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Gayle (Web Video)

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Gayle is an Ax-Crazy, exaggeratedly suburban housewife who loves Yanni, couscous, couponing, Chobani yogurt, running her organization Mothers Against Road Head with her neighbors/rivals Bonnie and Linda, The Big Chill, and flirting with the town orthodontist, Bruce. She lives a disciplined life, waking up at 5 AM to power walk every day, insisting on taking her groceries from Whole Foods into the house in one trip to the point of dislocating her shoulder to be able to carry the milk in, and kidnapping an SAT tutor and chaining him to the radiator for most of her daughter's life so she would get into an Ivy League school. Don't even think about trying to steal from her couscous stash.In Real Life, Gayle is comedian Chris Fleming, who based the character off the hypercompetitive women he'd see power walking around his childhood neighborhood in the wee hours of the morning.The first episode of the series uploaded in 2012, the show would go on to feature five seasons of New England suburban chaos, not including various in-character sketches Fleming would upload. The last episode of the series (as of writing) would be the 40th, leaving the series Cut Short in 2015.You can find the series here.
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Helpful Hallucination
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Helpful Hallucination: Gayle occasionally hallucinates Ina Garten, who gives her rhyming advice. Advice such as stealing granite from driveways to make croutons.
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Sure, Let's Go with That
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Sure, Let's Go with That: Gayle's reaction to the audience's World of Symbolism interpretation of her coup of the high school play via Icelandic indie pop performance.
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Fangirl
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Fan Girl: Gayle for Yanni.
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Gayle and Bonnie. While lost and seemingly about to die in the new development, it becomes clear that they do dearly love and care for each other. In a flashback to Gayle's wedding day, Bonnie saves her from being killed by a shark and they outrun the police together. When planning to abduct an entire High School theatre troupe: Once when Gayle was desperate trying to pronounce Channing Tatum's name in front of a couple from the new development, Bonnie (who was spying on her with binoculars) comes over to help. She too fails to pronounce it. At least they share in their humiliation together. Also, Gayle does care for Dave somewhat, stealing all the khaki pants she could to give to him for Christmas, and drop-kicking him to save him from the aforementioned shark, after she broke free from the police holding her, protesting, "Dave, get out of the way! That's my husband!" Gayle has impersonated Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson in order to spare Terry embarrassment, and also abducted the high school theater group and replaced them with a fake Icelandic Pop band (with her impersonating the lead) just to save her daughter from getting caught lying about having the lead role in the School Play.
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No Accounting for Taste
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No Accounting for Taste: It's unclear what drove Gayle to marry Dave in the first place.
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Gayle, to Terry.
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Ripped from the Headlines
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Ripped from the Headlines: The tractor-trailer crash that spilled 18 tons of Chobani yogurt on New York's Interstate 88 really happened. In the show it's blamed on Gayle trying to hijack the truck. One of several sources for the character of Gayle was a local news story: a former member of the government board of Fleming's hometown was charged with embezzlement, with her illicit purchases including $370 in Edible Arrangements sent to herself. This is duly parodied in Episode 1 with a mention of Gayle having faked her own death in a ploy to get Edible Arrangements.
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Right-Hand Cat
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Right-Hand Cat: Bonnie strokes her son's hair in this manner.
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Hippie Parents
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Hippie Parents: Lisa as temporary guardian of Terry. She also mentions that she has a son named "Leaves."
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Artistic License – Biology
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Artistic License – Biology: Played for Laughs - Gayle's sister somehow doesn't have a pelvis, as a product of her yoga and no-meat diet.
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Always Someone Better
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Always Someone Better: Gayle's greatest fear. For example, she resents Bonnie's son for being valedictorian, while Terry's 'only' salutatorian.
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Say My Name
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Say My Name!: Gayle's reaction to finding Bonnie successfully bonding with the Jennys is to sink to her knees and scream "BONNIE!!!" at the heavens.
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The Ghost
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Peggy Gausmann is generally The Ghost, but makes a single appearance in which she's seen from the back.
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The Un-Hug
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The Un-Hug: Gayle greeting Terry when she comes home after her stint with Lisa.
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Angrish
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Angrish: Gayle is a native speaker.
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Hopeless with Tech
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Hopeless with Tech: Zigzagged with Bonnie and Gayle. While they're clearly not incapable of using things like projectors, DVDs, and devices that became more normalized in the 2000s, they're extremely bewildered by smart devices and app services. Gayle shows clear knowledge what Uber and Airbnb are, but also doesn't know the correct word for "livestreaming" within the same minute. It's revealed in Episode 38 that Bonnie has to use a chart in order to keep track of new technological (and related cultural) trends. To their credit, it wasn't exactly an uncommon phenomenon amongst Gayle and Bonnie's corresponding generation at the time the series was made.
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Immediate Self-Contradiction
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Immediate Self-Contradiction: Found throughout the Word Salad Lyrics to ostensible Linkin Park track "Disappointment Hotel":
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Cordon Bleugh Chef
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Cordon Bleugh Chef: When Gayle isn't cooking some actually good-looking meals, you can catch her doing things like adding granite to croutons.
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May–December Romance
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May–December Romance: It's unclear how far 50-something Gayle's budding romance with teenaged mall rat CJ might have gone if Gayle's real personality hadn't been triggered. Before that, thanks to the disguise she was using to infiltrate his group of Delinquents, he thought she was a guy his own age. As, probably, did she.
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Parental Fashion Veto
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Parental Fashion Veto: Gayle takes this to ridiculous lengths with Terry, as shown by a montage of her insulting every outfit she wears to school over the course of a week:
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Linda to Gayle and Bonnie.
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Ascended Fanboy
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Ascended Fanboy: Margaret Cho, a fan of the series, guest-starred as American cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
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Drunk on Milk
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Drunk on Milk: Gayle blames her high-risk strategy for smuggling a panini into a movie theater on having been "off [her] face on Terra Juice" at the time.
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Funny Background Event
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Funny Background Event: When Terry's visiting boyfriend Jay announces at the dinner table that he's vegan, Gayle excuses herself and walks away with the ham she brought in. Jay and Terry proceed to chat with Dave while Gayle can be seen punching the ham and kicking it around like a football in the backyard behind them.
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Oblivious to Love
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Oblivious to Love: Bruce seems completely unaware of Gayle's (and Bonnie's) flirtation.
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Sickeningly Sweethearts
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Sickeningly Sweethearts: While investigating the New Development, Gayle and Bonnie are revolted by a young couple taking a time-out from bringing in their groceries for some Kodak-level PDA.
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Catapult Nightmare
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Catapult Nightmare: One prompts Gayle to yell about needing beach towels in the dead of night.
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Sophisticated as Hell
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Sophisticated as Hell: Gayle, especially in her scriptwriting.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: Gayle has threatened to suicide-bomb a Blockbuster for charging her $800 in late fees (she had The Big Chill out for six years), almost set her house on fire with her and Bonnie inside after tying up the latter with an electrical cord, and would be willing to kill the valedictorian at her daughter's high school (she's salutatorian) if it weren't for that manslaughter count for what happened at Cinnabon.
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Person as Verb
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Person as Verb: Gayle comes up with some memorable ones, such as "Lisa Franking" to describe the ambulatory progression of a horse girl toward a horse. One episode revolves around her starting a support group for people who have been "Trader Joe'd," or uncomfortably played to by a Trader Joe's employee.
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Depraved Bisexual
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Depraved Bisexual: Implied. While she seems to generally prefer men, Gayle seems to have a oddly sexual aspect to her rivalries and feuds with other women. For instance, she wants to make Katie Couric cry but also would "hate-scissor her until the cows come home."
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Older Than They Look
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Older Than They Look: "Escape to Goosetip" has a brief glimpse of a "beach grandma" who looks to be in her 20s or 30s, but is celebrating her 70th birthday.
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Full-Name Basis
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Full-Name Basis: The Gausmanns, Rick and Peggy, are almost always referred to by their full names.
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Logic Bomb
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Logic Bomb: Gayle and Bonnie blow literal fuses when trying to pronounce Channing Tatum's name, hurling them through the air and into a nearby yard.
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Hurricane of Excuses
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Hurricane of Excuses: Much of "Disappointment Hotel."
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I Call Him "Mister Happy"
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I Call Him "Mister Happy": Gayle's breasts are her "crab cakes" or her "potato latkes."
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Meet My Good Friends Lefty and Righty
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Meet My Good Friends Lefty and Righty: Gayle calls her right ankle "Big Bertha" and her powerful legs "the twins."
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Gratuitous French
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Gratuitous French: In "Town Meeting" Gayle recalls being traumatized by hearing Bonnie order a croissant in a French accent. Later in the same episode, Bonnie tells her, "Bonne chance, my pomme de terre." note "Good luck, my potato."
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Lethal Chef
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Lethal Chef: On a good day, Gayle is actually a pretty good chef, and many of her concoctions turn out well (baking a pie by electrocuting it [and herself], concocting a cobbler out of crabapples using a lighter). Then you have the time Gayle made a business out of selling croutons with ''granite" in them. Which, as a point of pride to her, are known to shatter the teeth of those who eat them.
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Fourth-Date Marriage
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Fourth-Date Marriage: After Becoming the Mask in "Mall Couples," Gayle cements "Brad's" bond with the group by "breaking up with" Terry, getting together with and proposing to Tiffany in the span of a few seconds. It's over about as quickly as it begins when Gayle winds up kissing CJ.
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Flipping the Bird
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Flipping the Bird: Gayle frequently does a double bird flip as a gesture of triumph.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_364b9be6
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_364b9be6
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_371b253a
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Testosterone Poisoning
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_371b253a
comment
Testosterone Poisoning: The series constantly links this kind of presentation to stereotypically feminine traits and behavior, to hilarious effect (at one point Gayle is seen shaving her legs with an axe).
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_371b253a
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_371b253a
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_38c493f1
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End-of-Series Awareness
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_38c493f1
comment
End-of-Series Awareness: Albeit the series has No Ending because Fleming had planned to make more episodes, it's hard not to read this into the last episode's musical number "I'm Gonna Miss You Guys When the Show is Done," which contextually satirizes the rapid formation of intense bonds between theater kids over a rehearsal period. At the episode's climax, the residents of the New D analyze the performance they just saw, making many (very broad) claims about its meaning that could extend to the series as a whole. The episode then ends with Gayle saying of her Icelandic indie pop performance, "Yeah, I wrote that" as the final line of the series.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_38c493f1
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_392372f9
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Actor Allusion
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_392372f9
comment
Actor Allusion: In ‘Code Bega’, Gayle rants about a neighbor going by ‘Christopher’ instead of ‘Chris’, deeming it akin to printing 50 pages of Mapquest directions instead of pointing out a shortcut. Of course, Gayle is portrayed by Chris Fleming.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_392372f9
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3a88a563
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Vocal Dissonance
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3a88a563
comment
Vocal Dissonance: Fleming looks fairly convincing as a middle-aged woman, but he doesn't bother sounding like a woman-in fact, he deepens his natural voice to play Gayle.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3a88a563
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_3a88a563
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3af4d3a3
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Hollywood New England
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3af4d3a3
comment
Hollywood New England: More or less the idea of the entire series. While it's unclear where in Massachusetts Northbread actually is, the episodes tackle the daily struggles of an upper middle class New England family. See Serious Business below.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_3af4d3a3
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3b4185fb
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Stalker without a Crush
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3b4185fb
comment
Stalker Without a Crush: Gayle and Bonnie regularly (and openly) stalk each other as part of their standard Spy vs. Spy-type antics. Given, they have some complicated feelings for each other.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_3b4185fb
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3c0a4666
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Noodle Incident
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3c0a4666
comment
Noodle Incident: Gayle is banned from the crouton convention because of an undisclosed incident. Gayle has also apparently acquired a charge of manslaughter on account of some undisclosed incident that happened at a Cinnabon.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_3c0a4666
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3d038b36
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Rhetorical Question Blunder
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3d038b36
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Rhetorical Question Blunder: When the Tech Support guys chew Gayle out for damaging her Bose player by maxing out the volume:
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_3d038b36
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3d2d0d5c
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Feeling Their Age
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3d2d0d5c
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Feeling Their Age: Come Season 3 and Season 4, the New D presents issues that Gayle can't simply fix with Chobani and gratuitous violence; their relative youth and differing cultural context throw a wrench in Gayle's "she-king" status over Northbread. This is especially noticeably in Episodes 31, 36, and 40.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_3d2d0d5c
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3dcc914f
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Took a Level in Kindness
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_3dcc914f
comment
Took a Level in Kindness: Whereas Gayle starts out as a cut-and-dried Villain Protagonist, remorselessly and relentlessly abusing her husband and children (one of whom she kidnapped and raised as her own), her motives become more sympathetic as the series continues and include trying to "save" a young boy whose parents she believes are ruining his childhood by forcing him to be cool, protecting Dave by beating up an egret, and going to absurd lengths to spare Terry public embarrassment. She and Terry also become closer, developing more of a Vitriolic Odd Couple-type rapport as opposed to a merely dysfunctional parent-child relationship, and her relationship with Bonnie is more explicitly portrayed as a deep friendship upheld by shared history and Worthy Opponent mutual respect.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_3dcc914f
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_40bb59d0
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Blatant Lies
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_40bb59d0
comment
Blatant Lies: Gayle, frequently. Notable is when her acapella group, realizing they sound terrible, lip-sync to a Yanni CD. Which is instrumental. Bonnie convinces Gayle that there's an 'Uncommon App', where you draw yourself on a beach towel and send it to a college along with a urine sample.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_40bb59d0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4127eb1
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Shut Up, Hannibal!
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4127eb1
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Gayle's Precision F-Strike against Bonnie in Episode 30.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4127eb1
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_4127eb1
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_415b3315
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Stylistic Suck
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_415b3315
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Stylistic Suck: Any animal, besides Gayle's and Bonnie's dogs and Gayle's kidnapped pig, will be very clearly made of craft materials.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_415b3315
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_41a32b6
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Mystical Pregnancy
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_41a32b6
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Mystical Pregnancy: Gayle is convinced that Yanni is Terry's real father, and that she conceived her by merely attending a Yanni concert. Even accounting for Terry's delivery by premature C-section, the timeline (six weeks from concert to delivery) seems questionable.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_41a32b6
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_44606d14
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Becoming the Mask
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_44606d14
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Becoming the Mask: After infiltrating a group of teen Delinquents at the mall by posing as half of a "mall couple" with Terry, Gayle gets so invested in the True Companions dynamic of the group and her relationship with their leader CJ that she "breaks up with" Terry and denies being her mother until one of the guys suggests they buy their girlfriends gifts from Claire's.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_44606d14
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4604fd4d
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Worthy Opponent
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4604fd4d
comment
Worthy Opponent: Gayle stops trying to kill Bonnie, and instead applauds her, when she realizes that Bonnie wasn't stealing her couscous, but rather just keeps a stash of Israeli couscous on her person at all times.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_4604fd4d
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4637914d
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Suburban Gothic
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4637914d
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Suburban Gothic: The Played for Laughs version.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_4637914d
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_476a08e3
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Women's Mysteries
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_476a08e3
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Women's Mysteries: The mystical rite by which Gayle makes granola.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_476a08e3
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_476a08e3
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_47fea76b
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Butt-Monkey
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_47fea76b
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Butt-Monkey: Just about every time Peggy Gausmann is mentioned, something terrible is happening to her or her Toyota Corolla.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_47fea76b
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_47fea76b
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_486268b8
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Trail of Bread Crumbs
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_486268b8
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Trail Of Breadcrumbs: When she and Bonnie are lost in the "New D," Gayle considers doing this with chapsticks, but doesn't have any with her.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_486268b8
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_48b9731f
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Paper-Thin Disguise
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_48b9731f
comment
Paper-Thin Disguise: Gayle dressed as an egret fools Dave—her own husband and an avid birdwatcher—at a distance. Downplayed in that he recognizes her up close. The Mall Teens are totally taken in by Gayle's Mall Teen disguise, not realizing she's a middle-aged woman. Played with given that Gayle's actor, Chris Fleming, was a twenty-something man at the time. Happens again when she poses as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson at Terry's break dancing performance, wearing an ill-fitting bald cap and sitting on top of Rick Gausmann's shoulders. Everyone falls for it. Subverted by Gayle's Phantom of the Opera; everyone knows it's her.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_48b9731f
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4acee1ed
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Fish out of Temporal Water
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4acee1ed
comment
Fish out of Temporal Water: The Lizard Folk living in Gayle's basement. Gayle's speech about everything in "this post-9/11 age" that they're not aware of reveals that she's hardly better herself. They end up fleeing the house in horrified consternation upon overhearing that Kenan ended up being the successful half of Kenan & Kel.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_4acee1ed
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4e34d653
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See You in Hell
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4e34d653
comment
See You in Hell: Gayle and Bonnie market a literally tooth-shattering crouton under the name "Meet Me In Hell Croutons." Later, when engaging in a stunt that could get them killed, they vow to meet in hell "by the panini station."
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_4e34d653
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4e40a927
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Sleepwalking
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4e40a927
comment
Sleepwalking: Exaggerated with Gayle, who—in a state of exhaustion after two days and nights spent working on a "bread suit" disguise so that she can sneak into a crouton convention from which she was permanently banned—sleep-powerwalks to Rhode Island, steals a van (which she decorates with a family decal of just herself) and goes through "many of the necessary steps in establishing [her] own Curves franchise" before waking up.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_4e40a927
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9
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Early-Installment Weirdness
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9
comment
Early-Installment Weirdness: In the opening few episodes, Gayle engages in rather dark and manipulative behavior such as kidnapping a child, revealing she faked her own death, and holding an SAT tutor captive for over a decade; the tone is notably lighter in later episodes, with Gayle engaging in less serious behavior, and adopting a more chaotic and less abusive personality. The more extreme behavior is generally her stealing bath towels and digging up driveways, as opposed to actions that could cause irreversible damage to others’ lives. Other characters also go from relatively reasonable individuals enduring Gayle’s antics to individuals just as bizarre as Gayle in some ways, albeit more reserved. A good contrast can be seen in her relationship with Terry. In Episode 8, Gayle kicks Terry off her feet for “upstaging” her at performing along with a Zumba DVD. In Episode 40, Gayle constructs a deep, elaborate plot to save Terry from public embarrassment. Ira's entire character can be this, having been Put on a Bus come the end of Season 1, with no mention of him thereafter. Gayle's interactions with him are completely devoid of any sense of concern or compassion Terry and Dave began to receive later in the series, and his apparent captive status in the family makes his presence even more jarring.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9
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Seinfeldian Conversation
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_500696c6
comment
Seinfeldian Conversation: Gayle often veers into this when questioned on a Weird Aside.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_500696c6
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_501411f1
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Experimented in College
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_501411f1
comment
Experimented in College: It's implied that Gayle is speaking from experience when she warns Terry, who she's convinced is heading in this direction, that she doesn't have the wherewithal for successful "lezzing around."
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_501411f1
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5080221
type
Faux Horrific
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5080221
comment
Faux Horrific: Gayle and Bonnie's Serious Business perspective on suburban life makes this a staple of the show's humor. In "Town Meeting" we see this reaction from a wider group of people when the town meeting watches a video of Gayle reacting to being sprayed by a skunk, cuing people gripping each other's hands for emotional support. Becomes Subverted when Gayle exposes herself on the livestream, and begins visibly urinating on herself to "treat a wound." Everyone (including Gayle) is understandably horrified thereafter.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_5080221
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_50b05d30
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Disproportionate Retribution
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_50b05d30
comment
Disproportionate Retribution: Gayle, often, as when she committed Vehicular Sabotage on a neighbor she caught with 16 items in a "12 items or less" lane at Whole Foods.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_50b05d30
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_50b05d30
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Hurricane of Euphemisms
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_51561f43
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Hurricane of Euphemisms: Gayle never says anything one way that she can't say several bizarre ways in rapid succession.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_51561f43
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Escalating War
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_534bc834
comment
Escalating War: Gayle and Bonnie's constant battle for suburban domination.
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Maniac Tongue
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Maniac Tongue: A memorable Character Tic of Gayle's is that the tip of her tongue is always flickering in and out of her mouth like a snake's.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_53b82b7a
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10-Minute Retirement
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_566f1565
comment
10-Minute Retirement: "Escape to Goosetip."
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_566f1565
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No Bisexuals
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5679208c
comment
No Bisexuals: Parodied; Gayle takes this mentality to the point of spearheading an annual "Walk to End Bisexuality," despite whatever feelings might be there between her and Bonnie. Despite this, Gayle does happily listen to a song about a bisexual man advertising his also bisexual father later on in the series.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_5679208c
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5892169d
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Absurd Phobia
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5892169d
comment
Absurd Phobia: Gayle isn't afraid of anything, not even death... except mall kids. And Trader Joe's employees. Dave is afraid of egrets due to having been attacked by one in 2001.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_5892169d
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5989e3b6
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Enemy Mine
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5989e3b6
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Enemy Mine: Gayle and Bonnie occasionally join forces to take down a greater threat, such as the residents of the New Development.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5989e3b6
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_5989e3b6
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5aa8d3d8
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Friendly Enemy
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5aa8d3d8
comment
Friendly Enemy: Bonnie and Gayle are in continuous tooth-and-nail, no-holds-barred competition for neighborhood supremacy. Bonnie is also a member of Gayle's book club and acapella group and regularly attends meetings of her organization Mothers Against Road Head, and the two spend almost as much time teaming up as they spend in opposition. Bonnie's Worthy Opponent status and the many commonalities between the two push them into Vitriolic Best Buds territory.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_5aa8d3d8
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Education Mama
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5b9cf82b
comment
Education Mama: Gayle is an Exaggerated Parody of the type. Even her dogs aren't safe. Many of Gayle's opinions on schools edge into Self-Deprecation, given that Chris Fleming himself attended the relatively selective Skidmore College, considered to be a "Hidden Ivy" relative to the Little Ivies.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5b9cf82b
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_5b9cf82b
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5ce2c9c6
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Suddenly Shouting
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5ce2c9c6
comment
Suddenly Shouting: Gayle, quite a lot.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5ce2c9c6
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_5ce2c9c6
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5eecd64c
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Oh, No... Not Again!
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_5eecd64c
comment
Oh, No... Not Again!: Gayle's family's reaction to quite a few of her stunts, such as flirting with Terry after mistaking her for Yanni.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_5eecd64c
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_60ea0814
type
Soft Reboot
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_60ea0814
comment
Soft Reboot: The later half of Season 2, and to a greater extent, Season 3 as a whole. The plots become a bit Denser and Wackier, Gayle is characterized as much less spiteful and more explicitly caring towards the rest of the Waters-Waters family, and Terry and other Straight Man characters pick up a few strange quirks of their own. Gayle's behavior is much less criminal and irreversibly destructive and leans more towards the bizarre and slightly warranted. Northbread also becomes a bit more of a World of Weirdness come Season 3 with the introduction of the New D. Instead of Gayle being the sole purveyor of chaos, she actually begins being on the receiving end of forces such as mall couples, gangs of girls on Razor scooters, Trader Joe's employees, and human-reptile hybrids. There's also how Ira completely disappears from the series past Episode 10. See Early-Installment Weirdness.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_60ea0814
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_60ea0814
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_60ea0814
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_61a503a7
type
Hell Is That Noise
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_61a503a7
comment
Hell Is That Noise: The acapella group. Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5 played at max volume. Gayle and Terry have a Seinfeldian Conversation about this in Episode 36, spurred by the cacophonous noise of Gayle's perpetually un-updated laptop booting up, which sounds, according to Terry, "like a pig at the dentist's."
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_61a503a7
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_61a503a7
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_61a503a7
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6377d6e6
type
Grievous Harm with a Body
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6377d6e6
comment
Grievous Harm with a Body: Gayle and Bonnie beat each other up using Bonnie's son.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6377d6e6
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6377d6e6
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_6377d6e6
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_63cad64b
type
Threatening Shark
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_63cad64b
comment
Threatening Shark: Gayle managed to create this situation at her wedding after kidnapping a live shark from an aquarium in a typical effort to show Bonnie up.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_63cad64b
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_63cad64b
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_63cad64b
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_67792344
type
Grievous Bottley Harm
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_67792344
comment
Grievous Bottley Harm: Bonnie knocks Gayle unconscious by smashing a bottle over her head while they're both competing to be the first to bring Bruce the whipped cream he requested during Linda's potluck. This being Gayle, it only gives Bonnie enough of a head start to jump into her car.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_67792344
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_67792344
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_67792344
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_68068108
type
Evil Laugh
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_68068108
comment
Evil Laugh: Gayle and Bonnie can both cackle with the evilest of them.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_68068108
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_68068108
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_68068108
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_680bb6b1
type
Hot-Blooded
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_680bb6b1
comment
Hot-Blooded: Gayle.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_680bb6b1
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_680bb6b1
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_680bb6b1
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_69c5fb9e
type
Recursive Crossdressing
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_69c5fb9e
comment
Recursive Crossdressing: Gayle disguises herself as a teenaged boy in "Mall Couples" and as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (his upper half, that is) in "Talent Show."
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_69c5fb9e
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_69c5fb9e
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 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_69c5fb9e
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_69cc2a27
type
Hilariously Abusive Childhood
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_69cc2a27
comment
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Terry and Ira, due to Gayle's parenting.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_69cc2a27
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_69cc2a27
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_69cc2a27
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6b35bdff
type
Serious Business
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6b35bdff
comment
Serious Business: EVERYTHING. Including, but not limited to: Chobani yogurt, grocery shopping, college applications, unsightly trees, enforcing her "Shoes-Off House" rule, Swiffering, preventing road head, ending bisexuality, and power walking.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6b35bdff
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6b35bdff
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_6b35bdff
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6cc2137b
type
The Scream
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6cc2137b
comment
The Scream: Gayle, at any and all times.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6cc2137b
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6cc2137b
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_6cc2137b
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6d7bc0f
type
Fake Band
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6d7bc0f
comment
Fake Band: Fleming and series composer Brian Heveron-Smith have recorded two full-length albums as "Beef Hutchins," Gayle's favorite non-Yanni recording artist.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6d7bc0f
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6d7bc0f
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_6d7bc0f
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6da90c4d
type
Full-Name Ultimatum
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6da90c4d
comment
Full-Name Ultimatum: Parodied when Gayle severely calls Terry "Theresa," to which Terry interrupts to point out that that's not even her name (she being named after NPR's Terry Gross, "Terry" is short for nothing).
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6da90c4d
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6da90c4d
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 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_6da90c4d
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6fbfa62f
type
Air Guitar
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6fbfa62f
comment
During Bonnie's musical number "I Can Text" in Episode 38, an incensed and horrified Gayle is nonetheless seen swaying her shoulders and playing Air Guitar to the music.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6fbfa62f
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_6fbfa62f
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_6fbfa62f
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_720e28a4
type
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_720e28a4
comment
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: While Talking Like a Simile about an unattractive tree:
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_720e28a4
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_720e28a4
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_720e28a4
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_72852a93
type
Henpecked Husband
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_72852a93
comment
Henpecked Husband: Dave. He's soft-spoken and meek, contrasting with Gayle's abrasive nature.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_72852a93
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_72852a93
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_72852a93
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_73a7d1b3
type
Radish Cure
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_73a7d1b3
comment
Radish Cure: Attempted; when Gayle finds out that Dave's Naïve Newcomer friend Mark likes the quaintness and old-fashionedness of New England, she and Bonnie, who want him out of town, decide to give him his fill of "quaint and old-fashioned" by impersonating stereotypical New England Puritans when he comes to visit Dave. Though confused at first, he ultimately thinks it's a hilarious game and plays along.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_73a7d1b3
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_73a7d1b3
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_73a7d1b3
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_754df088
type
Put on a Bus
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_754df088
comment
Ira's entire character can be this, having been Put on a Bus come the end of Season 1, with no mention of him thereafter. Gayle's interactions with him are completely devoid of any sense of concern or compassion Terry and Dave began to receive later in the series, and his apparent captive status in the family makes his presence even more jarring.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_754df088
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_754df088
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_754df088
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_786bf97f
type
Real Life Writes the Plot
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_786bf97f
comment
The tractor-trailer crash that spilled 18 tons of Chobani yogurt on New York's Interstate 88 really happened. In the show it's blamed on Gayle trying to hijack the truck.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_786bf97f
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_786bf97f
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_786bf97f
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7abba202
type
The Faceless
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7abba202
comment
The Faceless: Dave's face is always either offscreen or obscured. Peggy Gausmann is generally The Ghost, but makes a single appearance in which she's seen from the back.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7abba202
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7abba202
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_7abba202
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7b6e47a5
type
Armor-Piercing Question
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7b6e47a5
comment
Armor-Piercing Question: Linda provokes a rare moment of sincere appreciation for Dave from Gayle when she asks her, "Would you rather he was more like Bonnie's husband?"
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7b6e47a5
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7b6e47a5
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_7b6e47a5
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7c9dcc1
type
THeUnfavorite
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7c9dcc1
comment
The Unfavorite: Ira. Gayle kidnapped him from a Costco solely so that she could have someone to help her operate a tandem kayak she found a bargain on, and he becomes obsolete after her gym gets a rowing machine. Early in the series she sells him on eBay after he breaks her portrait of Tonya Harding and only retrieves him from the buyer (Bonnie) upon realizing that his dental appointments provide an easy in with Bruce. Although her Education Mama behavior is aggressive enough to extend to household pets, she seems to have no concern for his education beyond forbidding him from playing Spanish guitar, and after he leaves to search for his real parents, she and Dave make zero effort to track him down.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7c9dcc1
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7c9dcc1
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_7c9dcc1
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7cda47b
type
Dying Declaration of Love
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7cda47b
comment
Dying Declaration of Love: Between Gayle and Bonnie in "Lost in the New D" when both think they're about to freeze to death. They immediately backpedal when Rick Gausmann shows up in his minivan a second later.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7cda47b
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7cda47b
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_7cda47b
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7ce3bb6d
type
Breathless Non Sequitur
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7ce3bb6d
comment
Breathless Non Sequitur: Gayle, often, most typically when she's confessing her attraction to Bruce in bizarre terms.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7ce3bb6d
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7ce3bb6d
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_7ce3bb6d
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7d218606
type
Rapid-Fire Comedy
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7d218606
comment
Rapid-Fire Comedy: To the point of occasionally having characters talk over each other at length, or of one person's dialogue overlapping to cram more words in than they'd be able to realistically say.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7d218606
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7d218606
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_7d218606
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7febc23b
type
Establishing Character Moment
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7febc23b
comment
Gayle's first line in the series is about her Labradoodle getting accepted into Carnegie Mellon. This dog is never mentioned again, even when Gayle obtains her "rescue" dog Hilary Clinton.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7febc23b
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_7febc23b
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_7febc23b
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_80ae159c
type
Informed Deformity
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_80ae159c
comment
Informed Deformity: Played for Laughs. Gayle complains about Terry's facial hair and freaks out about an "ugly" tree in town.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_80ae159c
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_80ae159c
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_80ae159c
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_81ae2774
type
Evil Matriarch
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_81ae2774
comment
Evil Matriarch: Gayle.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_81ae2774
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_81ae2774
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_81ae2774
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_82518cf7
type
Motor Mouth
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_82518cf7
comment
Motor Mouth: Gayle, when she gets steamed about something. Bonnie's husband, partially because he wears four Bluetooths simultaneously. Rick Gausmann. At one point, he nearly blows Gayle's cover when she's infiltrating a group of Mall Teens.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_82518cf7
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_82518cf7
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_82518cf7
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_82b4f38e
type
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_82b4f38e
comment
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Gayle, though somewhat less so as the series continues.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_82b4f38e
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_82b4f38e
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_82b4f38e
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_83109d67
type
Sweet on Polly Oliver
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_83109d67
comment
Sweet on Polly Oliver: While disguised as a teenaged boy, Gayle becomes close to CJ, the leader of the mall teens. As the group celebrates "Brad's" engagement to one of the teenaged girls, CJ and Gayle share a Held Gaze that ends in a kiss, causing the latter's new fiancée to furiously break up with "him." In an inversion of the standard arc, CJ seems totally comfortable with where all this is going until Gayle's disguise is removed, revealing her as female but also as a 50-something mom.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_83109d67
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_83109d67
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_83109d67
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_83b464fb
type
Straight Man
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_83b464fb
comment
Straight Man: Terry, to Gayle. Dave is sometimes this too.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_83b464fb
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_83b464fb
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_83b464fb
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8485d41a
type
Interspecies Romance
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8485d41a
comment
Interspecies Romance: The "Lizard People" are the exact brand of Half-Human Hybrid that their name implies (technically half-human and half-unspecified reptile). Gayle is thrown for a loop when Terry in turn develops a crush on one of them.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8485d41a
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8485d41a
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_8485d41a
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8504b817
type
Where the Hell Is Springfield?
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8504b817
comment
Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Downplayed. While Northbread is mentioned as being in Massachusetts, it's unclear which part of the highly regionalized state it's supposed to be. Gayle's incident on Interstate 88 (see Ripped from the Headlines above) imply the series could take place somewhere in the western half of Massachusetts. Goosetip (apparently in Cape Cod) is considered far away enough from Northbread for the family's escape come Episode 37, and is discussed as being extremely different, making it unlikely that the Waters-Waters hometown is anywhere near the eastern coast of Massachusetts.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8504b817
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8504b817
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_8504b817
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_859cce8d
type
Your Door Was Open
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_859cce8d
comment
Your Door Was Open: Gayle and Bonnie are pretty free about walking into each other's houses, whether to sabotage each other or simply to chat. In "Valedictorian," Bonnie's reaction to finding Gayle in her son's room in the wee hours of the morning playing Smash Mouth's "Walkin' on the Sun" in an effort to make him dumber while he sleeps is simply a contemptuous "Get out of here, Gayle" and a point toward the exit.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_859cce8d
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_859cce8d
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_859cce8d
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_863fa679
type
What Happened to the Mouse?
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_863fa679
comment
What Happened to the Mouse?: Ira is last seen hitchhiking to Santa Fe to find his real parents. Gayle's first line in the series is about her Labradoodle getting accepted into Carnegie Mellon. This dog is never mentioned again, even when Gayle obtains her "rescue" dog Hilary Clinton.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_863fa679
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_863fa679
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_863fa679
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_88dee3b3
type
Talks Like a Simile
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_88dee3b3
comment
Talks like a Simile: Gayle takes this to Overly-Long Gag levels. It's occasionally shown that Terry may have picked it up from her.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_88dee3b3
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_88dee3b3
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_88dee3b3
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_898ff050
type
Villain Protagonist
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_898ff050
comment
Villain Protagonist: Gayle, particularly early on.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_898ff050
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_898ff050
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_898ff050
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8af7b342
type
Sibling Yin-Yang
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8af7b342
comment
Sibling Yin-Yang: Lisa intentionally evolved a New-Age Retro Hippie personality to differentiate herself from Gayle.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8af7b342
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8af7b342
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_8af7b342
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8cd3d091
type
Repetitive Name
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8cd3d091
comment
Repetitive Name: Waters-Waters. Gayle and Dave had the same surname, but she insisted on hyphenating anyway.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8cd3d091
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8cd3d091
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_8cd3d091
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8df81e2d
type
House Amnesia
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8df81e2d
comment
House Amnesia: One of several Establishing Character Moments for Gayle in the first episode.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8df81e2d
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8df81e2d
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_8df81e2d
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8fda8778
type
Drama Club
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8fda8778
comment
Drama Club: Parodied in the final episode.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8fda8778
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_8fda8778
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_8fda8778
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9053903
type
Ignored Epiphany
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9053903
comment
Ignored Epiphany:
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9053903
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9053903
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_9053903
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9058da25
type
Nuclear Family
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9058da25
comment
Nuclear Family: Gayle's family are initially a highly skewed version of this, though by the end of the series they appear to be short one kidnapped "son."
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9058da25
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_9058da25
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_927ccbc4
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Accidental Art
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_927ccbc4
comment
Accidental Art: Gayle takes the SATs for Terry and writes an essay called "I Could Do What Katie Couric Does, So F— You." Terry ends up getting accepted into Sarah Lawrence College because the admissions staff are impressed by the maturity she must have as a writer to be able to capture "the voice of this deranged, middle-aged woman."
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_927ccbc4
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_927ccbc4
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_961c6c22
type
Cutaway Gag
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_961c6c22
comment
Cutaway Gag: Many, such as Gayle's Derailed Train of Thought about how the word "supine" sounds like the name of a hard-partying Southern health club secretary ("Y'all haven't been to a holiday party 'til you've been to a Sue Pine holiday party!") or her lengthy Imagine Spot about Terry's friend Dennis getting snatched by a Kidnapping Bird of Prey while staging a flash mob-style viral proposal.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_961c6c22
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_968971cf
type
Naughty Birdwatching
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_968971cf
comment
Naughty Birdwatching: Gayle once got the neighbors to report Dave for doing this even though he was actually birdwatching. We later find out that she does this herself, with Bruce.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_968971cf
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_968971cf
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_96b89043
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Not So Above It All
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_96b89043
comment
Not So Above It All: Terry is depicted in this light more frequently as the series continues.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_96b89043
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_96b89043
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_97ee273
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Momma's Boy
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_97ee273
comment
Momma's Boy: Bonnie's son Brendan, big time.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_97ee273
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_97ee273
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_985d3ad0
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Cross-Cast Role
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_985d3ad0
comment
Crosscast Role: Gayle, of course. There's also Rory Shea as Ina Garten and Margaret Cho as Yo-Yo Ma.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_985d3ad0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_99156d7e
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Head Desk
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_99156d7e
comment
Head Desk: When frustrated or emotional Gayle will often ram her head into the nearest heavy object.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_99156d7e
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_99156d7e
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9b610976
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I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9b610976
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I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: Gayle snorts Kashi GoLean Crunch off a countertop and rolls Chobani yogurt up in a spliff. After she and Bonnie go on a "whole-grain bender" in which they take "enough couscous and rice pilaf to see the devil," Dave tells her she has a problem and tries to get her to go to detox.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9b610976
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_9b610976
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9c8701b5
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A Day in the Limelight
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A Day in the Limelight: "DaveCam" is about Dave's daily life from his point of view.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9c8701b5
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_9c8701b5
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9d12bbc1
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Foreshadowing
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9d12bbc1
comment
Foreshadowing: After she gets an iPad, Gayle derides Bonnie for dressing like she’s in an Icelandic indie pop band. In the final episode, Gayle and others imitate an Icelandic indie pop band to save Terry from embarrassment. In Episode 16, Gayle scoffs at Dave's use of Sensodyne by saying, "Oh, do you want a pillow for your teeth?" That ends up being the name of his and Mark's toothpaste brand. Gayle's tangent about Terry wanting to be part of a mall couple in Episode 28 essentially becomes the plot of the next episode. In Episode 33, Gayle is reviewing Terry's extracurriculars for her Common App and asks her what "B-Boy Club" is, to which Terry hastily responds that it's "Barbecue Club." She buys it. Episode 39 deals with the repercussions of Gayle finding out that it's a breakdancing group.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_9d12bbc1
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9df812ad
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9df812ad
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Gayle claims to be 6'1 while her husband Dave is "5'6 in New Balances."
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9df812ad
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9df812ad
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_9df812ad
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9e09fbd7
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New-Age Retro Hippie
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9e09fbd7
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New-Age Retro Hippie: Gayle's sister in California, who Terry temporarily moves in with. Her constant yoga and no-meat diet somehow caused her not to have a pelvis.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9e09fbd7
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_9e09fbd7
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9e0c3153
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9e0c3153
comment
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_9e0c3153
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_9e0c3153
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a04eb363
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Lizard Folk
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a04eb363
comment
Lizard Folk: Episode 38 reveals that a group of Half-Human Hybrid reptiles have been living in the Waters-Waters family's basement ever since Gayle threw a reptile-themed birthday party for Terry in the 90s and the offspring of relationships between the reptile handler and his reptiles somehow ended up moving in.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_a04eb363
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a1b141f4
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My God, What Have I Done?
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a1b141f4
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My God, What Have I Done?: The first time we see Gayle even remotely feel remorse for her often psychotic, violent actions is when she accidentally causes a Chobani yogurt truck to overturn on the highway, "ruining thousands upon thousands of light lunches."
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_a1b141f4
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a201dad2
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Passive-Aggressive Kombat
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a201dad2
comment
Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Gayle and Bonnie's preferred mode of warfare.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a201dad2
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_a201dad2
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a3458bf2
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More Deadly Than the Male
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a3458bf2
comment
More Deadly Than the Male: In contrast to the men in the series, who range from timid and fragile to easygoing and cheerful to bombastic and spacy, Gayle and Bonnie are ruthless, energetic and on constant high alert.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_a3458bf2
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a5f998ea
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Stockholm Syndrome
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a5f998ea
comment
Stockholm Syndrome: Gayle mentions that Ira's is wearing off in episode three, contributing to her decision to sell him on Ebay.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a5f998ea
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_a5f998ea
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a70223
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Karma Houdini
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a70223
comment
Karma Houdini: Gayle has yet to get in so much as a hint of trouble for kidnapping at least three people, but Dave was jailed on the spot after she committed pig theft.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_a70223
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a74ca4fc
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The Peeping Tom
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a74ca4fc
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The Peeping Tom: While accusing Dave of looking like this as he's roaming the neighborhood with binoculars for innocent birdwatching purposes, Gayle is not above going to Bruce's house to watch him change into his pajamas.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_a74ca4fc
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a8217606
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Sweet Polly Oliver
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a8217606
comment
Sweet Polly Oliver: Gayle disguises herself as a teenaged boy named "Brad" to infiltrate a gang of mall teens in "Mall Couples."
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_a8217606
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a861560f
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The Friend Nobody Likes
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a861560f
comment
The Friend Nobody Likes: Linda is clearly the odd one out in Gayle and Bonnie's Machiavellian Power Trio, and she's often left talking to them from outside a sliding glass door or being put on hold for hours.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_a861560f
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a8c9ac97
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Lunacy
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a8c9ac97
comment
Lunacy: Gayle only makes granola during the full moon.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_a8c9ac97
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_a8c9ac97
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ab1659d5
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Hero Stole My Bike
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ab1659d5
comment
Hero Stole My Bike: Gayle does this in "The Wedding" and "Lizard People."
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ab1659d5
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_ab1659d5
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_acecb17d
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Chekhov's Skill
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_acecb17d
comment
Chekhov's Skill: An Overly-Long Gag in Episode 17 has Gayle demonstrate the "catalog of leg-wrestling moves" with which she intends to one day beat up Zooey Deschanel. The Season 2 finale ends with her using several of them to take down the egret attacking Dave.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_acecb17d
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_acecb17d
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_acf33d00
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_acf33d00
comment
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Gayle pretends to be a pilgrim to get rid of Dave's friend, Mark. Mark thinks it's a play and gleefully joins in. Gayle pretends to be a wild woman to ruin Dave and Mark's toothpaste business pitch. The toothpaste executives think it's part of the pitch and greenlight the toothpaste.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_acf33d00
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ad0071e7
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Window Watcher
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ad0071e7
comment
Window Watcher: Gayle and Bonnie constantly snoop on each other like this.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ad0071e7
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ad0071e7
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_ad0071e7
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ad1db87c
type
Oh, Crap!
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ad1db87c
comment
Oh, Crap!: Gayle looks absolutely horrified when visitors from the New D go and visit the basement on their house tour. This is possibly because she's afraid of them getting mauled by the Lizard People haunting her house since the 90s, but probably also because she's afraid of how their discovery would ruin her home's impression on them. When they return unscatched, she's then horrified by the realization that these potentially dangerous lizard-human hybrids have escaped into the world.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_ad1db87c
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ad641426
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Trademark Favorite Food
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ad641426
comment
Trademark Favorite Food: Gayle is utterly enamored with Chobani Greek yogurt. To the point she nearly went catatonic when an ill fated session of road rage saw her driving a Chobani truck off the road, making it spill its contents. She also keeps a stash of couscous in a treasure chest.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ad641426
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_ad641426
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Deadpan Snarker
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ae3d6438
comment
Deadpan Snarker: Terry.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_ae3d6438
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_af616e40
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Accidental Misnaming
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_af616e40
comment
Accidental Misnaming: Gayle does this to her own husband.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_af616e40
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_af616e40
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Thinking Out Loud
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_af81576b
comment
Thinking Out Loud: Gayle does this frequently and only takes minimal precautious to ensure that others don't hear her, as when she does a Mirror Monologue in Episode 31 that is audible to her house guests through the bathroom door, or in Episode 38 where Terry accuses her of wanting to isolate the Lizard People so that she can take them onto The Today Show and become famous and she expresses offense before immediately soliloquizing a detailed confirmation of this accusation into a kitchen cupboard rather than wait for Terry to leave.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_af81576b
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b01abe4f
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Catchphrase
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b01abe4f
comment
Catchphrase: "WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?" "My husband, DAAAAAAAVE..."
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_b01abe4f
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b11ac9f5
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Abusive Parents
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b11ac9f5
comment
Abusive Parents: Gayle to Terry and Ira. She is constantly verbally abusive to Terry, holds her to impossibly high standards, ridicules her appearance, and refuses to let Ira play Spanish guitar, to name a few things. Not to mention she kidnapped Ira when he was a young boy from a Costco, sells him on eBay, and only takes him back as a ploy to see Bruce before he leaves to find his real parents.
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Fate Worse than Death
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b1346878
comment
Fate Worse than Death: Gayle isn't scared of death, but she is scared of Mall Teens. And Trader Joe's employees.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_b1346878
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b2b73f0
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Foot Popping
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b2b73f0
comment
Foot Popping: Lampshaded by Gayle while observing a pair of Sickeningly Sweethearts in the New Development.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_b2b73f0
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Sexless Marriage
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Sexless Marriage: "Christmas Card" notes that Gayle and Dave haven't touched since the 90s—not only sexually but at all.
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Misery Poker
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b474c23f
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Misery Poker: Bonnie and Gayle's competitive discussion of their respective "rescue" dogs (Gayle's being "rescued," according to Dave, "from a breeder") naturally devotes some time to this.
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Epic Fail
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b4eff8a8
comment
Epic Fail: Gayle's attempt to use a GoPro livestream to prove that the vermin problem being blamed on uncovered trash cans in her neighborhood actually originates in the New Development not only proves her wrong but results in the entire town meeting viewing real-time footage of her getting sprayed by a skunk, losing her pants in a brutal squirrel attack, and urinating in a misguided effort to disinfect the wounds from said squirrel attack.
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b53077b3
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Take That!
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b53077b3
comment
Take That!: Linkin Park, Jimmy Buffett and Radiohead come in for unflattering analysis by Gayle, while she weaponizes the perceived badness of Smash Mouth (believing that if listening to Mozart makes people smarter, Smash Mouth will make them dumber) and Lou Bega ("Mambo No. 5" being "the least cool thing this world has ever seen" and therefore sufficient to "undo all the heinous social learnings of a 'hip or with-it' individual" if played at a high enough volume). The show also devotes an entire episode to mocking the corporate culture of Trader Joe's, and in another episode Gayle calls Zooey Deschanel "the Trader Joe's of Hollywood."
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My Beloved Smother
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b58c51d8
comment
My Beloved Smother: Gayle and Bonnie to their respective kids.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b58c51d8
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b6287eff
type
Briar Patching
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b6287eff
comment
Briar Patching: Gayle scornfully invokes the Trope Namer when talking about teenaged girls begging boys not to push them in the pool.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b6287eff
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_b6287eff
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b6cc7fc0
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Dysfunctional Family
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b6cc7fc0
comment
Dysfunctional Family: Oh yeah.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b6cc7fc0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_b6cc7fc0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b707726f
type
Hypocritical Humor
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b707726f
comment
Hypocritical Humor: Terry says "ass" in front of Gayle, who immediately admonishes her. Terry then lists all the swears Gayle has said in front of her that morning. It's quite an extensive and creative list.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b707726f
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b707726f
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_b707726f
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b773ec0e
type
DidNotThinkThisThrough
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b773ec0e
comment
Did Not Think This Through: Any plan Gayle cooks up will go disastrously wrong. She admits this once when she steals a teacup pig on impulse to prove a point and gets Dave landed in prison for a night.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b773ec0e
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b773ec0e
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_b773ec0e
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b7bc7d28
type
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b7bc7d28
comment
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: While tailing Terry, Gayle slams on the brakes in disgust of a tree.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b7bc7d28
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b7bc7d28
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_b7bc7d28
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b95cd640
type
Huge Schoolgirl
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b95cd640
comment
Huge Schoolgirl: Referenced by Gayle when she contemplates the possibility of mistaking a cello for one in the dark.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b95cd640
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b95cd640
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_b95cd640
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b9fc31d3
type
Victoria's Secret Compartment
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b9fc31d3
comment
Victoria's Secret Compartment: Gayle smuggles some Chobani yogurt in her shirt when she goes to a Yanni concert. Which is kinda impressive considering she only has, by her own admission, B cups.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b9fc31d3
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_b9fc31d3
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_b9fc31d3
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ba236071
type
It Makes Sense in Context
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ba236071
comment
Gayle pretends to be a pilgrim to get rid of Dave's friend, Mark. Mark thinks it's a play and gleefully joins in.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ba236071
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ba236071
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_ba236071
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ba3b41d6
type
Ironic Echo Cut
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ba3b41d6
comment
Ironic Echo Cut:
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ba3b41d6
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ba3b41d6
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_ba3b41d6
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bb18a227
type
It's All About Me
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bb18a227
comment
It's All About Me: Gayle. On her birthday, everyone has to watch her exercise. She also tries to sabotage her husband's toothpaste business venture because she can't let people know he has sensitive teeth because of the embarrassment she thinks it would bring upon her. Bonnie's husband Reggie talks nonstop about his wife, his son, his house, his cars, his golf game and other things defined entirely by their relationship to him, leaving Gayle in a white-hot rage.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bb18a227
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bb18a227
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_bb18a227
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bc00493f
type
Precision F-Strike
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bc00493f
comment
Precision F-Strike: Gayle only uses an uncensored F-word once, when Bonnie suggests she just serve a storebought pie at her luncheon for the people of the New D because all her appliances are broken so she can't cook her homemade pie. Gayle gives us one of these before strapping herself with the dog's electric collar and walking through the fence, severely electrocuting herself and flying through her house's roof, but cooking the pie in the process.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bc00493f
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bc00493f
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_bc00493f
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bc74ef27
type
Berserk Button
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bc74ef27
comment
Berserk Button: Gayle's are countless and include Claire's, Trader Joe's, being outdone by Bonnie, being outdone by anyone, ugly trees, 2010s technology, people using her beach towels in non-beach-related contexts, and her husband's use of sensitive toothpaste.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bc74ef27
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bc74ef27
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_bc74ef27
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_be81113b
type
Lost in Character
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_be81113b
comment
Lost in Character: Gayle briefly believes she is Brad The Mall Teen.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_be81113b
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_be81113b
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_be81113b
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_beb932ca
type
Big Applesauce
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_beb932ca
comment
Big Applesauce: Never appears in the series itself, but several characters are approached as hailing from it. Many members of the New Development mention having once been young professionals in Brooklyn.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_beb932ca
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_beb932ca
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_beb932ca
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bf110089
type
Break Them by Talking
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bf110089
comment
Break Them by Talking: Attempted by Bonnie at the climax of Episode 30. Gayle has none of it.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bf110089
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_bf110089
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_bf110089
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c007c53
type
Cool and Unusual Punishment
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c007c53
comment
Cool and Unusual Punishment: Gayle likes dishing these out. When Dave brings home Jarlsberg cheese instead of Parmesan, she forces him to hand over all the paper from his fax machine and gives him the thinly-sliced cheese to use instead, telling him not to come back downstairs until he's faxed one to each of his most important coworkers. Her customary penalty for putting deli meat away without folding it is attaching a piece of the meat to the offender's car like a flag.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c007c53
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c007c53
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_c007c53
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c0e3994b
type
Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c0e3994b
comment
Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Gayle frequently expresses revulsion for Dave, belittles his interests and his character, gets him in trouble with law enforcement when he steps out of line, observes him with a hidden camera, tries to undermine his passion project business venture for fear it will embarrass her, and attempts to scare off his Only Friend. All of the above is, of course, hilarious. (It probably helps that he maintains a Sarcastic Devotee attitude through it all and gets thrown a few significant bones at her expense.)
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c0e3994b
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_c0e3994b
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c0e5fc39
type
Celeb Crush
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c0e5fc39
comment
Celeb Crush: Gayle has a huge one on Yanni. She also has a fixation with Katie Couric, saying she wants to make her cry but also admitting that she would "hate-scissor her until the cows come home."
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c0e5fc39
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c0e5fc39
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_c0e5fc39
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c3fbac64
type
Bestiality Is Depraved
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c3fbac64
comment
Bestiality Is Depraved: Some reptile-themed party-planners were apparently very attached to their reptiles.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c3fbac64
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c3fbac64
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_c3fbac64
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5060c86
type
Present Day
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5060c86
comment
Present Day: Has a very tiny bit of Comic-Book Time, considering Terry has remianed in her senior year of high school throughout the series. Becomes even more confusing when you realize that Terry explicitly had a grade school birthday in the 90s, yet was still young enough to be applying to college around (maybe) 2016.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5060c86
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5060c86
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5060c86
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5249b29
type
Nice Guy
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5249b29
comment
Nice Guy: In contrast to the cutthroat feminine duo of Gayle and Bonnie, most of the prominent men in the series are good-natured, easygoing and innocent, including Dave, Bruce, Mark, Brendan Kin and Rick Gausmann. The major exception is Bonnie's businessman husband Reggie Kin, who isn't quite evil but whose conversational steamrollering and It's All About Me attitude drive Gayle nuts. There's also a representative Nice Girl in Linda.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5249b29
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5249b29
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5249b29
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c59cfa2e
type
Felony Misdemeanor
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c59cfa2e
comment
Felony Misdemeanor: Having 16 items in a 12-item express lane, the prospect of her daughter going to a "little Ivy" like Colby or Bowdoin, being forced to pay late fees for a DVD of The Big Chill, wearing shoes in the house, leaving the box of Swiffer Wet Ones open so they dry out, knocking over a portrait of Tonya Harding, upstaging Gayle while exercising to a Zumba DVD...
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c59cfa2e
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c59cfa2e
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_c59cfa2e
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5f0119c
type
Insane Troll Logic
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5f0119c
comment
Insane Troll Logic: Gayle and Bonnie come to the conclusion that, because Mark and his wife are from the Bay Area and they like walking, they're going to open up a trendy bistro and they're trying to steal the positions of salutatorian and valedictorian from Terry and Brendon. Gayle, Bonnie and Linda all believe that girls receiving gifts from Claire's from their boyfriends leads to a higher probability of them giving road head to their aforementioned boyfriends.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5f0119c
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5f0119c
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_c5f0119c
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c63dede5
type
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c63dede5
comment
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: Gayle is constantly trying to one-up her rival Bonnie, whether it's "rescuing" a dog, or attempting to sabotage Bonnie's son's efforts at becoming valedictorian.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c63dede5
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c63dede5
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_c63dede5
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c83751cb
type
Description Cut
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c83751cb
comment
Description Cut: "Lost in the New D":
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c83751cb
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c83751cb
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_c83751cb
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c9597a03
type
Self-Deprecation
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c9597a03
comment
Self-Deprecation: In Episode 24, Gayle tells Bonnie that she hates her and "[her] creepy son." Bonnie of course being played by Chris Fleming's mother.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c9597a03
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_c9597a03
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_c9597a03
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cadbe2b3
type
She Is the King
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cadbe2b3
comment
She Is the King: Gayle repeatedly refers to herself as "she-king" of her Massachusetts community.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cadbe2b3
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cadbe2b3
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_cadbe2b3
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cb092754
type
Musical Pastiche
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cb092754
comment
Musical Pastiche: Several, including soft rock with the "Beef Hutchins" oeuvre, punk rock with "Morningwood All Day," and Linkin Park with "My Dad Got Fat" and "Disappointment Hotel."
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cb092754
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cb092754
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_cb092754
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ccdbccb0
type
Heartbreak and Ice Cream
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ccdbccb0
comment
Heartbreak and Ice Cream: Gayle does this in "Bonnie's Husband" with a 32-oz container of Chobani yogurt as she sits with Linda and bemoans Dave's cowardice.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ccdbccb0
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ccdbccb0
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_ccdbccb0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cdb45c07
type
No Sense of Personal Space
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cdb45c07
comment
No Sense of Personal Space: In "College Tour" Gayle leans into the tour guide's face.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cdb45c07
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cdb45c07
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_cdb45c07
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ce139dad
type
Same Surname Means Related
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ce139dad
comment
Same Surname Means Related: Averted; Dave and Gayle had the same last name when they got married, leading to the hyphenation "Waters-Waters."
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ce139dad
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ce139dad
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_ce139dad
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ceee5c14
type
Actually Quite Catchy
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ceee5c14
comment
Actually Quite Catchy: In "Letting Off Some Steam with 'the Park,'" Gayle proves a point to Terry about how all Linkin Park songs sound the same by breaking out into an impromptu parody called "My Dad Got Fat." Terry only briefly reacts as you'd expect before nodding along and finally unselfconsciously rocking out. During Bonnie's musical number "I Can Text" in Episode 38, an incensed and horrified Gayle is nonetheless seen swaying her shoulders and playing Air Guitar to the music.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ceee5c14
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ceee5c14
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_ceee5c14
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cf64a80d
type
Hostile Show Takeover
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cf64a80d
comment
Hostile Show Takeover: "Christmas Card" opens with Bonnie replacing Gayle in her standard powerwalking-while-narrating segment as she announces that Gayle has perished in a coupon-related fire and that she's now taking over Mothers Against Road Head and inheriting Gayle's couscous stash. Gayle suddenly turns up with her face covered in ash and shoves her out of the way to complete the segment.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cf64a80d
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_cf64a80d
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_cf64a80d
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d13e0db3
type
Heartbeat Soundtrack
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d13e0db3
comment
Heartbeat Soundtrack: Used to punctuate moments of high emotion for Gayle.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d13e0db3
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d13e0db3
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_d13e0db3
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d148b019
type
Mundane Made Awesome
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d148b019
comment
Mundane Made Awesome: Stretching out a beach towel by tying the ends of it to two SUVs, and driving them in opposite directions, or shoplifting a beach towel from Macy's by jumping off the top level of the parking lot, using the beach towel as a parachute, onto your getaway car.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d148b019
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d148b019
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_d148b019
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d1affec1
type
That Came Out Wrong
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d1affec1
comment
That Came Out Wrong: Doctor Bruce occasionally to Gayle. Gayle and Dave say several in front of Terry, much to Terry's disgust.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d1affec1
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d1affec1
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_d1affec1
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d34cbda2
type
Implausible Deniability
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d34cbda2
comment
Implausible Deniability: Gayle, all the time.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d34cbda2
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d34cbda2
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_d34cbda2
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d38a4a3
type
Identically Named Group
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d38a4a3
comment
Identically Named Group: The "Jennys" in the New D.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d38a4a3
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d38a4a3
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_d38a4a3
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d5bcb124
type
Technologically Blind Elders
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d5bcb124
comment
Technologically Blind Elders: Gayle's and Bonnie's efforts to prove they aren't this while interacting with the "emailers" and "Netflixers" that populate the New D only make it more apparent, with Gayle attempting to keep up with a "young, tech-savvy conversation" by blurting out a stream of completely made-up apps and eventually just screaming "DVDs!" When Bonnie basks in her purchase of an iPad, Gayle is sick with envy until she runs into her at the town's media services center and finds out that she was only pretending to use it and didn't even know how to turn it on.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d5bcb124
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_d5bcb124
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d7fc9fd0
type
Vitriolic Best Buds
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d7fc9fd0
comment
Vitriolic Best Buds: Gayle and Bonnie increasingly lean into this territory as the series progresses, while sacrificing none of their accustomed ruthlessness. "The Wedding" establishes that Bonnie was Gayle's Best Woman when she married Dave, and Dave explicitly refers to Bonnie as Gayle's best friend, though not to either of their faces.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d7fc9fd0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_d7fc9fd0
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d848560f
type
Unusual Euphemism
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d848560f
comment
Unusual Euphemism: Dave uses words like 'tiddlywinks' as swears. Gayle also describes sexual acts she would like to engage in with Bruce using different euphemisms, such as ‘I’m going to mess him up like a leaf pile’ and ‘now you're baking my ziti’.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d848560f
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d848560f
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_d848560f
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d93c5989
type
Stepford Suburbia
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d93c5989
comment
Stepford Suburbia: The New D as seen by Gayle and Bonnie, full of identical houses and lawns easy to get lost among, golden retrievers whose "venom" might cause you to assimilate, and overachieving, immaculately-poised, razor scooter-riding 12-year-old girls who are all named "Jenny."
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d93c5989
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 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d93c5989
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_d93c5989
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d99a228f
type
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d99a228f
comment
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Gayle gets this kind of (non-)reaction a lot, such as when she sees Bruce walking up to her car and breaks the window with her head instead of rolling it down, after which they have a pleasant conversation.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d99a228f
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_d99a228f
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d9cf40fa
type
Screw This, I'm Outta Here
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d9cf40fa
comment
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Gayle's response to pressures including but not limited to hitting her husband in the leg while throwing cheese knives, receiving a phone call from the legal department of Trader Joe's, and humiliating herself in front of a town meeting. She has a detailed plan in place for Starting a New Life in Tallahassee if anyone finds out that she uses dog shampoo.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_d9cf40fa
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I'm Standing Right Here
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comment
I'm Standing Right Here: Gayle and Linda spend a good chunk of "Bonnie's Husband" discussing Dave, with Gayle complaining about his cowardice. The end reveals that he was sitting quietly in the room with them the entire time.
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_d9fe8277
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Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
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comment
Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Gayle's reaction after Bonnie appears to have clawed her way out of the pit of dawning obsolescence by getting an iPad, causing her to blurt out "WHY CAN'T I BE BONNIE?!" in the middle of a rant about how much she doesn't care.
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1.0
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_db212ca9
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type
Already Met Everyone
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_dc52e294
comment
Already Met Everyone: The prequel episode "The Wedding" implies that Gayle and Bonnie go back at least to woman's college, where they majored and minored in women's studies (contrast Gayle's earlier statement that Bonnie is a "functional illiterate" because she went to art school), and Bonnie is "Best Woman" at Gayle's marriage to Dave, which Bruce, Rick Gausmann, and Linda also attend. Gayle also complains that Bonnie has gotten irritating since she married "that frat house business chode Reggie," even though "Bonnie's Husband" 10 episodes prior had a Flashback to an already middle-aged Gayle being introduced to Reggie for the first time—during a book club meeting at Bonnie's house—and being shocked that Bonnie is married to someone like him. Though considering how unbearable Reggie is, it's possible Gayle blocked out early memories of him. Problem solved.
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1.0
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_dc52e294
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type
Hands-On Approach
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comment
Hands-On Approach: The lyrics to "Come to My Dad's House" from the episode "Trader Joe'd" describe a Not What It Looks Like incident of this.
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1.0
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_dd22df26
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type
Despair Event Horizon
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_dda99fa8
comment
Despair Event Horizon: Gayle can't even get out of bed after she inadvertently caused a truck full of Chobani yogurt to flip over on the highway.
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1.0
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1.0
 Gayle (Web Video)
hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_dda99fa8
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_de4bda37
type
Angry Dance
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_de4bda37
comment
Angry Dance: Gayle is so furious when she receives a letter from the town organizer of the new development that she breaks out her best approximation of Kevin Bacon in Footloose.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_de4bda37
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1.0
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1.0
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hasFeature
Gayle (Web Video) / int_de4bda37
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type
Pass the Popcorn
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e135b3de
comment
Pass the Popcorn: In "Theater," Bonnie is horrified when she finds out that her son Brendan's underwear are clearly illuminated by the stage lights in the costume he's supposed to wear for the school play. Because Gayle also has a vested interest in preventing the play from going forward, she vows to join forces with Bonnie to stop it, while declaring that under normal circumstances she would "sit back with a bag of popcorn and let your spooky boy bulldoze your family name."
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type
Word Salad Lyrics
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e18675e6
comment
Word Salad Lyrics: Pretty much any of the original Musical Pastiche songs used to underscore scenes will make you do a double take or two.
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e18675e6
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Voice Changeling
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Voice Changeling: Gayle can do a perfect imitation of Dave, unsurprisingly as Dave is voiced by Chris Fleming.
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Musical Episode
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comment
Musical Episode: "Christmas Special."
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e1f59bf0
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The Bore
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comment
Bonnie's husband Reggie talks nonstop about his wife, his son, his house, his cars, his golf game and other things defined entirely by their relationship to him, leaving Gayle in a white-hot rage.
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e201cc
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The Ditz
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comment
The Ditz: Linda, though she still manages to be an Only Sane Man to Gayle and Bonnie.
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1.0
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e2d457
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type
Best Woman
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e48b8fb9
comment
Best Woman: Bonnie, at Gayle's wedding. (She was for all intents and purposes a traditional Maid of Honor, with Gayle's Insistent Terminology presumably stemming from her second-wave feminist leanings.)
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e48b8fb9
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1.0
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e48b8fb9
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Family Theme Naming
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e502e268
comment
Family Theme Naming: Both of Gayle's kids, Terry Gross and Ira Glass, are named after NPR hosts.
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1.0
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e502e268
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e52a0409
type
Calling the Old Man Out
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e52a0409
comment
Calling the Old Man Out: Ira, on Gayle's birthday.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e52a0409
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1.0
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e52a0409
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e624f0e8
type
Suspiciously Specific Denial
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e624f0e8
comment
Suspiciously Specific Denial: Gayle giving a house tour shortly after discovering the Lizard Folk in her basement:
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e624f0e8
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The Mall
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e6cca0
comment
The Mall: The setting of "Mall Couples.".
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The Maze
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e6ce4b
comment
The Maze: Gayle and Bonnie get lost in the New Development.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e6ce4b
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e6ce4b
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Sarcastic Devotee
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e7bffa82
comment
Sarcastic Devotee: Dave, to Gayle.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e7bffa82
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e7bffa82
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e83f211c
comment
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Ira, who is usually silent, gives Gayle a devastating lecture on her birthday.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e83f211c
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type
PlayedWith
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comment
Played with given that Gayle's actor, Chris Fleming, was a twenty-something man at the time.
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e8b295de
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type
Blue-and-Orange Morality
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_e8e56799
comment
Blue-and-Orange Morality: While Gayle's behavior should place her squarely in a criminal Cloudcuckoolander realm previously occupied only by Arkham Asylum escapees, it's treated simply as intense competitive suburban mom behavior In-Universe, and she and Bonnie are always on the same page with regard to standards and codes of conduct. Maybe justified, given that it becomes evident that almost everyone in Northbread has some bizarre tendencies.
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1.0
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1.0
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_e8e56799
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Self-Made Man
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ed874c14
comment
Self-Made Man: Reggie Kin, according to himself.
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One-Steve Limit
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_ee7a60e9
comment
One-Steve Limit: Averted. Every girl from the New D is called Jenny. The New D also houses a couple named Jesse and Jessie.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_ee7a60e9
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
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comment
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Gayle's granola recipe:
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_eef90616
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type
Passed-Over Inheritance
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_f54f1401
comment
Passed-Over Inheritance: Gayle's will goes exclusively to Yanni. Granted, it's made up entirely of Crate & Barrel store credit.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_f54f1401
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_f96f188c
type
Drives Like Crazy
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_f96f188c
comment
Drives Like Crazy: Flooring it in reverse down the highway while flipping everyone off through her sunroof to make it to the movie theatre in time for the 6:15 showing of War Horse, or driving at full speed to her daughter's high school, paper worth half her grade in tow, and then abandoning the car to retrieve the paper from a tree.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_f96f188c
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type
Faking the Dead
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comment
One of several sources for the character of Gayle was a local news story: a former member of the government board of Fleming's hometown was charged with embezzlement, with her illicit purchases including $370 in Edible Arrangements sent to herself. This is duly parodied in Episode 1 with a mention of Gayle having faked her own death in a ploy to get Edible Arrangements.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_f9876f7e
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_f9876f7e
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Talking to Themself
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_fb8b5014
comment
Talking to Themself: Dave, often. Particularly captured on the DaveCam.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_fb8b5014
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1.0
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type
Comically Missing the Point
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comment
Comically Missing the Point: Gayle's postmortem analysis of her failed kayak date with Bruce:
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_fbd285b7
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_fd1f1a63
type
Ridiculously Cute Critter
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_fd1f1a63
comment
Ridiculously Cute Critter: Gayle freaks out when Dave doesn't get Hilary Clinton (their Bichon Frise) groomed before the luncheon, saying she looks like a "dino baby" and a "strung-out, Albert Einstein looking house bat." Played with in that she still thinks she's cute, trying hard not to crack a smile when Hilary starts licking her nose. There's also the black pig Gayle steals in order to prove a point to Dave after he leaves her box of Swiffer Wet Ones open. Dave is forced to spend a night in jail, but nobody takes the pig back, and Gayle falls in love with it, appointing it guardian of her couscous stash.
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_fd1f1a63
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_fe0330fb
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Brick Joke
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_fe0330fb
comment
Brick Joke: The backstory for "Lizard People" is established in a conversation that starts when Gayle criticizes Terry's messy ponytail, telling her she looks like she's about to start a reptile-themed birthday party company. This leads the family to discuss a regrettable birthday party Gayle threw for Terry in the 90s, courtesy of one "Reptyyl Mark." Near the end of the episode it's revealed that the half-reptile children of Reptyyl Mark, who have been living undiscovered in the family's basement since that party, are drawn to Terry because they think that she's their dad.
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_fe0330fb
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Gayle (Web Video) / int_fe0330fb
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Cut Short
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comment
Cut Short: Somewhere between this and No Ending. The series ends with Episode 40, written with the assumption that it would continue past that point. There's a hint of End-of-Series Awareness, however.
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