John briefly flatlines during what should be a routine tonsillectomy, that he insisted be done by Tim. Flatline Plotline: The "Death" part of "Pestilence War Famine Death".Everybody Has Lots of Sex: All five couples on the show have very active sex lives.Even the Girls Want Her: Clementine gets hit on constantly, by both men and women.He then attempts to use "Heater" as a pet name for her, so that he can claim he planned it this way all along. He means for it to say "I Heart Heather", but due to his terrible handwriting, the tattoo artist misreads it as "I Heart Heater". Embarrassing Tattoo: Tim gets one in the first segment of "Tattoo Valentine Guitar Pregnant".Jen: Do you remember, uh, when the Predator took off his mask? As Jen's doctor says, her "tunnel is under construction." A large part of Greg and Jen's plot in the pilot dwells on the physical toll childbirth has on a woman's body. This is because it's being carried off by the rat while the two are too busy arguing about the existence of the magazine and the rat to even notice. Jen doesn't believe that this really happened and thinks Greg is making the entire thing up, so he goes to find the Playboy and it's missing. The exterminator promises to keep the secret, but tells his wife, who spills the beans to Jen. Greg explains that he kept it because he dated the centerfold. While looking for rats, he finds a Playboy that Greg had stashed away in the attic. Jen believes the house has rats, while Greg does not. Cassandra Truth: A double-whammy in the first story of "Pestilence War Famine Death".COME ON! You didn't tell me you were dating twins. Bread Milk Eggs Squick: Done in the first story of "Receptionist Pot Voting Cramp" as a Call-Forward to the second story.Ĭousin Mickey: By the way, I saw a picture of your girlfriend on Instagram.They never see the accident, but hear progressively more horrific things going on as the paramedics arrive on the scene and the spa employees make feeble attempts to distract them from the off-screen carnage. Black Comedy: In the "Spa" story of "Will Trash Book Spa," Jen and Greg get a couples' massage, which is supposed to be relaxing, except for the horrific car crash that happens outside.Bawdy Song: A bawdy Christmas song becomes a moment of heartwarming, of all things, in "College Stealing Santa Caroling." John used to sing it with his Navy buddies every year, but they've all died or moved away, so Colleen talks the family into singing it with him to lift his spirits.Sophia refuses to practice for her piano recital, banking on the fact that a kid known for wetting his pants is going on right afterwards and that, if he stays true to form, no one will remember her bad performance.Matt pulls one on Sophia, playing on her need to be the smartest person wherever she goes, to get his niece to abandon her plan to become an actress/model and to focus on becoming someone more meaningful, like a senator, instead.Ascended Meme: Tim gets a PTA member off of Heather's back by replying to her texts with "new phone who dis?".
Anachronic Order: While the episode order is chronological (other than the all-flashback " #TBT: Y2K Sophia Honeymoon Critter", the individual segments in each episode are often not.Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Heather and Tim on one side and John and Joan on the other, seem to exist for the sole purpose of mortifying their children.The Stinger has Matt and Colleen at the fertility clinic since "A lot can happen in thirty minutes." Four timelines depending on who calls Matt at a certain time while he's trying to get to a fertility clinic in 30 minutes. Alternate Timeline: How "Emergency Colonoscopy Driving Lunch" is structured.And by the end of the episode, it bursts into flame. The Alleged Car: Matt's car in "Interruptus Date Breast Movin'", which is so broken that the only thing that started it was tequila.Alcohol Is Gasoline: Matt's alleged car in "Interruptus Date Breast Movin'" is so broken that the only thing that starts it is tequila.Tim has a hard time reconciling the fact that his daughter's so smart yet hadn't figured out that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy weren't real until someone told her. Adorably Precocious Child: Tim and Heather's youngest daughter, Sophia, astounds her parents with her intelligence.Each episode is made up of four unconnected short stories focusing on different members of the family instead. Unusually, it doesn't follow the standard A-Plot B-Plot structure of most other sitcoms. The show focuses on the Short family and their various (mis)adventures. Life in Pieces is a Dom Com that first aired on CBS in 2015.
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