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''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"). |
''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." |
* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Averted in "Still at Large." A female teacher tells Charles that he's "a good looking man," but "an ugly woman." |
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* [[Beautiful All Along]] |
* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Enid in the episode "A Date with Enid". |
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* [[Can-Crushing Cranium]]: Buddy bragged about crushing a number of cans in a row, and could have done more ''if they were empty.'' |
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* [[Channel Hop]]: Moved to [[Syndication]] after a season on [[CBS]]. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Charles and Buddy in "Still at Large." |
* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Charles and Buddy in "Still at Large." |
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* [[Dumbass Has a Point]] |
* [[Dumbass Has a Point]]: Buddy, who does this to ''himself''. |
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* [[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. |
* [[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. |
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* [[First Gray Hair]]: Buddy reacts disastrously to spotting a single grey hair. |
* [[First Gray Hair]]: Buddy reacts disastrously to spotting a single grey hair. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[Flanderization]] (Buddy Lembeck) |
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* [[Identity Amnesia]] |
* [[Identity Amnesia]]: During a bout of amnesia, Charles' personality changes and he becomes "Chaz". |
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* [[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. |
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* [[Ivy League for Everyone]] |
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* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]: Late in the series, Charles gets accepted as a graduate student to Princeton. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[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. |
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