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Maybe that would heal you, heal you on the inside }}
** While they're all initially horrified, the next morning, all of them are [[Ear Worm|singing the song to themselves]].
* [[ItsIt's a Costume Party, I Swear]]: Mitchell is told by his new co-workers that dressing up for Halloween is an office tradition. He arrives at in work in a [[Spider Man]] costume only to discover no one else is in costume. (He later learns that the two he spoke to are the only two who ever dress up.) [[Hilarity Ensues]] as he puts a suit on over the costume and then spends the rest of the day trying to get an opportunity to change out of the costume.
* [[It Runs in The Family]]: Jay, Claire, and Mitchell have a habit of rushing everyone by shouting "Let's go!" repeatedly.
* [[Jail Bait Wait]]: Sort of. Manny meets an adult woman in an online book club who mistakenly believes he's much older than he is. After they've met, and she's lamenting about how she'll never meet the right man, he suggests they try again in ten years if they're still single.
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'''Mitchell:''' [[Captain Obvious|Cam loves his mom.]] }}
* [[Mother -Daughter Threesome]]: Dylan has a dream about this involving Claire and Haley in "Chirp". Later on, when Haley gets sick and is lying in bed with Claire when Dylan calls Haley tells him she's in bed with her mother and then says, "Stop freaking out, It's not coming true."
* [[Murder Arson and Jaywalking]]: From "Slow Down Your Neighbors"
{{quote| '''Phil''': I wish I was one of those people who thrives on living a double life; [[Batman|Bruce Wayne]], [[Spider Man|Peter Parker]], [[Hannah Montana]].}}
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{{quote| '''Cam''': Disabled interracial lesbians with an African kicker!<br />
'''Mitch''': Did not see that one coming. }}
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted by "Leap Day", where Phil, Luke and Manny step gingerly around Claire, Haley and Alex when they realize [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_synchrony:Menstrual synchrony|it's that time of the month for all three of them]].
* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Manny has been shown crushing on Haley and Alex, and Luke has been shown crushing on Gloria.
** In the Season 1 finale, "Family Portrait" Alex and Manny are at basketball game, while the kiss-cam on the scoreboard is going around.
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* [[Parental Hypocrisy]]: Claire has a [[Former Teen Rebel|rebellious past]] (including being driven home by the police in her underwear) despite reprimanding Hayley for [[Generation Xerox|similar behavior]], though Claire justifies this as trying to prevent Hayley from making the same mistakes as her.
* [[Parenting the Husband]]: Phil and Claire.
* [[The Parent -Produced Project]]: Narrowly averted in "Starry Night" when Haley needs to bake some cupcakes for school and tricks her mother into making them by pretending to be incompetent in the kitchen. At the end of the episode, Claire catches on to the trickery and dumps the freshly baked cupcakes in the bin; telling Haley that now she has seen how it's done, she can do it herself. The ending subverts the trope, when everyone tries Haley's cupcakes and they're so terrible that Claire looks for the number for Poison Control.
** Inverted in another episode where the Dunphy parents decide NOT to help their kids for a change, since the kids have grown to take it for granted that the grownups will do all the work.
** Subverted by the third-season episode "Egg Drop". At the end Luke and Manny {{spoiler|admit they manipulated Claire and Jay into doing their projects for them}}.
* [[The Pete Best]]: In "Travels With Scout", Cameron fills in for the drummer of Dylan's band when their old drummer is forced to leave the band after moving away. After an awesome show (and an extremely long drum solo), the former drummer returns, stating that he didn't have to move away after all and can stay in the band. Cameron, after several moments of awkward silence, leaves with the statement "Good luck following that, Ringo."
** "Dude, you really need to label those sticks!"
* [[Playing Both Sides]]: In "The Last Walt", Haley gets Gloria to let her have a pool party at their house while she and Jay are out by telling her her uncle will chaperone. When it's actually time for the party, Haley tells Manny he's the chaperone (It [[Out -Gambitted|backfires]] somewhat when Manny takes that role seriously).
* [[Playing Sick]]: Cameron feigns a back injury after brunch at the Dunphys in "Virgin Territory" so he can search for a Tupperware bowl that hasn't been returned to him.
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: When Cameron and Mitchell think that there's a man in Lily's bedroom, Cameron immediately grabs a [[Batter Up|baseball bat]] and says, "It's go time..."
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** Fixed for about two seconds in Season Two;
{{quote| '''Phil:''' ''Seriously'', I just fixed that!}}
*** It's probably just a coincidence, but this also looks a lot like a [[Shout -Out]] to the ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'' comic, ''The Castafiore Emerald'', which had the exact same running gag a few decades earlier.
*** It seems to particularly annoy Phil as he comments on it more than the others. Happens multiple times in the season 2 finale.
** Phil's crush on Gloria.
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* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Alex, occasionally. Easy to do for Type 2 [[Hollywood Nerd|Hollywood Nerds]].
* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Scott, the mall Santa that Mitch and Cam accidentally get fired in "Undeck The Halls".
* [[Shout -Out]]: Maybe Mitchell and Cameron, in reference to Cameron Mitchell.
** Let's not forget [[Roots|Alex and Haley]].
*** Alex and Haley could also be a [[Shout -Out]] to another movie dealing with [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]], ''Wish Upon A Star'', where the sisters were named Alexia and Hayley.
** Jay's repeated "it's not fair" after his ebook reader is broken is a [[Shout -Out]] to ''[[The Twilight Zone (TV)|The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "[[Cruel Twist Ending|Time Enough At Last]]."
** Luke says it would be cool if their plane crashed on the island from ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'', while Claire then looks into the camera with a shocked look. The actress who plays Claire also played Jack Shepard's wife on ''Lost.''
** Lampshaded by Phil when Dylan is playing his iPhone outside Haley's window in a scene clearly referencing ''[[Say Anything]]''. Dylan has apparently never heard of this movie.
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* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Claire occasionally feels this way about Gloria.
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Manny, to the point a woman online mistook him for an older guy. Alex believes she's this, but she is actually very immature.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The third season finale "Baby on Board" ends with {{spoiler|Gloria revealing she's pregnant.}}
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Phil and clowns.
** Mitchell and mice.
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