Quote Originally Posted by gut View Post
Most family sitcoms from the 80's-90's were unoriginal ripoffs of each other and/or older shows. Step-by-step was simply The Brady Bunch part 2. I bet if you ran through plot synopsis' of like...step-by-step, full house, family matters, home improvement, who's the boss, etc etc, and just removed the character names that would give away which show is which, they would be quite indistinguishable from each other.
There are certainly reoccurring tropes in all of these shows. But this is the only example I know of where a specific plot is exactly copied beat for beat.