The Thing That Would Not Leave: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Yes, Dear]]'' has Jimmy Hughes, his wife Christine and their two sons living in the guesthouse of Christine's sister, Kim Warner, her husband Greg and their son {{spoiler|and later their daughter}}. While Kim has no problem with the Hugheses living with them, Greg certainly does and is always complaining about them, mostly/especially Jimmy, constantly mooching off of him. Eventually, the Hugheses do get their own place, but in the final scene of the [[Grand Finale]], {{spoiler|their house is destroyed by an earthquake, [[Here We Go Again|forcing them to move back into the Warners' guesthouse]]}}.

* One of the earliest examples is from ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' with guest-star Tennessee Ernie Ford as Lucy's "Cousin Ernie" who stays over for one episode and wears out his welcome by the next one.

* ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' had an episode named "The Stan Who Came to Dinner," in which Dorothy's ex-husband stays with the girls to recuperate from heart surgery, but overstays his welcome.

* Partial subversion in an episode of ''[[Being Human]]'': Tully is invited to stay over one housemate's objections, but by the end of the episode the positions regarding him have reversed, with the original naysayer defending Tully's continued presence against the others' complaints.