We’re rounding up some of our favorite relatives who put the “fun” in dysfunction.
But it’s a miracle he wasn’t much worse, considering his parents.
Frank (Jerry Stiller) and Estelle (Estelle Harris) are shrieking complainers who despise each other.
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Marge exhibits endless patience with her excruciating husband, allowing Homer to be his best crass donut-eating self.
Gray) regularly faced off with one another through competing record labels.
And you’re free to bet that, over time, they’ve perfected the art of dysfunction.
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Lies, threats, betrayals, coffins, vampirism…this family has it all.
And they’ll continue their dysfunction “always and forever.”
This mother enjoys cocktails more than her children and cheated on her husband with his twin brother.
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This daughter is a lazy, misguided activist who is in a relationship with a sexually-confused psychiatristturnedlow-rent thespian.
This son is a freeloading, failed illusionist whose mode of transport is a Segway.
Another son is an infantilized, panic-attack-prone, Army dropout who spent 11 months in his mother’s womb.
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This granddaughter has led a double life as a movie executive.
This grandson is very pure of heart but that heart lusts for his cousin.
The defense rests.Come on!
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They walk around with their trusty direwolf sidekicks, standing up for honor and good deeds.
But who needs that when you’ve got the twisted, violent, and scheming Lannisters?
No way that child comes out of a functional family.S.H.
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“We go to India to look for nukes.”
They went fighting all the way.
Confiscate all knives at this family gathering.
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The Atwoods (The O.C.)
(And then there was that whole Trey-and-Ryan-nearly-killing-each-other thing in season 2.)
Turns out, Ryan was better suited to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.S.H.
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How Gloria grew up without losing her mind, we’ll never know.S.H.
Don’t stop believin'.M.B.
There’s her mom, who made Meredith feel like she was never good enough.
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Families are ideally stable.
Meredith’s is far from it.
But heythe Popes may be trouble, but they have great taste in vintage wine!
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