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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: One of the firemen decides to wait until the Smiths go to bed and then dig up the gold himself.

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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: One of the firemen decides to wait until the Smiths go to bed and then dig up the gold himself.himself, since it's still at the bottom of the now-filled pit.
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: One of the firemen decides to wait until the Smiths go to bed and then dig up the gold himself.

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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: One of the firemen decides to wait until the Smiths go to bed and then dig up the gold himself.himself.
* SupermodelStrut: {{Parodied|Trope}}. When Roger dresses up as SexySecretary "Laura Vanderbooben", he tries to seduce the guys at the office by doing a confident strut through the room, even shaking his hips while a sexy song plays in the background. Nobody cares.
-->'''Roger:''' Huh. Probably shouldn't have farted before I started that walk.
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* CassandraTruth: No one believes Stan's claim that Oliver North's gold is buried underneath their house. They give up digging moments before he actually finds it, and is upset they didn't record the discovery.

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* CassandraTruth: No one believes Stan's claim that Oliver North's gold is buried underneath their house. They give up digging moments before he actually finds it, and it; he is upset they didn't record the discovery.
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* NeverLendToAFriend: Why Roger refuses to lend Klaus money from his settlement.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Defied. Because Greg and Terry weren't there for the moment where he dug up the gold, Stan tells them to come and help him stage it. Terry replies that it's not ethical for a journalist to stage events.

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* ImmoralJournalist: Defied.Defied and played straight. Because Greg and Terry weren't there for the moment where he dug up the gold, Stan tells them to come and help him stage it. Terry replies that it's not ethical for a journalist to stage events. That didn't stop them earlier from secretly recording a Smith Family conversation after stating they would turn the camera off.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Averted. Because Greg and Terry weren't there for the moment where he dug up the gold, Stan tells them to come and help him stage it. Terry replies that it's not ethical for a journalist to stage events.

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* ImmoralJournalist: Averted.Defied. Because Greg and Terry weren't there for the moment where he dug up the gold, Stan tells them to come and help him stage it. Terry replies that it's not ethical for a journalist to stage events.
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After a near-death experience, Stan decides to secure his legacy by finding treasure that had been buried by Oliver North. Meanwhile, Roger tries to make some money by being sexually harassed at a company.

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After a near-death experience, Stan decides to secure his legacy by finding treasure that had been buried by former Marine Corps officer Oliver North. Meanwhile, Roger tries to make some money by being sexually harassed at a company.
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* ShoutOut: "Me So Horny" by 2 Live Crew plays out as Roger walks through the office dressed up as his female persona complete with MaleGaze.
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* OffingTheOffspring: Stan threatens to kill his kids unless Steve's robot and Hayley's piercings are gone by tomorrow.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Stan uses comments from North's testimony to believe that the gold is buried under the living room and says that a discard ice creamsicle wrapper means he's getting close. Bizarrely, he turns out to be right, and there's a note in the gold from North congratulating the finder on following his clues.

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* InsaneTrollLogic: Stan uses comments from North's testimony to believe that the gold is buried under the living room and says that a discard discarded ice creamsicle wrapper means he's getting close. Bizarrely, he turns out to be right, and there's a note in the gold from North congratulating the finder on following his clues.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Stan uses comments from North's testimony to believe that the gold is buried under the living room and says that a discard ice creamsicle wrapper means he's getting close. Bizarrely, he turns out to be right, and there's a note in the gold from North congratulating the finder on following his clues.
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* SchoolhouseRockLesson: Stan explains the history of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair Iran-Contra scandal]] in the style of a ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' educational song. It even provides the page image for the trope.

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* SchoolhouseRockLesson: Stan explains the history of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair Iran-Contra scandal]] in the style of a ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' educational song. It even provides the page image for the trope.
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* CassandraTruth: No one believes Stan's claim that Oliver North's gold is buried underneath their house. They give up digging moments before he actually finds it, and is upset they didn't record the discovery.
* ContinuityNod: Stan reminds Francine about her muffin business in "Finances With Wolves", though Francine reminds him that he never once supported her.
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After a near-death experience, Stan decides to secure his legacy by finding treasure that had been buried by Oliver North. Meanwhile, Roger tries to make some money by being sexually harassed at a company.
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* ActingForTwo: InUniverse. With no one harassing him at the office, Roger ends up playing another employee who harasses his female persona.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Greg and Terry decide to film Stan's decent into madness, er, his search for the treasure.
-->'''Terry:''' We are a lock for an Oscar if there isn't a documentary about penguins or genocide this year.
-->'''Greg:''' Or penguin genocide.
-->'''Greg & Terry:''' Ooooooooooooooooooh.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Stan's sanity is clearly slipping as he fails to find anything...but then he walks into the kitchen with the gold.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Hayley's middle name is "Dreamsmasher," because her birth ruined Stan's dreams.
* FlippingTheBird: Stan does this to everyone once he emerges from the pit with the buried gold.
* ImmoralJournalist: Averted. Because Greg and Terry weren't there for the moment where he dug up the gold, Stan tells them to come and help him stage it. Terry replies that it's not ethical for a journalist to stage events.
* KarmaHoudini: Stan mentions how Oliver North got off scot-free after selling weapons to Iran and giving the profits to anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua.
* LegacySeeker: A near-death experience inspires Stan to restart his plans for a legacy that he had to abandon when his kids were born. There are rumors that, during the Iran-Contra affair in the '80s, Oliver North buried a cache of gold bars under what is now Stan's house, the discovery of which Stan believes will be the archeological find of the century. After he finds the gold, Stan gets caught in a cave-in and has to choose whether he or the gold can go to the surface. He seriously considers the latter, but he changes his mind when he realizes that growing up without him will turn his children into huge disappointments who will completely overshadow his discovery, so he decides to be rescued and focus on the kids as his true legacy.
* NoodleIncident: Stan yells at the family for not believing in him, like that time he tried to open his own dance studio.
-->'''Francine:''' Just for the record, I believed in the dance studio. But two days before we opened, it wasn't your father's fault, a woman got raped in the locker room.
* SchoolhouseRockLesson: Stan explains the history of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair Iran-Contra scandal]] in the style of a ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' educational song. It even provides the page image for the trope.
-->'''Roger:''' Crap, that's the end.
* SexBot: Steve tries to build one from a vacuum cleaner, which gets increasingly elaborate as the episode goes on.
* SharpDressedMan: The Langley Falls town geologist arrives wearing a tuxedo.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: One of the firemen decides to wait until the Smiths go to bed and then dig up the gold himself.

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