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''Smart Guy'' is a sitcom that aired on [[The WB]] and is the sister series to ''[[Sister, Sister]]'' (Pun intended.) It stars Tia and Tamera Mowry's real-life brother Tahj, playing as T.J. Henderson, a kid genius who gets skipped up from the 4th grade to the 10th grade, to the dismay of T.J.'s older brother, Marcus, as T.J. now goes to Marcus' school. The show primarily focuses on T.J. trying to adjust to high school.
Not to be confused with [[The Smart Guy]].
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* [[A-Cup Angst]]: One episode features Yvette auditioning for a role in a play, but being passed over for [[Buxom Is Better|a more developed actress]]. She then proceeds to stuff her bra to see if she would have gotten the part if she was bustier.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: (Mo on occasion)
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Floyd.
* [[Crossover]]: On ''[[Sister, Sister]]'' with T.J. being hired as an S.A.T tutor to the girls. Ray, Tamera's father, even title drops T.J's show.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mostly T.J. and Yvette, though they definitely both get it from Floyd.
** Even Mo gets in on the act sometimes, though usually with him it's less deadpan and more "cheerfully snide" one-liners.
* [[Death Glare]]: Pretty much everyone in the family is good at giving these, especially T.J. Often accompanies a [[Beat]] joke.
* [[Drop
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: (Subverted. One episode has T.J. getting hit in the head and becoming stupid as a result. Mo suggests they [[Genre Savvy|hit him in the head again]], but they don't because [[This Is Reality]].)
* [[Happily Adopted]]: Mo, he had a happy relationship with his adopted parents, then discovered he was adopted and went searching for biological parents dismissing his adoptive parents. At the end of the episode he realizes that he is fine with his adoptive parents.
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* [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]]: (Tia and Tamera Mowry, Tahj's sisters, guest star in one episode.)
* [[Missing Mom]]: The mother already passed away prior to the series' start.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Whenever the group has to trick somebody for whatever [[Zany Scheme]] is going on, it's a fair bet T.J. will have to do this and pretend to be a regular (even overly irritating) kid.
** One episode also has him do this after a bonk on the head makes him actually stupid, and then after his smarts return he decides he likes how people treat him when he's not smarter than them better.
* [[Oblivious Adoption]]: (One episode has Mo discovering that he's adopted and he seeks his birth mother.)
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** This also bites the manager in the butt later on when she ends up doing this to the founder of the store, in other words, her boss. Things aren't going to end well for her and her job.
* [[Ship Tease]]: Between Mo and Yvette, more and more as the show went on.
* [[A Simple Plan]]: Several.
* [[Smart People Play Chess]]: T.J., as revealed in the "T.J. versus the Machine" episode.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Recurring general louse Deion, who has several jobs over the course of the series, all of which seem to involve smoothly using someone else so he can make a buck. Amped up to eleven in the episode where he wanted to date Yvette.
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** Also invoked on Marcus, who unwittingly ends up asking twins out. See [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]] above.
* [[Very Special Episode]]: (The Internet stalker episode, the [[Profiling]] episode, as well as the alcohol episode.)
* [[Written
* [[You Know I'm Black, Right?]]
* [[Your Mom]]: The dirty dozens are [[Serious Business]] for Mo and Marcus, who treat it like a martial art, even bowing before and after a match. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when they attempt to instruct TJ.
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