Tropes that you you're glad aren't as common anymore

Still Standing, Honeymooners, Simpsons, Family Guy, According to Jim, Drew Carey Show I think 3rd Rock from the Sun might have done it best because Sally was an alien and didn't realize that Wayne Knight's character was considered ugly

That and ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ are so depressing because of that. And the main and surrounding characters in both shows are constantly out to get each other/pull a fast one all of the time. I hate both shows.

Yes true but I still like that show 🫣

One of the best shows I’ve ever seen TBH.

I am a Social Worker (among other things) and I could not watch more than the first two episodes. It was too accurate in depicting DV

Really good show

Plus more similar intelligence levels; while Stan is definitely more generally competent and Francine a ditzy type, she's also capable of mastering new skills and gaining new knowledge very quickly. They are both pretty lacking in common sense though. Also, with Stan having received actual character development over the years (while many other husband characters are flanderized to hell), he has gone from being an extreme conservative Christian who couldn't talk about his feelings or do anything other than missionary with a handshake after, to being surprisingly emotionally and sexually open. Thus they actually match each other's energy and freak... and even if we still get the occasional "Stan is a bad husband" storyline, they are portrayed as deeply in love and highly attracted to each other, rather than just tolerating each other.

Yep, useless Dad can’t make dinner or use the washing machine - and Mum has to sort it out, while gently rolling her eyes as the kids laugh at silly old Dad.

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The parents in Raising Hope are equals. They are dumb but so is their son Jimmy. In Bob Burger Linda is more eccentric then Bob but it's established she is the reason the restaurant is still open due to handling the business side.

Malcolm in the middle was mostly parents vs kids. The parents were always portrayed to still be madly in love.

We casually watched The Walking Dead for a few years. I vaguely recall a Black male character joining the main group and the original Black male character dying in the same episode. One in, one out, I guess.

If we hadn't had them both, we would've never gotten the I AM FRANK SKABOPOLIS scene.  I hope the "one black person at a time on a show" thing is dead and gone. 

[Laura Harrier said something similar about when she learned Zendaya was cast in Spider-Man Homecoming.](https://www.justjared.com/2020/06/01/laura-harrier-originally-thought-zendaya-got-her-spider-man-role-praises-marvel-for-hiring-two-black-actresses-as-leads/)

> Two black men on the same show; one is an overly positive straight guy and the other is a no nonsense gay man. "Are you really playing the gay card right now?!" *in complete dead pan voice with zero facial movements* "yass queen." I f****** loved their scenes together.

It especially weirds me out when shows set in NYC are so overwhelmingly white. I'm from a part of the country that isn't particularly diverse (MN), even in the major metropolitan area. When I met folks in college from NYC (and a few other major metropolitan areas), they often commented on how white and segregated things felt in our metro. I thought they were exaggerating. Given that I'd traveled a fair bit at that point, including quite a few major cities, I could definitely acknowledge that the Twin Cities area definitely wasn't as diverse as plenty of the other big cities, but it didn't feel *that* different. I grew up in a pretty rural area that was probably 80%+ white, with the majority of that remaining ~20% being Hispanic, with a small number of Asian families, and maybe a handful of black families. Definitely not a diverse area. However, my parents both worked at colleges, and I spent a lot of time on both campuses, so I didn't feel like I grew up in as much of a monochromatic bubble as most of my peers. I moved to Minneapolis after college, and have mostly lived in some of the more diverse neighborhoods. So, I definitely felt like those folks back in college were exaggerating a bit. Then a few years back, I went to NYC and was like "oh, I get it now". It was just a completely different level of diversity, and not just based on race. So many different cultures, nationalities, and spoken languages. It was just awesome. NYC is a little busy for my taste. Not sure if I'd ever want to live there on an indeterminate basis. But damn if I wouldn't jump at the opportunity to live and work there on a like 1 or 2yr contract (and make a similar amount of money with regards to CoL). It really did feel like a completely different living experience compared to any other city I've lived in or visited.

At least they didn't put Gaby together with Sean

that reminds me riverdale had a weird subplot where everyone is trying to solve a crime and archie is being groomed by his teacher and somehow the show made her look cool and edgy and she only skipped town.

Whole damn summer dedicated to getting laid!

Hocus Pocus having a little girl lamenting the fact her teenage brother is a virgin is awkward.

Booksmart was such a fantastic film. It did a great job of giving us realistic-ish teenage girls, who you root for the whole film, while also gently showing us how insanely self absorbed and narrow their world was.

I always hated the lazy 'Motorcyclist takes off helmet - Surprise! It's a WOMAN' trope. Like the idea of a woman on a motorbike was supposed to be unusual. It got to the point where, if you saw a motorcyclist on TV start to take off their helmet, it was a surprise if the next move WASN'T 'Tosses head to reveal long, flowing blonde hair'

And straightening your hair! I’ll never forgive Princess Diaries for the message it sent to curly girls.

It was the big vibrator that turned it around for me

Janey's got a gun!

Glasses on, hair down

Same on That's So Raven when she does it to a random older woman... who immediately gets into an accident since her glasses were prescription.

As I’ve said before - I hated BBT for its autistic stereotypes. Then I watched a bit of The Good Doctor. Suddenly big bang theory is fine.

It’s so disappointing. I love his standup, but the movie looks awful and dated.

The network liked it so much that it was the first episode they aired

What's funny is that clip shows are usually made to save money. Community's "clip show" actually cost MORE money because instead of reusing old footage, they shot a bunch of completely new scenes at different locations.

I remember the first time I watched the first clip show episode that and wondered how I'd missed so many episodes when I thought I'd seen them all up to that point. Then slowly began to realize that the clips never actually happened during the previous episodes. I honestly kind of loved that most of their most memorable moments weren't even on screen.

IASIP did a great example of this too

My favorite Stargate clip show is Disclosure. Especially the ending.

I really think when the show started the idea was that Barney was a bullshitter. If you watch the early episodes, he seems to be all talk but no game. I guess people liked that so they made him an actual fuckboy rather than a wannabe.

One thing I give that show SLIGHT credit for is that Howard later says he's disgusted by his actions and he is genuinely remorseful about it, not many shows acknowledge it.

So was Raj though. They were so gross together 

Sanji in One Piece is still this kind of character, and I think it's gotten worse over time. He went from being a relatively interesting character on par with Zoro, to being just a perv.

Minoru Mineta in My Hero Academia as well, with most of the Western fandom hating his guts due to his perving on the girls around him. It got to the point where Mina Ashido (a classmate who can secrete various chemicals as sweat) went full A Clockwork Orange on his ass. There's a reason a lot of fanfics of the series expressly use the plot device of "Mineta gets expelled for being a creep so another character can take his place in 1-A", usually Shinso. >!Ironically, while Shinso does get into 1-A at the end, it's not Mineta who leaves the class to make way for him.!< Also, TikTok comedian Matt_The_Curtin takes the idea of Mineta getting beaten the f*** up whenever he pervs and uses it as a recurring joke. [Like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc6zfpECa-k)

A womanizer being played by a dude who is as gay as the day is long seemed to have softened the blow at the time.

Yeah, there's a reason later comics explicitly retconned that and instead made it so that Reed and Sue were a lot closer in age when they first met.

It's because that actually happens in real life, some kids are annoying as f*** and glom onto you. It's part of your own kids maturing and making friends and also because other families can operate really differently and so other people's kids can really f*** up your normal household vibe.

I was an extra in a B movie and I found out that almost every extra (including the men) was from a modeling agency except for me.

I do think he has ADHD. You know how many times I have to ask my ADHD kid to even get a single bowl in the dishwasher? Two (on an extremely lucky day), usually three minumum. Sometimes five separate times. A day. For one dish. Multiply that by anything their brain doesn't care about (finish your vegetables, do your chores, etc) and the entire day becomes "nagging" just to get basic shit done. Love my kiddos, of course, but honestly sometimes I dream about living with someone who not only hears what I say but also can act with no reminders. ...What would that heaven be like?!

I dont even need to click the link to know what clip youre talking about

I think this was done mostly to accommodate pregnant actresses. Main actress gets pregnant. Writer puts in a magical pregnancy in fantasy show ( Xena, Angel). In Angel's case the writer also fired the actress later because he held a grudge over that.

[Mystical pregnancy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MysticalPregnancy) At the heart of it is that most writers are men and the idea of pegnancy is fairly mystical to them at a basic level hence why we get the mystical pregnancy trope. It can come in diffeent versions, a common one is an episode on off where a female character gets impregnated, usually gaainst her will by some sort of mystical entity and then either gives birth to a child and the prganancy and the child is just there for a single epsode, or there's some other supernatural thing about it. But it can also be a arc thign, Stargate Atlantis seriously jumps the sharkl with Teyla's pregnancy in later seasons. "Oh this baby is the key to everything", Dude just let the character go on maternity leave and the acrress step down from main to regular while she's pregnant. Seriosuly at this point someone having a kid and it being treated as something normal is the rebel meme. Seriosuly most pregnancy tropes are deeply problematic. The "woman goes into labour at the wrong time" trope for an example. Can we for once have a woman who has her child without squeezing the absolutly most amount of drama out of it?

Remind me when this happens because the show is full of not even homeless people struggling to afford medical fees and medication. They gave a guy a bath and some treatment for his rotting hand and Mackay helps that addict in the park because she couldn't afford to come to the ER and has to do it secretly behind Robby's back.

And piggyback rides! Motorcycle trips! Truly, RRR has something for everyone.

Then there's Queen blasting out bangers in Flash Gordon AND Highlander