The Waltons: Difference between revisions

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=== ''[[The Waltons]]'' includes examples of the following tropes: ===

* [[Absentee Actor]]: Grandma, after coming home from her stroke anyway. She was not seen or mentioned in some episodes after she returned home.

* [[Animated Adaptation]]: Not offically, but in 1974 [[Hanna-Barbera]] created an [[Expy]] called "''These Are The Days''" about the Depression Age Day family who might as well have been called Walton.

* [[Clip Show]]: ''A Decade of the Waltons'', a movie-length 1980 special introduced by an onscreen Earl Hamner, Jr.

* [[Door Step Baby|Doorstop Kid]]: The first episode had a young deaf girl that was unable to communicate left on the Waltons' doorstep by her mother to prevent the father (who mistook her for mentally retarded) from sending her to an orphanage. One of the earliest examples of a clip show.

* [[Every Episode Ending]]: The family telling each other good night.

** [[Memetic Mutation]]: This ending became so iconic that as late as 2010, it was still being parodied in commercials.

* [[Flashback with the Other Darrin]]: In the Season 5 episode 'The Achievement' there are clips of the pilot movie, and all the clips of the adult characters were refilmed with the new actors.

* [[Frozen in Time]]: Very much averted. The series advanced from 1933 to 1945, while the last reunion movie was set in 1969.

* [[Happily Married]]: The show is a big fan of this one: Grandma Esther and Grandpa Zeb, John Sr. and Olivia, most of the kids eventually, Rev. Fordwick and Rosemary, Ike and Corabeth, Sheriff Bridges and Sara. Even when they have arguments, they rarely erupt into anything big except for a few times in the later seasons.

* [[Long Runners]]: Nine seasons, and this for a series not expected to last one.