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{{quote|''"Charles in Charge, of our days and our nights!"''}}
''Charles In Charge'' was a [[Dom Com]] from 1984-5 and 1987-90 starring Scott Baio as a college-age "nanny" to the children of the families he lived with—first the Pembrokes and later the Powells (after the show moved to syndication and the Pembrokes "moved to Seattle").
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* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Averted in "Still at Large." A female teacher tells Charles that he's "a good looking man," but "an ugly woman."
* [[Beautiful All Along]]:
* [[Can-Crushing Cranium]]: Buddy bragged about crushing a number of cans in a row, and could have done more ''if they were empty.''
* [[Channel Hop]]: Moved to [[Syndication]] after a season on [[CBS]].
* [[Credit Card Plot]]: In one episode Charles got a credit card with a low limit, intending to use it responsibly. However, the kids get hold of it and run up a large bill, causing Charles to be embarrassed when his card is rejected during a date.
* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Charles and Buddy in "Still at Large."
* [[Dumbass Has a Point]]:
* [[Expository Theme Song]]: The tune very finely summarizes the show itself, and the feelings of the children he looks after, saving many a fan from having to explain the program, so much as just show a friend the intro.
* [[First Gray Hair]]: Buddy reacts disastrously to spotting a single grey hair.
* [[Flanderization]]: Buddy Lembeck. He started out as a girl-crazy guy who had no interest in academics but wasn't stupid at all. As the series progressed, he became progressively more stupid and eventually insane.
* [[Identity Amnesia]]: During a bout of amnesia, Charles' personality changes and he becomes "Chaz".
* [[It's a Wonderful Plot]]: Without Charles, the Powell family (and Charles's mother) end up with a lot more money, but they've all turned into spoiled jerks.
* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]: Late in the series, Charles gets accepted as a graduate student to Princeton.
* [[No Name Given]] (Charles and his mother. This was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the final episode ("Did you ever wonder why he had no last name?")).▼
* [[Joisey]]: After the move to syndication the show was explicitly set in New Brunswick, NJ.
* [[Retool]]: Upon moving to syndication, Charles' employers the Pembrokes were replaced by the Powells. Also, a prominent recurring role was added for Charles' mother Louisa, as portrayed by Ellen Travolta.▼
** Rutgers students at the time jokingly identified one of the real restaurants on Easton Avenue as that owned by Charles' mother in later seasons.
* [[Special Guest]] (Olympic gymnast Julianne McNamara and [http://www.samanthasmith.info/ Samantha Smith], the girl who wrote to Yuri Andropov, in "Slumber Party")▼
* [[Never Learned to Read]]: One of Charles' friends is revealed to be illiterate when a fire breaks out and he can't read the instructions for a fire extinguisher.
* [[Sweater Girl]] (Some of the ladies Charles dates.)▼
▲* [[No Name Given]]:
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]] (Ben Stein pops up as an [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] in various settings).▼
* [[Old Hero, New Pals]]: When it moved from network to first run syndication the only characters carried over were Charles and Buddy. Mrs. Pembroke was there as a [[Spinoff Sendoff]], showing the house to the new family moving in.
* [[Oven Logic]]: One episode of had a multi-tiered example; Charles and Buddy don't know what temperature to bake the cake at, so Buddy surmises that if a baked potato cooks at 350 degrees, a cake, which is approximately 10 times as big, should cook at 3,000. Since the oven only goes up to 500, they decide to compensate by cooking it for 6 times as long.
* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]: Had three episodes in the final season which were failed attempts at a pilot for a new series. In each a character would visit somewhere where there would be [[Double Vision|a character that looked suspiciously like one of the regular cast members]]. Ellen Travolta, who played Charles' mom, had an identical twin sister who ran a car wash in New York. Willie Aames' character Buddy had an identical cousin working in a hotel in Hawaii. Nicole Eggert's character had an identical cousin living in New Mexico.
* [[Radio Contest]]: Charles is not only a great babysitter, but he also knows exactly when to call the radio station to be the tenth caller.
▲* [[Retool]]: Upon moving to syndication, Charles' employers the Pembrokes were replaced by the Powells. Also, a prominent recurring role was added for Charles' mother Louisa, as portrayed by Ellen Travolta.
* [[Slumber Party]]: In the first season the daughter has a slumber party, and all the girls end up talking to Charles about what boys are really like.
▲* [[Special Guest]]:
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: Initially played straight during its network run, but averted after the [[Retool]], when the Pembroke/Powell home was explicitly located in New Brunswick, NJ not far from Rutgers University.
▲* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]:
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