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-->'''Francince:''' We can't have a grown woman playing a six-year-old, this ain't no Disney Channel!"

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-->'''Francince:''' -->'''Francine:''' We can't have a grown woman playing a six-year-old, this ain't no Disney Channel!"Channel!

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* ArtisticLicense: Food that is slow cooked will not go off during the cooking process, unlike the pork that becomes infested with maggots in this episode. Then again, said pork was cooked for 12 days, which is an absurdly long time to put something in a slow cooker.
** ArtisticLicenseReligion: Snot eats the pulled pork despite being a practicing Jew.



* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: Knowing that footage of a seal being clubbed to death triggered Hayley's personality change, Jeff and Klaus take Hayley to an aquarium in an attempt to snap her out of hypnosis without completely returning her foul mood. However, Klaus is almost eaten by a seal, forcing Jeff to club it to death. Hayley gets distracted by a gift shop and doesn't get to see the seal being clubbed while Jeff is caught and promptly arrested.
* BlandNameProduct: Cheesecake Warehouse is a stand-in for the Cheesecake Factory.
* BungledHypnotism: Stan interrupts the hypnosis session, leaving Hayley stuck as a six-year-old.



* ADogNamedCat: Roger, an alien, names his hypnotist alter-ego Dr. Penguin.



* HypnoPendulum: What Dr. Penguin uses to put Hayley under. After he successfully hypnotizes her, he attempts to revert Hayley back using the same method but she tries to play with the pendulum instead.



* MassHypnosis: Roger performs this on the jury at Jeff's trial to return a unanimous "not guilty" verdict for Jeff. It ends up releasing Hayley from hypnosis and returning her to normal.



* ThePollyanna: Six-year-old Hayley was this, but she comes off as annoying in the present day. Then again, now being physically 16 years old might have something to do with it.



* ShoutOut: A key clue to what changed 7-year-old Hayley comes from a photograph of her pointing at something out of frame, while someone else in the photo is taking a different picture at the angle that would reveal what she saw. This is also a pivotal mystery in ''[[Literature/MillenniumSeries The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]''.
* StalkerWithACrush: Joe Chandler, who took the key photo at Hayley's 7th Birthday Party, has grown up to be obsessed with her, with an entire room devoted to her covered in pictures he took of her through the years. He appears again at the end taking a Polaroid of her from the tree outside her bedroom.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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A key clue to what changed 7-year-old Hayley comes from a photograph of her pointing at something out of frame, while someone else in the photo is taking a different picture at the angle that would reveal what she saw. This is also a pivotal mystery in ''[[Literature/MillenniumSeries The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]''.
** "Happy Hayley" plays with dolls of Anna and Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''.
** Francine compares Hayley's condition to the use of clearly adult actors playing teenagers in Creator/DisneyChannel shows (see TakeThat below).
* StalkerWithACrush: Joe Chandler, who took the key photo at Hayley's 7th Birthday Party, has grown up to be obsessed with her, with an entire room devoted to her covered in pictures he took of her through the years. He appears again at the end taking a Polaroid of her from the tree outside her bedroom. bedroom.
* TakeThat: Francince mocks Disney Channel when expressing her frustration with "Happy Hayley":
-->'''Francince:''' We can't have a grown woman playing a six-year-old, this ain't no Disney Channel!"


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* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Steve and his friends are experimenting with a slow cooker in the B-plot.
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* CynicismCatalyst: Hayley used to be a CheerfulChild until one birthday she saw news of a horrible injustice that went unanswered. She's been critical and bitter about the unfairness of the world since.


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* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Once all is said and done, Hayley's emotional regression to her childhood cheerfulness does leave her with a softened enough disposition to actually smile at small joys once she's restored to normal.
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'''Snot:''' With...perhaps...maggoty undertones?\\

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'''Snot:''' With...perhaps... perhaps... maggoty undertones?\\



* IdiotBall: Steve was told that the longer you slow cook pork the better it tastes. So he decides to leave it in for TWELVE DAYS! He would have left it in even longer if he hadn’t had a nightmare about it.

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* IdiotBall: Steve was told that the longer you slow cook pork pork, the better it tastes. So tastes, so he decides to leave it in for TWELVE DAYS! ''twelve days''. He would have left it in even longer if he hadn’t hadn't had a nightmare about it.
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* IdiotBall: Steve was told that the longer you slow cook pork the better it tastes. So he decides to leave it in for TWELVE DAYS! He would have left it in even longer if he hadn’t had a nightmare about it.
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* HatedByAll: When Stan tells the now childlike Hayley that Jeff's on trial, she declares she hates Jeff. Stan bluntly adds everyone does.

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-->'''Tim:''' You boys in the market for some... soft... pork?
-->'''Barry:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh dear]].

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-->'''Tim:''' You boys in the market for some... soft... pork?
-->'''Barry:'''
pork?\\
'''Barry:'''
[[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh dear]].dear]].
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Steve insists on slowing the cook of the pork until it is absolutely perfect. Unfortunately, he leaves it cooking for 12 days, by which time it has gone bad and the boys have to get an ambulance.
-->'''Paramedic:''' Who gave you the stupid idea you could eat 12-day old pork?



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Steve insists on slowing the cook of the pork until it is absolutely perfect. Unfortunately, he leaves it cooking for 12 days, by which time it has gone bad and the boys have to get an ambulance.
-->'''Paramedic:''' Who gave you the stupid idea you could eat 12-day old pork?

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* ShoutOut: A key clue to what changed 7-year-old Hayley comes from a photograph of her pointing at something out of frame, while someone else in the photo is taking a different picture at the angle that would reveal what she saw. This is also a pivotal mystery in Literature/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo.

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* ShoutOut: A key clue to what changed 7-year-old Hayley comes from a photograph of her pointing at something out of frame, while someone else in the photo is taking a different picture at the angle that would reveal what she saw. This is also a pivotal mystery in Literature/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo.''[[Literature/MillenniumSeries The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]''.



* UsedToBeASweetKid: As it turns out, Hayley was a CheerfulChild until she witnessed a baby seal getting clubbed to death on live TV during her 7th birthday party, realizing life wasn't fair.

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* UsedToBeASweetKid: As it turns out, Hayley was a CheerfulChild until she witnessed a baby seal getting clubbed to death on live TV during her 7th birthday party, realizing life wasn't fair.fair.
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* KarmaHoudini: {{Invoked|Trope}}. Jeff gets away with killing the seal (albeit in self-defense) with the help of 'Dr. Penguin', turning Hayley back to normal.

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* KangarooCourt: Played back and forth. The prosecutor has the jury ready to find Jeff guilty thanks to his charismatic opening statement and the judge asks if Jeff even wants to mount a defense since he is obviously going to be convicted. Then it tilts the other way when Dr. Penguin takes the stand and hypnotizes the jury to find Jeff not guilty.
* KarmaHoudini: {{Invoked|Trope}}. Jeff gets away with killing the seal (albeit in self-defense) with the help of 'Dr. Penguin', turning Penguin' hypnotizing the jury to acquit, which causes Hayley back to normal.once again witness an unfair moment and snap out of her EmotionalRegression.
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* StalkerWithACrush: Joe Chandler, who took the key photo at Hayley's 7th Birthday Party, has grown up to be obsessed with her, with an entire room devoted to her covered in pictures he took of her through the years. He appears again at the end taking a Polaroid of her from the tree outside her bedroom.
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* ShoutOut: A key clue to what changed 7-year-old Hayley comes from a photograph of her pointing at something out of frame, while someone else in the photo is taking a different picture at the angle that would reveal what she saw. This is also a key moment in the Literature/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo.

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* ShoutOut: A key clue to what changed 7-year-old Hayley comes from a photograph of her pointing at something out of frame, while someone else in the photo is taking a different picture at the angle that would reveal what she saw. This is also a key moment pivotal mystery in the Literature/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo.
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* ShoutOut: A key clue to what changed 7-year-old Hayley comes from a photograph of her pointing at something out of frame, while someone else in the photo is taking a different picture at the angle that would reveal what she saw. This is also a key moment in the Literature/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo.

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-->'''Steve:''' This isn't an ambulance! It's a goddamn ''ham''-bulance!\\

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-->'''Steve:''' He's pigs! He's pigs!\\
'''Paramedic:''' I gotta restrain this one. He's onto us.\\
''(The paramedic takes off his mask, revealing a pig head)''\\
'''Steve:'''
This isn't an ambulance! It's a goddamn ''ham''-bulance!\\
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'''Steve:''' Pigs...pigs everywhere. They're all pigs.\\

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'''Steve:''' Pigs... pigs everywhere. They're all pigs.\\
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-->'''Steve:''' This isn't an ambulance! It's a goddamn ''ham''-bulance!
-->''(The hambulance drives off, before cutting to Steve in the back of an actual ambulance with his friends)''
-->'''Steve:''' Pigs...pigs everywhere. They're all pigs.
-->'''Barry:''' I think Steve ate a lot more than us.

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-->'''Steve:''' This isn't an ambulance! It's a goddamn ''ham''-bulance!
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''ham''-bulance!\\
''(The
hambulance drives off, before cutting to Steve in the back of an actual ambulance with his friends)''
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friends)''\\
'''Steve:'''
Pigs...pigs everywhere. They're all pigs.
-->'''Barry:'''
pigs.\\
'''Barry:'''
I think Steve ate a lot more than us.
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-->'''Tim:''' You boys in the market for some...soft...pork?

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-->'''Tim:''' You boys in the market for some...soft... soft... pork?



-->'''Snot:''' Divine!
-->'''Toshi:''' It's so tender!
-->'''Steve:''' Yet, it...leaves something behind. Metallic, maybe?
-->'''Barry:''' Furry, almost...moving.
-->'''Snot:''' With...perhaps...maggoty undertones?
-->''(Cue ambulance siren)''
* KarmaHoudini: Invoked. Jeff gets away with killing the seal (albeit in self-defense) with the help of 'Dr. Penguin', turning Hayley back to normal.

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-->'''Snot:''' Divine!
-->'''Toshi:'''
Divine!\\
'''Toshi:'''
It's so tender!
-->'''Steve:'''
tender!\\
'''Steve:'''
Yet, it...it... leaves something behind. Metallic, maybe?
-->'''Barry:'''
maybe?\\
'''Barry:'''
Furry, almost...moving.
-->'''Snot:'''
almost... moving.\\
'''Snot:'''
With...perhaps...maggoty undertones?
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undertones?\\
''(Cue
ambulance siren)''
* KarmaHoudini: Invoked.{{Invoked|Trope}}. Jeff gets away with killing the seal (albeit in self-defense) with the help of 'Dr. Penguin', turning Hayley back to normal.
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* LethalChef: Steve insisting on letting the pork slowly cook for nearly two weeks gets him and his friends hospitalized.


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* TooDumbToLive: Steve and his friends left pork sitting in a slow cooker for 12 days and thought it was okay to eat.
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-->'''Tim:''' You boys in the market for some...soft...pork?
-->'''Barry:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh dear]].

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* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Steve and his friends encounter a man hanging out near an alleyway wearing a trenchcoat, who offers to sell them a slow cooker. He's even told off by a bunch of actual perverts for not being like them.


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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Steve and his friends quickly realize they have made a terrible mistake as they eat the 12-day old pork.
-->'''Snot:''' Divine!
-->'''Toshi:''' It's so tender!
-->'''Steve:''' Yet, it...leaves something behind. Metallic, maybe?
-->'''Barry:''' Furry, almost...moving.
-->'''Snot:''' With...perhaps...maggoty undertones?
-->''(Cue ambulance siren)''


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* MushroomSamba: After eating the bad pork, Steve hallucinates that the shady man he bought the slow cooker from is really two pigs in disguise, and that the paramedic is also a pig taking him into a pig-shaped car.
-->'''Steve:''' This isn't an ambulance! It's a goddamn ''ham''-bulance!
-->''(The hambulance drives off, before cutting to Steve in the back of an actual ambulance with his friends)''
-->'''Steve:''' Pigs...pigs everywhere. They're all pigs.
-->'''Barry:''' I think Steve ate a lot more than us.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Steve insists on slowing the cook of the pork until it is absolutely perfect. Unfortunately, he leaves it cooking for 12 days, by which time it has gone bad and the boys have to get an ambulance.
-->'''Paramedic:''' Who gave you the stupid idea you could eat 12-day old pork?
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* EmotionalRegression: Roger (as Dr. Penguin) hypnotizes Hayley into believing she's six years old again, leading her to start acting, talking and dressing like a child.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite generally being mild-mannered and easygoing, Jeff has no issue killing a seal to save Klaus.

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite generally being mild-mannered and easygoing, Jeff has almost no issue killing a seal to save Klaus.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jeff is generally mild-mannered and easygoing, but he has no choice but to kill a seal to save Klaus.

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jeff is Despite generally being mild-mannered and easygoing, but he Jeff has no choice but to kill issue killing a seal to save Klaus.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jeff is generally mild-mannered and easygoing, but he has no choice but to kill a seal to save Klaus.

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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Jeff as he [[ItMakesSenseInContextbeats the seal to death]] to save Klaus.

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* KarmaHoudini: Invoked. Jeff gets away with killing the seal (albeit in self-defense) with the help of 'Dr. Penguin', turning Hayley back to normal.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Jeff as he [[ItMakesSenseInContextbeats [[ItMakesSenseInContext beats the seal to death]] to save Klaus.
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-->'''Release Date:''' February 8, 2016

In an attempt to find why Hayley is such a dour SoapboxSadie, Roger (as Dr. Penguin) hypnotizes Hayley into acting like a six-year-old, which sits well with Stan and Francine (who loved Hayley back when she was a happy child), but not Jeff (who doesn't like sleeping with a childish woman) and Klaus (who was once traumatized by "Happy Hayley"). Meanwhile, Steve buys a slow cooker from a shady, trenchcoated man so he can enjoy a tender pulled pork.

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* AmusingInjuries: Hayley injures Stan's back when jumping on top of him.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Hayley has to witness a man assaulting a seal on live TV.
* CheerfulChild: Hayley was this as a child, in which she was constantly referred to as 'Happy Hayley'. Then comes her 7th birthday party...
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Jeff as he [[ItMakesSenseInContextbeats the seal to death]] to save Klaus.
-->'''Jeff:''' Stay! Away! From Klaus!
* UsedToBeASweetKid: As it turns out, Hayley was a CheerfulChild until she witnessed a baby seal getting clubbed to death on live TV during her 7th birthday party, realizing life wasn't fair.

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