It's All Relative is a Short-Lived American Sitcom that aired on ABC for one season in 2003 to 2004.

It follows the lives two families: The conservative, working-class Irish-Catholic O'Neils made up of Mace (Lenny Clarke), his wife Audrey (Harriet Sansom Harris), and two kids, Bobby (Reid Scott) and Maddy (Paige Moss); the other family being the progressive upper-class Stoddard-Banks made up of a married gay couple Simon (Christopher Sieber) and Philip (John Benjamin Hickey) and their adoptive daughter Liz (Maggie Lawson).

These two contrasting families reluctantly join together when their children Bobby and Liz get engaged, leading to a lot of culture clash between both.

This show provides examples of:

• A-Cup Angst: Liz is clearly not pleased when she finds out Bobby's ex-girlfriend Sheri has a bigger chest than she does, especially when Sheri quietly rubs it on her face by taking off her shirt in front of Liz, who can't help but recoil at seeing Sheri in just a bra.
• Affectionate Nickname: Liz is often called "Lizzie" by her parents, especially by Simon, who tends to be more affectionate.
• Alliterative Name: Charlie Carson in Swangate.
• As Himself: Ed McMahon in And Our Sauce, It Is a Beauty plays as himself.
• Big-Breast Pride: When Liz confronts Bobby's ex Sheri, Liz is just telling Sheri she's not at all worried about Bobby falling for her when Sheri casually takes off her shirt and reveals how busty she is, causing Liz to get inmmedialy intimidated while Sheri acts smug.
• Brainless Beauty: Maddy is an attractive young girl, but she's also a total airhead who was even held back a grade. This is why her only plan for life is to marry a rich guy, something that frustrates her parents.
• Buxom Beauty Standard:
  • Maddy is quite busty and wears revealing tops so that she gets better tips when working at the bar, something that infuriates the overprotective Mace, who doesn't like seeing guys ogling his daughter's rack.
  • Bobby's ex-girlfriend Sheri is a well-endowed bombshell, causing Mace's friends to get Distracted by the Sexy when they first see her. Even Liz ends up letting out a "whoa" when she sees Sheri in just a bra.
• Camp Gay: Philip is a stereotypical camp gay man, with his dramatic flair, habit of flipping his wrists constantly, love of art and decoation, and being a total Neat Freak.
• The Casanova: Bobby used to be a big playboy and has had tons of girlfriends that he did not treat particularly well. In "Truth and Consequence", Liz forces him to call back some of the girlfriends he lied to and to apologize to them for his behaviour.
• Coming Straight Story: In one episode, Philip and Simon's very flamboyant event planner comes out as straight to them, to their shock.
• Daddy's Girl: Liz is very attached to both of her dads, to the point it annoys her fiancé Bobby, especially when he finds out she tells them everything about their relationship to them, including their bedroom life.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Bobby and Liz both end up doing this, with Bobby's parents hating that he's dating a non Irish-Catholic girl with gay parents, while Liz's parents hate that Liz is dating a playboy from a conservative working-class family. While Audrey and Simon end up accepting it relatively early, Mace and Philip keep rooting for the relationship to fail for most of the show.
• Deadpan Snarker: Bobby, Mace, Maddy, and Philip are prone to making snarky quips, usually at another's expense.
• Doom It Yourself: Happens in "Hell's Kitchen", Bobby breaks into Liz's gay dads' fancy cappuccino machine, and his father tries (and fails) to fix it.
• Drives Like Crazy: Maddy brags about being a good driver, but her parents heavily disagree and forbid her from having a car.
  Maddy: I wasn't that bad a driver.
  Audrey: The police were chasing you on the news!
  Maddy: Yeah, but they didn't catch me. That's how good of a driver I am!
• Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend: Philip and Simon are confused and annoyed by Mason's "house rules" in a family vs family monopoly match. One such rule was when Liz drew the "2nd prize in a beauty contest" card, Audrey (Mason's wife) was also given a prize amount. The explanation being that by extension, Audrey must have won first prize.
• Expy: Mace is based on Archie Bunker from All in the Family, both being conservative patriarchs with bigoted views that become a source of conflict when their children end up marrying someone they don't approve of.
• Gay Best Friend: Simon and Philip were this from Liz's mom, which is why they adopted her daughter Liz when she died. Later in the series, Simon becomes this with Audrey, encouraging her to be more independent, and they start hanging out together, to the disapproval of their husbands.
• Gold Digger: Maddy constantly talks about wanting to marry a rich guy, for their money, and in more than one episode, she attempts to hook up with one of Liz's rich university friends.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Liz is a sweet, kindhearted blonde, something that is lampshaded by her family.
• Happily Adopted: Liz is the adopted daughter of a same sex couple, and her only complaint about her parents is how overprotective they are to her.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mace and Philip often act like jerks to everyone who isn't their families (and even them, they have their moments), the former being a old-fashioned bigot while the latter is a pompous elitist. But when things get serious, they usually have their hearts in the right place.
• The Loins Sleep Tonight: In the appropriately titled "What's Up", Bobby ends up having trouble performing in bed due to his insecurity about how much more money she makes than him.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Simon is a Manly Gay while his partner Philip is a dramatic Camp Gay.
• Missing Mom: Liz's mother died when she was a baby, and her father wasn't around. Philip and Simon (who were her mother's best friends) ended up adopting her and raising her.
• The Missus and the Ex: "Truth and Consequence" has Liz forcing Bobby to apologize to his exes for his The Casanova ways, but this backfires on her when one of his exes, Sheri, still has the hots for Bobby and attempts to seduce him despite knowing he's now engaged.
• Modesty Bedsheet: "Hell's Kitchen" opens with both Bobby and Liz underneath a sheet in bed after they sleep together in her parents' guest house. Bobby is later reluctant to come out from under the sheets when he suspects they have cameras installed in the bedroom.
• Neat Freak: Philip has a compulsive need for organization and order that annoys everyone around him, especially his husband and daughter who freak out if everyone messes anything around the house because they know they'll have to deal with Philip freaking out later.
• New Old Flame: "Truth and Consequence" introduces Sheri, Bobby's ex-girlfriend, who wants to win him back, to Liz's annoyance, but Bobby manages to resist all her advances.
• Noble Bigot: One of the primary sources of conflict in the show is that while Mason and Audrey are otherwise good people, they are very prejudiced against gay people, and tend to make a lot of homophobic jokes at Philip and Simon's expense. But this lessens over time as the two families start interacting more and they develop an Odd Friendship.
• Parent-Preferred Suitor: In "Truth and Consequence", Mace keeps pushing Bobby to dump Liz and get together with Sheri after he found out Sheri is also a conservative, Irish-Catholic girl.
• Ready for Lovemaking: In "Truth and Consequence", to prove that she can be sexy and spontaneous, Liz sneaks up in Bobby's bar at night and waits for him naked at the back, but things go wrong when Bobby's parents end up walking in instead. Cue them screaming while she has a Naked Freak-Out.
• Really Gets Around:
  • Before hooking up with Philip, Simon apparently had a really wild romantic life and had numerous flings and affairs. It's a Running Gag for him to mention it and make Philip insecure.
  • Maddy is very promiscuous and tends to sleep around a lot, but she has no intention of having a serious relationship with anyone who is not wealthy.
• Rescue Romance: Bobby and Liz met at a Vermont ski resort, after she sprained her ankle on a "bunny slope", and he took her back to the lodge, and she quickly fell in love due to the incident.
• Sex Goddess: One of the things Sheri brags about to Liz is that she was way more sexually adventurous with Bobby than Liz ever will, and Bobby does reluctantly admit he has "really great memories" of their relationship. This leads Liz to get insecure for a while, and her parents' "advice" doesn't help much.
  Liz: How can I compete with her? This girl is on fire and I'm... second-hand-smoke.
  Simon: Lizzie honey, relationships based on animal attraction and great sex are never the ones that last.
  Philip: [scoffs]
• Sexy Coat Flashing: Sheri's attempt to seduce Bobby involves her showing up at his bar wearing only a trenchcoat and then flashing him (the audience doesn't see anything but her opening the coat). While he gets momentarily Distracted by the Sexy, he remains loyal to Liz and forces her to close the coat. When he throws her out of the bar without a way to get home and she complains, he snarks "Open your coat, somebody will give you a ride".
• Shoulders-Up Nudity: When Bobby and Liz are having a Shower of Love in "Road Trippin'", they're only seen from the shoulders up.
• Shower of Love: When Bobby and Liz try to have a romantic shower together in "Road Trippin'", they're interrupted by the creepy hotel manager who not only walks into the bathroom, but accidentally turns off the hot water.
• Spoiled Sweet: Liz grew up being spoiled by Philip and Simon, but still ended up an empathetic Nice Girl even if she sometimes is clueless about the struggles Bobby's working-class family has had to deal with.
• Toplessness from the Back: When Mace and Audrey walk in on the naked Liz in "Truth and Consequence", the audience only sees her bare back as they come into the room.
• Uptown Girl: Liz is a university student who comes from a wealthy family and ends up engaged with working-class bartender Booby. Their differences in social class is one of the sources of conflict in the series.