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'''Dr. Dick Solomon''' ([[John Lithgow]]) - High Commander of the aliens. Played by Lithgow as a [[Large Ham]], Dick is an [[Insufferable Genius]] when it comes to science and a [[Ted Baxter]] when it comes to everything else. He is in love with Mary Albright [[Single-Target Sexuality|and Mary Albright alone]] whether [[Dogged Nice Guy|she likes it or not]]. [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|His Earth job is as a physics professor.]]
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Doesn't understand sarcasm or lying very well.
** An example would be when Mary compared his family to [[
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: Once blurted out to his class that Earth would be destroyed by a meteor in 2015.
* [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!]]: Got addicted to collecting stuffed animals called "Fuzzy Buddies". His friends and family staged an intervention when it reached the point that he had so many he was keeping them in the freezer.
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: Whenever dealing with Mary and Dick.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Nina normally seems to hold Dick in contempt (not entirely without reason, it must be said), but there are some moments when she makes it clear that she doesn't actually hate him.
* [[Shipper
* [[Sassy Secretary]]
* [[Sexy Secretary]]: One episode involved Dick having romantic fantasies about Nina.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Following her break up with Tommy, when he became editor of the school paper he kept telling people that their break-up had left her a wreck and that HE broke up with her. She kept having to remind people to her frustration that the reverse happened, but no one listened.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Wrote a rather scathing review of Alissa's performance in the high school play, but told Tommy (the editor of the school paper at the time) that she would understand if he didn't print it since Alissa was his girlfriend.<ref>Reference to Jedediah Leland's scathing review of Susan Alexander in ''[[
'''Alissa Strudwick''' (Larisa Oleynik) - Tommy's second girlfriend. Your basic [[Girl Next Door]] and the daughter of Vincent Strudwick, making her and Tommy [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]. Interestingly enough, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik also dated each other in ''[[Ten Things I Hate About You]]''.
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'''Big Giant Head''' ([[William Shatner]]) - The aliens' [[Evil Overlord]]. [[The Ghost]] for most of the series, but he eventually showed up as an [[Adam Westing]] Shatner. On Earth, he goes by the alias "[[Character Name Alias|Stone Phillips]]", the name of an [[NBC]] reporter at the time of the show's run.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: How ''else'' could Dick have netted this job?
* [[Mars Needs Women]]: Offers to marry Vicki and make her, in her own words, "Queen of the frickin' universe".
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'''Dr. Liam Neesam''' (John Cleese) - An evil alien [[Always Someone Better|way better than Dick]] who briefly worked at Dick's college as a biology professor.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: Was originally sent to blow up Earth. Why? We're blocking his home planet's view.
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