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* WritersBlockMontage: Fern realizes she used all her best ideas for Fernlets for the cards she and Muffy were selling when she tries to write one for her mom’s birthday card. A montage plays of her struggling with Writer’s Block and surrounded by balls of crumpled paper. Not having any luck, she uses Muffy’s generic card from earlier in the store and immediately regrets it.

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* WritersBlockMontage: Fern realizes she used all her best ideas for Fernlets for the cards she and Muffy were selling when she tries to write one for her mom’s birthday card. A montage plays of her struggling with Writer’s Block WritersBlock and surrounded by balls of crumpled paper. Not having any luck, she uses Muffy’s generic card from earlier in the store and immediately regrets it.

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* OddlySpecificGreetingCard: Late one night, Muffy calls Fern to ask for a "sorry I accidentally shaved your hamster" card.



* WritersBlock: Fern realizes she used all her best ideas for Fernlets for the cards she and Muffy were selling when she tries to write one for her mom's birthday card. Instead, she buys her mom a generic card from the store and immediately regrets it.

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* WritersBlock: WritersBlockMontage: Fern realizes she used all her best ideas for Fernlets for the cards she and Muffy were selling when she tries to write one for her mom's mom’s birthday card. Instead, A montage plays of her struggling with Writer’s Block and surrounded by balls of crumpled paper. Not having any luck, she buys her mom a uses Muffy’s generic card from earlier in the store and immediately regrets it.



* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: The episode’s title is in this format.



* {{Facepalm}}: Prunella does this after she pounds her fist on the lunch table and makes even more popsicle sticks fall off her model of the Eiffel Tower.



** Although to be fair, Buster and D.W.’s fears of poached eggs and an imaginary monster respectively aren’t scary either.



* UrbanLegend: Fern tells the urban legend of locker 237’s previous owner, a Lakewood student from the 1950s named Jack Murphy, whose smelly locker gave him bad luck and eventually made him disappear.

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* UrbanLegend: Fern tells the urban legend of locker 237’s previous owner, a Lakewood student from the 1950s named Jack Murphy, whose smelly locker gave him bad luck and eventually made him disappear.disappear.
* VisibleOdor: In Fern’s story about Jack Murphy, the smells coming from locker 237 are shown as visible green tendrils.
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Muffy and Fern start a greeting card business but Fern's writing the little messages inside causes her to lose interest in writing.

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Muffy and Fern start a greeting card business but Fern's writing the little messages inside toll of constantly using her creativity for the orders soon causes her Fern to lose interest in writing.



* BigBrotherIsWatching: In Fern’s ImagineSpot, she imagines Muffy as a ruthless dictator, shouting orders and looming over her via a giant screen as she frantically writes greeting card messages.

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* BigBrotherIsWatching: In Fern’s ImagineSpot, she imagines Muffy as a ruthless dictator, dictator in a factory, shouting orders and looming over her via a giant screen as she Fern frantically writes greeting card messages.messages on an industrial belt.



* ADayInTheLimelight: for Fern
* ForcedCreativity: The popularity of Fern and Muffy’s greeting card business forces Fern to produce large quantities of her Fernlets, making her lose her creativity and burning her out.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: When Muffy’s finally had enough with Fern’s strange poems, she fires her. Fern doesn’t mind though, as the integrity of her art is more important to her than the money she was getting from the greeting card business.
* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Fern’s job writing greeting card messages quickly becomes this, as something she once enjoyed turns into an exhausting chore.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: for Fern
For Fern.
* ForcedCreativity: The popularity of Fern and Muffy’s Muffy's greeting card business forces Fern to produce large quantities of her Fernlets, making her lose her creativity and burning her out.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: When Muffy’s Muffy's finally had enough with Fern’s strange poems, she fires her. Fern doesn’t mind though, as the integrity of her art is more important to her than the money she was getting from the greeting card business.
* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Fern’s Fern's job writing greeting card messages quickly becomes this, as something she once enjoyed turns into an exhausting chore.



* WritersBlock: Fern realizes she used all her best ideas for Fernlets for the cards she and Muffy were selling when she tries to write one for her mom’s birthday card. Instead, she buys her mom a generic card from the store and immediately regrets it.

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* WritersBlock: Fern realizes she used all her best ideas for Fernlets for the cards she and Muffy were selling when she tries to write one for her mom’s mom's birthday card. Instead, she buys her mom a generic card from the store and immediately regrets it.



* ADayInTheLimelight: for Prunella
* FauxHorrific: The episode’s ColdOpen features a game show called "Face Your Fear," hosted by Brain. There are three contestants (Buster, D.W., and Prunella), and the objective is to state your worst fear and face it on camera. A fear-o-meter then judges your reaction on a scale of one to ten. When it’s Prunella’s turn, Brain leads Prunella to a backstage curtain covering her fear. The curtain opens and Prunella screams loud enough to break the fear-o-meter. Her greatest fear turns out to be a normal school locker.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: for Prunella
For Prunella.
* FauxHorrific: The episode’s episode's ColdOpen features a game show called "Face Your Fear," hosted by Brain. There are three contestants (Buster, D.W., and Prunella), and the objective is to state your worst fear and face it on camera. A fear-o-meter then judges your reaction on a scale of one to ten. When it’s Prunella’s turn, Brain leads Prunella to a backstage curtain covering her fear. The curtain opens and Prunella screams loud enough to break the fear-o-meter. Her greatest fear turns out to be a normal school locker.
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Muffy and Fern start a greeting card business but Fern's writing the little messages inside causes her to lose interest in writing.

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* BigBrotherIsWatching: In Fern’s ImagineSpot, she imagines Muffy as a ruthless dictator, shouting orders and looming over her via a giant screen as she frantically writes greeting card messages.
*CrashIntoHello: Fern and Muffy run into each other (literally) at the mall and drop what they were carrying. They later realize that they each grabbed the other’s card for Mother’s Day, kicking off the plot of the episode.
* ADayInTheLimelight: for Fern
* ForcedCreativity: The popularity of Fern and Muffy’s greeting card business forces Fern to produce large quantities of her Fernlets, making her lose her creativity and burning her out.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: When Muffy’s finally had enough with Fern’s strange poems, she fires her. Fern doesn’t mind though, as the integrity of her art is more important to her than the money she was getting from the greeting card business.
* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Fern’s job writing greeting card messages quickly becomes this, as something she once enjoyed turns into an exhausting chore.
* StatusQuoIsGod: When Fern branches out into different forms of poetry for her greeting cards, Muffy disapproves and urges her to stick to what worked before.
* WritersBlock: Fern realizes she used all her best ideas for Fernlets for the cards she and Muffy were selling when she tries to write one for her mom’s birthday card. Instead, she buys her mom a generic card from the store and immediately regrets it.

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Prunella has to move to locker 237 when hers is taken for repair, but rumor has it the locker is haunted.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: for Prunella
* FauxHorrific: The episode’s ColdOpen features a game show called "Face Your Fear," hosted by Brain. There are three contestants (Buster, D.W., and Prunella), and the objective is to state your worst fear and face it on camera. A fear-o-meter then judges your reaction on a scale of one to ten. When it’s Prunella’s turn, Brain leads Prunella to a backstage curtain covering her fear. The curtain opens and Prunella screams loud enough to break the fear-o-meter. Her greatest fear turns out to be a normal school locker.
* NightmareSequence: As the legend of the haunted locker starts seeming more and more real to Prunella, she has a nightmare in which locker 237 comes alive and eats her, along with her shop class project.
* RealAfterAll: Fern finally reveals that she made up the story of Jack Murphy, and there is no such person. However, the episode finishes with a swing seat moving by itself along with the sound of a child's laughter.
* SuperstitionEpisode: While at first Prunella brushes off Fern’s story as just an urban legend, she begins to notice strange smells coming from locker 237 and experiences a string of bad luck - just like Jack Murphy did.
* UrbanLegend: Fern tells the urban legend of locker 237’s previous owner, a Lakewood student from the 1950s named Jack Murphy, whose smelly locker gave him bad luck and eventually made him disappear.

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