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* AnAesop: Some people will never do well with each other. They can still be civil, but it's better not to meddle.
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* BittersweetEnding: Janine ultimately accepts that Joya and Zara can't be friends comes to terms with how some people can't befriend one another. But on the flip side, the girls do show respect to each other and their older sisters form a new friendship (though the part about them beating up people does concern Janine).

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* BittersweetEnding: Janine ultimately accepts that Joya and Zara can't be friends comes to terms along with how some people just can't befriend one another. But on the flip side, the girls do show respect to each other and their older sisters form a new friendship (though the part about them beating up people does concern Janine).
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* BittersweetEnding: Janine ultimately accepts that Joya and Zara can't be friends while she accepts that there are times where some people can't befriend one another. But on the flip side, the girls do show respect to each other and their older sisters form a new friendship (though the part about them beating up people does concern Janine).

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* BittersweetEnding: Janine ultimately accepts that Joya and Zara can't be friends while she accepts that there are times where comes to terms with how some people can't befriend one another. But on the flip side, the girls do show respect to each other and their older sisters form a new friendship (though the part about them beating up people does concern Janine).

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Janine tries to make two fighting students make up. Meanwhile, Gregory's father comes back to his life, trying to get him into the family business.

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Janine tries to make two fighting students make up. Meanwhile, Gregory's father comes back to his life, trying to get him into the family business. And elsewhere, Ava teams up with Melissa to take down Mr. Johnson in fantasy football.



* BittersweetEnding: Janine ultimately accepts that Joya and Zara can't be friends while she accepts that there are times where some people can't befriend one another. But on the flip side, the girls do show respect to each other and their older sisters form a new friendship (though the part about them beating up people does concern Janine).



* FeudingFamilies: After Janine threatens to take away movie night to her feuding students, the two girls send their older sisters to fight on their behalf.

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* FeudingFamilies: After Janine threatens to take away movie night to her feuding students, the two girls send their older sisters to fight on their behalf. Though it's subverted when the older sisters find common ground with each other.



* MistakenAge: Kiki, Zara's sister, mistakes Miss Teagues for an 8th grader (Joya's sister Alexis) she's supposed to beat up.

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* MistakenAge: Kiki, Keke, Zara's sister, mistakes Miss Teagues for an 8th grader (Joya's sister Alexis) that she's supposed to beat up.



-->'''Ava:''' What's your favorite song Gregory!

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-->'''Ava:''' What's your favorite song Gregory!Gregory?!
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* [[BashBrothers Bash Sisters]]: After their cafeteria fight, the elder sisters become close friends when they learn that they both love beating people up.
* IChooseToStay: In spite of his father's visit and praising him for his improved gardening skills, Greggo decides to decline his offer and wishes to remain a teacher at Abbott.


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* FamilyBusiness: Gregory's father returns to promote his Lawn and Care business. But this time, he wants his son to work ''with him'' so he can take over.


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* TheStinger: In the end, ''Sir'' Johnson appears to gloat about his winnings and reveals to his rivals that he allied himself with ''Jacob'' to secure his football team.

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* BadassPacifist: Mr. Johnson claims to be a pacifist. As in someone makes a move on him then he'll "pass a fist" to their face.

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* BadassPacifist: Mr. Johnson claims to be a pacifist. As in someone makes a move on messes with him then he'll "pass a fist" to their face.face.
* DisappointedInYou: A boy in a kufi cap is crushed to see two queens (Kiki and Alexis) fight each other.


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* FeudingFamilies: After Janine threatens to take away movie night to her feuding students, the two girls send their older sisters to fight on their behalf.


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* MistakenAge: Kiki, Zara's sister, mistakes Miss Teagues for an 8th grader (Joya's sister Alexis) she's supposed to beat up.
* NoodleIncident: Mr. Johnson once attended a party at the Playboy Mansion in 1986.
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** Janine frequently plays [[{{Franchise/ToyStory}} Toy Story]] movies for her class to watch. Though she can't watch 3 anymore because it makes her cry.


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* SoProudOfYou: Mr. Eddie Sr says this to his son for keeping the family legacy alive through the school garden.


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* ToiletHumor: Zara's tracing project of Joya features her filled with ''poop''. Joya retaliates by describing how smelly Joya is because she ''stinks''.


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* WhatsInItForMe: Melissa says this word for word when Ava comes to her for help in defeating Mr. Johnson. She settles for 20 percent of her winnings and her shelf in the lounge fridge.

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* FeudEpisode: The episode's theme revolves around Janine trying to get two of her students, Zir and Joya, to stop fighting each other.

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* BadassPacifist: Mr. Johnson claims to be a pacifist. As in someone makes a move on him then he'll "pass a fist" to their face.
* FeudEpisode: The episode's theme revolves around Janine trying to get two of her students, Zir Zara and Joya, to stop fighting each other.



* InstantlyProvenWrong: After Janine claims that the relationship between her mother and sister is much better now, Jacob asks if her sister now lives in Colorado.
* InternalReveal: Jacob and Barbara finally learn that it was ''Gregory'' who was preserving the well-being of their school garden.



** Janine purposefully misinterprets Zir's threat of "beating up" Joya as [[{{Franchise/StarTrek}} "beaming up"]].
** Ava references ''LiveAction/StrangerThings'' when she sees Gregory standing like a statue in the hallway.

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** Janine purposefully misinterprets Zir's Zara's threat of "beating up" Joya as [[{{Franchise/StarTrek}} "beaming up"]].
** Ava references ''LiveAction/StrangerThings'' ''Series/StrangerThings'' when she sees Gregory standing like a statue in the hallway.


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* WasItAllALie: Barbara is exceptionally heartbroken to hear that it was Gregory who was saving the garden while she and Jacob did nothing to contribute to it's flourishment.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Greg's father is highly impressed with his son taking initiative in maintaining the school garden. Greg of course does not like the approval one bit.

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* AbsurdPhobia: One of Ava's fears, apart from facing Mr. Johnson in fantasy football, is having to kill her granny during the zombie apocalypse.


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* ColdOpen: Janine sees a flyer for Gregory's father's landscaping business and is disturbed to see that he hired someone to pretend to be Gregory in the flyer. It gets weirder when Ava stops by asking for the fake son's number.
* FeudEpisode: The episode's theme revolves around Janine trying to get two of her students, Zir and Joya, to stop fighting each other.


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* ShoutOut:
** Janine purposefully misinterprets Zir's threat of "beating up" Joya as [[{{Franchise/StarTrek}} "beaming up"]].
** Ava references ''LiveAction/StrangerThings'' when she sees Gregory standing like a statue in the hallway.
-->'''Ava:''' What's your favorite song Gregory!
* StealthInsult: Mr. Johnson stops by the teacher's lounge and looks inside an empty trash bin.
-->'''Mr. Johnshon:''' Looking for your [Melissa] fantasy football team because it's trash!
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Greggo's explanation for why his father is in town along with predicting how he'll criticize his current job shows how ''excited'' he is for the upcoming visit.
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"Fight" is the twelveth episode of teh second season of ''Abbott Elementary''.

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"Fight" is the twelveth twelfth episode of teh the second season of ''Abbott Elementary''.
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* AnAesop: Some people will never do well with each other.

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* AnAesop: Some people will never do well with each other. They can still be civil, but it's better not to meddle.
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"Fight" is the twelveth episode of teh second season of ''Abbott Elementary''.

Janine tries to make two fighting students make up. Meanwhile, Gregory's father comes back to his life, trying to get him into the family business.

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* AnAesop: Some people will never do well with each other.
* FreudianExcuse: Janine has a hard time with conflict due to having spent her entire life mediating fights between her sister and mother, and still having to do it well into adulthood.
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