Prodigal Family: Difference between revisions

* In Lindsey Davis' ''Marcus Didius Falco'' novels, Marcus' entire family tree, highlighted by the annotations on the family tree. We meet several of them in ''Poseidon's Gold'', including his disreputable auctioneer father, who left his mother years ago; in ''Scandal Takes a Holiday'', we meet the uncle "nobody ever talks about", his mother's eldest brother.

* In Margaret Frazer's ''The Novice's Tale'', Sister Thomasine's aunt Ermintrude, who shows up at the convent's guesthall periodically with her staff and her objectionable pets (e.g. monkeys), and keeps offering to take the shy, devout Thomasine out of there and find her a vigorous husband.

 

== Live Action TV ==

** Subverted on ''[[Angel]]'', when Fred's parents show up. Fred runs and hides, and everyone assumes she has some reason to be afraid of them. Turns out Fred isn't running from them, but from having to face that if she hasn't seen them in five years, then she really did spend five years in hell. Her parents are in fact probably the kindest, most supportive parents in the entire Buffyverse.

* ''[[Night Court]]'''s resident [[Casanova Wannabe]] Dan Fielding prided himself on his suave, urbane image; an unexpected visit from his parents collapsed the lies he'd been feeding his co-workers and friends, revealing his bayou-country background and (in Dan's mind, at least) the most embarrassing first name ever.

 

== Western Animation ==