United States of Tara: Difference between revisions

* [[Mama Bear]]: Alice with a whole heap of [[Tranquil Fury]] and a side of [[Kirk Summation]]. Aside from her family Alice believes she's one for Tara herself because, in her words, Tara is weak.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: After Pammy the bartender {{spoiler|declared her love for}} Buck at the ice rink, Max {{spoiler|angrily stormed off}} which left Tara alone and depressed. Then Kate picks up the thread of a conversation she and Marshall were having earlier, explaining {{spoiler|a perverse sexual position -- "the dogs in the bathtub" -- to him}}.

** "Crunchy Ice" is the darkest episode of the series, but of course its chock full of [[Black Comedy]]. It's even lampshaded by Marshall.

* [[Never Mess with Granny]]: Despite the fact that she's a hoarding [[Cloudcuckoolander]], [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Grandma Sandi's]] got some bite. She was the only character who was ever able to effectively stand up to {{spoiler|Bryce Craine}}, giving an [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|amazing]] [[Kirk Summation]] with a [[Precision F-Strike]] thrown in for good measure.

** Also counts as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for her!

* [[Occidental Otaku]]: Kate's first shown boyfriend is a [[Goth]] and, to be blunt, Wapanese.

** Tara's {{spoiler|additional alters}} further complicate things. {{spoiler|Chicken}} is obviously the child so that clears that portion up, but it's hard to deny that T can fit in the archetype as well; T, Alice, and {{spoiler|Shoshana}} have shades of the seductress but the latter two also have many traits of the mother.

* [[Title Drop]]: In "Wheels."

* [[The Twink]]: '''Lionel''', and to an extent, Marshall.

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: {{spoiler|Alice, T. and Buck as of the finale}}.