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* Charlie not wanting to be seen as racist while wearing a halloween costume makes a lot more sense after "The Enchanted Forest", which shows that the Smiling Friends universe is a FantasyKitchenSink, meaning that a lot of common real-world halloween costumes ''would'' be considered racist InUniverse.

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* Both Charlie and James are punished for their actions because they both broke the rules of the show in subtle ways:
** Charlie refuses to help Gwimbly because he didn't ask or want the help of the Smiling Friends, justifying his actions with the motto of the charity, which specifically says that the client must ask for help. This ignores the previous times where the Smiling Friends went to go help someone who didn't ask for help, such as Mr. Frog, whom Pim and Charlie went to personally in order to help him. On top of that, Charlie doesn't even go to do any work while at headquarters, instead preparing to watch something on a streaming service. Charlie didn't want to help Gwimbly out of laziness and so he was left to deal with James, who threw the plaque's motto in his face as an excuse to mistreat him.
** James seemingly gets away with acting like an insane brat, physically harming and threatening Charlie, and even gets to be happy after killing Gwimbly's psychotic former boss. However, TheStinger reveals that he's still miserable and the berates himself for pushing away someone who could've help him (Charlie). In a normal episode, the Smiling Friends meet up with their clients and discuss what's bothering them so that they can help them feel happy, but James just bursted into the headquarters, started to destroy everything and abused Charlie, demanding the latter to make him happy by demanding various crap, only to demand something else. James' actions also mirror the actions of the Devil from the last season, who avoided his problems by searching for fleeting dopamine rushes (ex: video games, junk food, and vaping), which in James' case was food and violence.
* Charlie not wanting to be seen as racist while wearing a halloween Halloween costume makes a lot more sense after "The Enchanted Forest", which shows that the Smiling Friends universe is a FantasyKitchenSink, meaning that a lot of common real-world halloween costumes ''would'' be considered racist InUniverse.
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* Mr. Boss's gift to Alan being a figurine of himself might seem incredibly underwhelming after everything the latter went through, but keep in mind that neither of them knew what Mr. Landlord was orchestrating. Both of them thought it was just going to be Alan going to the store to buy some paperclips.
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* The 3D printed shotgun that Squiggly Miggly [[AmbiguousSituation allegedly used to commit suicide]] just sounds like a comically absurd detail at first, but it's actually very significant. Shotguns aren't as easy for forensics to analyze compared to most other firearms, and the fact that it's 3D printed means it can't be traced. Now consider the earthworms' conspiracy to interfere with the election, and it becomes completely obvious [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident what actually happened]].

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