…meeting an important new client for the first time, and his family members will create some form of chaos that makes the meeting go badly.
When a character arranges to meet a blind date at a restaurant…
They’ll be swept off their feet by the attractive stranger they’ve assumed to be their date. The real blind date will later be revealed to be hideously ugly in some way.
**OR… ** (When a character arranges to meet a blind date at a restaurant…)
the blind date will turn out to be an ex with whole the character had a very bad breakup.
When a sitcom character adopts a new pet…
It will be crucial to the plot of that episode (and maybe a couple more, if he’s a monkey), then will disappear.
If a sitcom character buys a gun for self defence…
He’ll shoot himself in the foot.
When a sitcom brother and sister are fighting, the’ll reach reconciliation when…
When the sibling’s girlfriend/boyfriend breaks up with him/her, and the other sibling rallies around in support.
When a sitcom character discovers that money is missing, they will immediately suspect…
…their spouse, sibling, or business partner; since those are the only people whom they entrusted with the money’s secret location. Until the episode ends, they completely forget that the toddler/pet/cleaning staff often get curious and explore where they shouldn’t.
The most popuar extracurricular activity for a sitcom high school student to participate in is _____ because _____.
The most popuar extracurricular activity for a sitcom high school student to participate in is _____ because _____
marxist politcal thoughts because then they can be that annoying teen-ager who thinks that everyone is s capitlaist pig, especially their parents who have set a curfew for 9:30.
In a sticom when a guy has two girls who like him at the same time he…
swimming because you get an excuse to see them in their swim trunks.
Related to the “excessive grooviness” syndrome, if there’s ever a flashback to the 1980s the character will be wearing…
Parachute pants and/or a Members Only jacket.
Whenever a kid tries to sneak back into the house late at night…
…One of the parents will be crashed out on the couch, and (s)he will be forced to try to get past without making noise. A handily located sleeping dog will be their undoing.
A character we’ve never seen before shows up at the school of one of the teenaged main characters, then…
He/she will discover dad sitting in that big chair in the living room in the dark.
When sitcom parents try to sneak off for a romantic evening…
tries to get the mischievous but good sitcom character kid to do drugs.
Reverting:
When sitcom parents try to sneak off for a romantic evening…
…they will take turns making excuses to leave the table and check in on the kids.
Any sitcom kid that does poorly in school (even for only one episode)…
…is able to work hard and pass the final exam, even if he/she only gets a C-.
When the “Dad” decides to teach a local class for the local adult education building…
He tries to enliven the class by revealing family secrets.
When a hot young woman comes on to a sitcom dad…
He dyes his hair, wears a girdle to hide his beer belly dresses like a teenager and injures himself trying to dance/run/kayak.
When a sitcom mom wants to show that she’s still hot…
The dad will think it’s some kind of put-on, make a few jokes, leaving the mom in tears. They will make up after the dad wholeheartedly states that he likes her just the way she looks everyday. Awwwww.
When a sitcom teenager decides to have sex for the first time…
…They rent a hotel room right next door to a room the “star” kid’s parents have rented for a romantic night out.
When the lead character that’s the host for a local TV show decides to do a live remote from his/her house…
His obnoxious, overbearing in-laws choose that very day for a surprise visit, and stress him out to the point that he blows his top on air.
When a sitcom character checks into the hospital for a routine medical procedure performed…