American Equivalent of "Bog Standard"

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00:00 American Equivalent Of &Quot;Bog Standard&Quot;
01:56 Answer 1 Score 15
02:04 Answer 2 Score 20
02:18 Answer 3 Score 16
02:27 Answer 4 Score 7
02:43 Thank you

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ANSWER 1

Score 20

Garden variety and standard issue are possibilities. Stereotypical has an applicable sense but its usual sense of "banal, commonplace and clichéd because of overuse" gets in the way.

ANSWER 2

Score 16

Would textbook or archetypal do?

ANSWER 3

Score 15

"Vanilla" sounds like it could work.

ANSWER 4

Score 7

One possibility would be to describe the stepmother as classic. In one sense, the word means outstanding in some way, but it is often used to mean:

Of a well-known type; typical

^Wordnik