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227 (1985–90) was a sitcom on NBC starring Marla Gibbs as Mary Jenkins, resident of an apartment building in a working-class neighborhood in Washington, DC. Also starring were Hal Williams as her husband Lester, and a young Regina King as daughter Brenda. Other residents of the apartment were Mary's friends Rose (Alaina Reed Hall) and Pearl (Helen Martin), as well as Mary's frenemy Sandra (Jackée Harry).
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Parents for a Day
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Parents for a Day: Dylan and Travis take care of a baby abandoned in Travis' limo in "A Pampered Tale".
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Eiffel Tower Effect
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Eiffel Tower Effect: The opening credits imply that the apartment is two blocks away from the Washington Monument. There are homes near the National Mall, but even in the 80's they would have been way too expensive for the working-class main characters. Also, the address 227 Lexington Place, N.E., if it existed, would be miles away from the Mall; Lexington Place N.E. is located between 6th and 7th Streets NE, with Stanton Park being the closest landmark.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Phyllis Diller in "The Class of '90".
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Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: The Social Security Administration clerk in "Check Snub" who - thanks to an inaccurate computer entry - is convinced Pearl is dead.
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Cousin Oliver
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Cousin Oliver: Countess Vaughn as Alexandria, an obnoxious Child Prodigy who moves in with the Jenkins family during Season 4.
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"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune
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"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Marla Gibbs sang the theme song.
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Like Father, Like Son
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Like Father, Like Son: The mother-daughter equivalent, in "Far from the Tree"; Sandra's mother tells her that she was just like Sandra when she was younger, but that she had to change when she married a minister.
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Alpha Bitch
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Alpha Bitch: In early episodes, Sandra was basically this for the apartment complex, although she was not without her softer moments. In later episodes, she became less snobbish and more dopey. Mary's later nemesis Emma Johnson plays this straighter, even with her own Girl Posse.
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May–December Romance
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May–December Romance: Sandra dates a much older man in "For Richer, For Poorer".
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Promotion to Opening Titles
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Promotion to Opening Titles: Pearl and Calvin were promoted in Season 2. Dylan was promoted in Season 5.
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Rogue Juror
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Rogue Juror: In "Trial and Error", everyone decides to vote the suspect guilty, except for Sandra, who had a reasonable doubt and convinces Mary that she has a point. The man turned out to be innocent anyway.
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Non-Indicative Name
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Non-Indicative Name: Diminutive Gary Coleman plays a gangster named Mr. Big in the episode "Knock It Off".
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Parental Abandonment
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Parental Abandonment: Calvin lives with his grandmother Pearl because his mother is dead and his father is in the military.
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Mistaken for Exhibit
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Mistaken for Exhibit: In "You Gotta Have Art", Mary helps clean up at Eva's art gallery and inadvertently leaves the cleaning supplies on a pedestal. It becomes an art sensation.
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It Will Never Catch On
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It Will Never Catch On: Pearl once mentioned she knew a man from Kentucky who wanted to open a restaurant after leaving the military, to which she said, "Who would buy fried chicken from a white man?!"
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Flipping the Bird
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Flipping the Bird: Presumably the response from the garbage men, after Mary heckles them in the pilot. Also alluded to in the episode "Slam Dunked", when Lester takes Calvin to a basketball game, only to be shocked at the rude behavior of the star player. He states that he covered the boy's ears to block out the curse words he was using, but to no avail—"He used sign language too."
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Annoying Patient
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Annoying Patient: Lester is this in one episode, irritating Mary so much that she finally storms out. Luckily, their daughter Brenda is there, because things take a darker turn—his symptoms worsen and she actually has to call an ambulance to take him to the hospital, because it turns out he has appendicitis, which can be fatal if not treated immediately.
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Poorly Disguised Pilot
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Poorly-Disguised Pilot: The Season 2 episode "The Audit" seems to spend a bit too much time on the patrons of a diner, one of whom is an IRS auditor (played by Ron Glass) who's dating Sandra and auditing the Jenkins. Season 3's "The New Neighbors" similarly spends a lot of time on the Gonzales family, who move into the building. The pilot to the failed spinoff Jackée aired separately from the series, but it may look like this since it's now included in 227's syndication package.
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Actor Allusion
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Actor Allusion: John Houseman plays Sandra's lawyer in "See You in Court". He famously played a law professor in The Paper Chase. In "The Big Deal", guest star Sherman Hemsley sees Marla Gibbs' character Mary cleaning her apartment, assumes she's a maid, and tries to get her to work for him. On their previous series together The Jeffersons, Gibbs played Hemsley's maid.
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Sandra legitimately laments this after a jealous Mary shows up at Lester's construction office, where she's been hired as a secretary and interferes to the point where she gets fed up and quits despite the fact that she's doing a good job. She tells Mary that it's not the first time something like this has happened and that she's sick of it—for all her flirtatious ways, she's never pursued a married man.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Julian shows he's this in "Guess Who's Not Coming to Christmas" by entertaining orphans for Christmas.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Throughout the episode "Low Noon", the music from various famous westerns are played, causing the characters to react in confusion as to where it's coming from. In particular, when the sheriff states that a villainous character will be arriving at "High Noon", the soundtrack from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" plays, prompting the perplexed sheriff to say "That's the wrong theme."
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Obnoxious In-Laws
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Obnoxious In-Laws: Mary and Lester's respective parents actually adore their children-in-law. It's each other they can't stand.
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One Head Taller
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One Head Taller: Warren (Rose's boyfriend and eventual husband) towers over her (not to mention everyone else in the cast).
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Formerly Fat
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Formerly Fat: One episode features a visit from a former Alpha Bitch who repeatedly comments on how much weight Mary's lost since high school, with other comments on how unpopular she was. Of course, given that said character was also Lester's jealous ex-girlfriend, she was probably just being petty.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: The end of "Rich Kid", where Calvin's drug-dealing friend is murdered.
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Faux Horrific
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Faux Horrific: Lester runs for his life when Mary goes to put on her "grass skirt and coconut bra" in "Knock It Off".
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Sassy Black Woman
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Sassy Black Woman: Could probably apply to most of the women on this show.
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Flashback
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Flashback: The residents recount how they first arrived at 227 in "House Number".
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Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
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Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Pearl is mistakenly considered dead by the Social Security office in "Check Snub".
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Game Show Appearance
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Game Show Appearance: Mary and Sandra compete against each other on Wheel of Fortune in Season 2. Neither wins. The residents of 227 compete on Family Feud in Season 4. Sandra appears on Love Connection (of course) in Season 4's "A Date to Remember".
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Recurring Character
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Recurring Character: Ray the mailman, and Rose's boyfriend (and later husband) Warren.
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Broken Treasure
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Broken Treasure: In "Blues", Brenda accidentally scratches her grandfather's prized blues record. After her parents find another copy, Brenda ends up breaking that one as well.
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Friendly Enemy
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Friendly Enemy: Sandra and Mary.
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Air-Vent Passageway
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Air-Vent Passageway: Pee-wee Herman uses one to escape from the locked storage room in "Toyland", but the burglar locks him in again after Pee-wee asked him for change for the pay phone.
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Courtroom Episode
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Courtroom Episode: "The Handwriting on the Wall" and "See You in Court"
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Nosy Neighbor
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Nosy Neighbor: All of them, to varying degrees. Mary decides for herself to interfere in Sandra's plans to become a single mother when Sandra's reproductive plans are absolutely none of her business.
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Mistaken Confession
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Mistaken Confession: Lester shows up at Mary's hotel room in order to surprise her. He's shocked to find men's clothing in her closet (which she bought for him). When she returns to the room, he holds up one of the shirts, asking her, "How could you do this to me?", assuming she's having an affair. Thinking he's complaining about the clothes and not understanding why he's upset, she blithely declares, "Honey, I do it all the time! Whenever I shop, whenever I travel! I thought you liked it!"
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Parent with New Paramour
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Parent with New Paramour: Lester's dad in "The Class of '90" shows up to Brenda's graduation with a new girlfriend. Lester spends most of the episode being quite rude to the woman and even trying to find ways to prevent the two from sleeping together. He comes around after his father assures him that he hasn't forgotten his wife, he simply doesn't want to spend his remaining years alone.
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Only One Name
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Only One Name: Jackée Harry started going by her first name only during the show's run.
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"Double, Double" Title
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"Double, Double" Title: One episode is titled "Author, Author".
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Jerkass Has a Point: Mary's relentless meddling in Pearl's engagement is annoying and intrusive, but she's right in that it's ridiculous for Pearl to get engaged to a man within one night and married within a week.
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Christmas Episode
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Christmas Episode: "Mary's Christmas" in Season 1, "The Night They Arrested Santa Claus" in Season 4, and "Guess Who's Not Coming to Christmas" in Season 5.
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Token White
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Token White: Barry Sobel (as Dylan) was the show's only white cast member. When the show first started, Cora was one of the few white tenants in the building.
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Put on a Bus
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Put on a Bus: Alexandria left before the end of Season 4.
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December–December Romance
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December–December Romance: Pearl meets a man at a singles bar and gets engaged to him that very night.
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Celebrity Star
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Celebrity Star: Bobby Brown, Paul Reubens (as Pee-wee Herman), Run–D.M.C., and The Temptations were some of the big stars that had episodes revolve around their appearance.
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Auto Erotica
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Auto Erotica: Sandra makes out with her date in a car in "The Handwriting on the Wall".
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They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
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They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Twisted and inverted. One episode saw Mary Jenkins get after her teen-aged daughter, Brenda, after she refers to a neighbor — building floozy Sandra Clark (Jackee Harry) — by her first name. Even though "Mrs. Clark" freely allowed her teen-aged neighbors to call her by her first name ("Call me Sandra!"), Mary's rules were otherwise. She has a similar shocked reaction when observing Dylan's class and hearing them call him by his first name, despite the fact that he too has permitted this.
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Celebrity Paradox
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Celebrity Paradox: In "The Class of '90", Phyllis Diller guest stars as a woman having plastic surgery, and complains because they made her look like... Phyllis Diller.
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Reckless Gun Usage
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Reckless Gun Usage: Pee-wee Herman playing with the burglar's REAL gun as if it's a toy, in "Toyland".
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Sandra brings a man dressed as Santa to Mary's Christmas party to make Alexandria believe in him, only for him to be a thief who steals the presents.
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227 / int_7fbb2a3
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type
Straight Man
 227 / int_83b464fb
comment
Mary was always the Straight Man to the other women, but, as the show went on, she became much more willing to come up with a Zany Scheme or let something go to her head, causing Lester to usually be the Straight Man to her.
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227 / int_83b464fb
 227 / int_8af2a61f
type
Camping Episode
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comment
Camping Episode: "Babes in the Woods"
 227 / int_8af2a61f
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1.0
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227 / int_8af2a61f
 227 / int_92163e88
type
Locked in a Room
 227 / int_92163e88
comment
Locked in a Room: Mary, Lester, Sandra, and Pee-wee Herman get locked in a toy store's storage room by a burglar in "Toyland". The residents get locked in the laundry room in "House Number".
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227 / int_92163e88
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Dom Com
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comment
Dom Com
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227 / int_9acd7704
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type
A Day in the Limelight
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comment
A Day in the Limelight: Sandra, in the Jackée pilot.
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227 / int_9c8701b5
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type
Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket
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comment
Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket: In "The Wheel of Misfortune", Sandra thinks the instructions for preparing noodles (which is basically adding boiling water) are too complicated.
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227 / int_a17dac32
 227 / int_a30c287
type
Good Parents
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comment
Good Parents: Lester and Mary
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1.0
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227 / int_a30c287
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Gender-Blender Name
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Gender-Blender Name: Toots, the deli owner (played by Red Buttons) in "The Audit".
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1.0
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227 / int_a536f3a3
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type
Sweet Polly Oliver
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Sweet Polly Oliver: "Men's Club" has Mary and Sandra dressing as men to get into an exclusive club to see Lester get an award. Mary disguises herself as a man when trying to get Run–D.M.C. to play Brenda's prom in "The Class of '89".
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227 / int_a8217606
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Irrevocable Message
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Irrevocable Message: In "There Go the Clowns", Mary calls Lester's boss to chew him out about not giving him a raise and ends up leaving the message on his answering machine. Lester comes home minutes later and announces that he got the raise. Mary and her friend then sneak into the boss's house to retrieve it. After another sitcom misadventure, they end up confessing what they did to Lester's boss. He understands...and reveals he doesn't have an answering machine.
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1.0
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227 / int_a89b3504
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Preacher's Kid
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comment
Preacher's Kid: Sandra
 227 / int_ab48ea8
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1.0
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1.0
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227 / int_ab48ea8
 227 / int_b8e4684a
type
Demand Overload
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comment
Demand Overload: In-universe, Mary is unable to fulfill a large order for her custom-made pillows in "Pillow Talk".
 227 / int_b8e4684a
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1.0
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1.0
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227 / int_b8e4684a
 227 / int_bcfc7495
type
Cowboy Episode
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comment
Cowboy Episode: Season 3's "Low Noon", a fantasy Mary has about life in the Old West, and on the final season, the entire gang goes to a dude ranch for a two-part episode. The ladies end up kidnapped by water rustlers and the men set out to find them.
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1.0
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1.0
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hasFeature
227 / int_bcfc7495
 227 / int_be6f7ae7
type
Brief Accent Imitation
 227 / int_be6f7ae7
comment
Brief Accent Imitation: At the end of "Gone Fishing", Mary imitates the fake Jamaican accent Julian used while in disguise at his own memorial service.
 227 / int_be6f7ae7
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1.0
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227 / int_be6f7ae7
 227 / int_bec0417c
type
Happily Married
 227 / int_bec0417c
comment
Happily Married: Again, Lester and Mary
 227 / int_bec0417c
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1.0
 227 / int_bec0417c
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1.0
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227 / int_bec0417c
 227 / int_bf1255fa
type
Really Gets Around
 227 / int_bf1255fa
comment
Really Gets Around: Sandra, whose main goal (if not her only goal) in life involves finding and dating a man.
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1.0
 227 / int_bf1255fa
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1.0
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227 / int_bf1255fa
 227 / int_bf9163d9
type
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
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comment
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: In the fifth season, with Eva (dyed blonde), Mary (dark brunette), and Rose (dyed red/auburn).
 227 / int_bf9163d9
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1.0
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1.0
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227 / int_bf9163d9
 227 / int_c0d32460
type
Sexy Secretary
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comment
Sexy Secretary: Sandra. Unusually for this trope, she's actually very efficient.
 227 / int_c0d32460
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1.0
 227 / int_c0d32460
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1.0
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227 / int_c0d32460
 227 / int_c2ecf3b8
type
Show Some Leg
 227 / int_c2ecf3b8
comment
Show Some Leg: Sandra tries to distract the burglar with sex appeal in "Toyland".
 227 / int_c2ecf3b8
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1.0
 227 / int_c2ecf3b8
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1.0
 227
hasFeature
227 / int_c2ecf3b8
 227 / int_c33ba0a8
type
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
 227 / int_c33ba0a8
comment
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Kia Goodwin (who played Rose's daughter Tiffany) was a cast member in Season 1, was Demoted to Extra in Season 2, and by Season 4 was completely gone from the show. Even when Rose got married to Warren in Season 5, she was nowhere to be found.
 227 / int_c33ba0a8
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1.0
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227 / int_c33ba0a8
 227 / int_c5a5a171
type
Unplanned Staycation
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comment
Unplanned Staycation: In one episode, a harsh snowstorm knocks out heat to almost every apartment and ruins Mary and Lester's vacation plans to Hawaii. As their apartment is the only one with working heat, the residents of the titular apartment building work together to give them an indoor vacation, complete with games, dancing and food, after having butted heads all throughout the storm.
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227 / int_c5a5a171
 227 / int_c6fb9ebc
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Piss-Take Rap
 227 / int_c6fb9ebc
comment
Piss-Take Rap: In "Rapture", in order to help a teen neighbor during an upcoming history test, Mary and Lester decide to motivate him by rapping. Lester specifies that he hates rap but is willing to do it to help his friend, coming out dressed like Run-DMC (or possibly Sir Mix-a-Lot).
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227 / int_c6fb9ebc
 227 / int_c87737d9
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Vacation Episode
 227 / int_c87737d9
comment
Vacation Episode: The Jenkins and their friends take a trip to a dude ranch in "How the West Was Fun".
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227 / int_c87737d9
 227 / int_caa28b82
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Cloudcuckoolander
 227 / int_caa28b82
comment
Cloudcuckoolander: Eva Rawley
 227 / int_caa28b82
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227 / int_caa28b82
 227 / int_cc7a0386
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Dating Service Disaster
 227 / int_cc7a0386
comment
Dating Service Disaster: In "Matchmakers", Rose turns herself into someone she's not for a video dating service. Turns out her date did the same thing.
 227 / int_cc7a0386
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1.0
 227 / int_cc7a0386
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227 / int_cc7a0386
 227 / int_cceab1c4
type
Special Aesop Victim
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comment
Special Aesop Victim: One episode has Calvin becoming friends with a kid who was selling drugs. When Mary finds out, she tries to warn the boy's mother who doesn't believe her. Later on Mary and the other adults take the kids to a drug prevention meeting which they don't take seriously. That is until the mother comes in and tells them her son was murdered from a dealing gone wrong.
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227 / int_cceab1c4
 227 / int_cf231d54
type
Cool Teacher
 227 / int_cf231d54
comment
Cool Teacher: Dylan, who doesn't give tests or homework and allows his students to call him by his first name. He gets fired after Mary complains to the principal.
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 227 / int_cf231d54
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1.0
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227 / int_cf231d54
 227 / int_d0caee40
type
Uncanny Family Resemblance
 227 / int_d0caee40
comment
Uncanny Family Resemblance: Jackée Harry plays both Sandra and Sandra's cousin Conchita in the episode "Double Your Pleasure".
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1.0
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1.0
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227 / int_d0caee40
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type
Cool Old Lady
 227 / int_d2b59903
comment
Cool Old Lady: Pearl Shay
 227 / int_d2b59903
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1.0
 227 / int_d2b59903
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1.0
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227 / int_d2b59903
 227 / int_d5d265ec
type
Housewife
 227 / int_d5d265ec
comment
Housewife: Mary, of course.
 227 / int_d5d265ec
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1.0
 227 / int_d5d265ec
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227 / int_d5d265ec
 227 / int_d7fc9fd0
type
Vitriolic Best Buds
 227 / int_d7fc9fd0
comment
Vitriolic Best Buds: Sandra and Mary can't stand each other, but seem to hang out nearly as much as Mary does with her genuine friends Rose and Pearl.
 227 / int_d7fc9fd0
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1.0
 227 / int_d7fc9fd0
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227 / int_d7fc9fd0
 227 / int_d9ee7048
type
Spin-Off
 227 / int_d9ee7048
comment
Spin-Off: Jackée, but it didn't make it past the pilot stage.
 227 / int_d9ee7048
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1.0
 227 / int_d9ee7048
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227 / int_d9ee7048
 227 / int_da0eeab5
type
Breakout Character
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comment
Breakout Character: Sandra. She grew popularity with audiences and was going to star in the failed spin-off named after her actress.
 227 / int_da0eeab5
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 227 / int_da0eeab5
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227 / int_da0eeab5
 227 / int_dbb23b5f
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Spinoff Sendoff
 227 / int_dbb23b5f
comment
Spinoff Sendoff: Pearl appeared in the Jackée pilot.
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227 / int_dbb23b5f
 227 / int_dc579c91
type
Contrived Coincidence
 227 / int_dc579c91
comment
Contrived Coincidence: In "A Date to Remember", Sandra's date from Love Connection just happens to be the ex-husband of the banker Lester is trying to get a loan from - who flies into a rage when her ex is brought up.
 227 / int_dc579c91
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 227 / int_dc579c91
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227 / int_dc579c91
 227 / int_e0bc3cc3
type
The Perfectionist
 227 / int_e0bc3cc3
comment
The Perfectionist: Rose accuses Mary of being this, and wanting others to be like this, in the pilot.
 227 / int_e0bc3cc3
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1.0
 227 / int_e0bc3cc3
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1.0
 227
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227 / int_e0bc3cc3
 227 / int_e1f59bf0
type
Musical Episode
 227 / int_e1f59bf0
comment
Musical Episode: The Season 3 episode "Blues", after Brenda accidentally scratches her grandfather's prized blues record and later accidentally breaks the replacement, has various characters breaking into song over the various "bluesy" situations they're in. The episode "Low Noon" is similar, though the characters don't sing as often.
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227 / int_e1f59bf0
 227 / int_e303d198
type
Whole-Plot Reference
 227 / int_e303d198
comment
Whole-Plot Reference: "Play Christy for Me" is a take-off on Play Misty for Me, where Lester works as a DJ and gets suggestive calls from a woman named Christy.
 227 / int_e303d198
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1.0
 227 / int_e303d198
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227 / int_e303d198
 227 / int_e37f19
type
Disguised in Drag
 227 / int_e37f19
comment
Disguised in Drag: Warren, a cop, goes undercover as a woman in "Knock It Off", and gets mistaken for one by gangster Mr. Big. Lester dresses as a woman in order to sneak out of Mary's room while she's sequestered for jury duty in "Trial and Error". The new tenant in "Bull's Eye" is revealed to be a mystery writer who tests out his plots in real life to gauge people's reactions in order to maintain realism. One of the characters he tries out is a mysterious redhead in a trench coat.
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 227 / int_e5e6640b
type
Flanderization
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comment
Flanderization: Sandra was much more of a scheming vamp when the series began, was reasonably intelligent, and even dressed somewhat modestly. As time went on, her character became more of a man-hungry, airheaded bimbo, with the sexy dresses to match. Mary was always the Straight Man to the other women, but, as the show went on, she became much more willing to come up with a Zany Scheme or let something go to her head, causing Lester to usually be the Straight Man to her.
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1.0
 227 / int_e5e6640b
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227 / int_e5e6640b
 227 / int_e8e3807
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Aside Glance
 227 / int_e8e3807
comment
Aside Glance: Mary (or rather her character Lisa) does this throughout the episode "Play It Again, Stan" (a spoof of Casablanca), everytime Lester (or rather, his character Rick) says something stupid.
 227 / int_e8e3807
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 227 / int_e8e3807
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227 / int_e8e3807
 227 / int_eb6912
type
Pretty Fly for a White Guy
 227 / int_eb6912
comment
Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Dylan McMillan
 227 / int_eb6912
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1.0
 227 / int_eb6912
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227 / int_eb6912
 227 / int_efbd4c52
type
All Bikers are Hells Angels
 227 / int_efbd4c52
comment
All Bikers are Hells Angels: The motorcycle gang from "Flying Down to Leo's".
 227 / int_efbd4c52
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1.0
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1.0
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227 / int_efbd4c52
 227 / int_f38490bd
type
Incessant Music Madness
 227 / int_f38490bd
comment
Incessant Music Madness: In "House Number", Rose relates the story of when she first moved to 227 and one of the neighbors had a rock band that would not stop playing.
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 227 / int_f38490bd
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227 / int_f38490bd
 227 / int_f645ee0d
type
Never Win the Lottery
 227 / int_f645ee0d
comment
Never Win the Lottery: "Pick Six" has Mary scolding Rose and Pearl about wasting their money on buying lottery tickets, only to find that Mary herself bought a ticket, using their numbers. Pearl and Rose are rightfully upset, and Mary offers to split the winnings. Mary wins the lottery, but so did everyone in the building and over 13,000 others in the Washington, DC area! In the end, Mary's winnings were $266 and after splitting it with Rose and Pearl, only pocketed $88.67.
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 227 / int_f645ee0d
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227 / int_f645ee0d
 227 / int_f7d724e6
type
Santa's Existence Clause
 227 / int_f7d724e6
comment
Santa's Existence Clause: "The Night They Arrested Santa Claus" sees a crook dressed as Santa rob the main characters during their Christmas party. To help teach Alexandria the spirit of Christmas, the adults each get the idea to dress up like Santa—only to each get mistaken for the crook and arrested. Eventually, a guard with a white beard and twinkle in his eye brings in the real crook—calling him a disgrace to Santa, letting everyone else out of the cell, and quickly departing. Upon learning no such guard is on duty tonight, Lester wonders if the guy was actually Santa. He dismisses that as crazy, only for everyone to suddenly hear sleigh bells.
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227 / int_f7d724e6
 227 / int_f870d50
type
Consolation Prize
 227 / int_f870d50
comment
Consolation Prize: Mary's and Sandra's prizes after losing on Wheel of Fortune are noodles and wood varnish. On the Family Feud episode with Ray Combs, Sandra answers all the Fast Money questions with variations on "a man" and comes up with 0. When Lester's turn comes up, he answers "a home-cooked... cigarette" for a prisoner's last request and scores 199 points, and his team goes home with $995 instead of $5,000, and Ray reveals the number one answer was "a home-cooked meal", which Lester almost went with as the answer that would have given them the $5,000.
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227 / int_f870d50
 227 / int_f8e52439
type
Birthday Episode
 227 / int_f8e52439
comment
Birthday Episode: "Flying Down to Leo's" is Lester's.
 227 / int_f8e52439
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1.0
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227 / int_f8e52439
 227 / int_f9876f7e
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Faking the Dead
 227 / int_f9876f7e
comment
Faking the Dead: Julian fakes his death to prevent his ex-wife from obtaining 227 in "Gone Fishing".
 227 / int_f9876f7e
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1.0
 227 / int_f9876f7e
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227 / int_f9876f7e
 227 / int_fb4c41b4
type
"Friends" Rent Control
 227 / int_fb4c41b4
comment
"Friends" Rent Control: Rose refers to herself as a "housewife" despite being a widow, implying she doesn't have an outside job, and is somehow able to support her and Tiffany with whatever her late husband left her. Granted, after the pilot, she becomes the owner of 227, but nearly every episode also has her dealing with money issues surrounding the building.
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1.0
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227 / int_fb4c41b4
 227 / int_fdc4fab4
type
Depending on the Writer
 227 / int_fdc4fab4
comment
Depending on the Writer: As Sandra began to suffer from Flanderization, she would fluctuate between her previous personality and her newer characterization.
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227 / int_fdc4fab4
 227 / int_ff16efbf
type
Heroes Want Redheads
 227 / int_ff16efbf
comment
Heroes Want Redheads: Could apply to Warren (a cop) and Rose (whose hair was reddish at the time).
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Produce Pelting / int_36142806
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hasFeature
Rogue Juror / int_36142806
 227
hasFeature
Santa's Existence Clause / int_36142806
 227
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Sassy Black Woman / int_36142806
 227
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Special Aesop Victim / int_36142806
 227
hasFeature
Unplanned Staycation / int_36142806