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Alcoholic fathers Alcoholic fathers Illinois Chicago Drama Alcoholics Alcoholics Illinois Chicago Drama Chicago (Ill.) Drama Children of alcoholics Illinois Chicago Drama Dysfunctional families Dysfunctional families Drama Dysfunctional families Illinois Chicago Drama Illinois ChicagoSummary: Season two explodes into action with the brash Cody bad boys in the midst of a high-adrenaline heist. Their haul is a dud, and the frustrated brothers rebel against their all controlling mother, Smurf, as well as each other. An external threat from Smurf's past adds to the chaos, jeopardizing her gift, and ominous responsibility.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANISummary: Helen, Jake and Natalie are thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother announces her love for a new man. Their suspicion of the newcomer triggers events in the siblings' own love lives, which begin to spiral out of control. Can the family pull together, or will old rifts and new conflicts push them apart, even to the point of violence?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FLESummary: Season Four finds the Gallaghers braving another brutal Chicago winter and waiting on the medical fate of their permanently pickled patriarch Frank. With oldest daughter Fiona in a stable job and relationship, and newly graduated Lip enrolled in college, it seems like the Gallaghers might finally have a shot at the middle class American dream. But when you're down and out, moving up isn't so easy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: In this hysterical assortment of twenty-three uncensored Family Guy episodes, Peter has another painful encounter with the angry Giant Chicken, Quagmire tries to get giggity with Meg, and Brian and Stewie are beside themselves when they travel back in time to the show's pilot episode.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMSummary: Peter reveals his sweet K-pop dance moves, Stewie lands a sticky gig as a peanut butter spokesbaby, Brian fetches true love in India, and the gang spends a terrifying night in a totally insane asylum. It's a haunting and hilarious complete season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMSummary: The Gallaghers have always scraped by, but Season Seven finds them finally getting a leg up. When Frank awakens from a coma to learn that his family tossed him in the river, he declares war, Gallagher vs. Gallagher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: Scrappy, stubborn and strong, the Gallaghers are tested by changing times, but Season Six finds them older, wiser, and better at playing the system. Used to their natural state of chaos, the Gallaghers are as surprised as anyone at how life is turning out for them. But as they come into their own and find out who they really are is it really possible that they could grow apart for good?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: The final season finds the Gallaghers and the South Side at a crossroads. As Frank confronts his own mortality, Lip struggles with becoming the family patriarch. Newlyweds Ian and Mickey figure out their committed relationship, while Deb embraces single motherhood. Lastly, Cart finds an unlikely new career in law enforcement while Kevin and V fight for their life on the South Side.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: Big laughs, bigger laughs, and occasionally medium laughs await viewers in this hilarious collection in which Meg gets her booze on, Quagmire loses his favorite body part, and Brian does the unthinkable to Stewie's beloved teddy bear in the series' milestone 300th episode.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The tenth season picks up six months after last season's finale: Frank uses his leg injury to collect as many prescription drugs as possible and his exploits lead him to an old friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: Charismatic but conceited Victoria 'Sando' Sandringham made a name for herself as the 'package deal queen' of her furniture empire. But after an outrageous indiscretion at the wedding of her daughter, Susie, Sando's family cut her out of their lives. Ten years later, Sando is being forced out of her company, too. With nowhere to go, she tries to worm her way back into her family's good graces,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SANSummary: The live-action series follows the estranged members of a family of superheroes known as the Umbrella Academy. Years after disbanding, the siblings reunite after the death of their adoptive father, who trained them to save the world years ago. Each possessing unique powers and personalities, the dysfunctional members of the Umbrella Academy include Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Number Five,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UMBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UMBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UMBSummary: The Johnson brothers, Mike, Anders, Ty, and Axl, are far from ordinary, they are descendants of Norse gods. With the help of his brothers, Axl, as the human incarnation of Odin, must embark upon his life's quest: to find Frigg, his beloved, in order to rebuild the house of Asgard so that the Gods will rule again, unless their nemeses, the power-hungry Goddesses, can stop the Johnsons and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALMSummary: With his beloved Mr. Pickles' Puppet Time off the air for the first time in 30 years, Jeff Pickles must find a way to communicate with his many fans who still need him. Jeff creates a new and controversial method to talk directly to children across the world only to become the target of animosity for the first time in his career. As Jeff navigates the most complicated moral gray areas of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Season five finds the Gallaghers dealing with both the upside and downside of personal and urban renewal as Frank, Fiona, Lip and their family and friends band together to fight the invading hipster hordes and real estate speculators in their beloved South Side. But, as the neighborhood changes, the Gallaghers begin to reconcile their chaotic past in the hopes of building a better future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: Succession follows a dysfunctional American global-media family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUCSummary: Five warned his family (so, so many times) that using his powers to escape from Vanya's 2019 apocalypse was risky. Well, he was right--the time jump scatters the siblings in time in and around Dallas, Texas. Over a three-year period. Starting in 1960. Some, having been stuck in the past for years, have built lives and moved on, certain they're the only ones who survived. Five is the last to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UMBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV UMSummary: Spring roars like a lion in season three! Frank's latest schemes range from gigs as a drug mule and gay rights spokesperson to calling Child Services on his own kids. While Fiona finally finds relative stability in the corporate world, househusband Jimmy develops a full-blown midlife crisis. Lip does his best to handle an out-of-control love triangle, and Ian struggles with Mickey's impending...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: There's nothing tiny about this huge and hilarious collection of episodes (fourteen are even uncensored), in which Brian and Stewie shrink down to microscopic size, Peter becomes the new White House press secretary (no comment), Meg devours internet fame, and Lois uncovers shocking secrets while providing DVD commentary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: There's a new pecking order at the Fisher & Diaz funeral home, but Nate, Ruth, David, and Claire still try to make every day above ground a good one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIXSummary: "Every day with the Somas brings new surprises, and Tohru's resilience shines through it all! Her mother's beautiful lessons slowly reach everyone, from Yuki's self-absorbed sibling to a tiny, timid tiger. Even Tohru's childhood friends were changed by the kindness of the Crimson Butterfly. But for Kyo, is any heart big enough to accept his deep, dark secret?" -- From container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019