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Wings is a Work Com that aired on NBC from 1990–97, created by Cheers producers (and future Frasier creators) David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee.Set at Tom Nevers Field on the island of Nantucket (part of Massachusetts), Wings focused on the complicated relationship between idealistic young pilot Joe Hackett (Tim Daly), owner of the struggling one-plane airline (or air dot) Sandpiper Air, and his oversexed, undermotivated brother Brian (Steven Weber).Other characters included Helen Chappel (Crystal Bernard), who works as the proprietor of the airport's lunch counter while Waiting for a Break as a professional cellist, a lifelong friend of both Hackett brothers and eventually Joe's wife; Lowell Mather (Thomas Haden Church), the lovably dumb airport mechanic; Fay Cochran (Rebecca Schull), a daffy retired flight attendant now working as Sandpiper Air's ticket clerk and flight announcer; and Roy Biggins (David Schramm), the greedy owner of rival carrier Aeromass. Later additions to the cast included sad-sack cab driver Antonio (after Tony Shalhoub scored in a small role as a waiter), who joined the cast in the third season and remained for the rest of the show's run; Alex Lambert (Farrah Forke), an ex-Army helicopter pilot who dated Brian for a while; Helen's neurotic sister Casey (Amy Yasbeck), who joined for the final three seasons after Forke left; and Budd Bronski (Brian Haley), brought in as a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for Lowell after Thomas Haden Church left at the end of the sixth season for a lead role on Ned & Stacey.Not related to the 1927 Academy Award winning film Wings (also produced by Paramount), Paul McCartney's '70s solo group, the final volume of the Nomes Trilogy, the Discovery Channel show about military airplanes which eventually spawned its own network (now known as the Military Channel) or Winged Humanoid. | |
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Faked Gift Acceptance | |
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Faked Gift Acceptance: Inverted in a strange way in "Crate Expectations". On Joe's birthday, he's talking on the phone with his girlfriend who sent him a gift of a Goya hat. While he's thanking her for the hat, we see Lowell in the background taking the hat out of the trash and trying it on. | |
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15 Minutes of Fame | |
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15 Minutes of Fame: In "Just Call Me Angel", Brian becomes a media sensation when he lands a commercial flight (on which he and Joe had been passengers) when the pilots fall ill. His celebrity vanishes almost instantly when everyone becomes obsessed instead with a cat who saved her owners from a house fire. Brian is extremely depressed over this, but Joe pulls him out of it by reminding him that while the rest of the world may no longer care, everyone who was on that flight will always remember his heroism. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Done from time to time. One example is when the Hacketts fly a charter plane for country music duo The Todds, a reference to the real life country act The Judds. | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg: In "The Taming of the Shrew", Fay reassures Helen that she is surrounded by a group of caring, nurturing friends who want to help her... and Roy. | |
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Hot Teacher | |
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Hot Teacher: Miss Jenkins has apparently been an object of lust for just about every male student she's ever had. She's played by Peggy Lipton from The Mod Squad, so it's not surprising. | |
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Scenery Censor | |
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The rest of the episode was one Scenery Censor gag to another, until their neighbors' perverted kid managed to get blackmail photos of them... cleaning the rain gutters in the nude. | |
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Bad Impressionists | |
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Bad Impressionists: Lowell attempts to do some impressions for Roy, all of which consist simply of him speaking in a slightly gruffer version of his normal voice and saying, "Hi, I'm (celebrity)!" | |
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Faking Amnesia | |
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Faking Amnesia: "Try to Remember the Night He Dismembered" has Roy feigning that he was hypnotized by Brian, claiming that he buried a huge sum of stolen money in his backyard. Pretending that he forgot everything that happened while he was hypnotized, he was secretly creating a Batman Gambit; the others would dig a hole in his backyard to make space for his new hot tub. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Lampshaded in "As Fate Would Have It". As the gang is flying over the ocean, a storm whips up and one of the plane's engines dies and the plane struggles to stay in the air. After jettisoning a bunch of the plane's seats, the plane levels itself out and the crisis seems to be over, until Helen opens her mouth. A more lighthearted version occurs in "The Houseguest". Antonio enters the terminal in a fantastic mood, beaming about how great his day has been so far and insisting that nothing can go wrong for him today. Then he sees Carlton Blanchard. | |
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Relationship Upgrade | |
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Relationship Upgrade: Joe and Helen get together for good at the beginning of Season 6 and marry at the end of that season. The ending of "The Love, Life, and Times of Joe and Helen" indicates to the audience that they will grow old together. | |
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The Dutiful Son | |
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The Dutiful Son: Joe. In the first episode Brian points out how Joe has remained on Nantucket instead of following his dreams. Later in "Joe Blows" Joe cracks under the pressure of a miserable day and leaves in a rage. | |
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Sibling Rivalry | |
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Numerous. In "It's Not the Thought, It's the Gift", where Joe and Brian compete over who can give Helen the better birthday gift, Joe wants to leave to get a better gift without making Brian aware of his intentions. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost Lowell talks about his two sons, Lowell Jr. and his brother, but they are never seen. Also, Lowell's eccentric cousin Bevo. Antonio's girlfriend Edna, "the big-faced girl". Likely because there isn't an actress on earth who could match people's mental image of the character. Helen's father is mentioned quite a bit, but he never appears in person. Originally played straight and then averted with Roy's mother Eleanor. Much like Bevo and Edna, Roy's mother was described in such a way that it seemed impossible to find someone who could do her justice but Dick Van Dyke Show star Rose Marie managed to fit the bill perfectly when Eleanor was finally show in season 8's "Heartache Tonight". | |
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Childhood Friend Romance | |
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Childhood Friend Romance: Helen has been in love with Joe ever since they were kids together. Oddly, their courtship for most of the series had him chasing her more often than the other way around. | |
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The Main Characters Do Everything | |
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The Main Characters Do Everything: Justified in universe as the island is really small and the airport is even smaller. Lampshaded by Casey in "The Waxman Cometh": | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
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Never Recycle a Building: Double subverted in "This Old House". It seems that the Hackett brothers' old house is being demolished for good (it was in very poor condition), until Fay revealed that Herman Melville lived there for some time, which made the house a historical landmark. The others didn't get this information before they totally destroyed the house, though. | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative: In the finale, Helen is given the opportunity to go to Europe to study cello with one of the greatest cellists in the world. Joe tries to get her to stay by promising he'll find her an even better teacher close to home. Helen doesn't buy it. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: In "As Fate Would Have It", as Joe and Brian struggle to keep the plane in the air during a lightning storm, Fay tries to keep calm by doing a Crossword Puzzle. She asks for an eleven letter sports term that means "tiebreaker". The answer isn't stated out loud, but Roy is understandably unsettled. "sudden death". | |
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Neat Freak | |
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Neat Freak: Joe. Mostly lampshaded and mocked by Brian. Lowell turns out to be a bit of a neat freak as well. | |
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Who's Watching the Store? | |
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Who's Watching the Store?: Joe and Brian are the owners/only pilots in Sandpiper Air (save for a young one, who didn't last long), and half the time they're hanging around the airport or flying the plane for non-business reasons. Although, the episodes might as well highlight the 'funny' parts of their lives - the business flights are cut off, unless they're important to the plot. This is occasionally Hand Waved by having one of them say it's the off-season or that business just happens to be slow at the moment. | |
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Psycho Ex-Girlfriend | |
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Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Actually, a woman Joe rejected in high school, who sought vengeance through psychological warfare on three separate occasions. | |
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Cousin Oliver | |
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Cousin Oliver: Kenny, the teenaged pilot, was a short-lived attempt at adding a younger character to the show. He was ultimately dropped in favor of adding Tony Shalhoub to the cast instead. | |
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Chekhov's Gag | |
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Chekhov's Gag: In "Crate Expectations", Joe is on the phone with his girlfriend, thanking her for his birthday present. In the background, we see Lowell pulling said present, a gaucho hat, out of the garbage and trying it on, expressing pleasure with the results. We don't see Lowell wearing the hat again after that, but later in the episode, this exchange takes place regarding an unrelated matter. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Invoked by Brian with a hired actor in "The Puppetmaster". | |
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May–December Romance | |
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May–December Romance: Joe dates 19-year-old Courtney in "Hey Nineteen". She then dumps him for a man who's 12 years older than Joe. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Joe appears to be this, but this is deconstructed numerous times. | |
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Mistaken for Murderer | |
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Mistaken for Murderer: In the episode "Murder She Roast", Brian thinks that Fay is the criminal being described on a TV program about fugitives from justice. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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There's an even stronger case of cast derivation from Wings Spiritual Predecessor, Taxi: Joe/Alex is the Straight Man to Schemer Brian/Bobby, Jerkass Roy/Louie messes with the others, Funny Foreigner Antonio/Latka and Cloud Cuckoolander Lowell/Reverend Jim each serve as an Ensemble Dark Horse, Helen/Elaine is the Girly Girl, and Fay/Tony is the affable Ditz. | |
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Hufflepuff House | |
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Hufflepuff House: The two car rental kiosks behind Helen's lunch counter - "Commonwealth Car Rental" and "Pilgrim Rent a Car" - were a constant visual presence but played absolutely no role in any plot, nor did they ever receive verbal acknowledgement from other characters (until the finale, that is, when Joe boasts about beating Pilgrim for the "Nevers Field Tenant of the Year" award). | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles: Tony Shalhoub halfway through Season Three. Farrah Forke at the beginning of Season Five. Amy Yasbeck and Brian Haley were added to the opening credits on their third and fourth appearances, respectively. | |
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Circling Saw | |
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Circling Saw: The gang is renovating an old house, and they notice that Lowell is sawing a circle in the ceiling from the second floor. They wonder if he's stupid enough to saw around himself like in the cartoons. The answer comes soon enough, as Lowell comes crashing down. | |
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Everyone Went to School Together | |
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Everyone Went to School Together: Most of the characters not only went to the same high school, they all have their reunion together, despite being different ages. This is Hand Waved by saying that the school was too small for individual classes to have separate reunions. | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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Halloween Episode: "The Gift of Life" | |
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Could Say It, But... | |
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Could Say It, But...: In "Noses Off", Brian debates having plastic surgery to fix a bump on his nose while Joe tries to talk him out of it. On the day Brian leaves to have the procedure done, he swears Antonio and Lowell to secrecy. | |
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Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense | |
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Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Casey's main gag during her first season on the show. However, she eventually grew out of it and developed into a neurotic screwball-type character. | |
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Artifact Title | |
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Artifact Title: Originally, the plot of the episode "Try to Remember the Night He Dismembered" involved Roy tricking the others into digging a space for his hot tub by telling them, while apparently hypnotized, that he had dismembered his late wife and buried her in his back yard. After a disastrous table read, the writers decided the subject matter was too dark and instead had Roy confessing to stealing a large sum of money and burying it. The title remained unchanged despite the fact that it was no longer descriptive of the episode's plot. | |
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Chain Letter | |
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Chain Letter: Antonio, Roy, and Fay each get one in "B.S., I Love You." Roy and Fay maintain the chain and prosper, while Antonio ignores it and suffers. | |
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Quietly Performing Sister Show | |
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Quietly Performing Sister Show: Wings never got the critical acclaim or the ratings that its companion pieces Cheers and Frasier did, but it ran for eight seasons and had a very loyal fanbase. | |
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She Is All Grown Up | |
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She Is All Grown Up: Brian to Helen in the pilot episode. Actually, pretty much everyone who hadn't seen Helen in years would comment on how thin she is now. | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Helen and Casey, respectively. Curiously, when Alex was on the show, Helen was the girly girl, if only by comparison. She would switch between skirts & tights and sweatshirt & jeans depending on the comparison needed. | |
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Embarrassing Slide | |
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Embarrassing Slide: In "Portrait of the Con Artist of a Young Man," Brian decides to play a joke on Joe by taking a close-up shot of a certain private portion of his anatomy with Joe's camera. The joke's on him when he finds out that Joe sent the film to Helen's parents. In "Wingless, Part 3", Cord prepares a slide show for Sandpiper's business presentation during an all-night pizza and soda binge, then bails on the meeting, forcing Joe and Brian to give the presentation in his absence. There are several slides which leave the brothers absolutely baffled (such as photos of a half-eaten pizza, a dog, and an extreme close-up of Cord's face). | |
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Made Myself Sad | |
Wings / int_2fed4664 | comment |
Made Myself Sad: In "Happy Holidays", Antonio and Bunny talk about how wonderful Christmas time is, only to remember that they're both single and miserable. | |
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Car Meets House | |
Wings / int_301476a3 | comment |
Car Meets House: Helen deliberately drives her car into Joe's office — twice. And as if that weren't enough, it's then driven into his office a third time, only this time it's unintentional and Joe is behind the wheel. Don't forget, this is treated as an amusing and understandable action because she was mad. | |
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Full-Name Basis | |
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Full-Name Basis: Played with by Fay, who almost always introduces herself as "Fay Evelyn Cochran." When you consider all the marriages she's been though, however, her actual full name is more accurately "Fay Evelyn Schlob Dumbly DeVay Cochran." | |
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Chain of Corrections | |
Wings / int_323e47e2 | comment |
Chain of Corrections: Incidentally, that was actually John Denver. In "Blackout Buggins", the group sees the national anthem being performed on television by a fictional rapper named "Ice Tray", leading to the following conversation. | |
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Wings / int_33818056 | comment |
"Walk on the Wild Side" Episode: In the two-parter "Joe Blows", Joe decides that 35 years of being responsible is enough, so he takes Lowell's motorcycle and goes to a beach to hang out with women barely half his age, leaving his party-boy brother Brian stuck running their airline. | |
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Dresses the Same | |
Wings / int_33900b7 | comment |
Dresses the Same: Used in the episode "The Waxman Cometh." When Casey goes to the grand opening of Lowell's new wax museum, she is mortified to see that the museum's wax figure of Eva Gabor is not only wearing the same dress as her, but also has better jewelry. | |
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This Is Wrong on So Many Levels! | |
Wings / int_33a71ee9 | comment |
This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!: | |
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Jaded Washout | |
Wings / int_33f095a8 | comment |
Jaded Washout: Brian ends up working for Joe because he squandered every single one of his opportunities including going to Princeton, becoming a pro tennis player, and becoming an astronaut for NASA. | |
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"Take That!" Kiss | |
Wings / int_341b1691 | comment |
"Take That!" Kiss: Inverted. There had been a couple of (male-to-male) kisses simply because one person had no other way to express their happiness. | |
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Title-Only Opening | |
Wings / int_35499a79 | comment |
Title-Only Opening: After the third season, the show's minute-long montage of aerial shots was cut down to this format. | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy | |
Wings / int_355007c3 | comment |
Brilliant, but Lazy: Brian got a scholarship to Princeton and was one of the youngest people ever accepted into The United States space program, but washed out of both because he wasn't willing to put in the work necessary to succeed. He was kicked out from the latter because he kept bringing his girlfriends in the simulator. | |
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Official Couple | |
Wings / int_36135fb0 | comment |
Official Couple: Joe and Helen. | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love | |
Wings / int_361a1d26 | comment |
Anguished Declaration of Love: With Joe and Helen, of course. The first time he does this is in a relatively quiet, subdued manner, begging her not to leave to pursue a music career in New York. She responds in kind, but leaves anyway. The second time, he has followed her to New York to stop her from accepting another man's proposal. Helen tries to blow him off and insist that previous night (when they slept together) was a mistake, but Joe finally loses it: | |
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Out-Gambitted | |
Wings / int_362bdb30 | comment |
Out-Gambitted: Occurs near the end of "The Puppetmaster". | |
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Outdated Outfit | |
Wings / int_367f2530 | comment |
Outdated Outfit: In "She's Baaack", Fay gives Antonio her third husband's 70s wardrobe. She thinks that he looks great in it, never noticing that the clothes are hopelessly out of style. | |
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Never Heard That One Before | |
Wings / int_3684532f | comment |
Never Heard That One Before: In "The Faygitive", Fay reveals that one of her former married names was "DeVay". Before Joe and Brian can begin cracking any jokes, she informs them that she's "heard them all": "Can you show me DeVay?" "Do you go all DeVay?" and her personal favorite: "Old soldiers never die, they just Fay DeVay." | |
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Agony of the Feet | |
Wings / int_37d94ed9 | comment |
Agony of the Feet: In "When a Man Loves a Donut," Antonio buys a pair of extremely tight leather shoes which the salesman promised him would stretch and conform to his feet. This doesn't happen, of course, and he spends the entire episode in agony. He keeps wearing the shoes, though, because everyone keeps telling him how stylish he looks in them. | |
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Tomboyish Name | |
Wings / int_3820a9ea | comment |
Tomboyish Name: Alex. | |
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Love Epiphany | |
Wings / int_38b33e8d | comment |
Love Epiphany: Joe realizes he loves Helen after she announces her engagement to Davis. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
Wings / int_38d02d44 | comment |
Batman Gambit: In "The Puppetmaster," Brian tries to get Helen to retract her "no dating pilots" rule by hiring an actor to play her ideal man, the idea being that he'll maker her fall in love with him and then reveal himself to be a pilot so that she'll drop her rule against dating pilots and will no longer be able to use that excuse on Brian. This fails, of course, and Joe wastes no time pointing out the flaw in the plan. | |
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Hands in Pockets | |
Wings / int_393ad459 | comment |
Hands in Pockets: Casey reveals that she can only draw people as caricatures, and always draws skis on them because she can't draw feet. | |
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Bedmate Reveal | |
Wings / int_39f27cae | comment |
Bedmate Reveal: Brian walks into Joe's darkened bedroom to lament the end of his relationship with Alex. He turns on the light to see Helen lying next to him. | |
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Recurring Extra | |
Wings / int_3b789458 | comment |
Recurring Extra: The rent-a-car place tucked in the corner of the airport not noticed nor discussed until one line in the very last episode of the show. The red-headed woman who worked for Roy could be seen behind the Aeromass counter throughout most of the show's run despite never uttering a single word. | |
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Wings / int_3bc88a7f | type |
Foregone Conclusion | |
Wings / int_3bc88a7f | comment |
Foregone Conclusion: "Marriage, Italian Style," when Antonio is threatened with deportation back to Italy. Since that just happened to be the episode where Tony Shalhoub was officially elevated to the main cast, you could probably guess that wasn't going to happen. "Joe Blows" opens with Joe face down in a pool. They try to make it seem like he's dead (and his voice-over is a Posthumous Narration), but... come on. Like a show like this would actually kill off its main protagonist. In the middle of a season, no less. | |
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Right Through the Wall | |
Wings / int_3bf27a8d | comment |
Right Through the Wall: Lowell and his ex-wife Bunny, in the episode "Bye-Bye, Bunny". | |
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Wings / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
Wings / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: The series did this more than once. Budd Bronski, Lowell's Suspiciously Similar Substitute after Thomas Haden Church left the series, once mentioned "The Incident" in which he was involved while in the military. He wasn't allowed to divulge specifics, but did say that as a result two Senators and a Congressman had to hit the silk, and there's no longer a town in Kentucky called Taterville... | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
Wings / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: After an esteemed conductor tells Helen she's no good, Helen is initially devastated but is then thrilled, realizing she can finally give up the cello and get on with her life. Then he has a change of heart and informs her that she possesses "a glimmer of talent"... which not only forces her to take up the cello again, but now she must sacrifice an even larger percentage of her time to the instrument than she ever had before. | |
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Wings / int_3cb287ce | type |
Bad Date | |
Wings / int_3cb287ce | comment |
Bad Date: In "Four Dates That Will Live in Infamy," Joe, Brian, Helen, and Lowell all make dates for the same night. To make the evening more interesting, and to provide a consolation in case somebody's date goes very badly, they decide to pool some money together which will go to the person who has the worst date. Joe, Brian, and Helen's dates are all disasters. Lowell's the only one who has a decent date, but he's disappointed by this because it means he won't win the money. In the same episode, Fay mentions that she had so many bad dates that she managed to buy a snowmobile with the money she gained. | |
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Bad Liar | |
Wings / int_3cb6468e | comment |
Bad Liar: Fay is not good at coming up with excuses on the spot. Whenever she has to announce a flight being delayed but can't say the real reason for the delay, she always says something ridiculous. In "What the Cabbie Saw", she announces that the flight is being delayed due to "a hole in the wing", and in another episode, she claims that the pilot is busy "doing an important pilot thing". In "Take My Life, Please", Fay is trying to keep Helen from entering Joe's office while she and the rest of the group are busy altering the results of Helen's career placement test, and the best excuse she can come up with is, "We're dressing!" Casey zig-zags this trope. In "Nuptials Off", Helen is having to run off to Mexico to get a quickie divorce from Antonio but cannot let Joe become aware of the situation. She asks Casey to cover for her absence, instructing her to tell anyone who asks that "Helen's at the store". Over the course of the episode, Casey becomes more and more nervous, being quicker and quicker to blurt this out at just the slightest provocation, whether or not Helen is even being mentioned. However, previous episodes showed her to be a skilled liar, as she managed for months to keep her parents from finding out that her husband had left her. | |
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Just the Way You Are | |
Wings / int_3f6b4b04 | comment |
Just the Way You Are: In the episode "Noses Off", Brian becomes obsessed with a bump on his nose after a plastic surgeon points it out. He eventually plans to have his face overhauled until his brother Joe points out how much his various feature resemble those of several deceased relatives. | |
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Wings / int_41435fc2 | type |
Pie in the Face | |
Wings / int_41435fc2 | comment |
Pie in the Face: Helen gives Carol a pie in the face at the end of "Return to Nantucket (Part 2)". | |
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Leg Focus | |
Wings / int_4143f84f | comment |
Leg Focus: In "All for One and Two for Helen", after telling the Hackett brothers she won't date them because they're pilots, Helen turns and walks away. All Joe and Brian can think about as Helen leaves is how great her legs look. | |
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Compressed Vice | |
Wings / int_431dca9b | comment |
Brian becomes one temporarily in "When a Man Loves a Donut" when he starts getting depressed about not being able to hang out with Joe as much as he used to. He actually begins to visibly put on weight, though he gets better by the end of the episode. | |
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Sitcom Character Archetypes | |
Wings / int_4330f7eb | comment |
Sitcom Character Archetypes: Joe's The Square, Brian's The Wisecracker and The Charming, Roy's The Bully, and Fay and Lowell are The Goofballs (though Lowell usually fills the role). | |
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Funny Foreigner | |
Wings / int_434d893c | comment |
Funny Foreigner: Antonio | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent | |
Wings / int_43b154c9 | comment |
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: The producers decided that Amy Yasbeck should just use her own accent instead of a Southern one to match Crystal Bernard's. This is explained, in-universe, as Casey being so stuck-up that she forced her accent away so that she wouldn't sound like a hick. | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot | |
Wings / int_44989f6f | comment |
"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: In "The Customer's Usually Right", Joe gets into an argument with the local video store for charging him a rewinding fee when he knows he rewound the movie. The argument results in the old woman who rewinds the movies getting fired and suffering a heart attack (which she survives). After the argument and firing, Lowell reveals he watched the movie after Joe and deliberately neglected to rewind it because the woman would do it for them. Gee, Lowell, it would have been nice to tell Joe that. | |
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Wings / int_44990492 | type |
Parody Commercial | |
Wings / int_44990492 | comment |
Parody Commercial: The show put out a series of promos that poked fun at the "Obsession" commercials that were all the rage at the time. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
Wings / int_4583a262 | comment |
Shirtless Scene: Subverted with Antonio in "2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten". He takes off his shirt... only to reveal another shirt underneath. YouTube viewers were not happy with this. | |
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Greasy Spoon | |
Wings / int_477bcc9f | comment |
Greasy Spoon: Helen's lunch counter is sometimes implied to be one. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
Wings / int_4781adbb | comment |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Roy. | |
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Wings / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
Wings / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Helen regarding her music career. Even Crystal Bernard said in an interview that she always liked that Helen is a 'loser' character. Antonio is implied to be a butt monkey several times, but it's mostly just Roy who abuses him. Lowell too, though Joe occasionally gives him a hard time, it's usually work related, not personal. | |
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Wings / int_499499e6 | type |
Written-In Absence | |
Wings / int_499499e6 | comment |
Written-In Absence: Rebecca Schull was absent from several episodes during the last two seasons; her character Fay was usually said to be on vacation. When Thomas Haden Church had to miss an episode, his character Lowell was said to be away attending a family reunion. Tony Shalhoub was absent from the final two episodes of season 3; his character Antonio was said to be in Italy visiting his family. | |
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Wings / int_49d59be9 | type |
Scenery Porn | |
Wings / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: The opening credits sequence used in the first two and a half seasons contained a lot of this. | |
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Wings / int_4a364781 | type |
Hidden Purpose Test | |
Wings / int_4a364781 | comment |
Hidden Purpose Test: In "Date Package Number Seven", Brian and Alex have a wonderful time on their date. Then Alex finds out that what appeared to be a spontaneous evening of fun was carefully staged by Brian, and is understandably upset. She walks in on Brian playing basketball and tells him she'll give him one shot to make it up to her. Brian agrees, and Alex promptly passes him the basketball, informing him that his "one shot" is to make a basket. Brian tries the shot and misses, but Alex, upon seeing his crushed reaction, gives him another shot; she just wanted to make sure that he genuinely liked her. | |
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Stalking Is Love | |
Wings / int_4b8932a4 | comment |
Stalking is Love: Joe follows Helen to New York after breaking his promise to leave her alone if she can swear that she loves Davis instead of him. He promptly corners her in an elevator and basically browbeats her into admitting that she loves him, ignoring her pleas that he leave alone—"It's just not going to work out!"—and basically further browbeats her into accepting his own proposal. In that same episode, Brian vows to follow Alex around until she agrees to get back together with him—"Everywhere she goes, I'll be there." To which Joe replies, "And whenever you come up for parole, I'll be there.", thus insinuating that while his behavior is somehow acceptable, Brian's isn't. | |
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Wings / int_4c5f0662 | type |
Girl Next Door | |
Wings / int_4c5f0662 | comment |
Girl Next Door: Helen. | |
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Wings / int_4c5f0662 | |
Wings / int_4c9d2176 | type |
Formerly Fat | |
Wings / int_4c9d2176 | comment |
Formerly Fat: Helen. | |
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Wings / int_4c9d2176 | |
Wings / int_4e4ea654 | type |
Workaholic | |
Wings / int_4e4ea654 | comment |
Workaholic: Joe can be this, although decreasing in later episodes. | |
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1.0 | |
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Wings / int_4e4ea654 | |
Wings / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
Wings / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: Originally, the show had a lengthy title sequence showing Sandpiper's plane in flight, which got swapped out partway through season 3 for a simple title card and the actors' credits playing over the opening moments of the episode. The full-length sequence was reinstated for the series finale, however. In the pilot episode, the hangar is obviously greenscreened in during several shots, likely because they didn't have the set finished when the pilot began filming. Tim Daly was billed as "Timothy Daly" for the first two seasons. | |
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Wings / int_4f4372e9 | |
Wings / int_4f769d67 | type |
Convenience Store Gift Shopping | |
Wings / int_4f769d67 | comment |
Convenience Store Gift Shopping: In "Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young Man", the gang throws an office birthday party for Casey. Not wanting to go to any effort, Brian just takes a book off his bookshelf and gives it to her. Which he might have gotten away with, except the book turns out to be called 101 Ways to Pleasure a Woman. Roy, on the other hand, simply grabs a jar of charity money off of his counter and hands it to her as-is. When Joe takes offense to this, Roy admits that it isn't a real charity anyway; he made it up. | |
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Wings / int_4f769d67 | |
Wings / int_4fb23aa8 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
Wings / int_4fb23aa8 | comment |
I Have This Friend: An interesting variation, wherein the person being addressed assumes that they are the friend in question. In "Et Tu, Antonio", Antonio tries this when asking Lowell for love advice. Lowell tells Antonio that he isn't fooled, he knows exactly who this "friend" is... and then promptly makes several wrong guesses, never realizing that Antonio is talking about himself. Another example occurs while Casey is having a conversation with Sandy (who has recently been appointed a judge). | |
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1.0 | |
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Wings / int_4fb23aa8 | |
Wings / int_4ff19e3d | type |
Defenestrate and Berate | |
Wings / int_4ff19e3d | comment |
Defenestrate and Berate: Casey dumps her husband's money out the window of his yacht when she finds out he was lying about being poor. She eventually throws him overboard as well. | |
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Wings / int_4ff19e3d | |
Wings / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
Wings / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: Even if you could argue that Helen driving her jeep through Joe's office after the revelation that he was seeing another woman was justified (keep in mind this is after she started a fight, left him, and didn't contact him for nearly a year), she then did it a second time for no other reason than that Joe was gloating over beating her in court. | |
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Wings / int_50b05d30 | |
Wings / int_50b9b3d0 | type |
Crazy Jealous Guy | |
Wings / int_50b9b3d0 | comment |
Crazy Jealous Guy: Matt, a hired actor in "The Puppetmaster" ends up becoming this towards Helen and Joe. It's all a fake planned by Joe. | |
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1.0 | |
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Wings / int_50b9b3d0 | |
Wings / int_50f66629 | type |
Crazy-Prepared | |
Wings / int_50f66629 | comment |
Crazy-Prepared: Lampshaded in "Lifeboat" when the gang is adrift in a lifeboat after making an emergency water landing: | |
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Wings / int_50f66629 | |
Wings / int_51300dbf | type |
Fat Bastard | |
Wings / int_51300dbf | comment |
Fat Bastard: Roy | |
Wings / int_51300dbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Wings / int_51300dbf | |
Wings / int_5178a0b3 | type |
Three... Two... One... | |
Wings / int_5178a0b3 | comment |
Three... Two... One...: Happens in "Around the World in 80 Years" when Helen decides to wear a sexy dress to a cello audition, a decision Joe disagrees with. | |
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Wings / int_5178a0b3 | |
Wings / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
Wings / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: Season 7 opens with Brian and Casey burning down Joe and Helen's house, and ends with Joe and Helen burning down Brian and Casey's house. The show itself begins with Brian and Joe being sent on a scavenger hunt by their late father, only to be disappointed when it seems to prove fruitless. The series finale has them sent off on another one. Only this time it ends with them finding a briefcase full of $250,000. The show also begins with one Hackett brother running Sandpiper and Chappel sister manning the lunch counter, and ends with the other Hackett brother and Chappel sister taking over these positions. | |
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Wings / int_5313c266 | |
Wings / int_54367e5d | type |
Mathematician's Answer | |
Wings / int_54367e5d | comment |
Mathematician's Answer: In "2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten", Sandy forces Joe to participate in a recreation of their high school prom that she has set up in her basement, and disapproves of the way he dances. | |
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Wings / int_54367e5d | |
Wings / int_547196be | type |
Broad Strokes | |
Wings / int_547196be | comment |
Broad Strokes: In "It's Not the Thought, It's the Gift That Counts" Joe's gift to Helen (a cameo broach that belonged to his mother) indicated that he remembers his mother fondly. However, later on in "Mother Wore Stripes", he suddenly hates her enough that he never wants to see her again. It's not impossible for him to feel both ways but his hatred just seem to come out of nowhere. | |
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Wings / int_547196be | |
Wings / int_54a20968 | type |
Immune to Mind Control | |
Wings / int_54a20968 | comment |
Immune to Mind Control: Roy Bigguns uses this strength to his advantage, pretending to be hypnotised to trick others into doing his work for him. | |
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Wings / int_54a20968 | |
Wings / int_54cbd0cb | type |
This Is Unforgivable! | |
Wings / int_54cbd0cb | comment |
This Is Unforgivable!: Joe's reaction upon learning that Brian is responsible for burning down Helen's house. | |
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Wings / int_54cbd0cb | |
Wings / int_55b1f9a1 | type |
Easy Amnesia | |
Wings / int_55b1f9a1 | comment |
Easy Amnesia: Discussed by Antonio in "Joe Blows" part 2 when the group is discussing why Joe hasn't returned: | |
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Wings / int_55b1f9a1 | |
Wings / int_561dab6b | type |
Mistaken for Gay | |
Wings / int_561dab6b | comment |
Mistaken for Gay: Played for Laughs with Joe and Brian, a couple of times. One example "Looking For Love in All the Wrong Places", Joe waits for Helen in a make-out point. A couple annoyed by him then sees Brian riding a bicycle calling for Joe. One other time has Brian and Joe celebrating and kissing on the lips. Everyone looks at them weird. In "Honey, We Broke the Kid", Antonio unknowingly dates his favorite actor. Antonio thinks they're just buddies, but the TV star is actually gay and thinks they're boyfriends. At the end of the episode, the actor kisses Antonio goodbye. Antonio is confused by the gesture, but chalks it up to being a Hollywood thing. | |
Wings / int_561dab6b | featureApplicability |
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Wings / int_561dab6b | |
Wings / int_56515a39 | type |
Artistic License – History | |
Wings / int_56515a39 | comment |
Artistic License – History: "In "Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young Man", Casey is trying to get Lowell to create more of his random-object art, but Lowell says he needs a special occasion like a birthday. Casey looks at a calendar and says that it is Charlotte Brontë, Babe Ruth, and Angie Dickinson's birthday. None of those three people have birthdays anywhere close to one another.note Their birthdays are April 21, February 6, and September 30, respectively. | |
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Wings / int_56515a39 | |
Wings / int_58626d87 | type |
Genius Ditz | |
Wings / int_58626d87 | comment |
Genius Ditz: Lowell maintains 8 planes by himself and is also a skilled carpenter, a world class chef, and a fluent speaker of French. | |
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Wings / int_58626d87 | |
Wings / int_597d7dad | type |
Onion Tears | |
Wings / int_597d7dad | comment |
Onion Tears: In the final episode, Joe sees Helen crying and asks what's wrong. She claims it's from the onions she's peeling. Except he doesn't fall for it, because she's actually peeling potatoes. | |
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Wings / int_597d7dad | |
Wings / int_598513bb | type |
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling | |
Wings / int_598513bb | comment |
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Brian and Joe, respectively. Casey and Helen are a less extreme example. | |
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Wings / int_598513bb | |
Wings / int_59eee458 | type |
More Hypnotizable Than He Thinks | |
Wings / int_59eee458 | comment |
More Hypnotizable Than He Thinks: In "Try to Remember the Night He Dismembered", Joe and Helen claimed that they can't be hypnotized. Fast forward, and Joe is seen hypnotized, forever cursed that he would cluck every time he hears the word "tortilla". Helen as well, though only discussed. Subverted with Roy, who only pretended that he was hypnotized so that the others would do his digging work for his new hot tub. | |
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Wings / int_59eee458 | |
Wings / int_5a2d2d5c | type |
Visit by Divorced Dad | |
Wings / int_5a2d2d5c | comment |
Visits By Divorced Mom: Invoked in "Mother Wore Stripes" by Brian, Joe and Brian's mother (who abandoned them) visits Nantucket after 18 years. Joe is very bitter about this for a good reason, but it all ends well. | |
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Wings / int_5a2d2d5c | |
Wings / int_5d414804 | type |
Just Friends | |
Wings / int_5d414804 | comment |
Just Friends: Originally, Joe and Helen. They ended up married. | |
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1.0 | |
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Wings / int_5d414804 | |
Wings / int_5dcb9d92 | type |
Less Embarrassing Term | |
Wings / int_5dcb9d92 | comment |
Less Embarrassing Term: In "Just Call Me Angel", Joe carries around what looks very much like (and what the other characters keep referring to as) a makeup case. However, he keeps insisting it's a man's travel bag. | |
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Wings / int_5dcb9d92 | |
Wings / int_5e126c79 | type |
The Joy of X | |
Wings / int_5e126c79 | comment |
The Joy of X: The episode's titles are often this. Examples are "I Love Brian", "Ex, Lies, and Videotape" and "Fay There, Georgy Girl". | |
Wings / int_5e126c79 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Wings / int_5e126c79 | |
Wings / int_5f207a1a | type |
Courtroom Episode | |
Wings / int_5f207a1a | comment |
Courtroom Episode: "Is That a Subpoena in Your Pocket?". Joe takes Helen to court after she crashes her jeep through Joe's office, and accuses her of faking an injury to acquire sympathy from the judges. | |
Wings / int_5f207a1a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Wings / int_5f207a1a | |
Wings / int_5f798c84 | type |
Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere | |
Wings / int_5f798c84 | comment |
Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: In "Exclusively Yours", Brian agrees to date Alex exclusively. Almost immediately, his path keeps being crossed with one beautiful woman after another. Joe suddenly finds himself scoring dates with beautiful women left and right, much to Brian's envy, and as if that weren't enough, one of Sandpiper's flights ends up being a plane load of gorgeous models, who proceed to have a fashion shoot in the hangar followed by a party at the Hackett house. | |
Wings / int_5f798c84 | featureApplicability |
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Wings / int_5f798c84 | |
Wings / int_5fcb9ad1 | type |
Time Skip | |
Wings / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
"The Love, Life, and Times of Joe and Helen" ends with a Time Skip to many years in the future and shows Joe and Helen's grandchildren watching the engagement video of them that Brian had been making throughout the episode. | |
Wings / int_5fcb9ad1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Wings / int_5fcb9ad1 | |
Wings / int_5fcedca | type |
Big Eater | |
Wings / int_5fcedca | comment |
Big Eater: Helen in the past, which was the reason she was so overweight. She got better, though she's shown to still go on binges whenever she gets upset. Brian becomes one temporarily in "When a Man Loves a Donut" when he starts getting depressed about not being able to hang out with Joe as much as he used to. He actually begins to visibly put on weight, though he gets better by the end of the episode. | |
Wings / int_5fcedca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Wings / int_5fcedca | |
Wings / int_60426489 | type |
Citizenship Marriage | |
Wings / int_60426489 | comment |
Citizenship Marriage: a Season 3 two-parter has Antonio enter into this with Helen. While he gets his green card soon thereafter, they forget to file the divorce papers and stay married until Season 6. | |
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1.0 | |
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Wings / int_60426489 | |
Wings / int_605cf3f | type |
Something Only They Would Say | |
Wings / int_605cf3f | comment |
Something Only They Would Say: In "The Bank Dick", Brian is caught in a bank robbery and hears the masked robber use the unusual phrase, "We'll all be sitting in butter!" Later, as he flies an unknown client back to the mainland, the client uses the same phrase, cluing Brian in to the fact that he's transporting the robber. | |
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Wings / int_605cf3f | |
Wings / int_619b5e7e | type |
Professionals Do It on Desks | |
Wings / int_619b5e7e | comment |
Professionals Do It on Desks: Joe tries to invoke this in "Is That a Ten-Foot Sandwich or Are You Just Glad to See Me?". It didn't really work. | |
Wings / int_619b5e7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Wings / int_619b5e7e | |
Wings / int_61b8f9e2 | type |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
Wings / int_61b8f9e2 | comment |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Lowell is borderline insane, but apparently an excellent mechanic. Brian is the island's biggest goof-off, but based on the stories, he is an outstanding pilot, accepted into the space program and survivor of many dangerous flights in tropical storms. | |
Wings / int_61b8f9e2 | featureApplicability |
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Wings / int_61b8f9e2 | |
Wings / int_6220d661 | type |
Loony Fan | |
Wings / int_6220d661 | comment |
Loony Fan: In "What About Larry", Brian runs into George Kennedy from Airport, and begins following him around obsessively, making him repeat lines from the film. | |
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1.0 | |
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Wings / int_6220d661 | |
Wings / int_647e8c | type |
Big Ego, Hidden Depths | |
Wings / int_647e8c | comment |
Big Ego, Hidden Depths: Roy got this quite a bit. Lampshaded in "Sports and Leisure" when he cries after being disinvited from a group get-together. | |
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Wings / int_647e8c | |
Wings / int_64e6f231 | type |
No Matter How Much I Beg | |
Wings / int_64e6f231 | comment |
No Matter How Much I Beg: When Brian and Alex decide to date exclusively, Brian gets nervous about being able to live up to the commitment. So when Joe throws a party at the house for a bunch of gorgeous girls, Brian instructs him to lock him in his room until morning. After he does so, a girl walks out of the bathroom wearing only a towel. | |
Wings / int_64e6f231 | featureApplicability |
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Wings / int_64e6f231 | |
Wings / int_66b98472 | type |
Erotic Dream | |
Wings / int_66b98472 | comment |
Erotic Dream: "All's Fare" opens with Brian having a sexy dream about Helen. This irks Joe, who by this point in the series is engaged to her. Helen, on the other hand, has no problem with joining Brian in teasing the elder Hackett brother about it. In "The Late Mrs. Biggins", Lowell references a dream he had about him having sex with various celebrities. Antonio demands to know what Lowell had for dinner that night in the hopes that he can have the same dream himself. | |
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Wings / int_66b98472 | |
Wings / int_66dfe36a | type |
Missing Mom | |
Wings / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: Joe and Brian's mother, who ran away and ended up in jail. Deconstructed since Joe is especially bitter about the reconciliation, and this is implied to be the cause of his nervousness and fear. | |
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Wings / int_66dfe36a | |
Wings / int_678a72a9 | type |
And a Diet Coke | |
Wings / int_678a72a9 | comment |
And a Diet Coke: In "Wingless, Part 2", the Hacketts are flying a country music duo on a tour. When the overweight member of the pair asks for a Diet Coke, her oversexed partner sarcastically compares it to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. | |
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Wings / int_678a72a9 | |
Wings / int_67fedd35 | type |
Bizarrchitecture | |
Wings / int_67fedd35 | comment |
Bizarrchitecture: In "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wrong," Joe and Helen hire a famous architect to build their house for them... but are less than thrilled when the house he designs is shaped like the number 7. | |
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Wings / int_67fedd35 | |
Wings / int_680f950 | type |
Gilligan Cut | |
Wings / int_680f950 | comment |
Gilligan Cut: When Joe pretends to be a corpse in "Death Becomes Him". "Try to Remember the Night He Dismembered" had Roy claiming he couldn't be hypnotized, cut to hypnotized Roy singing show tunes, but it’s revealed at the end that he was faking it. Subverted in "I've Got a Secret", when it is revealed that Alex once posed in Playboy. Antonio insistently tells Joe and Brian that he won't reveal Alex's secret, then the scene immediately cuts to the guys, having learned the secret, trying to locate a copy of the magazine in question. However, Antonio indeed did not tell them; they learned it from somewhere else. | |
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Wings / int_680f950 | |
Wings / int_69c5fb9e | type |
Recursive Crossdressing | |
Wings / int_69c5fb9e | comment |
Recursive Crossdressing: In the episode "Escape from New York", Helen has to pretend to be a transvestite male in order to enter a drag contest. | |
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1.0 | |
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Wings / int_69c5fb9e | |
Wings / int_6a4f3cf7 | type |
Took a Level in Dumbass | |
Wings / int_6a4f3cf7 | comment |
Took a Level in Dumbass: Joe's intelligence and competence declined markedly in the later seasons. A prime example is "Hosed", where Joe is so upset at a $185 vacuum cleaner repair bill that instead of paying the fee, he spends $1500 on a videotape with which to blackmail the salesman. And after doing so, he remarks how good it feels to win. | |
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Serious Business | |
Wings / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: As Casey finds out, the people of Nanucket don't take kindly to parties that don't include a big sandwich. | |
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Wings / int_6c6d32a0 | type |
The Maiden Name Debate | |
Wings / int_6c6d32a0 | comment |
The Maiden Name Debate: Fay kept all the last names of her husbands (making her name Fay Evelyn Schlob Dumbly DeVay Cochran, though she's usually called Fay Evelyn Cochran). Before she married her first husband, her name was Fay Evelyn Schlob - not that her husband's last name (Dumbly) is any better. | |
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Wings / int_6e0a57d6 | type |
Like an Old Married Couple | |
Wings / int_6e0a57d6 | comment |
Like an Old Married Couple: Joe and Brian. They've also been Mistaken for Gay several times. | |
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Wings / int_6e37c196 | type |
Once Done, Never Forgotten | |
Wings / int_6e37c196 | comment |
Once Done, Never Forgotten: Although her character was thin throughout the run of the show, Helen was constantly teased because she used to be fat. In fact, there were more fat jokes about Helen's character than the actually overweight Roy. | |
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Wings / int_6eaff95 | type |
Leno Device | |
Wings / int_6eaff95 | comment |
Leno Device: The episode "The Team Player" involves Antonio, manning the Sandpiper ticket counter while Joe and Brian are attending a hockey game, refusing to let a star Boston Bruins player on the plane when he shows up right before takeoff. The Bruins lose the game and a public relations disaster ensues, capped off by the characters seeing Leno make a joke about the incident on The Tonight Show. | |
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Wings / int_6ef9d3fe | type |
Christmas Episode | |
Wings / int_6ef9d3fe | comment |
Christmas Episode: One every season except Season Three and the abbreviated first season. "A Terminal Christmas", "The Customer's Usually Right", "Happy Holidays", "Insanity Claus", "Twas the Heist Before Christmas", and "All About Christmas Eve". | |
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Wings / int_6f19054d | type |
Coming-Out Story | |
Wings / int_6f19054d | comment |
Coming-Out Story: "There's Always Room For Cello" has Roy's Straight Gay son R.J admitting that he's gay. Roy isn't initially too happy about it. | |
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Wings / int_6f7f2dac | type |
Senior Creep | |
Wings / int_6f7f2dac | comment |
A more lighthearted version occurs in "The Houseguest". Antonio enters the terminal in a fantastic mood, beaming about how great his day has been so far and insisting that nothing can go wrong for him today. Then he sees Carlton Blanchard. | |
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Wings / int_702c2de3 | type |
Line-of-Sight Alias | |
Wings / int_702c2de3 | comment |
Line-of-Sight Alias: Episode "Lynch Party," Helen recalls her (failed) attempt to break off her engagement with Davis Lynch so that she could marry Joe; not wanting to tell him the truth, she claimed that she had a disease, which she named "Faulkner's Syndrome" after spotting a Faulkner novel on Davis' table. The trope is compounded when Davis offers to find her a doctor, and she claims to have already seen the "top Faulkner man," named "Dr. Dickens." | |
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Wings / int_705d2ccf | type |
Unseen No More | |
Wings / int_705d2ccf | comment |
Unseen No More: Roy's mother was The Ghost for the bulk of the series, but was finally introduced in one of the very last episodes (played by Rose Marie, of The Dick Van Dyke Show fame). | |
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Wings / int_70f9a879 | type |
Family-Friendly Stripper | |
Wings / int_70f9a879 | comment |
Family-Friendly Stripper: On "The Lyin' King," where an exotic dancer (played by supermodel Carol Alt) is coming to town for her final performance. Only the back of her legs are shown. | |
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Wings / int_71038217 | type |
Wrench Wench | |
Wings / int_71038217 | comment |
Wrench Wench: Alex is a helicopter pilot who stuck around in Nantucket and who has tons of experience working on planes and guys coming onto her. She has dealt with both easily. | |
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Wings / int_7170f25a | type |
T-Word Euphemism | |
Wings / int_7170f25a | comment |
T-Word Euphemism: Lowell is telling the guys about his fears that his wife is cheating on him. | |
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Wings / int_72fb8772 | type |
Forgotten Birthday | |
Wings / int_72fb8772 | comment |
Forgotten Birthday: A variation occurs in "Crate Expectations". Joe tells his friends not to throw him a party, but he actually wanted one. Fay takes the bait, but nobody can make it that night, so they move the date forward by a day. Joe overhears Fay ordering the cake but doesn't find out that the party is the next night, so he stays at the office anticipating a surprise party that never happens. A crate is delivered to the hangar, but Joe embarrasses himself by assuming that his friends are in the crate when they aren't. Joe stays late again the next night, where another crate is delivered. Joe is positive his friends are in the crate this time, but again, they're not. They're in a crate, just not the one being delivered to the hangar; it turns out that the crate was accidentally switched with one being shipped to the mainland. | |
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Wings / int_73e51847 | type |
Missing the Good Stuff | |
Wings / int_73e51847 | comment |
Missing the Good Stuff: In "Planes, Trains, and Visiting Cranes", several of the guys get together to watch a boxing match in the hangar on a big screen TV that Brian has purchased (with the intention of returning it after the fight). The TV gets unplugged right when the fight is about to begin, and by the time they replug it, the fight is already over. And then they can't watch the instant replay because the TV gets smashed. | |
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Wings / int_74e2ef76 | type |
Orphaned Punchline | |
Wings / int_74e2ef76 | comment |
Orphaned Punchline: "So the hooker says to the gynecologist, 'My hourly rates might be higher, but...'" | |
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Wings / int_754df088 | type |
Put on a Bus | |
Wings / int_754df088 | comment |
Put on a Bus: At the beginning of Season 7, Lowell witnesses a mob hit and leaves Nantucket to enter Witness Protection. | |
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Wings / int_762b9223 | type |
Played for Laughs | |
Wings / int_762b9223 | comment |
Played for Laughs with Joe and Brian, a couple of times. One example "Looking For Love in All the Wrong Places", Joe waits for Helen in a make-out point. A couple annoyed by him then sees Brian riding a bicycle calling for Joe. | |
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Wings / int_762b9ea8 | type |
The Worst Seat in the House | |
Wings / int_762b9ea8 | comment |
The Worst Seat in the House: In the episode "The Bank Dick," Joe tries to persuade Helen to let him use the box-seat Red Sox tickets she gave him while they were dating to take his new girlfriend to the game instead. He presents Helen with a new ticket for her to use and tries to claim the "obs vu" printed on the ticket is "Latin for 'excellent seat,'" but a bank patron reveals to Helen that it means "obstructed view" and the new ticket will probably have her sitting behind a pole. In "I Love Brian", Brian tries to win Alex over by claiming that he is good friends with Clint Black and can therefore get tickets to his sold-out concert. Brian lucks out when he manages to buy tickets off of Lowell that the latter had previously acquired, but his truthfulness is still called into question when the seats turn out to be in the nosebleed section. | |
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Wings / int_76e631bf | type |
Mattress-Tag Gag | |
Wings / int_76e631bf | comment |
Mattress-Tag Gag: Brian complains about what a goody-two-shoes his brother is. | |
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Wings / int_771ee33f | type |
"No" Means "Yes" | |
Wings / int_771ee33f | comment |
"No" Means "Yes": Joe tells Helen to look him in the eye and deny that she loves him, promising to leave her alone if she does. She does. . .and he follows her to New York. He corners her in an elevator and makes the same promise. She again denies that she loves him. He explodes, outright telling her that she's lying, and she finally caves and admits that she loves him. | |
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Wings / int_77b03c0a | type |
Remember the New Guy? | |
Wings / int_77b03c0a | comment |
Remember the New Guy?: Casey is never mentioned until her arrival at the beginning of the sixth season. Yet from that point on, she is written as if her relationship with Helen and the Hackett brothers had been an integral part of the continuity from day one. Antonio is a downplayed version of the trope. In his first appearance in season 2, he is a waiter, and doesn't seem to have any particular friendship with the main cast. In season 3, he becomes a cab driver based in the terminal where the rest of the group works, and is immediately treated as a regular member of the group with no introductory phase whatsoever. The Season Six two-parter "Remembrance of Flings Past" introduces Sara, a former girlfriend of Brian's who is treated as possibly the great love of his life... who had somehow never been mentioned before. | |
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Wings / int_7870e183 | type |
Nixon Mask | |
Wings / int_7870e183 | comment |
Nixon Mask: In "The Bank Dick", the bank is robbed by an unknown man wearing a Nixon mask, though he's eventually caught. | |
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Wings / int_78bf3e7e | type |
Practice Kiss | |
Wings / int_78bf3e7e | comment |
Practice Kiss: Helen does this to Joe in the end of "The Puppetmaster" to show what a 'stiff lipper' Joe is. Also, for Ship Tease. | |
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Wings / int_78c9ebbf | type |
Gretzky Has the Ball | |
Wings / int_78c9ebbf | comment |
Gretzky Has the Ball: In "The Team Player", Antonio, temporarily running the Sandpiper counter while Joe and Brian are away at a Bruins hockey game, causes the Bruins' star player, Danny "Dead End" Connelly, to miss the game. The wrath of all of Massachusetts descends on Joe and Brian, but the airline is saved from disaster when the hockey star abruptly leaves the team to sign a huge contract with their rivals. In what sporting league is one able to walk out on one's contract and immediately join a rival in the middle of the season? Not the NHL, at least. In "Blackout Buggins", the group goes to Fenway Park to watch Roy sing the national anthem. After Roy finishes the song, a Red Sox player with the name Casey on his jersey is seen taking the field. The Red Sox have never featured player names on the back of their home jerseys. | |
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Wings / int_7a2d9301 | type |
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure | |
Wings / int_7a2d9301 | comment |
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: In "Stew in a Stew", Antonio reads Scarlett and raves about it, but finds himself wanting to know more about what happened to Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler during the Civil War. When Helen and Roy inform him of the existence of Gone with the Wind, he responds incredulously "Get out!" As if that weren't enough, he then mentions liking The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi... but the title Star Wars does not ring even the tiniest of bells for him. In "She's Gotta Have It", Helen claims to be a huge fan of The Monkees, yet has no clue who Peter Tork is. Roy and Antonio are about to discuss the fruit cellar scene from Psycho when Lowell tells them to stop, as he hasn't seen the film yet. In "When a Man Loves a Donut", Brian shows Casey a Three Stooges short and gets irritated when she asks, "Which one's Harpo?" | |
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Wings / int_7abba202 | type |
The Faceless | |
Wings / int_7abba202 | comment |
The Faceless: Lowell's cousin Beavo is mentioned in many episodes. He only appears onscreen once, and we only see him from behind. Antonio's on-again-off-again girlfriend Edna, the big faced girl. One end credits scene was devoted to everyone meeting Edna and reacting to her giant face but it's depicted entirely from her point-of-view. | |
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Wings / int_7ac5c1de | type |
Unishment | |
Wings / int_7ac5c1de | comment |
Brian's reaction to Joe burning down his house is not nearly as strong as Joe's reaction to Brian burning down his house. Joe temporarily threw Brian out of his life, but was convinced, using reversed psychology, by the ghost of their dad, to let him back in. In contrast, Brian did not display any negativity towards Joe, even when Joe begged for him to do so (and Joe even criticized him for not doing so). | |
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Wings / int_7b2118c5 | type |
Bait-and-Switch Comparison | |
Wings / int_7b2118c5 | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Comparison: Helen, regarding Roy's Russian mail order bride. "Could you imagine your only two choices in life being Roy and Siberia? One is cold, vast, and depressing, and the other is way the hell in Russia." | |
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Wings / int_7b2118c5 | |
Wings / int_7b3ebb57 | type |
Buxom Beauty Standard | |
Wings / int_7b3ebb57 | comment |
Buxom Beauty Standard: When Frasier and Lilith Crane visit the island, Frasier makes a couple of comments regarding their Danish nanny's bosoms, causing Lilith to query: "What is this recent obsession you have with large breasts?" When Frasier then runs into Helen and doesn't remember her, Lilith proclaims: "Of course not. Her breasts are smaller than beach balls!" Also in 12-year-old Joe's fantasy, Casey is his wife, and when Helen replies with disgust, Joe says: "We were twelve years old and Casey was the first to get boobs." | |
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Wings / int_7b8b3def | type |
Celebrity Paradox | |
Wings / int_7b8b3def | comment |
Celebrity Paradox: In an early episode, an unimpressed Fay mentions how Helen once gave her a Debbie Reynolds workout tape for a gift. Reynolds later guest starred in an episode, playing Helen's mother, of all people. Antonio references Cagney & Lacey in the song he writes for Casey in "Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young Man". Cagney & Lacey star Tyne Daly (Tim Daly's sister) appears in another episode as a wealthy older woman who Brian dates. | |
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Wings / int_7dafc482 | type |
ChewToy | |
Wings / int_7dafc482 | comment |
Chew Toy: Antonio during the later seasons. And the more screentime he got, he more pathetic he became. The most notable instance is probably "B.S., I Love You", when after refusing to participate in a chain letter, he suffers a string of increasingly ridiculous calamities, including being attacked by a pack of wild dogs. | |
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Wings / int_7de3aec2 | type |
What Does She See in Him? | |
Wings / int_7de3aec2 | comment |
What Does She See in Him?: Done in a very odd way with Roy, who gets set up on a Blind Date with a lovely woman who laughs at his jokes, tells him he's handsome, and basically seems infatuated with him. He keeps asking her what her problem is, until she finally loses her temper with his insecurity and stomps off... leading Roy to smugly tell his fellows that, "I KNEW she was too good to be true!" Done with Roy again in "Roy Crazy", when it appears that his ex-wife Sylvia wants him back. It turns out, however, that she's only dating him to get back at her cheating husband. Done with Roy yet again in "Let's Talk About Sex" when he dates a talk show host whom Antonio idolizes, causing the latter to have something akin to a mental breakdown. This was Joe's reaction to Helen's relationship with Davis Lynch. However, the others are quick to point out that Davis is actually a pretty good guy, and Joe's reasons for disliking him are strictly personal (Davis refused to invest in Joe's airline and then began dating his old girlfriend). | |
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Wings / int_7e38c1a7 | type |
Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" | |
Wings / int_7e38c1a7 | comment |
Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": In "Hooker, Line, and Sinker", Roy writes a children's book about an overweight youth named "Ray Wiggins". The book ends up being basically a vehicle for Roy to live out his revenge fantasies on all those who wronged him in his youth. In "Life Could Be a Dream", Joe, Brian, Casey, and Helen read letters that they wrote as children of what they envisioned their futures to be like. Joe is a star baseball player, Brian is a James Bond-esque secret agent, Casey is a famous model, and Helen is the world's most successful "rock cellist". Helen's letter turns out to be a subversion, however. The rock star thing was something she made up on the spot after hearing the others' letters. Her real dream was to be Joe Hackett's wife. | |
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Wings / int_7eb49b31 | type |
Almost Kiss | |
Wings / int_7eb49b31 | comment |
Almost Kiss: Repeatedly in "Friends or Lovers?," including a sudden cramp, an interruption by a teenager, but mostly by Helen's laughing. Eventually subverted, as they share a long, hot kiss afterwards. | |
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Wings / int_7fd142ef | type |
Shared Universe | |
Wings / int_7fd142ef | comment |
Shared Universe: With Cheers, characters from which appear several times during the show's run.note Cliff and Norm in "The Story of Joe," Frasier and Lilith in "Planes, Trains and Visiting Cranes," Rebecca in "I Love Brian." Theoretically, this means that Wings should also share its universe with Frasier, though there was never any direct crossover between the two shows (Frasier Crane's appearance came before the show Frasier had been created, so the crossover would still have been with Cheers). Apparently they did consider having Antonio make an appearance on Frasier, but Tony Shalhoub asked to play a different character (Rebecca Schull also appeared on Frasier in a different role). | |
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Wings / int_80251be3 | type |
How We Got Here | |
Wings / int_80251be3 | comment |
How We Got Here: "As Fate Would Have It" opens with the gang in Joe's plane as it's about to crash. The bulk of the episode is spent describing the circumstances that put everybody in that particular situation. "Joe Blows, Part 1" opens with Joe face down in a pool while a voice-over discusses how he never expected this to be his fate. The rest of the episode shows the events that led to him being there. | |
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Wings / int_8042e814 | type |
Actually Pretty Funny | |
Wings / int_8042e814 | comment |
Actually Pretty Funny: In "Miss Jenkins," Roy's mother is almost tricked into marrying a con man, but the con man dies of a heart attack. He was leading a game of Simon Says when he had the attack. He said, "Call an ambulance." No one moved, because he didn't say "Simon Says." When Roy tells everyone the story, he starts laughing. Everyone calls him cruel for that, but then they begin laughing also. This exchange from "This Old House:" | |
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Wings / int_805b13e | type |
Wacky Marriage Proposal | |
Wings / int_805b13e | comment |
Wacky Marriage Proposal: Joe proposes to Helen with his arm stuck in an elevator door. Apparently this was an omen, because he later married her with his hand stuck in a toilet. | |
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Wings / int_80621707 | type |
Arranged Marriage | |
Wings / int_80621707 | comment |
Arranged Marriage: In "She's Baaack," Sandy Cooper arranges a wedding for herself and Joe since she couldn't accept the fact that Joe and Helen were engaged. She hides this perfectly in front of the others. Antonio's parents were married because their families decided it should be so. The two did not meet until the day of their wedding, yet eventually grew to love each other. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
Wings / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: Sandy Cooper is a Type C. In "2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten", she locks Joe in the basement to a weird re-enactment of the prom, which Joe never asked her to. | |
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Straight Gay | |
Wings / int_83b44e80 | comment |
Straight Gay: Roy's son R.J. | |
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Wings / int_84b1a036 | type |
Gay Aesop | |
Wings / int_84b1a036 | comment |
Gay Aesop: "There's Always Room For Cello" subverts it; Roy does not come to terms with his son R.J. being gay over the course of the episode. "Sons and Lovers", six years later, plays it straight when Roy must face the fact that being unable to accept his son's sexuality will mean not having R.J. in his life anymore. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
Wings / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: The whole reason that Brian borrows Lowell's boat, in "It's So Nice to Have a Mather Around the House", is so he can impress Alex when she finally agrees to go out with him. After Brian sinks Lowell's boat, not only is Alex never shown again but Brian doesn't even mention what happened to her during the sinking or even if she was on the boat. | |
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Wings / int_8792383c | type |
Censorship by Spelling | |
Wings / int_8792383c | comment |
Censorship by Spelling: Played with in "What The Cabbie Saw", when Helen is having Lowell watch the lunch counter while she attends to some personal business. | |
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Insatiable Newlyweds | |
Wings / int_89283763 | comment |
Insatiable Newlyweds: After Joe and Helen get married. | |
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Naked Apron | |
Wings / int_8a677d70 | comment |
Naked Apron: Joe and Helen, having kicked Brian and Casey out of the house, decide that they will celebrate their newfound privacy by being "all nude, all the time" while at home. This later leads to an argument when she comes out of the kitchen wearing an apron, but nothing else. (He's covered up by a newspaper he's conveniently reading at arm's length while walking down the stairs.) The rest of the episode was one Scenery Censor gag to another, until their neighbors' perverted kid managed to get blackmail photos of them... cleaning the rain gutters in the nude. | |
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Minor Flaw, Major Breakup | |
Wings / int_8aa92e8d | comment |
Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: In "Exit Laughing", Helen decides to dump her boyfriend because of his Annoying Laugh; however, he ends up dumping her first, because he cannot stand her Southern accent. A subversion occurs with Lowell. | |
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Wings / int_8af7b342 | type |
Sibling Yin-Yang | |
Wings / int_8af7b342 | comment |
Sibling Yin-Yang: Joe and Brian, especially in the early seasons. | |
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Wings / int_8b568cb7 | type |
Posthumous Character | |
Wings / int_8b568cb7 | comment |
Posthumous Character: Joe and Brian's father. Fay's three dead husbands named George. | |
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Cerebus Retcon | |
Wings / int_8b67aba7 | comment |
Cerebus Retcon: Done in the final flashback "This Old House," when we see the dinner scene of the then-happy Hackett family in their new home. | |
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Wings / int_8b68d9a7 | type |
Stalker with a Crush | |
Wings / int_8b68d9a7 | comment |
Stalker with a Crush: Sandy Cooper, at least in the high school years. See Yandere for the version that appears during the three separate episodes. | |
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I Need to Go Iron My Dog | |
Wings / int_8ca89acb | comment |
I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Numerous. In "It's Not the Thought, It's the Gift", where Joe and Brian compete over who can give Helen the better birthday gift, Joe wants to leave to get a better gift without making Brian aware of his intentions. Another one in "2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten": | |
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Wings / int_8cf6aa | type |
Literal Metaphor | |
Wings / int_8cf6aa | comment |
Literal Metaphor: Used in the episode "Plane Nine From Nantucket": | |
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Commuting on a Bus | |
Wings / int_8da65890 | comment |
Commuting on a Bus: Though Rebecca Schull remained credited for every episode, she cut back on her appearances for the final two seasons, resulting in Fay taking a number of vacations. | |
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Wings / int_8df6cb00 | type |
Censor Suds | |
Wings / int_8df6cb00 | comment |
Censor Suds: Done in "Divorce, American Style" with Helen. | |
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Wings / int_8f900ccd | type |
Overly Long Name | |
Wings / int_8f900ccd | comment |
Overly Long Name: Fay Evelyn Schlob Dumbly DeVay Cochran. She's been married three times and apparently kept all her names, though Fay Evelyn Cochran is what she actually goes by. | |
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Wings / int_901dbf9a | type |
Cliff Hanger | |
Wings / int_901dbf9a | comment |
Cliffhanger: Seasons 2, 3, 5, and 7 ended with one. | |
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Wings / int_90e2b7b4 | type |
Theme Twin Naming | |
Wings / int_90e2b7b4 | comment |
Theme Twin Naming: In "Sleepless in Nantucket", Lowell is asked to name his pregnant sister's child, and she has twins, which gives him some trouble, since what with Lowell being what he is, he thinks the names have to rhyme. Joe jokingly throws out Nancy and Fancy, which Lowell immediately loves, leading to the line: | |
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Wings / int_927b2f11 | type |
The Bus Came Back | |
Wings / int_927b2f11 | comment |
The Bus Came Back: "Ex, Lies, and Videotape" has Alex, who'd broken up with Brian and moved away at the end of the previous season, confronting him on a women's TV talk show. | |
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Wings / int_931fc523 | type |
Back for the Finale | |
Wings / int_931fc523 | comment |
Back for the Finale: A rare non-actor example - the full-length opening title sequence, dropped midway through season 3, was brought back into service. Averted with Thomas Haden Church (Lowell), who declined the offer to return. He was in the studio audience for the filming, however. | |
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Wings / int_959f08aa | type |
Vetinari Job Security | |
Wings / int_959f08aa | comment |
Vetinari Job Security: "Joe Blows", part 2. Fast forward a week after Joe left to places unknown, and leaves everything on Brian's shoulders. Kind of zig-zagged in that the airline's on the verge of bankruptcy, then it's fine again after a while. | |
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Wings / int_96709930 | type |
Posthumous Narration | |
Wings / int_96709930 | comment |
Posthumous Narration: Subverted in "Joe Blows". The episode opens with Joe face down in a pool in a shot intentionally reminiscent of the opening of Sunset Boulevard, with a voiceover from Joe telling us that he's going to show us how he got there. At the end of the episode (Part I of a two-parter where Joe leaves Sandpiper Air, and Brian, Lowell and Helen have to figure out how to track him down and convince him to come back) it's revealed that he was face down in the pool because he was setting a new breathholding record at a wild party. | |
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Wings / int_973d220f | type |
Never My Fault | |
Wings / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: As pointed out by Joe during an argument in "Das Plane", Brian rarely ever takes responsibility for the messes he gets himself and others into and always expects gratitude whenever he gets people out of the messes that he created to begin with. | |
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Wings / int_97914ed | type |
Idiot Savant | |
Wings / int_97914ed | comment |
Idiot Savant: Lowell. | |
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Wings / int_9874f2ab | type |
All Work vs. All Play | |
Wings / int_9874f2ab | comment |
All Work vs. All Play: Serious, straight-laced Joe is All Work and party-loving Brian, who only wants to work 3 hrs a day, is All Play, most of the time. | |
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Wings / int_9890e176 | type |
Same Character, But Different | |
Wings / int_9890e176 | comment |
Same Character, But Different: During the fourth season, Alex was depicted a tough, no-nonsense Tomboy. When she returned for the fifth season, now as Brian's girlfriend, she became a stereotypical sitcom Girly Girl who was overly-sensitive and sentimental about anything Brian said or did. | |
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Wings / int_99301367 | type |
Trust-Building Blunder | |
Wings / int_99301367 | comment |
Trust-Building Blunder: In "One Flew Over the Cooper's Nest", psychotic Sandy ambushes Joe in his psychiatrist's office for some emergency couples therapy. (She's under the impression she and Joe are married.) Sandy decides to do the trust game with Joe, but since she's completely delusional and Joe is sick of dealing with her, he simply lets her fall. | |
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Wings / int_9d3f4777 | type |
My Nayme Is | |
Wings / int_9d3f4777 | comment |
My Nayme Is: Subverted in "My Brother's Keeper". A visiting socialite has a brief relationship with Brian, who she calls "Brian With an I." | |
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Wings / int_9d6e002e | type |
Whole Episode Flashback | |
Wings / int_9d6e002e | comment |
Whole Episode Flashback: In "This Old House", the Hackett brothers' childhood home has been condemned due to storm damage, so they pay it one last visit and share some memories. When they realize that their memories are mostly of the unhappy sort (the mom eventually left the family while the dad became insane), they begin destroying it themselves. In "Moonlighting", the others help Alex feel better about her embarrasing job as a server in a medieval-themed restaurant by sharing stories of their worst work experiences (Joe was the personal pilot for a chimpanzee, Fay was the mascot for a seafood restaurant, Antonio was a salesman for a funeral company, and Helen and Brian worked as stage magicians who didn't realize they had been booked to do a strip show). | |
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Wings / int_9e0c3153 | type |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
Wings / int_9e0c3153 | comment |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Sandy Cooper does this a lot during her violent mood swings. Overlaps with Compelling Voice at times. | |
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Wings / int_9e67ec50 | type |
Flashback Cut | |
Wings / int_9e67ec50 | comment |
Flashback Cut: Repeatedly in "It's Not the Thought, it's the Gift". The scenes would regularly cut to a home video of Helen's twelfth birthday, which was distinguished by the younger characters and the sepia-like tone. | |
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Wings / int_a09f3a65 | type |
Sibling Triangle | |
Wings / int_a09f3a65 | comment |
Sibling Triangle: Joe and Brian are involved in a number of them: Joe/Brian/Carol, then Joe/Brian/Helen, then Joe/Brian/Alex. | |
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Wings / int_a11be05e | type |
Blind Date | |
Wings / int_a11be05e | comment |
Done in a very odd way with Roy, who gets set up on a Blind Date with a lovely woman who laughs at his jokes, tells him he's handsome, and basically seems infatuated with him. He keeps asking her what her problem is, until she finally loses her temper with his insecurity and stomps off... leading Roy to smugly tell his fellows that, "I KNEW she was too good to be true!" | |
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Wings / int_a18d407b | type |
Samus Is a Girl | |
Wings / int_a18d407b | comment |
Samus Is a Girl: In the finale, Joe and Brian are trying to open a treasure chest and having no success. Cut to the gang standing behind a welder who manages to open the chest with a blowtorch. Upon success, the welder removes their identity-concealing helmet. It's Fay. | |
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Wings / int_a41f13e5 | type |
Bad Job, Worse Uniform | |
Wings / int_a41f13e5 | comment |
Bad Job, Worse Uniform: In "Moonlighting," Alex is thoroughly embarrassed when she has to take a second job as a server at a medieval-themed restaurant, complete with humiliating outfit. | |
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Wings / int_a46825fa | type |
Glass Eye | |
Wings / int_a46825fa | comment |
Glass Eye: Lowell mentions his grandmother gets a big laugh every year at Thanksgiving when she takes out her glass eye and sticks it in the stuffing. | |
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Wings / int_a5e0c01 | type |
As Himself | |
Wings / int_a5e0c01 | comment |
As Himself: Ray Charles, Clint Black, George Kennedy, Steve Young, Oliver North, Peter Tork, and Jim Tavare all appeared in episodes playing themselves. | |
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Wings / int_a6278d84 | type |
Wacky Parent, Serious Child | |
Wings / int_a6278d84 | comment |
Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Joe and his father, though it isn't clear exactly how wacky the elder Hackett was prior to officially becoming insane. | |
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Wings / int_a734c20 | type |
Black Widow | |
Wings / int_a734c20 | comment |
Black Widow: Subverted with Fay, though it's hard not to wonder since all three of her husbands were named George. | |
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Wings / int_a7e47a11 | type |
Your Approval Fills Me with Shame | |
Wings / int_a7e47a11 | comment |
Your Approval Fills Me with Shame The episode "Ex, Lies, and Videotape" involves Brian going on a talk show and being depicted as a sexist, chauvinist pig. When he returns to the airport following the broadcast, Fay gives him a bunch of phone messages he received: "You got three death threats, ten calls from women who think they can change you, and an 'Atta Boy' from Andrew Dice Clay." A humorous version of this trope is used in the episode “My Brother’s Keeper�. When Brian starts dating Mimsy Borogroves, an older woman who decides to invest millions of dollars in Nantucket, all of the main characters are delighted except his brother Joe. Joe’s shame vanishes after Borogroves offers to give him money for a new airplane. However, when Brian tells Joe that he has taken Joe’s advice and ended the relationship, everybody loses as Mimsy then backs away from all her planned investments and leaves the island. | |
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Wings / int_a861560f | type |
The Friend Nobody Likes | |
Wings / int_a861560f | comment |
The Friend Nobody Likes: Everyone else finds Roy to be obnoxious, unpleasant, and disgusting, yet he seems to be an integral part of their social circle. | |
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Wings / int_aa5b4f2c | type |
Wedding Episode | |
Wings / int_aa5b4f2c | comment |
Wedding Episode: Joe and Helen, in "Here It Is: The Big Wedding". They end up having to perform the ceremony inside a hotel bathroom after Joe drops the ring in the toilet and then gets his hand stuck trying to retrieve it. | |
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Wings / int_ac1b0a35 | type |
Elegant Classical Musician | |
Wings / int_ac1b0a35 | comment |
Elegant Classical Musician: Helen and her cello. | |
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Wings / int_ac4fcf2b | type |
Work Com | |
Wings / int_ac4fcf2b | comment |
Work Com: The main action takes place most of the time within Tom Nevers Field. | |
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Wings / int_ad3e13c5 | type |
The Loins Sleep Tonight | |
Wings / int_ad3e13c5 | comment |
The Loins Sleep Tonight: In "Miss Jenkins", when Brian dates his old teacher. Then something happens which has never ever happened to him before - "I got an incomplete". | |
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Wings / int_add9abb3 | type |
The Missus and the Ex | |
Wings / int_add9abb3 | comment |
The Missus and the Ex: Fay doesn't want her second husband to be moved to the same cemetary as her first husband because she thinks they would compare notes. | |
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Wings / int_add9abb3 | |
Wings / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
Wings / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Roy and Brian, sometimes Joe and Helen as well. | |
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Wings / int_ae7c8bec | type |
George Washington Slept Here | |
Wings / int_ae7c8bec | comment |
George Washington Slept Here: In "This Old House", the house that Joe and Brian grew up in is condemned for demolition after a storm erodes the cliff it's on, threatening to drop it into the ocean. The cast set out to find a way to save it, and after failing, decide to instead let out some childhood angst and wreck parts of it themselves. Cue Fay coming in at the end to announce that the Nantucket Historical Society had found evidence that Herman Melville had once rented a room in that house and would therefore preserve it. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
Wings / int_af616e40 | comment |
Accidental Misnaming: One of the many things about Carlton that annoyed Antonio was the fact that he kept addressing him as Angelo, despite Antonio's constant efforts to correct him. In addition, some mispronouce his last name too, like Vera (a woman who gives him intel on a mystery woman he is looking for) calls him 'Scrap-pah-chee'. Roy Biggins tended to see his name get butchered a lot. In "Blackout Buggins", a TV newscaster refers to him as "Roy Buggins", and then later in the episode, the announcer at Fenway Park calls him "Ray Biggins". In "Let's Talk About Sex", a newspaper story identifies Roy as "Boyd Wiggins". | |
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All Up to You | |
Wings / int_b0a0108d | comment |
All Up to You: The arc including "High Anxiety," "My Brother's Back and There's Going to Be Trouble," and the two-parter "Joe Blows" involves Joe somehow unable to keep Sandpiper Air in business, and Brian has to take the responsibility. "Airport 90" involves Helen having to land the plane since Joe isn't there and Brian hit his head on the plane ceiling. | |
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Oops! I Forgot I Was Married | |
Wings / int_b1b83670 | comment |
Oops! I Forgot I Was Married: When Helen is about to marry Joe, she finds out that she is still Antonio's wife, whom she married for citizenship reasons. Turns out she forgot to send in the divorce papers. And after she married Joe, she essentially pulls this trope again when her Disposable Fiancé Davis reappears and it turns out that she never officially broke up with him. | |
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Retcon | |
Wings / int_b2280b66 | comment |
Retcon: In an early episode, Helen mentions having a sister named Lorraine who is married with at least two children. Later, Helen's sister Casey shows up. It is clear from the context that Lorraine and Casey cannot be the same character, and it is implied that Casey is Helen's only sister. In an early episode Joe mentions that he saw Helen naked once and they didn't talk for a couple years, but in "It's Not the Thought, it's the Gift", its shown he attended Helen's eleventh birthday party and most likely talked with her. In Season Five, Antonio is dating a "big-faced" girl named Denise. When the character is brought up again in Season Seven, her name has been changed to Edna. In the pilot, Brian has no idea who Lowell is and Joe even has to explain to him that Lowell's family has been on the island for years. However, later episodes imply that Joe, Brian, and Helen have all known Lowell since they were kids and even went to school with him. | |
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Just Between You and Me | |
Wings / int_b26cc887 | comment |
Just Between You and Me (with shades of Engineered Public Confession): While talking to Joe, who is disguised as a corpse in a coffin, Eleanor Kingsbury reveals in shocking detail how she murdered her father as an act of vengeance for leaving all his money to his bimbo wife. | |
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Genius Bonus | |
Wings / int_b3d1b7e3 | comment |
Incidentally, that was actually John Denver. | |
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Epic Fail | |
Wings / int_b4eff8a8 | comment |
Epic Fail: Brian's plan in "The Puppetmaster". His goal is to make Helen fall for Matt, a hired actor who is her ideal man, except that he's a pilot, hoping to make Helen erase the rule of not dating pilots. His plan seemed to be going well, until Helen declares that she's in love and plans to go serious, and Matt's also falling for Helen. When Brian and Joe goes to stop them and gives out the truth, Helen doesn't care. Joe objects to this by (fake) confessing his love for Helen. Matt doesn't take it well, and pulls out a gun. Eventually, it seems like he died after a fight with Joe, but it's all a staged act planned by none other than Joe. | |
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The Lad-ette | |
Wings / int_b5060b63 | comment |
Curiously, when Alex was on the show, Helen was the girly girl, if only by comparison. She would switch between skirts & tights and sweatshirt & jeans depending on the comparison needed. | |
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Take That! | |
Wings / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: In "The Customer's Usually Right", when discussing the film Sea of Love, Lowell remarks that the film's star Ellen Barkin looks like she slept with half of her face on a bedspread. | |
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Noodle Implements | |
Wings / int_b5914444 | comment |
Noodle Implements: Roy finds the subject of one's parents having sex distasteful: Subverted in the second half of "Joe Blows", when Brian explains each of the Noodle Implements that ended with trout fishing. | |
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Dysfunctional Family | |
Wings / int_b6cc7fc0 | comment |
Dysfunctional Family: Joe and Brian's father went insane, their mother left them, leaving Joe to take care of Brian and his father. And their aunt Sarah smells like play-doh. Helen lampshades this by saying that Joe's life is just a tiny step away from being a Greek tragedy. | |
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RetConned | |
Wings / int_b6d0887 | comment |
The ten month gap was later Retconned as six months. The writers apparently realized that the show did episodes taking place on Valentine's Day and Election Day that year (for both of which Helen was present), and there aren't ten months between those two days. | |
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Annoying Laugh | |
Wings / int_b871de85 | comment |
Annoying Laugh: In "Exit Laughing," Helen dates a man with a laugh like a braying hyena. | |
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Crash Course Landing | |
Wings / int_b87ae3ba | comment |
Crash Course Landing: Helen is forced to make one in "Airport '90". | |
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Wings / int_bbc17998 | type |
Enforced Method Acting | |
Wings / int_bbc17998 | comment |
Enforced Method Actinginvoked: Fictional example; Joe surprise kisses Helen during their elaborate act in "The Puppetmaster". It is strongly implied that both of them wanted to do so, as indicated by the exchange below. | |
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Comically Inappropriate Funeral Urn | |
Wings / int_bbe11bf0 | comment |
Comically Inappropriate Funeral Urn: In "A Terminal Christmas", the group tries to help Fay scatter the ashes of her late husband George. As they're flying to the drop-off point in the plane, Lowell breaks the urn and they have to vacuum up the ashes with a Dustbuster. They end up using that to scatter the ashes. | |
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Did They or Didn't They? | |
Wings / int_bda2a088 | comment |
Did They or Didn't They?: The entire focus of "It May Have Happened One Night" is the other characters trying to find out if Joe and Alex slept together. Even Alex doesn't know (she was very drunk the night in question). | |
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Alliterative Name | |
Wings / int_be009bbc | comment |
Alliterative Name: Budd Bronski, and Helen Hackett (after she got married.) | |
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Wings / int_be0f728 | type |
Shoo Out the New Guy | |
Wings / int_be0f728 | comment |
Shoo Out the New Guy: Alex was introduced midway through Season Four and by Season Five had become a main character. However, fans never warmed to the character, and she was written out at the end of Season Five when the writers decided her relationship with Brian wasn't going anywhere. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
Wings / int_bf1255fa | comment |
Really Gets Around: In "There Once Was a Girl from Nantucket", Brian sets Joe up with a woman named Cindy who's an exaggerated version of this. She had slept with almost every man on the island - except Joe. This is deconstructed later on, though, and Cindy moves to Boston by the end of the episode to have a fresh start. Lowell's wife Bunny pretty much sleeps with everyone except Lowell. When the pair finally got divorced, she started sleeping with Lowell, too. | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male | |
Wings / int_c0e3994b | comment |
Don't forget, this is treated as an amusing and understandable action because she was mad. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
Wings / int_c2cedc1c | comment |
Big "NO!": In "The Tennis Bum," Lowell does this after seeing his destroyed blimp. | |
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Wings / int_c3075178 | type |
Filth | |
Wings / int_c3075178 | comment |
Filth: Brian could be counted on for many a racy joke over the course of the series. Roy as well, though he tended to be more blunt about it. | |
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Wings / int_c33ba0a8 | type |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
Wings / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Budd's absence during the final season is never explained. Kenny is introduced midway through Season 2, made a handful of appearances, and then vanished from the series and was never mentioned again. Justifiable, as in-universe there was a gap of nearly a year between Seasons 2 and 3, during which time Joe got his pilot's licence back, and Kenny was likely deemed surplus to requirements and/or moved onto college. | |
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Life's Work Ruined | |
Wings / int_c439078a | comment |
Life's Work Ruined: In "The Tennis Bum", Joe accidentally causes Lowell's painstakingly crafted model blimp to be destroyed. Lowell doesn't take it well. | |
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Make-Out Point | |
Wings / int_c50bd555 | comment |
Make-Out Point: Joe takes Helen to this in "Friends or Lovers?". | |
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Midseason Replacement | |
Wings / int_c62d8f4c | comment |
Midseason Replacement: Wings was one of these. | |
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Celebrity Lie | |
Wings / int_c6355c0a | comment |
In "I Love Brian", Brian tries to win Alex over by claiming that he is good friends with Clint Black and can therefore get tickets to his sold-out concert. Brian lucks out when he manages to buy tickets off of Lowell that the latter had previously acquired, but his truthfulness is still called into question when the seats turn out to be in the nosebleed section. | |
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Wings / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Wings / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Many of the episode titles are paraphrases of film titles, common sayings, or song lyrics. The opening and ending of "Joe Blows" are similiar to Sunset Boulevard. Carlton Blanchard was named after a character from the 1927 film that shares its name with the series. Incidentally, Carlton's actor, William Hickey, was born that same year. The episode "My Brother's Keeper" features a character named "Mimsy Borogroves". | |
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Wings / int_c7e7529c | type |
Five Stages of Grief | |
Wings / int_c7e7529c | comment |
Five Stages of Grief: Parodied in "Goodbye Old Friend". When Lowell refuses to believe that his friend Weeb is dead, Brian notes that he's in denial and explains that over the next few weeks, they can expect to see Lowell go through the remaining stages: anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Lowell then comes back into the room and expresses each stage one after another, in order, in the space of a few seconds. | |
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Rage Breaking Point | |
Wings / int_c819533b | comment |
Rage Breaking Point: In the first part of "Joe Blows", Joe completely explodes after an annoying customer demands that Joe pay for a minor scratch on his briefcase. | |
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Wings / int_c868a42a | type |
Freudian Excuse | |
Wings / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: In "Mother Wore Stripes" Joe blames his mother abandoning him as a child for him growing up to be a nervous tightass. In "This Old House", Brian discovers the letters he wrote to Captain Kangaroo that he wrote when they were kids and that Joe was supposed to send and then expounds an elaborate theory about how believing he had been ignored by his hero eventually led to all his failures in life as an adult. Joe is skeptical. | |
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Wings / int_c8b4278b | type |
Straight Man and Wise Guy | |
Wings / int_c8b4278b | comment |
Straight Man and Wise Guy: Joe and Brian, respectively. | |
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No Name Given | |
Wings / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: One of Lowell's sons. | |
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Wings / int_caa28b82 | type |
Cloudcuckoolander | |
Wings / int_caa28b82 | comment |
In "The Waxman Cometh", after the gang has learned that Cloudcuckoolander Lowell's family possesses a huge family trust which all Mathers get a huge payout from upon turning 31 1/2 years old: | |
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The Chains of Commanding | |
Wings / int_caf8c66c | comment |
The Chains of Commanding: after Joe leaves Nantucket in 'Joe Blows' due to being overworked, Brian discovers how difficult it is to operate a business. | |
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Wings / int_cf92fea8 | type |
Cassandra Truth | |
Wings / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: The three Sandy Cooper episodes. Everyone insists that Sandy is a perfectly sane woman, except Joe — whom nobody listens to. Justified since it's got to be seen to be believed. Also, in the high school years this happens to Joe as well, but Sandy was stalking him. | |
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Porn Stash | |
Wings / int_cfbbd075 | comment |
Porn Stash: Joe has Playboy magazines hidden in his secret compartment at his old house, along with Brian's letters he was supposed to send Captain Kangaroo. Brian did not have one; he simply helped himself to his father's stash. Roy has a stash of Playboys in his office. | |
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One-Word Title | |
Wings / int_d0f0a80d | comment |
One-Word Title | |
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Wings / int_d1cedb73 | type |
Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
Wings / int_d1cedb73 | comment |
Slap-Slap-Kiss: Joe and Helen during their break-up. The slapping was done with meat, apparently. | |
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Wings / int_d212847f | type |
Key Under the Doormat | |
Wings / int_d212847f | comment |
Key Under the Doormat: Lowell does this in "Ex, Lies, and Videotape", which he reveals when some of the gang goes to Boston to be in the audience of a talk show. Thinking that he may have left his iron turned on at home, he announces to the camera his address and key hiding place, asking someone to check for him. Predictably, this leads to thieves stealing everything he owns. ("Except the iron...which was off!"). | |
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Wings / int_d2b59903 | type |
Cool Old Lady | |
Wings / int_d2b59903 | comment |
Cool Old Lady: Fay (Evelyn Schlob Dumbly DeVay) Cochran can be this, especially in the later seasons when her wacky side was emphasized a lot more. | |
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Wings / int_d4b34379 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
Wings / int_d4b34379 | comment |
Lightbulb Joke: In "Gone But Not Faygotten", Fay retires and the Hackett brothers hire Casey to replace her as Sandpiper's ticket agent. When Fay wants to come back, neither Joe nor Brian has the heart to tell her no, but they can't bring themselves to fire Casey either, so they let them both run the counter, even though the job can easily be handled by one person. Roy comments on the situation. | |
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I Can Live With That | |
Wings / int_d4bcc4c5 | comment |
I Can Live With That: In "Roy Crazy". | |
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Hypocrite | |
Wings / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
In that same episode, Brian vows to follow Alex around until she agrees to get back together with him—"Everywhere she goes, I'll be there." To which Joe replies, "And whenever you come up for parole, I'll be there.", thus insinuating that while his behavior is somehow acceptable, Brian's isn't. | |
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House Fire | |
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House Fire: Done twice. In the season 7 premiere, Brian and Casey accidentally burn down Joe and Helen's house, causing the four to have to live together. In the season 8 premiere, after moving into their own new house, Joe and Helen accidentally burn down Brian and Casey's house, forcing the four to keep living together a while longer. Then the insurance agent who refused to believe the fires were an accident burns down her hotel room while having sex. Brian's reaction to Joe burning down his house is not nearly as strong as Joe's reaction to Brian burning down his house. Joe temporarily threw Brian out of his life, but was convinced, using reversed psychology, by the ghost of their dad, to let him back in. In contrast, Brian did not display any negativity towards Joe, even when Joe begged for him to do so (and Joe even criticized him for not doing so). | |
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Undisclosed Funds | |
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Undisclosed Funds: When Joe and Helen go to a meeting with the insurance adjuster after the loss of their house and all its contents in a fire. The meeting doesn't go so well, and the adjuster finally writes something on a check and says "I'm sorry, but we can't do any better than this.", and gives it to them. After they see it, they shrug, and then begin spontaneously chanting "We're rich! We're rich!" In "Labor Pains", Lowell's salary demands are never made known to the viewer. He simply hands Joe and Roy a piece of paper and says this is what he's looking for. In "Gone But Not Fay-gotten", Joe is looking to hire a replacement for Fay during her temporary retirement. When the interviewee asks what her salary will be, Joe responds by writing it down and handing it to her. Upon reading it, she begins laughing and walks out of the interview. | |
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Race Lift | |
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Race Lift: In-Universe. In "The Gift," Fay gets cast as Oprah Winfrey in a musical called The Phantom of the Oprah. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Roy and Antonio. The former would constantly abuse the latter, yet the two seemed to constantly be hanging out with one another. Brian and Casey had this dynamic as well. Early on, the two outright hated one another but were forced together due to circumstances. Eventually, their relationship reached the point where while they constantly bickered and got on each other's nerves, there was nonetheless a genuine bond between them. | |
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Prone to Tears | |
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Prone to Tears: Male example; Helen dates a man who cries when she mentions her missing kitten story, finding his sensitivity to be attractive. She becomes disillusioned when she realizes he cries at everything. | |
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Memento MacGuffin | |
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Memento MacGuffin: The cameo that Joe gives to Helen in "It's Not the Thought, it's the Gift" belongs to his runaway mother, as evidenced in the home video of Helen's 12th birthday party. This cues the raising implication that Joe likes Helen more than a friend. | |
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Mondegreen Gag | |
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Mondegreen Gag: Antonio misheard the lyrics of a song to be "My goat knows the bowling score", when it's actually "Michael row the boat ashore." And then the next line ("Sister, help to mend the sail") as "Sid's new hair is in the mail." Lowell was prone to this also. In "A Terminal Christmas", the group sings "Walking in a Winter Wonderland", but Lowell sings the title phrase as "walking in my winter underwear". When Brian corrects him, Lowell disagrees, stating that Wonderland is a dog track and would be closed in the winter. "Gone But Not Faygotten" opens with Lowell mangling the words to "Moon River" ("Moon River, wider than the Nile, my brother's name is Lyle... okay..."), despite demonstrating earlier in "The Puppetmaster" that he knew the correct lyrics perfectly ("Moon River, wider than a mile, I'm crossing you in style someday...") | |
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A Rare Sentence | |
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A Rare Sentence: In "The Waxman Cometh", after the gang has learned that Cloudcuckoolander Lowell's family possesses a huge family trust which all Mathers get a huge payout from upon turning 31 1/2 years old: In "Too Beautiful for You", Antonio volunteers at a suicide hotline and makes a date with a female caller. He tells Joe and Brian about it the next day, prompting this response: | |
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Rage Quit | |
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Rage Quit: What Roy does in "Sports and Leisure" after Lowell, whom he's partnered with, answers every question with "Ann-Margret."note Lowell has played the game before, and he knows that Ann-Margret is the answer to one of the questions. After several turns, Roy gets upset and changes teams, then hits his breaking point when he and Fay immediately get the question where the answer actually is "Ann-Margret." | |
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Ma'am Shock | |
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Ma'am Shock: When Joe dates a nineteen-year-old, Helen and Alex become so insecure about their age that when a delivery boy addresses Helen as "Ma'am," they both berate him, demanding to be called "babe," "kitten," or "cupcake." | |
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Pass the Popcorn | |
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Pass the Popcorn: In "There's Always Room For Cello", Roy and his son R.J have a basketball match to determine whether R.J is "allowed" to be gay or not. After a fast forward shot of the two tired and worn out, Joe and Brian are seen watching from the door while eating popcorn. Lampshaded in "An Affair to Forget;" while Alex and Brian fight, Joe, seated in a rocker by the fireplace, tells Helen, "I wish we had some popcorn." | |
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Last-Name Basis | |
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Last-Name Basis: Roy usually refers to everyone using their last names, unless he's trying to suck up to them for some reason. | |
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Closed Circle | |
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Closed Circle: There are a few episodes where the gang are stuck in the airport for some reason, usually weather. | |
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Comfort Food | |
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Comfort Food: Everything, according to Helen. Every time she's anxious, worried or depressed she would eat a lot. A deconstruction, because it caused weight problems for her. | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Lowell. | |
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The Fool | |
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The Fool: Lowell. | |
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Artistic License – Sports | |
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Artistic License – Sports: In the episode "The Team Player," Antonio, temporarily running the Sandpiper counter while Joe and Brian are away at a Boston Bruins hockey game, causes the Bruins' star player, Danny "Dead End" Connelly, to miss the game. The wrath of all of Massachusetts descends on Joe and Brian, but the airline is saved from disaster when the hockey star abruptly leaves the team to sign a huge contract with their rivals. In what sporting league is one able to walk out on one's contract and immediately join a rival in the middle of the season? Not the NHL, at least. Additionally, for every pissed-off fan, there would've been three who would've ridiculed this guy for trying to pull the "Do you know who I am?" card. And on top of that, if it was that close to game time, shouldn't he have been at the arena already? If such a thing happened in the real world, the sports media would have been chewing him out mercilessly. In "Blackout Buggins", the group goes to Fenway Park to watch Roy sing the national anthem. After Roy finishes the song, a Boston Red Sox player with the name Casey on his jersey is seen taking the field. The Red Sox have never featured player names on the back of their home jerseys. | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral" | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral": When Joe pretends to be a corpse in "Death Becomes Him". | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: The episode "Mother Wore Stripes," in which Joe lashes out at his mother for abandoning the family. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Several of the characterisations are pretty obviously borrowed from Cheers, which Angell, Casey and Lee were the showrunners on before creating this series. In particular, Lowell has a very similar Genius Ditz personality to Woody, Brian's womanizing ways are reminiscent of Sam, and Helen combines aspects of both Carla (her short stature and even shorter temper) and Diane (her artistic side). There's an even stronger case of cast derivation from Wings Spiritual Predecessor, Taxi: Joe/Alex is the Straight Man to Schemer Brian/Bobby, Jerkass Roy/Louie messes with the others, Funny Foreigner Antonio/Latka and Cloud Cuckoolander Lowell/Reverend Jim each serve as an Ensemble Dark Horse, Helen/Elaine is the Girly Girl, and Fay/Tony is the affable Ditz. Cheers and Taxi were also produced by Paramount. The creators of Cheers worked on many episodes of Taxi, and the creators of Wings also worked on many episodes of Cheers (later creating the spin-off Frasier). | |
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Flanderization | |
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Flanderization: Largely averted, as most of the characters remained quite consistent throughout the run. The big exception was Joe, who became considerably goofier and prone to histrionic outbursts during the final seasons. This behavior was very out of character compared to the competent, level-headed man he was shown to be during the early years. Antonio also grew progressively more pathetic and mopey as the years went on, which was noticeably different from the hot-tempered yet extremely efficient waiter he was first depicted as. | |
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Ignore the Disability | |
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Ignore the Disability: In one episode, Fay helps a passenger named Tupperman with a very bad toupee. Although she's distracted by it, she manages to avoid mentioning it... until the end, when she accidentally calls him "Mr. Toupee-man." | |
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Briefcase Full of Money | |
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Briefcase Full of Money: Double subverted. The pilot episode has the briefcase containing a picture of Joe and Brian with the writing "You're rich." Fast forward seven years later, it turns out that the lining of the briefcase contains money, which kicks off a treasure hunt that eventually makes the brothers $250,000 richer. | |
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Obsessively Organized | |
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Obsessively Organized: Joe's primary gag is that he can't sleep if his shoes are touching one another, all the cups in his pantry have their handles pointing due north, and the first thing he did when he got his first bike as a kid was put away the box and fill out the warranty card. When Alex invites herself into Joe's office to share a drink with him, Joe takes it as a sign of personal progress that he was able to wait a couple of minutes before ripping two pages out of his desk organizer to serve as makeshift coasters. | |
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It Meant Something to Me | |
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It Meant Something to Me: The reason Antonio didn't inform Helen that he won the Green Card lottery was because he hoped that she might grow to like him a little. She didn't, and they divorced. He then asks her on a date now that they're both single. Invoked earlier in "The Puppetmaster". When Brian hires an actor to play as Helen's ideal man so he could date Helen (somehow), the plan goes awry after he falls for Helen and vice versa. Joe apparently ganged up with the two to outgambit him. | |
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But Not Too Gay | |
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But Not Too Gay: When Antonio unknowingly enters into a same sex relationship with a gay TV star, the episode ends with the gay actor bizarrely showing his affection for Antonio by kissing him on the nose instead of the lips. Most likely because Tony Shalhoub or the network (or both) didn't feel comfortable with a same sex kiss. | |
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I Never Got Any Letters | |
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I Never Got Any Letters: In "This Old House", Joe hides all the letters Brian wrote for Captain Kangaroo. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: Spoofed in "The Big Sleep" and "Dreamgirl." "The Big Sleep" features a Dream Within a Dream within another dream. Joe and Helen fight over the plans for their new house and go to bed angry. The next day at the airport, Joe tells Brian that he dreamed last night that he died in a plane crash; Brian warns Joe not to fly that day. Joe tells Helen that they can't fly to Boston to see their architect, but Helen assumes that Joe is simply trying to get out of having to change the house plans back to the way she wants them. She forces him to fly anyway, and the plane really does crash... But before they die, Joe wakes up in bed. He then wakes Helen up and tells her about the dream. Helen comforts Joe, tells him the house plans can stay the way Joe wanted them, and then the two have sex. Cut to Joe waking up again, for real this time. He rouses Helen in the hopes of duplicating what happened in his dream. It doesn't work. | |
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Freud Was Right | |
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Freud Was Right: In "The Big Sleep", Brian explains dream interpretation to Joe when he has nightmares, saying that if you dream that you're underwater, it's about sex. Joe says there was a clown in his dream. According to Brian, that too is about sex. Then Joe was trampled by tigers. Well, that's about group sex. | |
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Wealthy Ever After | |
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Wealthy Ever After: The finale has the brothers discovering the $250,000 in the lining of the suitcase (from the first episode). | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: With Cheers - Norm and Cliff in "The Story of Joe", Frasier and Lilith in "Planes, Trains, and Visiting Cranes", Rebecca Howe in "I Love Brian". In the first story, the duo are going to a fishing spot... but they end up just sitting in the terminal bar and commenting on the goings-on, just like they do on Cheers. They never get to fish, but decide they had a great time anyway. | |
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Stupid Sexy Flanders | |
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Stupid Sexy Flanders: In "Noses Off", while the guys are having a bull session about famous men they think are handsome, Antonio goes a little overboard in praising gymnast Mitch Gaylord. Brian's attempt to establish plausible deniability on Kevin Costner may go even worse. Antonio finally exits the conversation, saying, "Excuse me. I have to go pick up a copy of something with naked women in it." | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: A minor subversion; all of Fay's husbands are named George. They're all dead, too. When she gets into a relationship with someone named Lyle, she plans to marry him until she finds out that his first name is George. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Helen invokes this in "The Puppetmaster:" Also occurs in "This Old House" after Lowell eats some spoiled food. | |
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Mistaken for Terrorist | |
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Mistaken for Terrorist: In "Das Plane", Joe has to make an emergency landing in a cornfield. The farmer who owns it holds Antonio at gunpoint, believing him to be a Libyan terrorist. | |
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Promotion to Parent | |
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Promotion to Parent: Joe essentially became the man of the house after his mother left and his father went insane. | |
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Chain of Deals | |
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Chain of Deals: In "Joe Blows", Brian works out one of these to get the plane back when the bank takes it. | |
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Serendipitous Symphony | |
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Serendipitous Symphony: The opening for episode "Date Package Number Seven" starts with everybody bored because the airport is fogged in. Antonio is clinking his spoon in a coffee mug, Joe is noodling on a guitar, and Brian is flipping through a magazine. Then Lowell starts sanding the door frame nearby. His rhythmic sanding coincides with Antonio's clinking beat. Suddenly Brian starts scatting, and they're doing a full-on Bossanova number. Eventually they realize what's happened and pause——before continuing right on with the music. | |
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Innocent Innuendo | |
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Innocent Innuendo: After Roy mentioned that his son R.J had a crush (read: dirty thoughts) on Helen in "There's Always Room For Cello", the next few sentences that Helen said were made to sound like euphemisms for sex. The guys took joy in pointing that out. Eventually it was revealed that R.J's gay, and he was lying to take cello lessons from Helen. | |
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Who's Laughing Now? | |
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Who's Laughing Now?: Joe has a tendency to do this whenever Brian's gotten himself into trouble he can't talk his way out of. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Budd Bronski, the replacement character for Lowell. Season Six's "The Shrink" features George Plimpton as Dr. Grayson, a psychiatrist who helps Brian get over his breakup with Alex. When a psychiatrist was needed again for "One Flew Over the Cooper's Nest" a year later, Plimpton was unavailable, so the producers cast Robert Joy as Dr. Grayson's son, who had taken over his father's practice. | |
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Mile-High Club | |
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Mile-High Club: Unsurprisingly, this was mentioned a few times, including: | |
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Stripper/Cop Confusion | |
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Stripper/Cop Confusion: In "Boys Just Wanna Have Fun", Helen ends up handcuffed to the stripper cop hired for her bachelorette party. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: In "There's Always Room For Cello", Fay has trouble sorting out 'gay' (happiness) with the other 'gay'. When R.J exclaims enthusiastically that he's gay to Fay, she responds that he should be, because he's still young. | |
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Romantic False Lead | |
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Romantic False Lead: Davis Lynch, whose main purpose on the show was to stir up tension between Joe and Helen. Gail Scott, the woman whom Joe began dating after Helen went to New York. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: Roy uses this in his children's book My Big Buddy which is about an overweight boy who's bullied at school. Casey looks it over to do the illustrations and is shocked when the book ends with the child protagonist killing his tormentor. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: In "2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten", Joe finds a teddy bear hung on his office (in a similar position to a person committing suicide by hanging) with a note that says "Joey Bear; Till death do us part". Joe is extremely concerned about this, but Brian, Alex and Helen make numerous remarks about the bear. Helen nearly subverts this: Also, in "Joe Blows" part 2, we see Helen and Lowell both calling in a missing person report. Helen is calling for Joe, describing him, while Lowell is calling for his Harley Davidson which Joe rode away on. In "Duet for Cello and Plane", an old woman keeps calling Roy by a foreign word that sounds insulting — she finally defines it by pointing at the hindquarters of a horse picture (i.e. she's calling him a horse's ass). Roy finally gets it — and is thrilled that she thinks he's a stallion. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: Joe says this in "2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten" when he tries to make an excuse for not going to the Club Car with Sandy Cooper. Helen once worked in a New York strip club called "Totally Nude Nudes", which Brian lampshades. | |
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Disposable Fiancé | |
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And after she married Joe, she essentially pulls this trope again when her Disposable Fiancé Davis reappears and it turns out that she never officially broke up with him. | |
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Love Before First Sight | |
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Love Before First Sight: In the episode "Ms. Write", Brian falls in love with "R", the author of some very passionate, poetic love letters delivered to his house by mistake. He eventually meets "R", who turns out to be a 12-year-old girl. | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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Fay is not good at coming up with excuses on the spot. Whenever she has to announce a flight being delayed but can't say the real reason for the delay, she always says something ridiculous. In "What the Cabbie Saw", she announces that the flight is being delayed due to "a hole in the wing", and in another episode, she claims that the pilot is busy "doing an important pilot thing". | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Roy had just enough of these moments that he was able to avoid being an unlikeable Jerkass. An especially prominent one is in "Let's Talk About Sex" when he breaks up with his talk show host girlfriend after she ambushes Joe and Helen on her show. Another good example is the episode "If Elected, I Will Not Live" which involved Roy making a passionate plea to Fay to throw an election for city council. Notable also, in that most mentions of his city council work show him to be competent at it. An almost-literal example is seen in another episode, when Roy is shown petting his "hamster" (a stress toy that his doctor gave him) when talking to Fay about how his wife left him. | |
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Perpetual Poverty | |
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Perpetual Poverty: A running gag with Antonio. | |
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