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* [[Casual Danger Dialog]]: Spectacularly averted - whenever Stephanie is in serious physical danger, she loses all of her [[Deadpan Snarker]] ways and becomes a crying, terrified wreck.
* [[Casual Danger Dialog]]: Spectacularly averted - whenever Stephanie is in serious physical danger, she loses all of her [[Deadpan Snarker]] ways and becomes a crying, terrified wreck.
** She's much more in control when she's only being threatened, but often collapses into a blubbering mess after.
** She's much more in control when she's only being threatened, but often collapses into a blubbering mess after.
** Ranger is a straight example--he seems pretty much completely calm and in control in every situation up to and including shoot-outs, except for {{spoiler|the time his daughter was threatened; even then, his composure was only mildly shaken, though he did manage to get himself shot.}}
** Ranger is a straight example--he seems pretty much completely calm and in control in every situation up to and including shoot-outs, except for {{spoiler|the time his daughter was threatened; even then, his composure was only mildly shaken, though he did manage to get himself shot.}}
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Nearly every sentence out of Sally Sweet's mouth, and occasionally by other characters.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Nearly every sentence out of Sally Sweet's mouth, and occasionally by other characters.
* [[Cool Car]]: Uncle Sandor's Buick. Guys love it (and have said the exact same phrase about it), and it's indestructible to boot. Stephanie doesn't share their opinion on the Buick's inherent coolness, because it guzzles gas like there's no tomorrow. However, she does appreciate the car's indestructibility, and on at least one occasion deliberately uses it.
* [[Cool Car]]: Uncle Sandor's Buick. Guys love it (and have said the exact same phrase about it), and it's indestructible to boot. Stephanie doesn't share their opinion on the Buick's inherent coolness, because it guzzles gas like there's no tomorrow. However, she does appreciate the car's indestructibility, and on at least one occasion deliberately uses it.
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* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: Grandma Mazur likes to attend viewings at the local funeral home and gets annoyed when it's a closed coffin viewing. She has on several occasions tried to open said coffin.
* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: Grandma Mazur likes to attend viewings at the local funeral home and gets annoyed when it's a closed coffin viewing. She has on several occasions tried to open said coffin.
** Or the time that the funeral home got blown up.
** Or the time that the funeral home got blown up.
* [[Good Looking Privates]]: Ranger is ex-military, and ''[[Mr. Fanservice|very]]'' good looking.
* [[Good-Looking Privates]]: Ranger is ex-military, and ''[[Mr. Fanservice|very]]'' good looking.
** There's also Ranger's "merry men", the Rangeman employees like Tank and Lester, who are ex-military and good-looking (just ask Lula).
** There's also Ranger's "merry men", the Rangeman employees like Tank and Lester, who are ex-military and good-looking (just ask Lula).
* [[Groin Attack]]: Happens often enough that Stephanie has taken to calling it her [[Signature Move]].
* [[Groin Attack]]: Happens often enough that Stephanie has taken to calling it her [[Signature Move]].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: [[Played for Laughs]] (mostly) When Tank gets engaged to Lula, he spends the next few weeks mildly stunned.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: [[Played for Laughs]] (mostly) When Tank gets engaged to Lula, he spends the next few weeks mildly stunned.
* [[I Am Big Boned]]: Lula. Sometimes she goes for [[Fat and Proud]] instead, but this is rarer.
* [[I Am Big Boned]]: Lula. Sometimes she goes for [[Fat and Proud]] instead, but this is rarer.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Most of the books have a number in the title, and they're sequential. There are four "between the numbers" books with holiday themes and the word "Plum" in their titles.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Most of the books have a number in the title, and they're sequential. There are four "between the numbers" books with holiday themes and the word "Plum" in their titles.
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* [[Rape as Drama]]: Benito Ramirez rapes and beats Lula, then cuffs her to Stephanie's fire escape. This is what convinces Lula to stop being a 'ho.
* [[Rape as Drama]]: Benito Ramirez rapes and beats Lula, then cuffs her to Stephanie's fire escape. This is what convinces Lula to stop being a 'ho.
* [[Road Apples]]: As mentioned above, Bob eats everything. That has to go somewhere, and Stephanie decides that Joyce's front lawn makes an ideal toilet. Vinnie's staff, with the obvious exception of Joyce, approves.
* [[Road Apples]]: As mentioned above, Bob eats everything. That has to go somewhere, and Stephanie decides that Joyce's front lawn makes an ideal toilet. Vinnie's staff, with the obvious exception of Joyce, approves.
* [[Sanity Ball]]: Half the time, Steph is boggled by the sheer weirdness of her nearest and dearest. The other half the time, they're boggling at her.
* [[Sanity Ball]]: Half the time, Steph is boggled by the sheer weirdness of her nearest and dearest. The other half the time, they're boggling at her.
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Lula again.
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Lula again.
** Jackie in the film as well.
** Jackie in the film as well.
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