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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 and married 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 [[The Addams Family]]. Dick assumed she meant second president John Adams. When she states that wasn't what she meant, Dick thinks she meant John Quincy Adams and becomes enraged that she would compare his family to "that freakshow".
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*** And Mary witnessed his pathetic attempt at teaching a little girl to play hopscotch in the park, which resulted in the little girl running away while Dick hurled insults at her.
* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: A subversion. Mary is the only woman with whom Dick considers himself to be truly in love with, and spends the length of the entire show either with her or trying to get back together with her. But he's had other relationships, including a one-night stand with the mother of one of his students.
* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Had
* [[What Does She See in Him?|What Does He See In Her?]]: The other aliens hate Mary and don't understand what Dick's obsession with her is. As the series progressed their opinion of her as a person softened, but they still hated the idea of the two of them together.
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'''Dr. Mary Albright-Solomon''' ([[Jane Curtin]]) - Dick's (initially reluctant) Earthling love interest and sometimes later wife and an anthropology professor at his college. She is a neurotic [[Christmas Cake]] who was a [[Good Bad Girl]] in [[I Was Quite a Looker|her younger days]], a fact which Dick seemed to be oblivious of in earlier episodes.
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Borders on this. She's known at the local supermarket as the "White Zinfandel Lady".
** Actually came in handy, as this rendered her immune to the drugged wine given to her by Charlotte from "Alien Hunter". Of course, it didn't help when she knocked Mary out with the gnome.
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* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: She found her thesis in the bottom of box labelled "Sugar Puffs".
* [[Dysfunctional Family]]: Her parents both had affairs while she was growing up (including one that draws doubt to Mary's paternity). She's the eldest of three children, all twisted in their own ways. Her brother Roy sells aluminum siding and tells women he was abducted by aliens as an attempt to get laid. Her sister Renata is an affected, wealthy woman who has a personal vendetta against Mary and does everything in her power to destroy Mary's life (including trying to steal Dick). Their whole family seems fond of alcohol, and Mary has apparently followed in her mother's footsteps to become a borderline [[Lady Drunk]].
* [[First-Name Basis]]/[[Last-Name Basis]]: Dick initially calls her "Dr. Albright", but permanently switches to "Mary" after they hook up for real and they became engaged halfway in the series. The other aliens refer to her as just "Albright" before changes her last name to simply "Solomon" after she married Dick. Nina and Vicki call her "Dr. Albright" before changing her husband's last name to "Solomon" making the Solomons the only couple while the other professors call her "Mary".
* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: Well, maybe not "abusive", ''per se''. Her parents were close to emotionally abusive, however, and this is played for laughs.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Managed to have not one, but two relationships with two different alien beings.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Her mom's a complete bitch.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Had this moment when she realized she had sex with Dick while locked in the school library, under intoxication. This was during one of their "
* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: Not matter how many times Mary has to explain it, Vicki keeps thinking that the "doctor" in her name means Mary's a medical doctor.
* [[Ted Baxter]]: Once compared herself to Abraham Lincoln in a speech to her colleagues. And, in Nina's words, "he did not come out favorably".
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