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Standard [[Dom Com]] (2001-2009) with [[Bumbling Dad]] ([[James Belushi|"Jim" Belushi]]) and long suffering [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|hot wife]] (Courtney Thorne-Smith). A total of 182 episodes were released in its eight seasons.

 

 

* [[American Football]]: Jim and Andy live and breathe it. BEARS, NOT PACKERS.

* [[Analogy Backfire]]: When Andy dates a girl Jim dislikes, he compares this with him and Osama bin Laden being together to Cheryl and Andy (on separate occasions) in order to make his point, only for this trope to take place (Andy contemplates turning bin Laden in for reward, whereas Cheryl wonders whether the relationship is serious), much to Jim's frustration.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: On the [[Halloween Episode]], Jim's kids pick out their own costumes: Ruby is a cowgirl, Gracie goes as Statue of Liberty, and Kyle's costume is... Cinderella.

* [[Bucket Booby Trap]]: Double subverted. The kids tricked Andy into thinking they were going to do it, then when he refuses to fall for it and puts on his slippers, he gets pudding all over his feet. Then he chases the kids into the kitchen to get pudding dropped on his head.

* [[Bumbling Dad]]: Jim

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Andy

* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Jim Belushi wrote the theme song and he regularly performs in a band on the show showing off his harmonica skills.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Cheryl kept a binder listing all the times she was right about something and Jim was wrong from the day they started dating in the off-chance Jim suggested that he was right about things more than she was.

* [[The Couch]]

* [[The Danza]]: Jim Belushi as Jim.

** Of course, he's actually referring to his Palm Pilot.

** More explicitly hinted at in the episode where Jim has to give a sperm sample but asks Andy to give it in his place.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Jim's dad left him when he was a kid, reuniting with him after 35 years.

* [[Double Standard]]: In several episodes Cheryl will get mad at Jim for saying something stupid, usually sexist. Only to later find herself in a situation in which proves Jim was right, and goes to great lengths to prevent him from finding out.

** For example in one episode Jim explains that men and women's brains are wired so they won't remember certain things, Cheryl gets mad at him, only to later find herself trapped in the garage because none of the girls can remember the key code for the door, which her toddler son punches in effortlessly. She makes one last ditch effort to prove him wrong but can't even remember the code when hes just explained it to her.

* [[Eating Contest]]: Jim and Andy participate in one that involves hot dogs, whose winner would get to be in a local commercial for said hot dog. Too bad for them a woman ends up the winner. Jim's so disgruntled that he challenges her to another one.

* [[Escalating War]]: Between Jim and Andy, in two separate episodes, all for ''a grill''.

* [[Garage Band]]: Jim, Andy, and their friends have one.

* [[Groin Attack]]: Andy has been a victim of this.

* [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]]: [[Dan Aykroyd]] guest starred in two episodes as an old friend of Jim's.

* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]

* [[Jerkass]]: Everybody has their moment of this from time to time, but mostly Jim, Dana and Andy.

* [[Long Runners]]

* [[Most Annoying Sound]]: The Devlins, the single most IRRITATING couple you'll ever meet, both in-universe and out, they're perpetually happy and overly friendly people who NEVER seem to get mad at anyone for anything, they laugh at EVERYTHING in the most annoying way and make the WORST jokes imaginable. I know them being annoying was the point, but the writers succeeded in that department a little TOO well.

* [[No Name Given]]: Jim, Cheryl, Andy and the kids are only referred to by their first names; Dana originally had no last name as well, but this changed after she married Dr. Ryan Gibson and adopted his surname.

** Jim's also got a very healthy and friendly relationship with his mother in-law, to the point that Andy often got jealous about Jim being her favourite "son". When Dana married Ryan, Jim actually became jealous of losing his spot.

* [[Paintball Episode]]

* [[Practical Joke]]: Cheryl, Andy, and Dana make Jim think his dead friend came back to life, because Jim stole back his playing card that said friend stole the day before he died.

* [[Primal Fear]]: Jim is terrified of spiders.

* [[Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud]]: When Jim uses an earpiece and hidden microphone to communicate to Andy, he tells him to tell the girl he's picking up to "Stay beautiful," and walk away. Andy tells her "Stay beautiful and walk away." Twice.

* [[Real Life Relative]]: Jim's real-life son Robert Belushi appeared in about eleven episodes - sometimes as [[Casting Gag|an older version of Kyle]].

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Andy and Jim.

* [[Shock Party]]: The organizing variation; Jim throws one for Cheryl.

* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: Between Andy and Dana, and sometimes between both of them and Cheryl.

* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Jim and Cheryl.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Jim and Andy.

 

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