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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ernie and Lars during the auction could have simply ignored the mouse's return since it will be no longer their problem and the next house's owner will have to deal with it. Though they presumably took it personal when [[spoiler: the mouse ate their father's lucky string]] and Ernie didn't want the same cockroach accident to happen again. Also, InUniverse Ernie, after Lars accidentally knocks the mouse unconscious by throwing him an orange, comments that had they done this before they could have spared themxelves a lot of trouble.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ernie and Lars during the auction could have simply ignored the mouse's return since it will be no longer their problem and the next house's owner will have to deal with it. Though they presumably took it personal when [[spoiler: the mouse ate their father's lucky string]] and Ernie didn't want the same cockroach accident to happen again. Also, InUniverse Ernie, after Lars accidentally knocks the mouse unconscious by throwing him an orange, comments that had they done this before they could have spared themxelves themselves a lot of trouble.
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* CampGay: Quincy Thorpe, [=LaRue=]'s historian. Helps that his actor, the late Creator/MichaelJeter, was actually openly gay.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ernie and Lars during the auction could have simply ignored the mouse's return since it will be no longer their problem and the next house's owner will have to deal with it. Though they presumably took it personal when [[spoiler: the mouse ate their father's lucky string]] and Ernie didn't want the same cockroach accident to happen again.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ernie and Lars during the auction could have simply ignored the mouse's return since it will be no longer their problem and the next house's owner will have to deal with it. Though they presumably took it personal when [[spoiler: the mouse ate their father's lucky string]] and Ernie didn't want the same cockroach accident to happen again. Also, InUniverse Ernie, after Lars accidentally knocks the mouse unconscious by throwing him an orange, comments that had they done this before they could have spared themxelves a lot of trouble.
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** When Ernie's father first gives him his lucky string, Ernie attempts to break it in half for himself and Lars but is stopped by his father, who wishes for him and Lars to share the single twine. After the brothers manage to recover the string from the wreckage of the destroyed house, Ernie attempts to take it from Lars only to end up accidentally splitting it anyway.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ernie and Lars during the auction could have simply ignored the mouse's return since it will be no longer their problem and the next house's owner will have to deal with it. Though they presumably took it personal when [[spoiler: the mouse ate their father's lucky string.]]
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ernie and Lars during the auction could have simply ignored the mouse's return since it will be no longer their problem and the next house's owner will have to deal with it. Though they presumably took it personal when [[spoiler: the mouse ate their father's lucky string.]] string]] and Ernie didn't want the same cockroach accident to happen again.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ernie and Lars during the auction could have simply ignored the mouse's return since he it will be no longer their problem and the next house's owner will have to deal with him. it. Though they presumably took it personal when [[spoiler: he the mouse ate their father's lucky string.]]
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ernie and Lars during the auction could have simply ignored the mouse's return since he will be no longer their problem and the next house's owner will have to deal with him. Though they presumably took it personal when [[spoiler: he ate thei father's lucky string.]]
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ernie and Lars during the auction could have simply ignored the mouse's return since he will be no longer their problem and the next house's owner will have to deal with him. Though they presumably took it personal when [[spoiler: he ate thei their father's lucky string.]]
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ernie and Lars during the auction could have simply ignored the mouse's return since he will be no longer their problem and the next house's owner will have to deal with him. Though they presumably took it personal when [[spoiler: he ate thei father's lucky string.]]
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* FailedASpotcheck: Ernie ends up losing his restaurant because neither he nor his staff noticed a cockroach had crawled onto the mayor's plate before serving him.
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* InsideAWall: The mouse is seen settling down to sleep inside the walls of the house, when it is interrupted by a nail gun.
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* CamelCase: The title is stylized this way.
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* AntiVillain: Depending on who you root for, both the Smuntzes and the Mouse aren't particularly evil and have sympathetic, reasonable motives.
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* PyyrhicVictory: When it finally looks like they've killed the mouse, neither brother is entirely happy with their apparent victory, [[spoiler: as they destroyed the house and lost any money it could've brought them in the process, once again finding themselves homeless and in debt.]] Fortunately the mouse actually survives and ends its rivalry with the brothers, showing them a new way to make money.
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* PyyrhicVictory: PyrrhicVictory: When it finally looks like they've killed the mouse, neither brother is entirely happy with their apparent victory, [[spoiler: as they destroyed the house and lost any money it could've brought them in the process, once again finding themselves homeless and in debt.]] Fortunately the mouse actually survives and ends its rivalry with the brothers, showing them a new way to make money.
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* HonorBeforeReason: After the brothers finally manage to (accidentally) knock the mouse unconscious, it would be completely within their best interest to kill it and end their nightmare once and for all. However, neither of them have it in them to murder the defenseless creature, with Ernie even saying it doesn't feel very sportsmanlike. They settle for shipping it off to Cuba instead.
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* PyyrhicVictory: When it finally looks like they've killed the mouse, neither brother is entirely happy with their apparent victory, [[spoiler: as they destroyed the house and lost any money it could've brought them in the process, once again finding themselves homeless and in debt.]] Fortunately the mouse actually survives and ends its rivalry with the brothers, showing them a new way to make money.
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* ScaryShadowFreakout: The brothers, while inspecting the attic, gets scared by a shadow of what appears to be some sort of evil-looking monster. Turns out it's a just a shadow of a small and harmless jack-in-the-box.
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* ScaryShadowFreakout: ScaryShadowFakeout: The brothers, while inspecting the attic, gets scared by a shadow of what appears to be some sort of evil-looking monster. Turns out it's a just a shadow of a small and harmless jack-in-the-box.
