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Titus

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Titus	comment	Originating as a FOX mid-season replacement in early 2000, Titus is an extremely faithful adaptation of comedian Christopher Titus' one-man show Norman Rockwell is Bleeding. Norman Rockwell itself is closely based on Titus' own life, such as having an alcoholic, five-times-divorced, patronizing-yet-caring father; a violent, manic-depressive-schizophrenic mother; and himself having once fallen into a bonfire while drunk.Titus talked to the audience from a black-and-white room referred to by fans as the "Neutral Space." (It was never verified exactly what that room represented: his stream of consciousness, his thoughts during a therapy session, or a realm where he can literally break the fourth wall and talk to the audience? Hints are given towards each one.) From that room, he detailed his thoughts, feelings and Backstory elements that can better explain the current story. It also allowed a Jump Cut to a Flashback or Imagine Spot when needed.The show itself was organized in a different method than most sitcoms. They had a studio audience, but they kept the majority of the action on one set and done close to Real Time. Instead of filming throughout a week, they would rehearse throughout the week and perform for the audience on Friday like it was a play. The Laugh Track was genuine and a video recording of the Neutral Space and subsequent flashbacks were also played for the audience in sequence with the live performance. This allowed the studio audience to see the show almost exactly the same way as it airs on TV.Setting itself apart from domestic comedy sitcoms, Titus called itself a "domestic disturbance." Every episode dealt with life in a screwed-up world with alcoholism, drug abuse, murders, suicides, death, muggings, greed, child molestation, STDs, domestic violence, gun violence, and road rage. While treating such topics with appropriate seriousness when needed, they always found a method to joke about them, calling it "Find the Funny." Each character approaches their life in a different way: Christopher does everything he can to avoid his Father's issues (drinking, smoking, multiple ex-wives...), his girlfriend Erin is eternally optimistic with a bit of forcing a smile, his brother Dave doesn't realize how messed up he is, his friend Tommy is so neurotic he sabotages himself, while Papa Titus only knew that being hard on his kids was the only way they'll learn how to survive.Because it made fun of such sensitive subject matter (a lot of which was based on Christopher Titus' life), it was considered pushing the envelope too far and was canceled after three seasons. In retrospect, Christopher Titus said that the ratings were always solid but he would prefer it be canceled for how controversial it was rather than being a failure. He later admitted (and explained in detail during his "The Voice In My Head" special) that he antagonized the Network President during a season three meeting, which he calls his greatest regret.Years later, Titus worked with the cast and crew into Kickstarting the series back into production, which fell apart as he did not own the rights to the show. This has not stopped him, though, as he ended up developing a reunion special podcast that aired on August 21, 2020. It featured the original cast communicating through video chat, a Q&A, commentary on the last two episodes, and most notably a privately funded episode of the Titus Family entitled "Homecoming," serving as both as a Reunion Show and a Grand Finale for the series, and made available for purchase on his website.Now has a recap page.During the US shutdown in response to the Coronavirus in 2020, Titus started uploading the episodes to his YouTube channel, stating that he planned to do so for as long as he can get away with it.Not to be confused with Julie Taymor's surreal adaptation of the play Titus Andronicus or Titus Software.
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Titus / int_112f8ee1	type	Look Behind You
Titus / int_112f8ee1	comment	Look Behind You: "Dave, cow!"
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Titus / int_1152876e	type	Faux Yay
Titus / int_1152876e	comment	Faux Yay: In the episode "Tommy's Not Gay," Dave decides to prove that Tommy's not gay (by kissing him), among other things.
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Titus / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Titus / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Co-creator Jack Kenny had a semi-recurring role as Principal Wells, who was there when Titus was in high school and also shows up in modern-day scenes taking place at the high school. Also, Erin's brother, Michael, was played by one of the writers.
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Titus / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Titus / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Even the network was a little confused about it; Christopher and Erin were not the primary relationship of the show, like most other sitcoms. It was actually Christopher and Papa Titus. Because of that, the second episode, "Sex with Pudding", aired before the pilot "Dad is Dead"note The pilot episode in which Titus, Dave, Erin, and Tommy worry that Ken may be dead as he hasn't come out of his room in four days — not even to get a beer. Being a pilot episode, it introduced the characters, the dysfunctional family theme of the show and, most importantly, Titus' relationship with his father. "Sex with Pudding" was a "more traditional" sitcom story about Titus being overprotective of Erin and, as such, you were already expected to know the characters.
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Titus / int_1822f0b0	type	Funny Conception Story
Titus / int_1822f0b0	comment	Funny Conception Story: Played for dark comedy. A flashback showed Christopher's parents conceived him while his mother's boyfriend was banging on the door screaming "I love you!" after which he fired a shotgun through the door. According to Ken, "it almost spoiled the mood."
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Titus / int_1849f58e	type	Comedic Work, Serious Scene
Titus / int_1849f58e	comment	Comedic Work, Serious Scene: This is a Black Comedy about the titular comedian's Hilariously Abusive Childhood, but occasionally, it does have its more serious moments. "The Pit" has Titus, desperate to restore his shop's reputation, try and drag race Jay Leno as a publicity stunt... and then at the end, his car explodes, badly injuring him and putting him in a coma. In "Life Forward", Erin badgers Chris into attending a seminar with a motivational speaker to deal with his unaddressed trauma from his accident. When the speaker finally breaks through to Titus, he remembers just how close he came to dying in the accident, and ends up more traumatized than before. In "Tommy's Not Gay", the Running Gag of Tommy's incredible effeminacy is given a lampshade; his dad Perry is a closeted gay man and Tommy unknowingly picked up a lot of his mannerisms. When the old man finally comes out, Tommy severs all ties with him, blaming Perry for his growing up to be a Butt-Monkey.
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Titus / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Titus / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: Juanita at the end of "The Visit." Just as Titus, Dave, Tommy, and Ken are about to attack Juanita, thinking that she escaped from the mental hospital again, Erin comes in with a phone, telling Titus that his mom was found dead four hours ago in Missouri from a suicide.
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Titus / int_1ea7d12a	type	MST3K Mantra
Titus / int_1ea7d12a	comment	MST3K Mantra
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Titus / int_203141e3	type	Cute and Psycho
Titus / int_203141e3	comment	Most of the women Ken Titus dated/married were either this or just plain crazy. Juanita (Titus's mom and Ken's second wife) qualified for the latter, which is justified as she was a manic-depressive schizophrenic. "Locking Up Mom" has her leave a series of messages.
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Titus / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Titus / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The show is best described as this. It can't be a Dramedy because the topics are played for laughs nor is it a Black Comedy because the topics are still portrayed seriously. As paradoxical as that sounds it works very well.
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Titus / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Titus / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Erin. Sure, she has her "If you can't beat them, join them" moments and her family is more dysfunctional than Titus's, but she's the only one who tries logic first. Tommy tries it too, but he's such a wet sack nobody listens to him.
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Titus / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
Titus / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: Titus frequently did this to Dave, to the point where when Titus was unconscious in the hospital, Dave would hit himself with Titus' limp hand, crying "It's not the same!"
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Titus / int_25bcf6ce	type	Lightswitch Surprise
Titus / int_25bcf6ce	comment	Lightswitch Surprise: Titus's uncle walks in, then the lights switch on to reveal a birthday party for him. The uncle was startled enough to fire his revolver, only to realize shortly after.
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Titus / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Titus / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: "For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure."
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Titus / int_26beee71	type	Taught by Experience
Titus / int_26beee71	comment	Taught by Experience: Papa Titus favored this teaching method. When his son was ready to jab a fork in an outlet, his mother tried to stop him. Papa Titus let him go through with it, then simply tells his son, "You won't do that again, will you?"
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Titus / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
Titus / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: A few over the three seasons, but they weren't hyped up too much. Jay Leno (as himself in the two-parter where Titus crashes his racecar and ends up in a coma), Frankie Muniz (as a car executive in "Too Damn Good"), David Hyde Pierce (as a motivational speaker who tries to help Titus around the time that his hot rod shop went out of business), Alex Borstein (as the pregnant single mother in "Bachelor Party"), and Elizabeth Berkley (as Titus's sister, Shannon).
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Titus / int_2791ae1e	type	Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Titus / int_2791ae1e	comment	Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Flashbacks during Titus' high school days had Principal Snell with an afro, while he was quite balding today. Titus himself had long, unkempt hair in high school (which probably was shortened thanks to the bonfire incident and dating a girl who was so depressed over her dead dog that she cut his hair in his sleep).
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Titus / int_2d336012	type	Oddly Specific Greeting Card
Titus / int_2d336012	comment	Oddly Specific Greeting Card: Mentioned when Dave thought his girlfriend left him a "Dear John" Letter. Titus started insulting her to help Dave feel better. Then it turned out to be a misunderstanding.
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Titus / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Titus / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: "Sex With Pudding" has Titus believe that Erin is cheating on him after finding notes, emails and gifts addressed to her. She's actually being sexually harassed by someone at her workplace. Titus is actually relieved to hear that, since it means he can now play to his strength: kicking people's asses.
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Titus / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
Titus / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Christopher's car shop went under and he pushed Erin away when he went back to the bottle. He seemed to instantly get three days' growth, but him shaving (after accidentally setting fire to a crudely-made dummy version of Erin during a drunken candlelight dinner) was a sign he was trying to get sober again.
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Titus / int_335ac42e	type	Out of Order
Titus / int_335ac42e	comment	Out of Order: The first episode "Dad is Dead" was replaced with "Sex with Pudding," which erroneously put the series focus on Erin and Titus rather than Titus and his family. Season two's "The Wedding" was held off to the end of the season, which was put right in between Titus getting into a car accident and recovering at the beginning of the third season. The third season "The Protector" was similarly held until the end, when several prior episodes made reference to the episode events (and other things, like Amy being a lesbian, were not known yet). On a more intentional Anachronic Order, some episodes reference upcoming stories, such as Ken's "heart attack" while driving ending the first season but was referenced earlier.
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Titus / int_356b1efb	type	Hammerspace
Titus / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace: Granted the Neutral Space was not exactly reality, but it did often have random things appear. Video editing equipment, giant wall safe, food and of course hammers showed up often.
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Titus / int_3573371e	type	Dinner and a Show
Titus / int_3573371e	comment	Dinner and a Show: There was the episode where Titus' family and Erin's family came for Thanksgiving and wound up in the hospital, twice with his mother making dinner (one time drugging the entire family and trying to kill his dad, another with her psychiatrist fiance showing up and punching Papa Titus), and once when Tommy was dating a woman Titus had slept with and they went to her restaurant. Ken even used the trope title as things got more and more awkward.
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Titus / int_364676d4	type	I Hit You, You Hit The Ground
Titus / int_364676d4	comment	I Hit You, You Hit The Ground: From "After Mrs. Shafter": "There's gonna be three hits — me hitting you, you hitting the floor, then you hitting on the paramedic."
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Titus / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Titus / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: There is usually an open fire or the threat of something being set on fire every episode. The shows' logo includes a flame decal.
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Titus / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
Titus / int_3763bcf8	comment	False Rape Accusation: Addressed when Tommy encounters an old girlfriend with a restraining order against him. They had sex when they were together and she was debating on breaking up with him. When he approached her (naked) to have sex again she used it as an excuse to break up with him and filed the restraining order. When talking to her in the present she claimed he tried to rape her. Titus picked apart the trope by telling her that claiming rape when they already had regular intercourse is not a substitute for telling Tommy that she hated him and never wanted to see him again. Also brought up when Amy claims that a friend of her family molested her when she was younger. This came after a long series of her chronic lying and deflecting questions, Titus scolds her that such behavior can outright ruin lives. But seeing her change behavior around the guy and not be her normal snarky self makes him rethink the situation, and they find outside evidence that it was true.
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Titus / int_3892655c	type	Magical Security Cam
Titus / int_3892655c	comment	Magical Security Cam: The Neutral Space would introduce some film clips of past events, sometimes realistically done like a stationary security cam, and sometimes done like a camcorder. Other times, it would show something from an impossible point of view with a subtitle for humor ("Biological Mom Cam," "Dad Cam," "Minimum Wage Cam," "Marijuana Task Force Cam," "Back of Dad's Hand Cam," "Fist Cam," "Stripper Girlfriend Cam," "Miracle of Life Cam," "Psycho-Bitch Cam", "NASCAR Cam," and "Van Damme Fan Cam")
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Titus / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
Titus / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: In the Neutral Space cutaways.
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Titus / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Titus / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Christopher and Dave get into a fight at a custom car show, and their fight ends up on the cover of a Hot Rod magazine. Christopher tries claiming No Such Thing as Bad Publicity, but one by one all their customers pulled out. Being a specialized custom car shop they couldn't afford an unprofessional reputation.
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Titus / int_40febb0d	type	A Side Order of Romance
Titus / int_40febb0d	comment	A Side Order of Romance: In the episode "The Break-Up". Christopher and Erin decide to break up and they both have a fling with a waitress and waiter, respectively. Complete with porn-ified Imagine Spot.
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Titus / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
Titus / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten
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Titus / int_476302df	type	You Are a Credit to Your Race
Titus / int_476302df	comment	You Are a Credit to Your Race: Papa Titus is racist but in a genuine way. Also: And:
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Titus / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
Titus / int_4782e60f	comment	The person who has to be held back when Bill is caught by Titus beating Juanita for arguing with him? Ken. It took the three guys who were ready to hand Bill his ass a minute prior to hold him back.
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Titus / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Titus / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules! and Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Subverted. In "Titus Integritus," Titus broods over a request from a customer to make an ugly modern attachment to a classic hot rod which brings him into conflict with everyone else who wants to get paid. Just as he brings some of the others to his side, the customer gives him a check with a lot of 'zeroes.'
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Titus / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Titus / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In "The Last Noelle", Titus, in the Neutral Space, is dressed as Santa and locking a door while keeping his left cheek to the camera.
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Titus / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Titus / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: At which point Titus turns, showing the bruises and cuts Noelle inflicted on him.
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Titus / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Titus / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: The show always depicted therapists, social workers, and normal people as trying to do good for screwed-up people, but inevitably making things worse. Especially true of the social workers, as one flashback showed Titus being sent to live with his mentally ill mother after his father, a functioning alcoholic/chain-smoker/occasional pot smoker/womanizing divorcÃ© who uses Tough Love-cum-Comedic Sociopathy to make men out of his sons, was branded unfit to care for children. The therapists were depicted more as being lecherous know-nothing-know-it-alls, as one episode revealed that Juanita was sleeping with her therapist — who, in a later episode, was revealed to be an abusive Jerkass who punched her in the face and got shot during Titus's wedding to Erin.
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Titus / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Titus / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Most episodes start with Christopher Titus turning on a bare lightbulb in the Neutral Space and starting his monologue on the topic of the episode. The final Neutral Space segment will then repeat one or two sentences of the first monologue while changing its original meaning on its side, then closes by turning off the same lightbulb (usually by Titus clicking the light, but there were times where the light bulb either broke, was turned off in a weird way ["The Perfect Thanksgiving" had Titus use a remote control], or, in the case of two episodes with dramatic endings ["Episode 11" and "The Pit"] the light bulb stayed on).
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Titus / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Titus / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: A lot of the ImagineSpots in the Neutral Space are flashbacks of Titus's (or Erin's) Hilariously Abusive Childhood.
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Titus / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Titus / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Titus dated a woman named Noelle who was a crazy, jealous girl who punched him in the face for inconsequential things (like the fact that Titus loved watching Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer every Christmas) and used sex to manipulate him into staying with her. Titus' schizophrenic mother Juanita (who also was abusive to Ken, often threatening his life and using sex to lure him back to her) was abused by her psychologist fiance ( until she shot him).
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Titus / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Titus / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: When Christopher starts drinking again, he calls himself an alcoholic. Papa Titus' reply was "You're not an alcoholic; you haven't earned it."
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Titus / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Titus / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Pretty much all the episodes take place in one setting (sometimes two, but usually, it's an adjacent room) with a limited amount of actors and actresses. This is probably the only American TV show in which most — if not all — of the episodes are Bottle Episodes that don't double as ClipShows or special, dramatic episodes (though episodes like "Tommy's Not Gay," "The Visit" [where Titus thinks his mom escaped from the mental hospital, but gets a call from the police stating that Juanita killed herself in Missouri], "The Last Noelle," and "The Protector" have dramatic undertones to them to add to the comedy).
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Titus / int_69cc2a27	type	Hilariously Abusive Childhood
Titus / int_69cc2a27	comment	Hilariously Abusive Childhood: The entire series is based around this.
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Titus / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Titus / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Comes up in one of the flashbacks, where the social worker claims "A boy should be with his mother"... despite the fact that Ken has a house and stable job (even though Ken is an functional alcoholic who has marijuana growing in his backyard and a history of hilarious child abuse), while Juanita is pantsless and lives in a cardboard box under the freeway, and says as much right in front of the social worker.
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Titus / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Titus / int_6b2b3b59	comment	More seriously, "Mom's Not Nuts" ends with The Reveal that Juanita had drugged the meal and was hell-bent on killing Ken as she was unmedicated. Cut to the Neutral Space, where he recapped that she got nabbed by the cops after a high-speed chase, only to have the phone ring. He promises not to answer it, turns off the light... then goes to answer it, as she's still his mother, and the episode ends with the hotline number and URL link to the National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network.
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Titus / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Titus / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Papa Titus' Catchphrase is "Quit being a wussy!" and when Titus' shop went under, he turned to alcohol. Papa Titus gave him a rare moment of genuine concern but also explained the concept of a Crapsack World and finished it with:
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Titus / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Titus / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Titus' mom at the end of "The Visit." At the beginning of "Insanity Genetic, Part One," the first thing Christopher and Ken asked when news of Juanita's death hit was "Did she take anyone else with her?" Fortunately for them, she didn't.
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Titus / int_72528764	type	Unbroken Vigil
Titus / int_72528764	comment	Unbroken Vigil: Played for laughs with Erin. After Titus almost dies in a racing accident, she refuses to leave his side or even let go of his hand, causing her to almost drag him out of his hospital bed.
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Titus / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
Titus / int_777baed3	comment	Also brought up when Amy claims that a friend of her family molested her when she was younger. This came after a long series of her chronic lying and deflecting questions, Titus scolds her that such behavior can outright ruin lives. But seeing her change behavior around the guy and not be her normal snarky self makes him rethink the situation, and they find outside evidence that it was true.
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Titus / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Titus / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Played with in the case of Shannon, Titus' sister where even Erin was wondering why she never heard of her before then. But there were a handful of references to her before she actually appears in the third season, the most obvious being a discussion between Titus and Ken about how Shannon moved to Africa to get away.
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Titus / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Titus / int_786bf97f	comment	Every episode had either actual fire or had the threat of someone or something being set on fire, including the story of how Christopher got drunk during a school beach party and fell into a bonfire (which actually happened to him, according to the comedy special, "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding.") In fact, the final shot of the series finale uses fire. Titus pulls the chair used in the Neutral Space to the middle of a street and sets it on fire, then starts walking away while whistling the show's theme tune.
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Titus / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Titus / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: Constantly, ranging from Titus accidentally setting his dad on fire (offscreen) as a kid to blowing himself up by combining gasoline and acetone for a homemade fuel mixture.
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Titus / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
Titus / int_798a9e41	comment	"Episode 11," last the of season one. Ken has a heart attack and crashes while driving and blames Titus for raising his stress level. They find out separately the real reason involved Auto Erotica that could result in a suspended license, and take revenge with a prank. Said prank and the reveal that they knew gives Ken a heart attack for real, after a tense few seconds he is revived but Titus is unsettled enough to leave the light bulb on.
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Titus / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Titus / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Most of Papa Titus' ex-wives and girlfriends, including Juanita in episodes where Juanita isn't prominently featured, but Titus does mention the insane things she did when he was a kid (like putting Titus in a germ-free bubble to protect him from a brain-eating virus and wearing a green Army jacket and white go-go boots sans pants or underwear).
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Titus / int_7b7d3b91	type	Twinkle Smile
Titus / int_7b7d3b91	comment	Taken to its logical extreme in which the trope is used three times in conjunction, showing the process of his father seducing (using the same "Heaven is missing its most beautiful angel!" line with a Twinkle Smile), maligning ("You're worse than the last one!" with the twinkle provided by his beer can), and divorcing three different women (the twinkle provided by the heavy object chucked at Ken's head by the departing women). There's a fourth constant, with Ken yelling "Duck, boy!" on the last one - but it's subverted as Teen!Christopher takes the heavy object to the head, with Ken chastising him over always needing to be told to duck by that point.
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Titus / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Titus / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Titus names off three massacres in history that started off with "Surprise!": the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor, the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive, and...Titus's uncle's 50th birthday party. Turns out the last one isn't as harmless as it should be as Titus's uncle fired a gun in the room and killed two people before Titus stopped him.
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Titus / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Titus / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: See above.
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Titus / int_82912ce0	type	Self-Immolation
Titus / int_82912ce0	comment	Self-Immolation: Papa Titus dismisses a woman that Erin introduced to him because he was too sober to be his usual womanizing self. When he asks how she took the rejection, a cutawag gag shows that she set herself on fire in a parking lot.
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Titus / int_8319aaea	type	Compensating for Something
Titus / int_8319aaea	comment	Compensating for Something: A one-off flashback shows Ken and Titus in a gun shop, where a customer is being helped by the owner.
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Titus / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Titus / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Erin. She was frequently shown as trying to be optimistic despite the horrible surroundings, only to have it all blow up in her face, time after time. This show being what it is, it was always Played for Laughs.
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Titus / int_848153ef	type	Viva Las Vegas!
Titus / int_848153ef	comment	Viva Las Vegas!: Subverted in an episode where Titus and his dad Ken are on their way to Las Vegas, but then their car breaks down outside of a road diner and they spend the rest of the episode dealing with a Maternity Crisis.
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Titus / int_85bcc5a8	type	Lampshaded Double Entendre
Titus / int_85bcc5a8	comment	Lampshaded Double Entendre: People like Papa Titus will do it straight, people like Dave though...
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Titus / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Titus / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: As seen under Mistaken for Cheating, "Sex with Pudding" had Titus convinced that Erin was having an affair with a coworker - only to find out that she's being sexually harrassed, which he's relieved by because it just means he can kick the guy's ass. Unfortunately for him, it's a female coworker who believed Erin was flirting with her, and Titus is left dumbfounded on how to respond.
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Titus / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Titus / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The pilot episode had a joke referencing "The Fellatio Incident" and in the neutral space Titus slyly said "Episode 11." The final episode of the season was titled "Episode 11" (which was actually episode 9) and revealed what happened. The show only had a mild running story to begin with, but with season two dealing with the fallout of that episode it suggests the events of the pilot episode doesn't take place chronologically until the middle of season two. There are other episodes intentionally Out of Order, resulting in similar but unintentional Call Forwards.
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Titus / int_919db7fc	type	Non Sequitur Distraction
Titus / int_919db7fc	comment	Non Sequitur Distraction: Erin is chewing Ken out for being a bad father, at one point calling him a "Motard". When her rant ends, he just looks at her funny and says "Motard?"note Motard is Marine slang for a grossly overeager squad member - motivated retard, in short
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Titus / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Titus / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Ken and Erin got chances to narrate the episode from the Neutral Space (Ken narrated on "The Pendulum," where Titus is in a coma following a racecar crash while Erin narrated on "Bachelor Party," where Titus and his friends help a pregnant single mother deliver a baby at a grungy diner). If the show had continued, they would have had episodes with Dave and Tommy in the Neutral Space.
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Titus / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
Titus / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: Most episodes feature a handful of flashbacks, but the main story is in the present day story. "Errr" focuses mostly on a story Titus is telling Amy about his efforts to woo Erin back in high school.
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Titus / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
Titus / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: In one episode, Titus's girlfriend's niece and ward Amy is distraught over her breakup with "Charlie." After an episode-long flashback to the title character's high school days, Titus' girlfriend shows "Charlie" in. It's a girl.
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Titus / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Titus / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: In the episode where Ken's narrating, Chris is in a coma on life support. Ken makes an impassioned plea to the heavens, swearing to give up drinking, smoking, and womanizing if his boy will just wake up...then waits about 10 seconds, shrugs, and goes, "Well, I tried," and lights up a cigarette. In Episode Eleven, Titus humiliates his dad and starts joking at him. Then, in the middle of Ken's stuttering rebuttals, he suddenly goes into cardiac arrest, while the doctors come rushing in to help him In "Red Asphalt", Titus and the crew are being stalked by a gun-toting motorist after a bout of road rage exchanges. The gang's call to 911 is played in the neutral space, where it's initially played for laughs as they fail miserably at it ("Is this going to be on TV, 'cause if so, I'd like to send out a shout-out to Suzy!"). Then:
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Titus / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Titus / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Erin's teenage niece Amy first showed up in "Deprogramming Erin" in the second season mostly as part of Erin's family. She later showed up in "Hard Ass" where she stayed with them temporarily and was found dealing drugs. The third season had Titus and Erin officially become her guardian when it was made clear her home life was very destructive. Tiffany the waitress in the original stand-up act was simply the girl Titus slept with when he and Erin broke up for a day. In this show she shows up several times afterwards, once with a pregnancy scare that it might be Titus' baby and later was dating Tommy for an episode.
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Titus / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Titus / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Mentioned in the DVD Commentary that they always tried to work in one particular joke three times. Dave's breath spray in "Tommy's Not Gay" is an example. Taken to its logical extreme in which the trope is used three times in conjunction, showing the process of his father seducing (using the same "Heaven is missing its most beautiful angel!" line with a Twinkle Smile), maligning ("You're worse than the last one!" with the twinkle provided by his beer can), and divorcing three different women (the twinkle provided by the heavy object chucked at Ken's head by the departing women). There's a fourth constant, with Ken yelling "Duck, boy!" on the last one - but it's subverted as Teen!Christopher takes the heavy object to the head, with Ken chastising him over always needing to be told to duck by that point.
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Titus / int_a7e85535	type	Autobiographical Role
Titus / int_a7e85535	comment	Autobiographical Role: While parts are fictionalized for the sake of comedy, the show's overall story is overtly based on Christopher's real life, and he plays himself, while his friends and family are played by other actors.
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Titus / int_a8593e70	type	Real Time
Titus / int_a8593e70	comment	Real Time: With few exceptions, each episode's main story took place in real time on one set. If not, then in a close time frame (like an afternoon). They kept up the energy by using the neutral space for flashbacks and imagine spots.
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Titus / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Titus / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Several of Erin's outfits, especially in season 3, had her breasts more out than in. Justified in that Cynthia Watros was pregnant for a couple episodes of season two (it was hidden, naturally) and had just given birth in between seasons two and three.
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Titus / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Titus / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Titus took this trope, turned it up to eleven, and played it for both Laughs and Drama.
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Titus / int_b4a44588	type	Tough Love
Titus / int_b4a44588	comment	Tough Love: Ken Titus speciality. Titus tries it on Dave on the episode "Into Thin Air".
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Titus / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Titus / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: On "The Perfect Thanksgiving," Ken Titus reprimands Erin's dad, Merritt, for physically abusing his son, Michael (telling him that hitting Michael doesn't make him a man; it makes him a "drunken Irish loser!"). Slides right into Hypocritical Humor when Ken berates Titus for jumping a dangerous criminal (Michael) in front of two cops, then informs Merritt that emotional damage is much more effective at keeping your kids in line. The person who has to be held back when Bill is caught by Titus beating Juanita for arguing with him? Ken. It took the three guys who were ready to hand Bill his ass a minute prior to hold him back.
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Titus / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
Titus / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: The point of the show, best encapsulated in this exchange from Season 2.
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Titus / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Titus / int_b707726f	comment	On "The Perfect Thanksgiving," Ken Titus reprimands Erin's dad, Merritt, for physically abusing his son, Michael (telling him that hitting Michael doesn't make him a man; it makes him a "drunken Irish loser!"). Slides right into Hypocritical Humor when Ken berates Titus for jumping a dangerous criminal (Michael) in front of two cops, then informs Merritt that emotional damage is much more effective at keeping your kids in line.
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Titus / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Titus / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Titus being asked which parent he wanted to stay with. Subverted when Ken's fiancee demands he make her father (who was currently slumped over in a nearby chair) the Best Man rather than Titus. Ken makes the decision easily, rationalizing that "She does sex with me".
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Titus / int_bc21c08f	type	My Life Flashed Before My Eyes
Titus / int_bc21c08f	comment	My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: Subverted - Titus' consists solely of his father calling him "Wussy!" at three stages of his life.
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Titus / int_bc37d80d	type	So Proud of You
Titus / int_bc37d80d	comment	So Proud of You: The one time Papa Titus told Christopher that he was proud of him after he did a good job repainting his dad's truck, Chistopher was so taken aback by it that he thought Ken was actually dying.
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Titus / int_bdf0640e	type	You're Not My Father
Titus / int_bdf0640e	comment	You're Not My Father: Parodied in an Imagine Spot when Titus is asked how he'd react if Ken were gay.
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Titus / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
Titus / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Deconstructed or averted, depending on the episode. On "The Last Noelle," Titus told of how every woman he dated was either unfaithful (like Dakota, who made out with a busboy) or mentally deranged (Taylor, who was so depressed over her dead dog that she cut Titus's hair in his sleep, Chastity, a Satan worshiper with telekinetic powers, and Noelle, a seemingly sweet girl who threatened to kill Titus if he ever left her or looked at other women). Erin explains that the only reason he ever stayed with those women was because he was secretly attracted to women who were as mentally ill as his mom. Noelle was an especially notable case because of being the name of the episode, she would physically beat him up and then apologize with aggressive sexuality. This had a massive emasculating effect on him, ashamed of being beaten up by her and then ashamed he was so easily manipulated with sex. Only his dad knew what was going on and preferred wanting the neighbors to think he was an alcoholic. Titus only went to her funeral because he needed some degree of closure, mostly admitting to himself that what she did was not right. The episode where Titus and Erin try to have their wedding without any members of their respective dysfunctional families coming had Titus, Dave, Ken, and even the priest threatening to kill Juanita's fiance after hearing that he slapped her for not taking her medication. Juanita's response: She shoots him. In the next episode ("The Trial"), Juanita is acquitted of all charges, but ends up taking Ken and the judge hostage because she was sick of Titus condoning her abusive behavior to the men in her life. Tommy had a restraining order on him from an ex-girlfriend because he tried surprising her in her room naked. The group learned that she was claiming Tommy tried to rape her, while the truth was they were already having regular sex and she was doubting the relationship because he was too clingy, using the "naked surprise" as a scapegoat. Titus points out that using a rape accusation and restraining order instead of actually breaking up with someone properly is a horrible thing to do.
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Titus / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Titus / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Dave is prone to this.
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Titus / int_c37a7fd9	type	No, You
Titus / int_c37a7fd9	comment	No, You: In "The Pendulum" Tommy is too upset and responds to Ken's common insult with "No! You are gay!"
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Titus / int_c631f304	type	We Want Our Jerk Back!
Titus / int_c631f304	comment	We Want Our Jerk Back!: "Intervention" centered around getting Ken to resume drinking after he'd stopped.
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Titus / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Titus / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Noelle was an especially notable case because of being the name of the episode, she would physically beat him up and then apologize with aggressive sexuality. This had a massive emasculating effect on him, ashamed of being beaten up by her and then ashamed he was so easily manipulated with sex. Only his dad knew what was going on and preferred wanting the neighbors to think he was an alcoholic. Titus only went to her funeral because he needed some degree of closure, mostly admitting to himself that what she did was not right.
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Titus / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Titus / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Subverted. In a flashback one of Ken's past wives says that she's breaking up with him and is "taking everything with me" when she shows up with a bomb strapped to her waist. Ken asks her if she can at least get him a beer. She obliges and promptly blows up in the kitchen.
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Titus / int_cf083392	type	Defensive "What?"
Titus / int_cf083392	comment	Defensive "What?": A Running Gag on the show, especially in the flashbacks of Titus's childhood where Ken does something to humiliate Titus and/or Dave, a stranger stares at Ken in shock, eliciting this response from Ken.
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Titus / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Titus / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: Downplayed. It does exist, but social service workers are universally portrayed as either incompetent or actively malicious. At best, they're making a bad situation even worse. The Hilariously Abusive Childhood that Christopher went through is played for humor more than drama, but it's shown to be something Chris just had to grin and bear more often than not.
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Titus / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Titus / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: The season 2 episode 'Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!'. The editor of a national magazine looks over the car that Titus, Dave and Tommy are presenting and is more impressed with the paint job than anything else. Titus ends up claiming that he did all the work, getting on Dave and Tommy's bad side. They respond by dismantling the car, with Erin mockingly asking him to use the bikini-clad models at the other cars to help him put it back together, throwing a remark that he made back in his face. Even Papa Titus gets in on it, saying he'll recognize Titus's face on the latest issue of 'Screw Your Friends Weekly.
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Titus / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Titus / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: As stated, Dave. Justified in that he is also The Stoner and most of what he says could be the marijuana talking.
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Titus / int_dccc5309	type	Do with Him as You Will
Titus / int_dccc5309	comment	Do with Him as You Will: After Titus and some of his friends have cornered Amy's rapist in a high school bathroom, the principal enters, saying he's going to call the police. However, the principal follows with "call me when I'm done," giving Titus and company permission to wail on the rapist. While the beatdown isn't shown on-screen, it's implied that the guy got the hell beat out of him.
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Titus / int_e062bcc4	type	Sink or Swim Mentor
Titus / int_e062bcc4	comment	Sink or Swim Mentor: Papa Titus throws Dave into the water to teach him how to swim. When he turns out to be too much of a "wussy", he throws Titus in to "save [his] brother." Then he eats Titus' sandwich. The kids were around 10 at the time.
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Titus / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Titus / int_e34400ab	comment	Something interesting but, for all of the gay jokes on the show (mostly centered on Tommy being Ambiguously Gay according to Titus's dad), the two executive producers Brian Hargrove and Jack Kenny were gay themselves. "Tommy's Not Gay" even won a GLAAD award for its hilarious, yet realistic approach to homosexuality and homophobia.
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Titus / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Titus / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: A literal one, as the pilot had Dave refer to "The Fellatio Incident" - cut to Titus in the Neutral Space bluntly stating "Episode 11."
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Titus / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
Titus / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": Christopher went to an ex-girlfriend's funeral not because he was saddened, but because he wanted to make sure she was really dead. Considering how he introduces her at the beginning of the series, with a "Psycho Bitch Cam" punching him in the face.
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Titus / int_e598d4ac	type	Innocent Inaccurate
Titus / int_e598d4ac	comment	Innocent Inaccurate: On "Locking Up Mom," Titus tells about the time he was five and watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with his mom. When the scene of Jack Nicholson's character getting electroshock therapy came on, Juanita started crying and told Titus it reminded her of her life. And, being five years old, Titus was stunned...because he never knew his mom had won an Oscar.
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Titus / int_e68b72	type	The Load
Titus / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: Titus frequently had to bail Dave out of whatever crap he had gotten himself into.
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Titus / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
Titus / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Titus lists off the things needed for a successful intervention for their father:
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Titus / int_efb8f982	type	Mistaken for Terrorist
Titus / int_efb8f982	comment	Mistaken for Terrorist: Titus having a nervous breakdown about his deceased Mom after smelling a turkey dinner (Juanita, despite her mental illness, was a Supreme Chef and knew how to make a great Thanksgiving meal) and rambling about how he's connected to his mom from turkey (the food, not the country), Dave with a towel on his head and speaking unintelligibly after brushing his teeth, Tommy emphatically saying "a la" without adding "chicken" or "king" (since the flight attendant wouldn't stop calling the meal "Chicken King")...perfect recipe.
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Titus / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Titus / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: How Erin helped Titus win a street race.
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Titus / int_f362cf07	type	Mercy Lead
Titus / int_f362cf07	comment	Mercy Lead: Spoofed. In "The Protector" once the man who molested Amy is exposed, Amy is about to go to town on him with a baseball bat. Then the school principal chimes in...
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Titus / int_f4a3140c	type	Survival Mantra
Titus / int_f4a3140c	comment	Survival Mantra: Erin's "HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY..."
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Titus / int_f6a9024b	type	Altar the Speed
Titus / int_f6a9024b	comment	Altar the Speed: Titus and Erin try to get married before any of their dysfunctional relatives arrived. It fails - Hilarity Ensues.
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Titus / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Titus / int_f85354eb	comment	Tommy had a restraining order on him from an ex-girlfriend because he tried surprising her in her room naked. The group learned that she was claiming Tommy tried to rape her, while the truth was they were already having regular sex and she was doubting the relationship because he was too clingy, using the "naked surprise" as a scapegoat. Titus points out that using a rape accusation and restraining order instead of actually breaking up with someone properly is a horrible thing to do.
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Titus / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Titus / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Every episode had either actual fire or had the threat of someone or something being set on fire, including the story of how Christopher got drunk during a school beach party and fell into a bonfire (which actually happened to him, according to the comedy special, "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding.") In fact, the final shot of the series finale uses fire. Titus pulls the chair used in the Neutral Space to the middle of a street and sets it on fire, then starts walking away while whistling the show's theme tune. In "Hard Ass," (the episode where Amy stays over with Erin and Titus) there's a running flashback gag where every time Ken finds teenage Titus's marijuana stash, Ken punishes teenage Titus, then keeps the marijuana for himself.
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Titus / int_fb006999	type	Wham Episode
Titus / int_fb006999	comment	Wham Episode: "Episode 11," last the of season one. Ken has a heart attack and crashes while driving and blames Titus for raising his stress level. They find out separately the real reason involved Auto Erotica that could result in a suspended license, and take revenge with a prank. Said prank and the reveal that they knew gives Ken a heart attack for real, after a tense few seconds he is revived but Titus is unsettled enough to leave the light bulb on. "The Pit," second to last episode of season two (third in airing order). After finally getting his drag car working for the big race and getting promotion for the shop, Titus drives it down the track and wins... only to have it burst into flames. The episode ends in the neutral space, with only the wrecked car and the light bulb in frame as we hear EMTs move a nearly-dead Titus into an ambulance. "The Visit," third to last episode of season three (fourth in airing order). Juanita shows up at Titus' home, claiming to have killed someone. Titus is trying to keep things clear as a social worker visits the same day regarding Amy. After Titus, Dave, Tommy, and Papa Titus have Juanita cornered in the closet — Erin comes in with a call from the Missouri police, stating that Juanita was found dead four hours ago from a suicide. Titus doesn't believe Erin until he opens the closet and finds no one there. His last words in the Neutral Space is that his mom isn't crazy anymore, but he thinks he is.
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Titus / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Titus / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Ken is asking after some old friends at the police station in "Dave Moves Out". In "Locking Up Mom", Titus relates how he was watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with his mother when he was seven, who burst into tears when the electroshock therapy scene happened, explaining to a speechless Christopher that it reminded her of her life. Titus was stunned...because he never knew his mom was nominated for an Oscar (like Jack Nicholson was for that scene).
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Titus / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
Titus / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: A lot of the show's humor makes fun of things considered too cruel or serious to be mocked. Something interesting but, for all of the gay jokes on the show (mostly centered on Tommy being Ambiguously Gay according to Titus's dad), the two executive producers Brian Hargrove and Jack Kenny were gay themselves. "Tommy's Not Gay" even won a GLAAD award for its hilarious, yet realistic approach to homosexuality and homophobia. Cynthia Watros said that nearly every episode she would approach Christopher and ask "This actually happened to you?" and hug him.
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Titus / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Titus / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: A lot of jokes set up in the neutral space (or on a part before the cut to the neutral space) have a punchline either after the neutral space cut or within the neutral space. Example: On the Christmas episode, "Houseboat," after Bob climbs back on the boat, he mumbles, "I have a tiny fish in my pants." After the cutaway to the Neutral Space (in which Titus is overjoyed that his father now learns the true meaning of Christmas and will teach him next year that "...heart attacks are not like women. You just can't keep having them"), Bob can be seen setting said fish free. Two episode titles seem very out of place: Episode Eleven and Episode 27, which are not actually episodes number 11 or 27 (They're numbers 9 and 21). The titles (and entire episodes) themselves are the punchlines to brick jokes set up by a couple of throwaway lines said in the neutral space in previous episodes.
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