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* AskAStupidQuestion: The following conversation between Tony Schoondist and George, when the former orders the latter to get a pair of gerbils plus a cage so they can test if being inside the Buick is dangerous:
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* AskAStupidQuestion: The following conversation between Tony Schoondist and George, George Stankowski, when the former orders the latter to get a pair of gerbils plus a cage so they can test if being inside the Buick is dangerous:
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: After the autopsy of the bat-creature, Curt says that it was lucky they decided to wear masks to cover their mouths so they didn't ingest any of the creature's blood. "I think the results of something like that might have been quite nasty."
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** After the autopsy of the bat-creature, Curt says that it was lucky they decided to wear masks to cover their mouths so they didn't ingest any of the creature's blood. "I think the results of something like that might have been quite nasty.""
** Tony has Curt buy some high-grade climbing rope to be used as a safety line. Tony comments, "I hope we never have to find out how good it is." [[spoiler:In the climax, the rope is one of the things that saves both Sandy and Curt's son Ned from the Buick.]]
** After the autopsy of the bat-creature, Curt says that it was lucky they decided to wear masks to cover their mouths so they didn't ingest any of the creature's blood. "I think the results of something like that might have been quite nasty.
** Tony has Curt buy some high-grade climbing rope to be used as a safety line. Tony comments, "I hope we never have to find out how good it is." [[spoiler:In the climax, the rope is one of the things that saves both Sandy and Curt's son Ned from the Buick.]]
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* PoliceCodeForEverything: Played with; Troop D doesn't standardly have a code for dealing with supernatural cars, but they come up with "Code D" to use in case they need to inform each other about the Buick over the radio. Later, it's mentioned, other troops in the area would adopt the "Code D" as shorthand for "there's something that we need to talk about, but not on the radio", without the majority knowing how the code originated.
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* PoliceCodeForEverything: Played with; Troop D doesn't standardly have a code for dealing with supernatural cars, but they come up with "Code D" to use in case they need to inform each other about the Buick over the radio. Later, it's mentioned, other troops in the area would adopt the "Code D" as shorthand for "there's something that we need "home base", due to talk about, but not on the radio", without the majority knowing how the code originated. repeatedly hearing exchanges like ''"Is D five-by?" "Affirmative, everything is cool with D."''
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* PoliceCodeForEverything: Played with; Troop D doesn't standardly have a code for dealing with supernatural cars, but they come up with "Code D" to use in case they need to inform each other about the Buick over the radio.
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* PoliceCodeForEverything: Played with; Troop D doesn't standardly have a code for dealing with supernatural cars, but they come up with "Code D" to use in case they need to inform each other about the Buick over the radio. Later, it's mentioned, other troops in the area would adopt the "Code D" as shorthand for "there's something that we need to talk about, but not on the radio", without the majority knowing how the code originated.
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** [[spoiler: The thing that came out through the Buick on "the worst day ever", which was vaguely humanoid, and implied to have been sentient. It's so mindbreakingly horrifying the officers on duty are driven to tear it apart just out of self-preservation, despite it not actually being hostile.]]
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** [[spoiler: The thing that came out through the Buick on "the worst day ever", which was vaguely humanoid, and implied to have been sentient.sapient. It's so mindbreakingly horrifying the officers on duty are driven to tear it apart just out of self-preservation, despite it not actually being hostile.]]
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* UncannyValley: InUniverse, the car itself. It looks ''very much like'' a Buick 8, but there's enough wrong with it to make people think it's more of a sculpture of a car instead. It has a wood dashboard when all American cars at the time it was "made" had vinyl dashes. Its controls not only don't work but don't move. It has seven, rather than eight porthole vents on its radiator, 3 on one side, 4 on the other (which side isn't mentioned, implying that the odd vent moves position sometimes). The exhaust system is entirely made out of plexiglass instead of metal. The engine's just as bad, with no distributor cap and wires that just feed into the engine block (stamped all over with "BUICK 8" like it's a reminder), very much not to the battery, which itself isn't connected to anything. The key, which the driver left in the ignition, turns out to just be a plain metal stick, and the ignition can't turn. People who get inside it start picking up subconscious clues ''for earthquakes''.
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* UncannyValley: InUniverse, the The car itself. It itself looks ''very much like'' a Buick 8, but there's enough wrong with it to make people think it's more of a sculpture of a car instead. It has a wood dashboard when all American cars at the time it was "made" had vinyl dashes. Its controls not only don't work but don't move. It has seven, rather than eight porthole vents on its radiator, 3 on one side, 4 on the other (which side isn't mentioned, implying that the odd vent moves position sometimes). The exhaust system is entirely made out of plexiglass instead of metal. The engine's just as bad, with no distributor cap and wires that just feed into the engine block (stamped all over with "BUICK 8" like it's a reminder), very much not to the battery, which itself isn't connected to anything. The key, which the driver left in the ignition, turns out to just be a plain metal stick, and the ignition can't turn. People who get inside it start picking up subconscious clues ''for earthquakes''.
