Hi & Lois isn’t designed to have ongoing storylines, so characters spend years in a perpetual state — Trixie never growing older or losing interest in sunshine, Hi always being boring, Lois always being boring. So what are we to make of this series? It starts on Jan. 3:

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Ditto declares that he won’t wear a dress, and Lois grows a few bags under her eyes. She is distraught. Her traditional, picket-fence family has been disrupted by the boy who won’t cross-dress. And so today, four days later, is it any surprise that we see this?

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Lois and Chip are wearing the same outfit. Harmony has been restored to the family unit.