Angry Men and One Dick": | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_727a65e0 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_738f4473 | type |
Documentary Episode | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_738f4473 | comment |
Documentary Episode: "The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary." | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_73d4b01a | type |
In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_73d4b01a | comment |
In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: Parodied in "Romeo & Juliet and Dick" when Dick learns that he'll be directing the school production of Romeo and Juliet: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_73d4b01a | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_74d9d78f | type |
Hate at First Sight | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_74d9d78f | comment |
Hate at First Sight: One episode involved Dick getting upset that a cafeteria lady hated him. This is pretty bizarre when you consider how Dick is usually apparently okay with several regular and recurring characters disliking him. In fact, when he got angry that she didn't even hate him for an actual reason, Nina replied "Does she need a reason? 'Cause I can give her reasons." | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_74d9d78f | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_764ba6ce | type |
Hostility on the Set | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_764ba6ce | comment |
Hostility on the Set: Invoked in the episode "There's No Business Like Dick Business", where Dick becomes a magician and Sally is his assistant. The clash of egos leads to some bitter backstage bickering. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_772fd1ce | type |
You Can't Handle The Parody | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_772fd1ce | comment |
You Can't Handle the Parody | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_77a19ddf | type |
Strange Salute | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_77a19ddf | comment |
Strange Salute: The family's salute is smacking one's face before placing the palm on the back of the head and moving it forward over the scalp. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_77a19ddf | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_77b009ea | type |
Phrase Catcher | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_77b009ea | comment |
"Oh shut up, Caryn." Dick's student Caryn is, obviously, the Phrase Catcher. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_77b009ea | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_78270847 | type |
Curse Cut Short | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_78270847 | comment |
Curse Cut Short: Mary is cut off from fully saying "What the fuck?!" by Dick in "Dial M For Dick." In "Collect Call For Dick": | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_78270847 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_78540917 | type |
Like Brother and Sister | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_78540917 | comment |
Like Brother and Sister: Of course, Dick and Sally are posing as siblings, but they're actually not. They also display no sexual attraction to one another (and in fact are both repulsed by the idea). However, they seem to have an especially close relationship compared to the other members of the family. In closing scenes Sally can often be seen sitting with her legs over Dick's, in the same chair or in otherwise snuggly fashion on the roof, and their emotional bond seems much stronger than the relationships they have with Harry or Tommy. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_78d0ebcf | type |
Crying Wolf | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_78d0ebcf | comment |
Crying Wolf: Charlotte from "Alien Hunter" did get it right about Dick being an alien, but the F.B.I. wouldn't come close to believing her considering she apparently murdered numerous others she thought were aliens. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_78d0ebcf | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_796bffea | type |
Mistaken for Racist | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_796bffea | comment |
Mistaken for Racist: When Dick learns about Nina's attendance of a black student union, he decides to attend to white power rally. He concludes that he doesn't like it because he doesn't have anything against the lower case letter t. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_796bffea | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_79e43350 | type |
Bleak Abyss Retirement Home | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_79e43350 | comment |
Bleak Abyss Retirement Home: In "Portrait of Tommy as an Old Man", Tommy decides to retire from the mission and moves into a local retirement home. He enjoys it for a while, but eventually gets so bored he loses track of what day it is. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7a4c6931 | type |
Aliens Never Invented Democracy | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7a4c6931 | comment |
Aliens Never Invented Democracy: The Universe is ruled by the Big Giant Head, an absolute monarch. The episode "Dick the Vote" focuses on the aliens' introduction to American democracy. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7a848962 | type |
Prison Changes People | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7a848962 | comment |
Prison Changes People: Parodied when Dick tries to prove that he can reform a "hardened" criminal through compassion and understanding. His chosen ex-convict was a relatively minor criminal who was only in jail for a short time, but Dick quickly starts treating him as though he's a hardened criminal. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7b50237d | type |
Distinction Without a Difference | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7b50237d | comment |
Distinction Without a Difference: In "Dick and the Other Guy," Ms. Dubcek suggests that if Sally wants to know what's going on with Don, to spy on him. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7b6e47a5 | type |
Armor-Piercing Question | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: In "Dick the Mouth Solomon," Tommy asked Don what he's accomplished by being on the right side of the law, and answers it for him: "Nothing, nothing!!" | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7d68f571 | type |
...Or So I Heard | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7d68f571 | comment |
...Or So I Heard: In "Much Ado About Dick," the priest says, "Women." Dick and Suter stare at him, and the priest adds, "...Or so I heard." In "Indecent Dick", Don is against Sally posing for Playpen Magazine: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7d7a7d0f | type |
Opening Narration | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7d7a7d0f | comment |
Opening Narration: The first season only. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7d7a7d0f | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Harry delivers a hilarious one in "Tom, Dick and Mary": Subverted in that Harry's advice ends up being terrible. Dick and Sally both go on to follow it, and it only further wrecks their respective situations. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7eb49b31 | type |
Almost Kiss | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7eb49b31 | comment |
Almost Kiss: Sally and Don, numerous times. This is lampshaded by Don when he tells Sally that they've been dating for almost two years and haven't kissed. An early example occurred in "Frozen Dick" when Sally and Leon's kiss is interrupted by the lights coming back on. Sally's overjoyed that they don't have to mate to perpetuate the species. Leon is less than thrilled by this news. "InDickscretion" sees this happen to Dick and Sally. They're so turned on by talking about Mary and Don, respectively, that they start eyeing each other longingly. Just before their lips make contact, they realize what they're doing and panic, and run. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7eb49b31 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7f9ca3a9 | type |
DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7f9ca3a9 | comment |
Does Not Understand Sarcasm: All the Solomons, but particularly Dick: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_7f9ca3a9 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "Let's live! Let's taste danger. Let's go for the gusto, consequences be damned! Let's drive fast and eat cheese!" | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_817736c1 | type |
Covering Up Your Gray | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_817736c1 | comment |
Covering Up Your Gray: In "Dick's First Birthday", Dick becomes aware that his human body is (physically) middle-aged, so he dyes his gray hair black. Dick thinks he looks "gorgeous". The other Solomons think it's hideous. Everyone else who sees it is desperately fighting the urge to laugh. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_817736c1 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: This show borders on World of Ham! Brash and flamboyant at all times, Dick makes some Batman villains look modest. Also, the Big Giant Head, played by none other than William Shatner. Harry was this show's equivalent to Cosmo Kramer when it came to combining physical comedy with hamminess. John Lithgow routinely hams it up, but then is upstaged by his replacement in the first season finale - a role played by...himself. Vicki, when she shows up, usually spends a lot of time mugging and making a four-course meal of the scenery. Randy, played by Phil Hartman ("OH YEAHHHH!!!"). Unfortunately, Hartman only got to show this off as a One-Shot Character before he was murdered. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_823c6e3e | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_82b4f38e | type |
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_82b4f38e | comment |
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Everyone, really, and increasingly so as the show goes along. Dick, Mary, and (mostly in the later seasons) Sally are the most obvious examples, but Harry and Tommy have had their Jerkass moments too. As John Lithgow points out, they could get away with really outrageous things under the pretense of "they're aliens, so they don't know any better." Note how Mary, who doesn't have that excuse, never really crosses the line of normal sitcom character behavior. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_82b4f38e | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_83856158 | type |
Worthless Yellow Rocks | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_83856158 | comment |
Worthless Yellow Rocks: The family apparently wins the lottery every time, but tears up the tickets and just enjoys the fun of playing the lottery. It's unknown whether this is because this qualifies as a 'global change' (Similar to blowing up the Earth), or they simply don't know that the lottery actually involves money. Likely the second. Dick at one point looks into buying a diamond ring and is disgusted by the high price of them on Earth. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: In one episode, the Solomons decide they need to be more "normal" and so they strive to become as average as possible. They end up being this trope, especially Sally. Sally also tries to do this to please a boyfriend, but breaks down quickly, going from pleasantly saying, "I don't know, you decide," to screaming it in his face. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_83a903f6 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_83cef301 | type |
Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_83cef301 | comment |
Right for the Wrong Reasons: When Sally tries to explain to Don who she is without revealing she's an alien, he assumes she's with the feds or CIA, citing her incredible combat abilities, inability to talk about her past, and why she's now saying she has to leave and never contact him again. In many ways, he's right on the money. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_83cef301 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8409a385 | type |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8409a385 | comment |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: "Dick and Harry Fall in a Hole" | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8409a385 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_84e289b8 | type |
Apathetic Teacher | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_84e289b8 | comment |
Apathetic Teacher: Mary and Dick when not a full on Sadist Teacher. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_84e289b8 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_862ea4c1 | type |
Easily-Overheard Conversation | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_862ea4c1 | comment |
Easily-Overheard Conversation: In "Dick: Smoker," Sally, Tommy, and Harry are informed by Nina that Dick didn't show up for work today. They are freaked out and move only a few feet away to talk in "private". Nina quickly informs them: "I can still hear you." | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_862ea4c1 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_867f9f5c | type |
Alien Non-Interference Clause | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_867f9f5c | comment |
Alien Non-Interference Clause: The aliens are forbidden from making major changes to Earth. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_867f9f5c | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8797239c | type |
Bait-and-Switch | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: In "Post-Nasal Dick", Tommy describes his first make out session: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8797239c | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8966382e | type |
Bank Robbery | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8966382e | comment |
Bank Robbery: Harry, Tommy, and Sally try this in "Frankie Goes to Rutherford," not for the cash involved, but just to see if they could pull it off. However, their planning goes sour in a hurry as the three grow suspicious that each isn't up to snuff on the task. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8966382e | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_89897126 | type |
New Year Has Come | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_89897126 | comment |
New Year Has Come: "Happy New Dick!" | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_89897126 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8a677d70 | type |
Naked Apron | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8a677d70 | comment |
Naked Apron: First referenced by Sally and Ms. Dubcek, then later performed by Harry in "Dick and the Other Guy". Ms. Dubcek gives Sally a piece of advice to woo Don: Make some eggs for breakfast while in the buff. In "Indecent Dick", Harry decides that clothes are a scam and stops wearing them but does make sure to put an apron on when cooking BLTs. He then makes the mistake of turning around so his back is to the oven allowing the grease to hit his back. Cue yelping and hurriedly turning around again. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8a677d70 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8ad43dc9 | type |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8ad43dc9 | comment |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The Solomons, to a tee. True Companions: They gradually care for each other like a real family, underneath the egos and frequent antagonizing. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8ad43dc9 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8bb8b45d | type |
Compulsory School Age | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8bb8b45d | comment |
Compulsory School Age: Tommy Solomon, who is actually the oldest of the aliens, but was the one stuck in a teenage boy's body. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8bb8b45d | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8c170cb1 | type |
Ethical Slut | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8c170cb1 | comment |
Ethical Slut: Dick. He has an active sex life with Mary, and is very open to chat about it, but he won't turn down an offer from someone else if the opportunity arises. A good example of this is in Auto Eurodicka. Dick and Mary are broken up, and after having sex with a woman he met in line at the movies (who later turns out to be Bug's mother), Dick honestly can't understand why Mary and Bug are upset about it. To him, it's all the same. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8c170cb1 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8c4beb63 | type |
Three-Dimensional Episode | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8c4beb63 | comment |
Three-Dimensional Episode: "A Nightmare on Dick Street." | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8c4beb63 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8cf6aa | type |
Literal Metaphor | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8cf6aa | comment |
Literal Metaphor: In one episode, Dick is trying to figure out what happens "when the spit hits the fan" by spewing sips of water into a desk fan. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8cf6aa | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8d612fe6 | type |
Swapped Roles | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8d612fe6 | comment |
Swapped Roles: Harry and Sally switch jobs in "Same Old Song and Old Dick." It ends once Harry realizes he can't bring himself to kill a spider. A crazier example: "Two-Faced Dick." Dick and Sally end up switching bodies (due to a delayed answer to a request Sally gave, when she first arrived on the planet, that she wanted to be a man), which forces them to adjust their personalities so they don't lose Mary and Don, respectively. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8d612fe6 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8de2e803 | type |
Confession Cam | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8de2e803 | comment |
Confession Cam: Utilized in "The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary", where naturally some of the things they said in private gets them in trouble when the documentary is aired. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8de2e803 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8e5fdcd5 | type |
Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8e5fdcd5 | comment |
Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement: "I should warn you that I have killed men with everything from a steak knife, to a penny dropped from a skyscraper!" | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8e5fdcd5 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8ff8d545 | type |
Kissing Cousins | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8ff8d545 | comment |
Kissing Cousins: In the third season premiere, the Big Giant Head tries to make Dick adopt Janet (the BGH's own niece) as his Earth wife. Later on, the Big Giant Head turns out to be Dick's father, making Dick and Janet... Also played with in the first episode. Dick expresses frustration at his inability to obtain the sex from Mary (with Mary in earshot) so Sally offers to experience it with him to get it over with (though they aren't actually related, they're supposed to be and it weirds Mary out). In "Dick Solomon of the Indiana Solomons," Tommy wants to kiss a girl he meets at the Solomon family reunion, unaware that kissing your cousin is a taboo in America. However, Tommy finds out that she's adopted and uses that as an excuse. Of course, this backfires when the girl is too upset to kiss him, as she was unaware she was adopted. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8ff8d545 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_92163e88 | type |
Locked in a Room | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_92163e88 | comment |
Locked in a Room: "Stuck With Dick." Dick and Mary are trapped in the school library all weekend with only a bottle of wine and some cheese. Harry and Dick get stuck in a hole in "Dick and Harry Fall in a Hole," and in "Dick: Smoker," they also get locked in to a stairwell but is not part of the show but rather a joke. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_92163e88 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_931fc523 | type |
Back for the Finale | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_931fc523 | comment |
Back for the Finale: At the start of the series finale Tommy returned from college to his unit as he is shocked that their mission is cancelled. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_931fc523 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_9356365b | type |
Inflationary Dialogue | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_9356365b | comment |
Inflationary Dialogue: Dick's attempts to "subtly" convince Mary that they've known each other for more than three years — triggered by an IRS audit — turn out this way. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_9356365b | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_94680696 | type |
Shaped Like Itself | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_94680696 | comment |
Shaped Like Itself: In "Sensitive Dick": In "Dick Behaving Badly", Sally chooses to be the boot in Monopoly because it reminds her of a boot. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_94680696 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_94860a65 | type |
Un-Confession | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_94860a65 | comment |
Un-Confession: Used several times over the course of the series with the Solomons admitting they were aliens, though of course it never carried any consequences past the episode in question. The end of the "Dickumentary" episode has all the False Confessions the family has made (Sally is a lesbian, Tommy is a bed-wetter, Harry is an alcoholic, etc) revealed as lies, making it obvious that they are actually trying to hide something. Fed up with the bickering and fighting, Tommy offers to reveal their big secret: Dick isn't his real father, they aren't even biologically related. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_94860a65 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_962ece1 | type |
Mystery Episode | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_962ece1 | comment |
Mystery Episode: An unusual application. Mary and the Solomons attend a Mystery Dinner Party, but the Solomons (being aliens) are unfamiliar with the concept and assume the murder was real. Dick conducts his own investigation which really throws the game off the rails. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_962ece1 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_964163e9 | type |
Mistaken for Profound | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_964163e9 | comment |
Mistaken for Profound: In one episode Harry tries to chain his bike to a tree and ended up chaining himself. Since the park was about to be bulldozed, he is mistaken for an activist, and eventually asked to run for city council where his campaign pretty much runs on this. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_964163e9 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_96a33f11 | type |
Riddle for the Ages | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_96a33f11 | comment |
Riddle for the Ages: It's never explained in "Dick And Harry Fall Down A Hole" how everyone found out exactly that Dick and Harry were trapped. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_96a33f11 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_96b89043 | type |
Not So Above It All | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_96b89043 | comment |
Harry is the worst, but all the aliens have several moments of this, for obvious reasons. Even Tommy who is usually the sanest of the four. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun / int_96b89043 | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_970cc8cd | type |
Big | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_970cc8cd | comment |
Big "WHY?!": Dick considers telling Mary that he and his family are aliens. The only thing is that the Solomons have just seen a sci-fi movie featuring an Alien Invasion, so they stage a simulation to how it would go. After Dick tells Sally (posing as Mary) he's an alien, she "dies." While cradling her "corpse," Harry lets out a Big Why that would do William Shatner proud. | |
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Constellations as Locations | |
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Constellations as Locations: The aliens' homeworld is located in the border territory between the Cepheus and Draco constellations. | |
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Practical Joke | |
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Practical Joke: "Tricky Dick" had Dick and Mary playing pranks on each other throughout the episode. | |
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Been There, Shaped History | |
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Been There, Shaped History: The aliens. Apparently, Easter Island was a prank that got out of hand, and they may have killed the dinosaurs. | |
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Springtime for Hitler | |
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Springtime for Hitler: Looking to punk Tommy, Dick suggests he play a prank on the dean, claiming it's a Rutherford tradition. Tommy glues the Dean's furniture to the ceiling. To Dick's frustration, the Dean gives kudos and reminisces about his own past pranks. | |
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Intimidating Revenue Service | |
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Intimidating Revenue Service: In "Dick & Taxes" the Solomons have avoided filing for their three years on Earth. After Mary calculates that they owe over $9,000 they decide to lie about their finances which just gets them audited instead. | |
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Sassy Secretary | |
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Sassy Secretary: Nina can always be counted on to sum up the weirdness around her with her usual sharp wit. | |
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Attack of the Political Ad | |
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Attack of the Political Ad: Done to Harry in "Dick the Vote"; his opponent, Gansmiller, ran a smear ad on Harry that insinuated he was in the Mafia. | |
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Single-Issue Psychology | |
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Single-Issue Psychology: Dick isn’t racist or sexist or bigoted in any way; he’s just a massive narcissist who can’t accept when he’s not a part of something. | |
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Sarcastic Confession | |
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Sarcastic Confession: After it's become obvious that the family is hiding some big secret in the Documentary episode, Tommy snaps and reveals the truth: Dick isn't really his father. | |
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Tyrannical Homeowners' Association | |
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Tyrannical Homeowners' Association: In "Just Your Average Dick," the Solomons move into a new apartment, located in a building run by a strict tenants' association. Sally joins the tenants' association and eagerly takes to being a petty tyrant. At the end of the episode, when the rest of the family wants to move back to their original apartment, she refuses to go and give up her new position of power. Therefore, they break all the rules on purpose, tricking her into evicting them. | |
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The Beautiful Elite | |
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The Beautiful Elite: Guest star David Hasselhoff is apparently supposed to be this in "Dick & Tuck," and tries to convince Dick that plastic surgery can make Dick as beautiful as he is. | |
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The Butler Did It | |
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The Butler Did It: Referenced in "Dial M For Dick"; the Solomons wonder who could've killed the first victim in the murder mystery, and one suggestion thrown out there is the butler. Being unaware of the trope, they find such a possibility ridiculous. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: In "Sensitive Dick," Nina telling the disciplinary committee three times that Dick's "warm, kind, and a credit to Pendleton State," no matter the question asked. In "Why Dickie Can't Teach," Tommy hugs Mary and then tries to grab her ass, which she doesn't allow. Later, Dick tries the same technique on Mary. Finally, at the end of the episode, Dick hugs Tommy and both try the same thing on each other. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Vicki's ex-boyfriend Randy never appears again after Eat, Drink, Dick, Mary, which ended with him kidnapping Harry. His actor's death caused him to no longer appear so Harry was sold to a freak show and Randy was never brought to justice for kidnapping. | |
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Disappointed in You | |
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Disappointed in You: Parodied when Tommy has to pretend to be a juvenile delinquent to keep up the Masquerade. | |
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Character Filibuster | |
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Character Filibuster: Dick has given quite a few of these. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Generally involving some iteration of "Dick." | |
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Acronym Confusion | |
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Acronym Confusion: In "The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary," Dick took Harry to what he thought was an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting, where he forced Harry to admit he was an alcoholic. The woman behind the counter then corrected him: "This is Triple A (AAA)." In "Y2Dick," Sally, Tommy, and Harry are about to buy a DVD player. They don't quite know what it stands for; they guess "Digital video..... dynamite." note It's actually "digital versatile disc" (because of the media's many uses beyond video storage). | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Judith | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: Tommy's early-season girlfriend August did not take well to being called "Augie." | |
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Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis | |
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Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis: Parodied in "Dick's First Birthday", where Dick, after celebrating the "birthday" he's designated for himself, becomes increasingly insecure with how humans put such emphasis on youth and beauty in their culture, and how he's the oldest-looking among the Solomons; as a result, he starts to experiment with outlandish stuff like jet-black hair dye and audibly squeaky leather pants, and gets insulted when Mary gives him a teasing birthday card. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Dick had "Family meeting! FAMILY MEETING!" and, less frequently, "You're not family. GET OUT!" He also had variations on "I'm gorgeous!" Also a frustrated shout of "Damn!" "Oh shut up, Caryn." Dick's student Caryn is, obviously, the Phrase Catcher. Harry had "LET'S GO!" and "Incoming message from The Big Giant Head!"/"Transmission ending in three... two... one.. (sneezes)" Early on he also had "Prepare to be dazzled!" and "Spank me!" Ms. Dubcek had: "Lovely 'X', very nice..." (some examples include, "People, wedding, funeral") | |
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Our Product Sucks | |
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Our Product Sucks: In "The Tooth Hairy", Pittman is making a promotional film for Pendleton. Dick is reluctant to read the script as written because he doesn't want to lie ("What's tripping me up is the word "excellence"; if I could say "tradition of adequacy"."). The final take: | |
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Alien Among Us | |
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Alien Among Us: Duh. | |
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Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record | |
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Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record: When Harry runs for mayor in one episode, his shady political opponent tries to dig up dirt on him and hires Don to investigate. Of course they find nothing since he's an alien that's only been on Earth a couple years. As Don puts it: "It's like he just fell out of the sky." | |
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Talk to the Hand | |
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Talk to the Hand: From Harry. He learned it from Nina, who encouraged him to do this if Dick (Harry's boss in that episode) got in his face with unreasonable demands. | |
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Rearrange the Song | |
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Rearrange the Song: A new, horn-driven version of the theme debuted for season 5, but it didn't pan out, so the original theme was restored for season 6. The theme was also remixed in the two-parter "Dick'll Take Manhattan." | |
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Innocent Aliens | |
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Innocent Aliens: The Solomons. | |
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Raging Stiffie | |
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Raging Stiffie: It's insinuated that Tommy got one from the music teacher in "Fourth and Dick," since he's reluctant to stand up when she calls on him. | |
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Hand Puppet | |
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Hand Puppet: Dick uses two of them for therapy in "Sensitive Dick". | |
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Mistaken for Pedophile | |
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Mistaken for Pedophile: "So suddenly it's a crime for a grown man to hang around the high school taking pictures of young girls." (Harry was trailing August for Tommy as part of a Private Detective parody.) | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: In "Ab-Dick-ted": In "Proud Dick": | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Harry. One of the earliest episodes of the series involves him taste-testing various house hold liquids to find out which are toxic. Guess what, he finds out, and asks the family to call poison control because the left side of his body is numb. | |
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Noodle Implements | |
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Noodle Implements: The Big Giant Head once threatened to have Dick sent to Mars. Dick's not so worried before the Big Giant Head clarifies "Not THAT Mars!" An earlier episode had Dick order Sally to "assemble the giant robot," to which Sally responds they didn't bring it because they had to make room for his exercise equipment. There's also mention that they've got human body parts stored in the freezer in case of an emergency. There's a running gag that somewhere in the galaxy, Jell-o's are incredibly dangerous creatures; occasionally they recieve molds as gifts or see them at parties, and they usually cower behind something until Sally, as security officer, kills it, usually by stabbing it. In Dick's nightmare in "A Nightmare on Dick Street," he is attacked by a massive wall-sized one, which may be what they're afraid of—although as malicious as it is, it still has bits of orange and pineapple imbedded in it. A lot of what happens on the aliens' homeworld is mentioned through this trope. They have a holiday called "Big Giant Head Day" that's similar to Thanksgiving except it involves someone getting thrown into the sun, and people get elected by outrunning a giant fireball. | |
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The Tag | |
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The Tag: Starting with season 2, there was an additional scene over the closing credits. It more or less stopped starting in season 5, though, likely due to network promos being run over the credits instead. | |
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Foot Bath Treatment | |
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Foot Bath Treatment: Parodied in "Post Nasal Dick," in which the whole family gets sick. Sally made chicken soup because she heard it would make them feel better. Then she places the soup on the floor, and Harry starts using it as a foot bath. | |
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Dysfunctional Family | |
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Dysfunctional Family: Mary's family. Her parents both had affairs while she was growing up (including one that draws doubt to Mary's paternity). She's the eldest of three children, all twisted in their own ways. Her brother Roy sells aluminum siding and tells women he was abducted by aliens as an attempt to get laid. Her sister Renata is an affected, wealthy woman who has a personal vendetta against Mary and does everything in her power to destroy Mary's life (including trying to steal Dick). Their whole family seems fond of alcohol, and Mary has apparently followed in her mother's footsteps to become a borderline Lady Drunk. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Between Mary, Dick, and Sonja in "Dick and the Single Girl." Also seen in "D3: Judgement Day" between Mary, Dick, and Jennifer. Dick realizes that the more lovey-dubby he is with Jennifer, the more Mary wants him back, so he deliberately rides it out with Jennifer, despite the fact that he can't stand her. | |
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Metaphorically True | |
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Metaphorically True: In "When Aliens Camp", Dick wants to have a weekend with just the family: Himself, Harry, Sally, and Tommy. But when Mary waxes nostalgic about camping, he invites her along too. Realizing he will look like a hypocrite if he tells the family he invited Mary on a family-only weekend: | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra: The last season sees Tommy demoted to an occasionally recurring and not very important cast member, partially because he's off to college and thereby separated from the rest of the cast most of the time. The actors playing Nina and Don were listed as regular cast members starting on the third season, but likewise appeared only occasionally on the last season. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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It Makes Sense in Context: During "Dick Puts The Id In Cupid," Don sends Sally Valentine's cards signed "Your secret admirer." Unfortunately, Sally completely misunderstands and assumes she's being stalked by someone who wants to cut her open after reading "Your heart will be mine." It's only after she finds out Don sent the card (after he spent the episode too embarrassed to admit it after Sally freaked out) that she finally reads the card within the proper context and is touched. By the series finale, after Dick reveals the truth about himself and the others to Mary he asks her to look back on everything she knows about him from the past six years. As Mary goes through an entire gamut of emotions reminiscing on everything Dick's ever done to and with her, she realizes him being an alien makes sense. Given the proper context of who and what Dick is, their relationship suddenly becomes much more healthier. | |
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Baffled by Own Biology | |
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Baffled by Own Biology: Four aliens land on Earth and assume human bodies and have no idea how anything works. In the pilot, they don't even know what all the openings in their heads are for. | |
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Idiosyncratic Wipes | |
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Idiosyncratic Wipes: Generally a colorful graphic involving planets, stars and galaxies, in case you forgot this is a show about aliens. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Really Gets Around: Mrs. Dubceck's one of the most sexually active women in the cast, to the point it's implied she's got a number of illegitimate kids and grandkids. Mary before she met Dick (to her continuing embarrassment). She's got a noted reputation for sleeping around, and we find out she even slept with Dick's arch nemesis Strudwick while he was separated from his wife. Harry, who has to be forcibly stopped from French kissing any female within reach. He's had the biggest amount of lovers among the aliens, including Nina, Vicki, Masha the Venusian, Janice, a cashier, and we find out in the series finale he's been in a casual relationship with Mrs. Dubcek for the entire show. | |
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife | |
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Sally and Don. Played with in that Sally has no idea Don is supposed to be ugly (despite the fact that he's played by Wayne Knight), and finds his power as a police officer sexy (Despite the fact that he has almost no real power). This becomes even more hilarious in a later episode, where Sally convinces herself she's ugly while still seeing Don as the hottest man on the planet. The first time she sees him without his uniform though, she doesn't recognize him. When he insists it's really him, she blows him off, but is instantly attracted to him again when he comes to confront her in-uniform. They both figure out what's going on and Don proposes a solution: he always wears his uniform around her. This changes as time goes on; she begins to find other aspects of him sexy aside from the uniform (though generally situations in which he is "powerful" somehow - when he was a bouncer, or a karaoke star). She also comes to respect him more when he asserts himself over her shallowness at times, and in the end she cares about him even as she realizes he's an ineffectual coward, teaching him how to be a strong police officer before she leaves the planet. | |
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Screaming at Squick | |
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"InDickscretion" sees this happen to Dick and Sally. They're so turned on by talking about Mary and Don, respectively, that they start eyeing each other longingly. Just before their lips make contact, they realize what they're doing and panic, and run. | |
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Large-Ham Announcer | |
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Large-Ham Announcer: Harry, whenever receiving a broadcast from the Big Giant Head. He makes this... weird gurgling sound, sticks his arms up (similar to The Great Cornholio, oddly enough), and begins speaking in a loud, booming voice. This "transmission" is usually just a brief statement, but one time Harry actually hummed Muzak while on hold. | |
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Fake Pregnancy | |
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Fake Pregnancy: When Sally visits a gyneacologist for the first time all the other women there are pregnant, and in order to fit in she claims she's pregnant too - which comes as a shock to her boyfriend since they've never had sex. | |
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I Have No Son! | |
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I Have No Son!: Said by Dick about Tommy in "World's Greatest Dick." | |
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Good Cop/Bad Cop | |
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Good Cop/Bad Cop: Tommy and Sally do this respectively in order to find out who egged Mary's house on Halloween. Dick and Don do this to a perp in "The Physics of Being Dick," despite that Dick's not actually a cop. Amusingly, both can never settle on who will be the good cop and who will be the bad cop. A few scenes later they are shown having tried out all the variations they could think of. Good Cop/Good Cop is particularly ineffective. | |
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Cutting the Knot | |
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Cutting the Knot: After an episode where Dick struggles with dieting after outgrowing his pants he resolves the situation by... just buying bigger pants. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Mary emits one in "Fifteen Minutes of Dick" when Dick leaves the door open and Pepper runs in. Mary also says this in "Stuck with Dick" when she realizes she's locked in the library with Dick all weekend. | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: They gradually care for each other like a real family, underneath the egos and frequent antagonizing. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: In "Dick and the Other Guy," Dick managed to save the Earth from Dr. Neesam, who claimed he spared his kind because of how impressed he was with Dick's intelligence, despite that Dick's an alien. | |
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Re-Cut | |
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Re-Cut: The series finale originally included a scene where Dick bids farewell to his students and finally gives them the grades they need to graduate (albeit by pointing to one half of the room and arbitrarily telling them they passed). The scene was cut from reruns and home media releases. | |
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Known by the Postal Address | |
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Known by the Postal Address: Subverted: the planet Earth is named in the title after its location in the Solar System. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: This gem from "Portrait Of Tommy As An Old Man," the catalyst of Tommy getting fed up with the mission and going on a 10-Minute Retirement: | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
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Insane Troll Logic: After Dick forbids all animal-related products in "I Brake For Dick," Sally reasons that eggs are meat when used to make mayonnaise. In "Eleven Angry Men and One Dick", when Dick discovers that the defendant supported another family with stolen money: In "Why Dickie Can't Teach": Dick wants Tommy to go to Pendleton, while Tommy is more interested in the major universities like Princeton. Dick argues that, at the end of the day, both Princeton and Pendleton serve fishsticks on Friday. He takes it a step further when it's discovered that Princeton has eight Nobel prize winner faculty members: | |
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Informed Judaism | |
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Informed Judaism: The "Solomon" family spends an episode desperately trying to decide what ethnicity they should be; until their landlady mentions offhand that based on their last name she had just assumed they were Jewish and they decide to run with it (never comes up again). Apparently, they just took it off the side of the first truck they saw. It does come up again once, when the family tries to kidnap Dick (by putting a bag over his head) just after he has proposed to Mary. He tries to reassure her that the "sacking of the groom" is traditional. Sally once warns Dick against "getting all meshuggineh," Harry refers to Mary and August as "blonde shiksa goddesses," and Janet studied Yiddish as a Second Language in preparation for joining the family. In one episode they go to a family reunion of Solomons from Indiana. These Solomons have a family run furniture business which would involve a lot of trucks. So it is possible that these people are their namesake. The Solomons also celebrate Christmas, and never give any indication that they're even aware of Hanukkah. While it makes sense that pop culture osmosis would cause them to only be aware of Christmas, the fact that others who believe them to be Jewish never question it is a bit unusual. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Numerous ones over the seasons. There are a few relating to Jane Curtin's role as Primat in Coneheads, the most obvious one being when they ran into Coneheads cosplayers at a sci-fi convention. As well as an episode where she makes everyone watch a tabloid show about Susan Saint James. When the Big Giant Head first appears on Earth, he tells the Solomons that he saw a creature on the wing of the airplane but nobody believed him; Dick responds "The same thing happened to me!" This refers to the fact that William Shatner starred in the classic The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet", while John Lithgow starred in the segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie based off of that episode. The Solomons all know Dennis Rodman, a fellow alien. When he shows up, they share their disbelief that Earth hasn't figured it out. In Tricky Dick Dick, annoyed by the loud music Tommy's band is playing, delivers a fire-and-brimstone sermon about the dangers of Rock & Roll. This is a shout-out to John Lithgow's character in Footloose. Shall We Dick has a shout out to "Cinderella." Harry wishes he could go to the big dance contest, only he can't find his shoes and he's covered in soot from looking for them. The other three start uproariously mocking him for wanting to go because he's "dressed in rags" and dirty. Mrs. Dubcek, conveniently dressed in an all white, sequined number and waving around a cigarette holder, tells Harry he can still go to the dance if he really wants too. Harry mentions he doesn't have a car or clothes, and then Dubcek says "well Harry... I guess you're screwed." There's also an accidental shout out, in that Harry's covered in soot, making him "Dirty Harry." "Fifteen Minutes of Dick" becomes a parody of Sunset Boulevard, complete with "It's the pictures that got small!" reference. "Stuck With Dick" features a parody of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. "Citizen Solomon" contains, surprisingly enough, a Whole-Plot Reference to Citizen Kane. Tommy is Kane himself, Alissa is Susan Alexander, August is Jedediah Leland, and the principal is Mr. Thatcher. The parody isn't evident unless you've seen the film as it's based on a portion of the movie which is not often parodied and is thus outside the Popcultural Osmosis of the film's more famous scenes. "Gwen, Larry, Dick & Mary"'s subplot eventually becomes a parody of Judge Judy. "Land... it's the only thing that matters.", "Dick, that's just dirt from the backyard." The episode The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary could possibly be a reference to the 1970's PBS documentary "An American Family," starring a family whose last name was in fact "Loud." A lot of shoutouts to Rebel Without a Cause in Father Knows Best, in which Harry shouts "You're tearing me apart!" followed by his search for self (which ends in an agreement to a drag race with the boyfriend of a girl he meets at the bar). "A Nightmare on Dick Street Part 1" featured a parody of Chinatown. "The Physics of Being Dick" features a parody of The Music Man: | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father: The Big Giant Head reveals that he is Dick's father. | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting: The usual format for the show. | |
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Prima Donna Director | |
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Prima Donna Director: Dick becomes one almost immediately in "Romeo and Juliet and Dick" when he directs the high school version of the play. | |
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Incoming Ham | |
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Incoming Ham: "BEHOLD THE GLORY THAT IS ME!" | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: The first time Dick tries to out himself to Mary as an alien was when he got sick for the first time and thought he was dying. He tells her not to be alarmed if she finds only a shivering purple tube in his place the next day. She seems to take it as either melodrama or delirium. The next time, it's after they've been attending a sci-fi convention that she's really gotten into. She thinks he's gotten equally into it and awards him appropriately. Dick also revealed that he's an alien to the psychiatrist in "A Nightmare on Dick Street," but he just brushed it off as crazy talk. Out of options, the Solomons admitted they were aliens in "Dick and Taxes" to explain their whereabouts during the years before they landed on Earth. The IRS agent, however, believed this to be just another excuse: "Sorry folks, I've heard that one before too." Dick also attempted to tell Mary he was an alien when he was befriended by a former (gay) student of hers that believed he was gay and tried to help him come out. At one point he's also trying to 'get to know' his students by asking them about their pasts. One of them asks him where he's from and, right before the bell rings signaling the end of the class, he says "Long story... true story... I'm not human." | |
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Crop Circles | |
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Crop Circles: In episode Fun with Dick and Janet: Part 2, Tommy covers for the alien landing spot, by confessing to a crop circle prank where he ran laps with a flaming 2x4 behind him. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: Sally's dream in "A Nightmare on Dick Street." | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: In an alternate universe, we find that Mary is just a bitter lonely woman with little to live for. Dick tries to convince her that she can be more, but she's already given up. Despite having an otherwise much better life, it's this dead-inside Mary that gets him to go back home. Real world Mary is on the happier edge of being one. She has a relatively decent life, but her terrible childhood, Dick, sexual history, Dick, and her frustration with working in a third rate college with Dick give her slightly better reasons to be bitter at the world than most. | |
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Competence Zone | |
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Competence Zone: Dick, Sally and oddly Tommy inhabited it. Harry... didn't. Specifically, despite their utter failures at fitting in, Sally is great at security, and Tommy repeatedly shows information-handling skills beyond the greatest hacker, including creating false backstories for all of them multiple times. Dick has advanced knowledge of physics, but so do the others; his actual competence is that he is really pretty good at anthropology, and while he's an awful leader, is pretty good at telling the others what they should do to better understand Earth. It may be worth mentioning that Harry is a quite talented artist, both in execution and in analysis. | |
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That Came Out Wrong | |
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That Came Out Wrong: In "The Great Dickdater", Don and Dick go on a double date. Dick starts telling the two girls about models, to which the girls sarcastically ask why every guy wants to date models. Dick replies he was talking about model trains, after which the girls apologize. Dick then remarks: "If I had a model, why would I be here tonight?" He instantly realizes what he said could be taken the wrong way and apologizes. | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss: A sequence in the first episode between Dick and Mary. | |
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Subverted Suspicion Aesop | |
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Subverted Suspicion Aesop: In "Two-Faced Dick", Harry and Tommy are suspicious of a tough-looking gang who keeps ordering drinks. Ms. Dubcek tells them that they shouldn't judge people by how they look, and Harry and Tommy decide to apologize to the gang for it. Immediately after they apologize, the gang tells them to open up the cash register. Amusingly, instead of being terrified, Harry and Tommy are overjoyed that they were right all along about their first impression. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: In "The Physics of Being Dick," if Mary wasn't unable to handle criticism, Sally wouldn't have felt the need to blindly kiss her ass and lie that her introduction speech was perfect which meant Mary wouldn't have totally humiliated herself. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Harry Solomon, to the point where it actually hurts him to think too hard. Harry is the worst, but all the aliens have several moments of this, for obvious reasons. Even Tommy who is usually the sanest of the four. Vicki Dubcek also has her moments, where despite being a human, she occasionally acts just as nutty as the aliens. | |
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Jury Duty | |
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Jury Duty: One of the plots in "Eleven Angry Men and One Dick" is Dick being summoned for jury duty. It takes him forever to qualify for the jury, as he always has an opinion on a case that excludes him from being impartial. Finally he's allowed on when he's asked a question and bursts into tears. | |
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Professional Butt-Kisser | |
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Professional Butt-Kisser: Sally becomes one to Mary in "The Physics of Being Dick," at the advice of Nina, who says that correcting Mary will only make Mary upset. The butt-kissing backfires when Sally doesn't catch numerous mistakes in one of Mary's speeches and she makes a fool of herself. | |
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Waxing Lyrical | |
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Waxing Lyrical: In one episode, Dick said: "Fame, I want to live forever! Light up the sky like a flame, FAME!" In "Indecent Dick": | |
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Temporarily a Villain | |
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Temporarily a Villain: Vicki is the antagonist for most of "The Big Giant Head Returns Again" when she gets jealous of Harry's girlfriend Janice and tries to kill her. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: "I'm going to go in there... and put my feet... in her purse." Explanation: Dick's evil replacement asked Sally to explain to him what the "it" Mary was referring to was. Rather than telling him about sex, she apparently told him that the above quote is what drives women crazy. | |
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Anal Probing | |
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Anal Probing: One episode began with the main characters watching an episode of The X-Files on television, groaning over how laughably inaccurate the show is. One scene, described by Tommy as an alien inserting a probe through someone's ear, is met with the derisive comment from Dick, "Everyone knows the proper place to insert an alien probe is the butt!" In a later episode involving a psychotic alien hunter who kidnaps Dick and accuses aliens like him of "probing the butt of the poor American farmer," Dick denies that aliens anally probe anyone. However, he mentions an incident involving a farmer near Akron, who was "asking for it". Dr. Albright's brother Roy claims that he has been probed. | |
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Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them | |
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Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: Subverted in "Dick Behaving Badly": Dick lays it out pretty plainly in "Tricky Dick": There's a subversion right there in the pilot episode, "Brains and Eggs": | |
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Amusing Alien | |
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Amusing Alien: Guess who? | |
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Reset Button | |
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Reset Button: Almost anything other than couples breaking up or getting back together that comes up in a plot is ignored the very next episode. In particular, in The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary, life-changing lies and real secrets about the Solomons are revealed to everyone who knows them, and nobody mentions any of it afterward. | |
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Playboy Parody | |
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Playboy Parody: "Playpen" magazine, which Officer Don has a Porn Stash of. His girlfriend Sally considers posing to it, leading to him replacing his lifetime subscription in favor of a year-by-year one in response. | |
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False Confession | |
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The end of the "Dickumentary" episode has all the False Confessions the family has made (Sally is a lesbian, Tommy is a bed-wetter, Harry is an alcoholic, etc) revealed as lies, making it obvious that they are actually trying to hide something. Fed up with the bickering and fighting, Tommy offers to reveal their big secret: Dick isn't his real father, they aren't even biologically related. | |
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Mondegreen Gag | |
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Mondegreen Gag: Invoked in "Dickmalion" when Dick recounts his night of schmoozing with the upper class: | |
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Hand Wave | |
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Hand Wave: Mary's affair with Dr. Liam Neesan is treated as minor as a faux pas and never bought up again. | |
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Ship Tease | |
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Ship Tease: Harry and Nina got some adorable moments together. | |
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Shiksa Goddess | |
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Sally once warns Dick against "getting all meshuggineh," Harry refers to Mary and August as "blonde shiksa goddesses," and Janet studied Yiddish as a Second Language in preparation for joining the family. | |
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Alter Kocker | |
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He also hams up the Alter Kocker when, in the final season, they learn that their mission is at an end. The others point out that he always 'acts old' when they reach the end of the mission, but he actually takes the end of the mission much harder than initially suggested, breaking down during their going away party, a reaction he apparently hasn't had before. | |
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Humans Are Special | |
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Humans Are Special: Central to the plot of the series, the Aliens have never had to deal with anything close to human feelings before - despite being on "dozens" of missions together on various planets - which accounts for much of their behavior and humor of the series. | |
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Sex for Solace | |
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Sex for Solace: Sally and Don have sex (repeatedly) in "Dick vs. Strudwick," despite being technically broken up. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Sally occasionally treats Tommy this way, despite: A) being younger than him, technically; and B) his embarrassment. | |
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Manchild | |
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Manchild: Dick Solomon: How someone this immature is High Commander is dumbfounding. | |
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Hilarious Outtakes | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_e18a3c59 | comment |
Hilarious Outtakes: Included in each season's DVD release. | |
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Yiddish as a Second Language | |
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Yiddish as a Second Language: In "Proud Dick", Dick quits his job at the university over a parking space dispute. Sally asks why Dick got "meshugenah" over something that petty. Dick's "wife," Janet, spent her entire trip to Earth studying The Joy of Cooking, The Joy of Sex, and The Joy of Yiddish. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
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"Citizen Solomon" contains, surprisingly enough, a Whole-Plot Reference to Citizen Kane. Tommy is Kane himself, Alissa is Susan Alexander, August is Jedediah Leland, and the principal is Mr. Thatcher. The parody isn't evident unless you've seen the film as it's based on a portion of the movie which is not often parodied and is thus outside the Popcultural Osmosis of the film's more famous scenes. | |
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Mistaken for Destitute | |
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Mistaken for Destitute: Due to his mismatched clothing, Harry is mistaken for a beggar by a passerby who puts change in his coffee cup. At first indignant that they put money in his drink, Harry decides to continue panhandling, until he's confronted by real panhandlers. | |
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Disguised in Drag | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_e37f19 | comment |
Disguised in Drag: Dick crossdresses to infiltrate a women's discussion group. Possibly another Actor Allusion, as John Lithgow played a trans woman in The World According to Garp (and got an Academy Award nomination for it). Harry posed as Ms. Dubcek in "Romeo & Juliet & Dick." | |
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LARP | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_e5446db8 | comment |
In a later episode, the Solomons believed that Sally's new Italian boyfriend, Sammy "The Butcher" Marchetti, was in the mob. Naturally, Sally is thrilled and spends the whole episode LARPing as a stereotypical Mafia Princess. It turns out he's a literal butcher working at the local Italian restaurant. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Tommy and Alissa become this when it's revealed that Alissa's last name is Strudwick (see Sitcom Arch-Nemesis above). Although it doesn't actually stop them from dating. In the end, Mary and Dick. She's a human, he's an alien, and he always knew that one day, his mission would end. Mary can't leave Earth with them, so he winds up wiping her memory to spare her the pain, and leaving her forever. The same can also be said for Sally and Don, though he never found out the truth, and assumes Sally's with the CIA or something similar, which would explain her abilities and why she suddenly has to vanish from his life. | |
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Therapy Backfire | |
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Therapy Backfire: In one episode Mary takes Dick to a group couples retreat, fully expecting everyone there to praise her as a saint for putting up with Dick's insanity and enormous ego. To her shock everyone there takes pity on Dick and her growing frustration with them ends up making her seem more and more unsympathetic. | |
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Flanderization | |
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_e5e6640b | comment |
Flanderization: The show itself was this by season 6, in which the goofiness of the plots was turned up to eleven, including a two-parter wherein the four could just randomly transport to a parallel universe (set in New York City). Dick was a bumbling egotist at the beginning, but only became more of a selfish drama queen as the series progressed. | |
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Not Blood Siblings | |
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Not Blood Siblings: The other male Solomons sometimes show sexual interest in Sally. Thankfully, nothing ever comes of it. | |
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Mildly Military | |
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Mildly Military: The aliens are very mildly military. Sally, Tommy, and Harry are extremely insubordinate to their High Commander right from the start of the show. They are apparently bound to obey Dick when he says "That's an order!", but they'll still be openly disrespectful if they think the order is stupid (it often is). | |
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I Have Boobs, You Must Obey! | |
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I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Sally has demonstrated many times that men will do whatever she asks, just because of her looks. | |
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The Oner | |
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The Oner: The opening shot of Harry's dream is one minute and 39 seconds of elaborate choreography. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Solomons. Being Starfish Aliens, they don't understand anything about human culture, which explains why they spent so long on Earth in the first place (apparently other missions on other populated planets don't take much longer then a week). | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: One episode reveals that, shortly after arriving on Earth, Sally filed a protest and asked to be given a male body. Several years later, the Big Giant Head complies... by making Dick and Sally swap bodies. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: Occurs frequently in "Rutherford Beauty," as Dick has erotic daydreams about Nina. | |
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Straw Affiliation | |
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Straw Affiliation: The episode "Dick the Vote" included this subversion: | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: When a car mechanic who is fixing Sally's car keeps talking to Harry about it instead of Sally, Sally eventually gets the guy's attention by giving him one of these. With a pair of pliers. Which she then forgets to remove. Until she eventually does so with an apologetic little giggle. Sally accidentally does this to herself during the "Freaky Friday" Flip. The first time she sits down while in Dick's body she instinctively crosses her legs only to yelp in pain because she crushed the "goods". Harry advises her to wear a sports cup until she gets used to the different anatomy. | |
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Ham-to-Ham Combat | |
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Ham-to-Ham Combat: Pretty much any time the aliens have a disagreement it quickly becomes this. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Harry pretends to be a tough guy in "A Friend in Dick" when he attends night school (under advice from Tommy), despite that he really doesn't need to. | |
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Minor with Fake I.D. | |
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Minor with Fake I.D.: Tommy and his friends make fake I.D.'s to get into a hot new nightclub. The other guys get in, but Tommy is stopped at the door because Don is the bouncer and knows perfectly well that Tommy is underage. | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: The source of a few aside jokes. For example, in the "See Dick Continue To Run" two-parter, Sally, Tommy and Harry happen to run into Dennis Rodman (As Himself), who turns out to be a fellow alien, and they all have a laugh about how no one's figured it out yet. Then they grill him about celebrities he's interacted with: | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: In "See Dick Run," Evil Dick re-names Harry, Sally, and Tommy to all being named Tommy. They immediately point out how confusing that will be but Evil Dick doesn't care. | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Sally, as the mission's no-nonsense, militaristic, security officer frequently discusses needing to kill anyone who may expose their secret, but never actually hurts or threatens anyone on these grounds. Admittedly, that would be very wrong for the show's light tone. A season one episode has Sally lure Mary's brother into a field for the express purpose of murdering him after he tells them about an alien abduction he experienced. Dick manages to stop her, and in the process they discover he was simply lying to get attention. | |
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Translation Train Wreck | |
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Translation Train Wreck: Mary gives one to the Bolivians in "The Physics of Being Dick", due to Sally not bothering to fact check it beforehand. | |
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Battle of Wits | |
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However, this theory is also somewhat damaged by the fact that in a Battle of Wits between Dick and Tommy, they show off using their language skills. (Tommy wins, apparently having mastered all the languages Dick challenges him with, and correcting Dick's faulty grammar.) | |
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Mistaken for Servant | |
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Mistaken for Servant: Harry is mistaken for an employee of a hardware store, due to his shirt. He goes along with it. At the end of the episode, Harry announces he's going shopping at Foot Locker, while wearing a striped shirt. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: Another group of aliens who all look like attractive women use the characters' hometown to test how effective their beauty is at distracting men as part of their bid to conquer Earth. It's pretty effective. Sally is pretty good at this herself, finding her ability to cloud men's minds an upside to being the only woman of the group. Indeed, she later gets recruited by the above mentioned aliens, who mention she has potential, but is unrefined. | |
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Crowd Song | |
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Crowd Song: In "Frozen Dick," Dick begins singing "Oklahoma!" to cheer up Mary. Within a few bars, the entire restaurant has joined in. | |
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Burger Fool | |
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Burger Fool: Dick is reduced to working at Rusty's (a fast food restaurant) in "Proud Dick" when he quit his job at Pendleton over a parking space dispute. Dick is required to say, "Thank you for making Rusty's a part of your day." after each transaction. | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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Bad "Bad Acting": Mary is accused of this in "The Tooth Harry"; she puts on a quasi-British accent for the promotional film about Pendleton University. Amusingly, she doesn't seem to notice she uses one. | |
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Under Strange Management | |
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Under Strange Management: In one episode, Sally puts up a sign advertising her fake hair salon as an excuse to get a tax refund. Then the customers start showing up. She decides to actually try to run the hair salon because she enjoys the gossip, but the business quickly tanks when her customers realize that she gives lousy haircuts. | |
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Identical Stranger | |
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Identical Stranger: They never meet in person, but Dick looks exactly like a 1960s campus radical Mary was infatuated with as a student. It's possible Dick's Earth body was cloned from him. | |
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Incredibly Lame Fun | |
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Incredibly Lame Fun: A Running Gag is that the aliens find trite, shallow, and downright lame things hilarious and wildly entertaining. | |
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And Harry isn't bad looking either! | |
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Evil Twin | |
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Evil Twin: New Dick. He plans to use alien technology to impregnate all the women on Earth with his private army, then take over the world. Less inconsiderate than regular Dick on a day-to-day basis, though. | |
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Too Much Information | |
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Too Much Information: Dick provides this all too often. Examples: In "Power Mad Dick", Dick thinks it's only fair that Sally tell the family every detail of her sexual encounter with Don, since he did such a thing when he had sex with Mary, even after everyone begged him to stop. | |
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You Will Be Spared | |
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You Will Be Spared: As Dick's evil replacement was assessing Dick's class, he tells Leon that he will be spared and made to carry heavy loads. | |
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Something Something Leonard Bernstein | |
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Something Something Leonard Bernstein: Attempts to sing the mission song usually end up as this. Best demonstrated in the series finale where they get the first two lines and the second verse right, but everything in-between is a bit more vague. | |
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Human Aliens | |
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Human Aliens: They have to be, to disguise themselves from humanity. Apparently, any life-form that gets to Earth through alien technology is turned into human shape, even if originally it was more like a dog in behavior. | |
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Emergency Broadcast | |
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Another example from season one: Dick goes AWOL (he's got locked in the fire escape at work) and Sally decides he's deliberately left her in charge to see how she handles it, exclaiming "This is a test!" Harry leans over to Tommy and says "She's about to emit a high-pitched tone." | |
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Romantic Rain | |
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Romantic Rain: Sally and Don go for what he really hopes will be a romantic walk in the rain. Subverted, because she just finds it boring, tedious, wet and uncomfortable, and gets annoyed with him. | |
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Villainous Mother-Son Duo | |
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Villainous Mother-Son Duo: In the episode "Alien Hunter," Kathy Bates plays a vicious alien hunter named Charlotte. She's assisted by her Igor-like son Ned. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: In "Dickmalion," when Mary decides to leave the elite party: | |
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Sitting on the Roof | |
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Sitting on the Roof: Every episode ends this way, and it happens during the episode on occasion too. This is usually for a semi-philosophical discussion of what the Solomons learned in each episode about Earth culture. | |
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Impossibly Delicious Food | |
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Impossibly Delicious Food: A dish that Dr. Neesam makes for Mary, which causes a Double Entendre: | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: In "Dick Solomon of the Indiana Solomons," either Uncle Abe or Harry starting a sentence with, "Don't get me started on..." In "Y2dick", Tommy and Sally declaring "Pack it up! This piece of crap's going back!" when they're dissatisfied with their home theater system. The aliens don't like Jell-O: they think it's a vicious alien they encountered on another planet. Whenever they see it, they go into a screaming fit and either cower in fear or try to destroy it. Up until he got his haircut, the other Solomons would constantly point out how Tommy looked like a girl. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Really, isn't this the point of every episode? Some examples: Dick, in "Romeo & Juliet & Dick": In "Dickmalion," Tommy told Dick he got suspended for setting off the fire alarm. Dick was appalled at the school, since Tommy saved hundreds of lives. Tommy admitted that there was no fire. Another example from season one: Dick goes AWOL (he's got locked in the fire escape at work) and Sally decides he's deliberately left her in charge to see how she handles it, exclaiming "This is a test!" Harry leans over to Tommy and says "She's about to emit a high-pitched tone." Any time Nina's race is brought up. The Solomons never seem to grasp that 'black' refers to skin color and not just a cultural group. | |
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Dog Food Diet | |
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Dog Food Diet: A variant occurs in "Proud Dick." Sally brings home cat food for dinner. She doesn't realize it's food for cats, though, and Mary is appalled when she comes over and sees that the Solomons are so poor that they're reduced to eating cat food (Dick had quit his job in the episode). | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: From "A Portrait of Tommy as an Old Man": From "I Brake For Dick": Then there's Dick not getting people's corrections: When Tommy takes over cooking: | |
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Lady Drunk | |
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Lady Drunk: Mary. This actually works to her advantage in "Alien Hunter"... until the two decide to physically knock her out. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Harry's lobster claws from "Rutherford Beauty" In "Tricky Dick", Dick and Mary get into a prank war. At one point Mary is trying to talk to an auto mechanic, but he only speaks Spanish (which she doesn't). Dick volunteers to help, but tells the mechanic that she also wants to car painted with flames, subwoofers installed, and a horn that plays "La Cucaracha", saying of the expense "Don't worry, she's loaded." At the end of the episode, Mary managed to get Dick's hands and head superglued to his desk, and they realize how far the prank war has gone and agree to call it off. Then we hear "La Cucaracha" from outside and Judith looks out the window remarks "Mary, it appears your Volvo is back from the shop" as Dick starts laughing. | |
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Innocently Insensitive | |
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Innocently Insensitive: All the Solomons are guilty of this, most commonly Dick and Tommy. | |
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Once a Season | |
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Once a Season: The Solomons' identity as aliens is revealed to somebody about once every season, but the context makes the reveal incredulous, and later ignored. | |
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