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.

* [[Animated Adaptation]]: Not officially, 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.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: After the war starts this sort of happens... One main and two recurring are killed.

* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Elizabeth says in one episode that she does not believe in ghosts, even though she attracted a poltergeist in the previous season.'

* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Elizabeth says in one episode that she does not believe in ghosts, even though she attracted a poltergeist in the previous season.

* [[Barefoot Poverty]]

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Papa Walton may the iconic loving father, but ''do not'' think you can take advantage of him. One drifter thought he could when he was bunking with the family and tried to steal some money before making his escape; the next thing that happened is that he was staring down a shotgun wielded by John who is quite ~~adament~~ that the thief put back the money and explain himself. John-Boy is no pushover either when facing bad guys, once forcing a young girl con artist to confess her crimes in front of the family and later on [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|beating up both boys ~~singlehandedly~~ that jumped him earlier in the episode]].

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Papa Walton may the iconic loving father, but ''do not'' think you can take advantage of him. One drifter thought he could when he was bunking with the family and tried to steal some money before making his escape; the next thing that happened is that he was staring down a shotgun wielded by John who is quite adamant that the thief put back the money and explain himself. John-Boy is no pushover either when facing bad guys, once forcing a young girl con artist to confess her crimes in front of the family and later on [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|beating up both boys single-handedly that jumped him earlier in the episode]].

* [[BLAM Episode]]: One episode is about a poltergeist invading the Walton home, no other episode features any overt supernatural elements (though one episode is ambiguous about a Ouija Board...) and this is never mentioned again.

* [[Captain's Log]]: John-Boy's memoirs.

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

* [[Family Drama]]

* [[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.

* [[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 re-filmed 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.

* [[The Great Depression]]

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* [[Multigenerational Household]]

* [[Nostalgic Narrator]]: Series creator Earl Hamner Jr., as the voice of the older John-Boy Walton.

* [[Pilot Movie]]: ''The Homecoming: A Christmas Story''

* [[Pilot Movie]]: ''The Homecoming: A Christmas Story''.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: In the second to last episode of Season 6 John-Boy literally leaves on a bus (though he had already been 'put on a bus' a season before when he moved to New York) (but the season still followed his exploits in [[The Big Apple]]).

* [[Put on a Bus]]: In the second to last episode of Season 6 John-Boy literally leaves on a bus (though he had already been 'put on a bus' a season before when he moved to New York) but the season still followed his exploits in [[The Big Apple]].

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: John Walton may be the undisputed head of the household, but it's hard to find a father more understanding under such difficult circumstances. He's even changed his mind on unpopular decisions and will admit when he's made an error, especially to Olivia and John-Boy.

* [[Reunion Show]]: Several reunion movies aired in the '90s.