Quote Originally Posted by Ionathus View Post
And the only one I can think of who resorted to violence is Faye. And only then in the early days - she’s mellowed out as “casual violence among friends/romantic partners ha ha” has fallen out of favor in some circles, including Jeph’s seemingly.
Faye was a snarling wolverine in many ways and it was coded as amusing instead of a behavioral problem a little too often. When Dora was deliberately coded as being irrationally jealous when dating Marten she occasionally threatened people with a sword or other such things. And Brun threatened Clinton with a harpoon gun one time. Jeph has clearly moved on from said characterizations, and I'd say still being hidebound to it/hung up on it/convinced it speaks to Jeph's personal gender inter-relations would be the Freudian behavior, but to each their own.

As to nanny/mother-hen characters, it really depends on how you look at it. As BRC points out, there is just 'the Sensible One' as a sitcom standby, and that is half the cast at times (with many of them rotating between that and 'the Wacky One' depending on whether their idiosyncrasy is being agitated at the moment (ex: Hanners can be the one to tell Marigold to get it together over a nerd-culture obsession until she gets dirty, then she runs around screaming and Marigold gets to be the adult, etc.). Bubbles is often Faye's 'Rock,' but much more as a Voice of Reason/Island of Stability rather than a nanny.