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** Averted in an episode that teaches AnAesop about cursing. Though it would seem impossible to teach such a moral in a Christian children's radio show, where you obviously aren't supposed to use curse words, it manages to pull it off by having some kids thinking that a certain word is a curse word and using it in such a way, leading to a moral about using words wisely, not saying things that you don't understand just because it sounds cool, and speaking to others in ways that encourage them rather than insult them. It's a bit odd, but it actually works pretty well.

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** Averted in an episode that teaches AnAesop a lesson about cursing. Though it would seem impossible to teach such a moral in a Christian children's radio show, where you obviously aren't supposed to use curse words, it manages to pull it off by having some kids thinking that a certain word is a curse word and using it in such a way, leading to a moral about using words wisely, not saying things that you don't understand just because it sounds cool, and speaking to others in ways that encourage them rather than insult them. It's a bit odd, but it actually works pretty well.
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* HiredOnTheSpot: Whit hires Connie almost as soon as she walked into his shop. Ironically, she was looking for another shop at a clothing boutique, but in the short time she was there, Whit had learned that she came from a broken home, her father still lived in California, she was trying to earn bus fare to return, and she'd worked as a waitress. He points to an add in the paper for help wanted at an ice cream parlour, then told her it was ''his'' ad. She points out that she hasn't even filled out an application. Whit replies that he already knows everything he would want to about her. She asks how much the job pays. He says he'll call the clothing boutique and find out what they're paying and match it. Tom Riley, a friend of Whit's who has been pressed into service, says it sounds like a fair deal to him and urges Connie, ''"Take the job!"''
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* CracksInTheIcyFacade: When Connie Kendal is first introduced, she is bitter and cynical after her parents' divorce, with her being dragged from her former home in California to the small town of Odyssey. She stops by Whit's End looking for a shop that had advertised a job, because she wanted to earn enough money to go back to California to live with her Father. Hearing her story, Mr. Whitaker offers to hire her on the spot and pay her the same amount that she would have made at the other shop. He had noticed that despite her cynical demeanor, she [[FriendToAllChildren had a soft spot for kids]].
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* AdultFear: The 2-part episode "The Pact" involves Tom, Whit and Mandy worrying about the whereabouts of Tom's wife Agnes after Agnes (who is stated as suffering from severe depression and who - though not said outright - is strongly implied to also be suffering from dementia) abruptly leaves Hillingdale Haven in order to meet up with someone only referred to as "Jo"[[note]]later revealed as Joanne Allen, wife of Jack and apparently a childhood friend of Agnes'[[/note]]; especially since the first part ends with Agnes being picked up [[NightmareFuel by a random truck driver]].
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* AdultFear: The 2-part episode "The Pact" involves Tom, Whit and Mandy worrying about the whereabouts of Tom's wife Agnes after Agnes (who is stated as suffering from severe depression and who - though not said outright - is strongly implied to also be suffering from dementia) abruptly leaves Hillingdale Haven in order to meet up with someone only referred to as "Jo"[[note]]later revealed as Joanne Allen, wife of Jack and apparently a childhood friend of Agnes'[[/note]]; especially since the first part ends with Agnes being picked up [[NightmareFuel by a random truck driver]].
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** In "The Malted Milkball Falcon", after an all night rocking chair competition, Emily Jones says "The [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 sunrise...]] It's so [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO8jcem2qC4#t=06m14s pretty...]]"

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** In "The Malted Milkball Falcon", after an all night rocking chair competition, Emily Jones says "The [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots sunrise...]] It's so [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO8jcem2qC4#t=06m14s pretty...]]"
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* CorrectiveLecture: In one episode, Bart Rathbone is having a '60s nostalgia festival. Connie is eager to participate, though her employer, John Avery Whitaker, is less than pleased with the whole thing, explaining that the '60s was a time of ridiculous fashions and music. Connie initially just takes this as Whit being uncharacteristically grumpy, especially after she finds a book of poetry written by a local author. She seeks out the author, who is living in Odyssey, to ask him about it. He is now running a drug rehab center under a new name, and is off-put by Connie's questions about that time at first, but later explains to her in a lecture that when you clear away the nostalgia, while people like him had been fighting perceived injustices, they'd fallen for the lie of "If it feels good, do it" and torn down a lot of good things as well while offering nothing in their place. The drug rehab center, which he runs, and which Whit donates to, is but one consequence, he tells her, of the irresponsibility of high ideals without regard for consequences.

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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Bassetts, all of whom—save for Wooton, his cousin Wilma, and their grandfather—are self-serving, avaricious, and arrogant. They are implied to be the reason why Wooton is the way he is; the repressive background in which he grew up prevented him from being a kid, so he gets in touch with his inner child as an adult.

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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Bassetts, all of whom—save whom—save for Wooton, his cousin Wilma, and their grandfather—are grandfather—are self-serving, avaricious, and arrogant. They are implied to be the reason why Wooton is the way he is; the repressive background in which he grew up prevented him from being a kid, so he gets in touch with his inner child as an adult.



-->'''Connie''' (quoting Rusty's blog): "Odyssey has its own ''Franchise/JamesBond''! That’s right, quaint little Odyssey has a field agent for the intelligence community living right there pretending to live a normal life. But then, he disappears and travels around the world on top secret missions. Yet to meet Jason Whittaker, you’d never guess it."
-->'''Whit''': "I don’t know what to say!"

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-->'''Connie''' (quoting Rusty's blog): "Odyssey has its own ''Franchise/JamesBond''! That’s ThatÂ’s right, quaint little Odyssey has a field agent for the intelligence community living right there pretending to live a normal life. But then, he disappears and travels around the world on top secret missions. Yet to meet Jason Whittaker, you’d youÂ’d never guess it."
-->'''Whit''': "I don’t donÂ’t know what to say!"



* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Michelle in "The Courage to Stand." Although under Shannon's thumb for most of the episode, she never quite rises to the level of BetaBitch as she isn't snarky and abrasive the way Shannon is. She turns into Former Friend of Alpha Bitch at the end of the episode when she tells Robyn that because Robyn refused to attend Shannon's unchaperoned party, Michelle refused to attend as well, and furthermore [[PositiveFriendInfluence accepts Robyn's invitation to come to church with her]], which she had earlier turned down.

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* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Michelle in "The Courage to Stand." Although under Shannon's thumb for most of the episode, she never quite rises to the level of BetaBitch as she isn't snarky and abrasive the way Shannon is. She turns into Former Friend of Alpha Bitch ##### at the end of the episode when she tells Robyn that because Robyn refused to attend Shannon's unchaperoned party, Michelle refused to attend as well, and furthermore [[PositiveFriendInfluence accepts Robyn's invitation to come to church with her]], which she had earlier turned down.



** There are two child characters named Erica—one is Erica Clark, an outgoing if somewhat ditzy girl; the other is Erica Colburn, a former friend of Aubrey Shepard's who is directly responsible for Novacom [[spoiler:obtaining the technology of the Imagination Station.]]

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** There are two child characters named Erica—one Erica—one is Erica Clark, an outgoing if somewhat ditzy girl; the other is Erica Colburn, a former friend of Aubrey Shepard's who is directly responsible for Novacom [[spoiler:obtaining the technology of the Imagination Station.]]



* PapaWolf: Carson [=McKay=] in "Accidental Dilemma"—his son Grady is kidnapped by a terrorist whose cane is a disguised cattle prod; unaware of this, Carson, finally coming face-to-face with the man, promptly punches him in the face.

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* PapaWolf: Carson [=McKay=] in "Accidental Dilemma"—his Dilemma"—his son Grady is kidnapped by a terrorist whose cane is a disguised cattle prod; unaware of this, Carson, finally coming face-to-face with the man, promptly punches him in the face.



*** Mitch comes under suspicion in "Grand Opening" and "Secrets" when he's revealed to have purchased a large number of the same types of security cameras Whit found hidden around his shop in Connellsville, and when Connie finds a photo in Mitch's briefcase of the woman who planted the suspicious modem in Whit's office. [[spoiler:Mitch's innocuous explanation for the cameras—that they're being used as part of a Novacom show about secret agents—is never confirmed as true or false, and he has the picture because the woman, Monica Stone, is working for Andromeda and Mitch wants to find her and bring her, and the rest of Andromeda, to justice.]]

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*** Mitch comes under suspicion in "Grand Opening" and "Secrets" when he's revealed to have purchased a large number of the same types of security cameras Whit found hidden around his shop in Connellsville, and when Connie finds a photo in Mitch's briefcase of the woman who planted the suspicious modem in Whit's office. [[spoiler:Mitch's innocuous explanation for the cameras—that cameras—that they're being used as part of a Novacom show about secret agents—is agents—is never confirmed as true or false, and he has the picture because the woman, Monica Stone, is working for Andromeda and Mitch wants to find her and bring her, and the rest of Andromeda, to justice.]]



* RenaissanceMan: Whit—soldier, NSA consultant, businessman, resident theologian, archeologist, encyclopedia publisher, computer, neurology, and engineering (and whatever other subjects are required to build a working Imagination Station) genius, and the maker of the best sundaes in the county.

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* RenaissanceMan: Whit—soldier, Whit—soldier, NSA consultant, businessman, resident theologian, archeologist, encyclopedia publisher, computer, neurology, and engineering (and whatever other subjects are required to build a working Imagination Station) genius, and the maker of the best sundaes in the county.



** Later, a road trip plot arc was given to Connie and Joanne, as both were going to Washington, D.C.—Connie to see Mitch, Joanne to have a compass appraised.

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** Later, a road trip plot arc was given to Connie and Joanne, as both were going to Washington, D.C.—Connie —Connie to see Mitch, Joanne to have a compass appraised.



--> '''Detective Polehaus''' (overlapping): "You’ll wanna change that."

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--> '''Detective Polehaus''' (overlapping): "You’ll "YouÂ’ll wanna change that."



* TuxedoAndMartini: Averted in most cases for Mitch (FBI) and Jason/Whit (NSA), although Jason is quite good at doing Bond-y one liners and even sarcastically identifies himself at one point as "Bond—James Bond".

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* TuxedoAndMartini: Averted in most cases for Mitch (FBI) and Jason/Whit (NSA), although Jason is quite good at doing Bond-y one liners and even sarcastically identifies himself at one point as "Bond—James "Bond—James Bond".



--> "Don't you understand that when you go out for revenge, you've got to dig two graves—one for the person you're after and one for yourself! Richard, there's no such thing as revenge, not really. It never replaces what you lost. It never restores. It doesn't even satisfy. You're out of the detention center now. You've got your whole life ahead of you! Now please, give me the gun!"

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--> "Don't you understand that when you go out for revenge, you've got to dig two graves—one graves—one for the person you're after and one for yourself! Richard, there's no such thing as revenge, not really. It never replaces what you lost. It never restores. It doesn't even satisfy. You're out of the detention center now. You've got your whole life ahead of you! Now please, give me the gun!"



** Monica Stone is wanted by the FBI and does several illegal jobs for Novacom, including infiltrating the Missions Board to steal a disk from Jason, mentally seducing him and threatening to kill his friend in the process—all because she bought the story that the Novacom technology was going to be used to help the handicapped, like her brother. She fully answers for her crimes, even rejecting a plea bargain when she testifies against Novacom, and accepts that she's going to go to prison for what she's done.

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** Monica Stone is wanted by the FBI and does several illegal jobs for Novacom, including infiltrating the Missions Board to steal a disk from Jason, mentally seducing him and threatening to kill his friend in the process—all process—all because she bought the story that the Novacom technology was going to be used to help the handicapped, like her brother. She fully answers for her crimes, even rejecting a plea bargain when she testifies against Novacom, and accepts that she's going to go to prison for what she's done.


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. World of Snark: Almost every charecter has said a deadpan commit but Jason, Benard, Jay, Robin ad Connie stand out the most.
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** "Wooing Wooton" ends badly for both the main plot and the subplot. After spending the entire episode trying to get back in his father Winston's good graces, Wooton finds himself unable to marry a woman that he was otherwise hitting it off with because she isn't a Christian, even though doing so would improve the standings of both of their families. His father cuts ties with him and bars him from the family permanently. In the subplot, Grady messes around with Winston's car and accidentally scratches it. When he comes clean, Winston not only punishes him but nearly gets his mother fired from her job. When his mother chews him out for messing with the car, she blames his spiritual growth for him telling the truth. The episode ends with Wooton lamenting being disowned by his dad and with Grady turning his back on anything related to God.

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** "Wooing Wooton" ends badly for both the main plot and the subplot. After spending the entire episode trying to get back in his father Winston's good graces, Wooton finds himself unable to marry a woman that he was otherwise hitting it off with because she isn't a Christian, even though doing so would improve the standings of both of their families. His father cuts ties with him and bars him from the family permanently. In the subplot, Grady messes around with Winston's car and accidentally scratches it. When he comes clean, Winston not only punishes him but also nearly gets his mother fired from her job. When his mother chews him out for messing with the car, she blames his spiritual growth for him telling asking the truth.people at Whit's End instead of coming to her first. The episode ends with Wooton lamenting being disowned by his dad and with Grady turning his back on anything related to God.
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** "Wooing Wooton" ends badly for both the main plot and the subplot. After spending the entire episode trying to get back in his father Winston's good graces, Wooton finds himself unable to marry a woman that he was otherwise hitting it off with because she isn't a Christian, even though doing so would improve the standings of both of their families. His father cuts ties with him and bars him from the family permanently. In the subplot, Grady messes around with Winston's car and accidentally scratches it. When he comes clean, Winston not only punishes him but gets his mother fired from her job. When his mother chews him out for messing with the car, she blames his spiritual growth for him telling the truth. The episode ends with Wooton lamenting being disowned by his dad and with Grady turning his back on anything related to God.

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** "Wooing Wooton" ends badly for both the main plot and the subplot. After spending the entire episode trying to get back in his father Winston's good graces, Wooton finds himself unable to marry a woman that he was otherwise hitting it off with because she isn't a Christian, even though doing so would improve the standings of both of their families. His father cuts ties with him and bars him from the family permanently. In the subplot, Grady messes around with Winston's car and accidentally scratches it. When he comes clean, Winston not only punishes him but nearly gets his mother fired from her job. When his mother chews him out for messing with the car, she blames his spiritual growth for him telling the truth. The episode ends with Wooton lamenting being disowned by his dad and with Grady turning his back on anything related to God.
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** "Wooing Wooton" ends badly for both the main plot and the subplot. After spending the entire episode trying to get back in his father Winston's good graces, Wooton finds himself unable to marry a woman that he was otherwise hitting it off with because she isn't a Christian, even though doing so would improve the standings of both of their families. His father cuts ties with him and bars him from the family permanently. In the subplot, Grady messes around with Winston's car and accidentally scratches it. When he comes clean, Winston not only punishes him but gets his mother fired from her job. When his mother chews him out for messing with the car, she blames his spiritual growth for him telling the truth. The episode ends with Wooton lamenting being disowned by his dad and with Grady turning his back on anything related to God.
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* SliceOfLife: The show's primary style, as it depicts day to day life in a small town and focuses on average everyday families. A few liberties are taken that break away from some of the realism though, mainly Whit's inventions like the Imagination Station which is basically VirtualReality on a level that isn't achievable in real life. The Blackgaard and Novacom sagas are also exceptions to this, which have actual antagonists and significantly DarkerAndEdgier good vs. evil story arcs.

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* SliceOfLife: The show's primary style, as it depicts day to day life in a small town and focuses on average everyday families. A few liberties are taken that break away from some of the realism though, mainly Whit's inventions like the Imagination Station which is basically VirtualReality virtual reality on a level that isn't achievable in real life. The Blackgaard and Novacom sagas are also exceptions to this, which have actual antagonists and significantly DarkerAndEdgier good vs. evil story arcs.
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* TeensAreShort: Thirteen-year-old Graham Barnett, whom Bernard and Eugene meet along their road trip in "Second Thoughts", is described as "four-foot-five" and unable to see over a car dashboard by a police officer.
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* NewJobsAsThePlotDemands: Jillian Marshall, the new roommate of Connie and Jules, is listed in the [[TheWikiRule AIO Wiki]] as [[https://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/Jillian_Marshall having held 19 jobs in 14 different cities]]. Later revealed in the 2022 "28 Hours" album as [[spoiler:an undercover NSA agent assigned to watch Jason]].

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* NewJobsAsThePlotDemands: Jillian Marshall, the new roommate of Connie and Jules, is listed in the [[TheWikiRule AIO Wiki]] Wiki as [[https://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/Jillian_Marshall having held 19 jobs in 14 different cities]]. Later revealed in the 2022 "28 Hours" album as [[spoiler:an undercover NSA agent assigned to watch Jason]].
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* MeaningfulReleaseDate: The 1993 episode "Terror from the Skies", in addition to being a {{Homage}} to ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds1938'', was originally broadcast on October 30, 1993 - exactly 55 years to the date of the famed radio broadcast's premiere.
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* MeaningfulReleaseDate: The 1993 episode "Terror from the Skies", in addition to being a {{Homage}} to ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds1938'', was originally broadcast on October 30, 1993 - exactly 55 years to the date of the famed radio broadcast's premiere.
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* OutOfContextEavesdropping: The 1998 episode "The Spy Who Bugged Me" involves Jared [=DeWhite=], the town's resident ConspiracyTheorist and Dwayne Oswald trying to figure out what some of the girls are up to during a secret girls-only meeting; and after several attempts (including Jared assigning [[ButtMonkey Dwayne]] to disguise himself as a bush and [[ItMakesSenseInContext as a girl]]) overhear the girls talking about shooting the sheriff and Mayor[[note]]their walkie-talkie batteries die before the boys could hear the context[[/note]]; causing the two to panic and tell Whit; who then finds out that the girls meant shooting the Mayor and sheriff...for an Odyssey Celebrities Calendar to raise funds for an orphan's home in neighboring Connellsville.
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* KnockoutGas: In "The Last Great Adventure of Summer," Terry learns that his dad is really a spy when they are cornered by a rival agent. They get away and try to escape by jumping on an open train cart as it leaves the station. Unfortunately, the other spy spotted them, learned where the train was headed, and knocked them out with a sleeping gas ambush when they arrived.

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* DevastatingRemark: Eugene begins laughing at Connie when she suggests that she would like to be a teacher. Incensed at his dismissive attitude, Connie angrily pokes at his most vulnerable spot, "Well at least I have a driver's license!" The fact that she hits Eugene with his greatest weakness, as well as the ferocity with which she did so leaves Eugene stunned and their employer, John Whitaker, with a SympatheticWince.

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* AlliterationAndAdventurers: The fictional roleplaying game ''Castles & Cauldrons'' is the subject of a notorious VerySpecialEpisode with a [[MoralGuardians Satanic Panic theme]]. Let's just say, having an "and" in its title is about the closest the game comes to reflecting any real-life [=RPG=].



* MagicAmpersand: The fictional roleplaying game ''Castles & Cauldrons'', subject of a notorious VerySpecialEpisode with a [[MoralGuardians Satanic Panic theme]]. Let's just say, having an "and" in its title is about the closest the game comes to reflecting any real-life [=RPG=].
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* DyingTown: The 2-part "Pokenberry Falls, R.F.D." episodes that provide the exit storyline for the Barclay family sees George invited to the New England town to pastor a church there. Ellis Birch, the church member who made the invitation seems convinced that the impression that the town had a bright future and would be a potential boom town. As it turns out, the town - with only a plastics factory or a hotel run by Barry Lionel[[note]]another reference to ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''; as Lionel's name is a play on actor Creator/LionelBarrymore while the character is effectively a stand-in for Barrymore's Mr. Potter character in that film[[/note]] as the major places of employment once one got past the more tourist-oriented parts of town - has clearly seen better days.
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* UnnecessaryTimePrecision: In "Aloha Oy!", Donna interviews Don Iowa, with one of the questions being the number of years the latter has resided in Hawaii. Iowa first says Hawaiians measure time in full moons rather than years. When Donna then modifies her question to fit this time scale, he answers he's lived there three years worth of full moons.
-->'''Donna:''' How many years have you lived in Hawaii Mr. Iowa?\\
'''Don Iowa:''' Oh the islands we don't measure time in years but in full moons.\\
'''Donna:''' Okay, how many full moons have you lived here?\\
'''Don Iowa:''' Hm, about three years worth.
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* HollywoodBoardGames: Bart Rathbone is an EvilIsPetty kind of villain who constantly, often unnecessarily, [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat cheats]]. When he, his wife Doris, and their rivals the Washingtons [[GoKartingWithBowser play]] ''TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}'' after a fancy dinner, nobody is surprised that he criticizes everyone's drawings at every turn and tries to pass his own as valid even when they are pants.

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