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* AnAesop:
** You're not defined by just one particular trait.
** True strength doesn't come from showing off, it's about believing in oneself to have it and knowing when to use it.



* AnAesop:
** Leave the job to someone trustworthy enough to handle it properly, and who is smart enough to know the skills.
** If you can't balance your social life with work, it's best to make room for it by having it someplace else.
** Appreciate your youth when you still have it.



* StrikeEpisode: After Cricket did all the work in the cafe and dealing with everyone's orders, he decided to go on strike until Gloria can help him.

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* StrikeEpisode: After Cricket did all the work in the cafe and dealing with everyone's orders, he decided to go on strike until Gloria can help him.him.
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-->'''Bill:''' If you'll excuse me, I've got to get our shopping done.

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-->'''Bill:''' Oh, no... I don't think that will turn out well. If you'll excuse me, I've got to get our shopping done.
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* AnyLastWords: Cricket asks Bill, "Any last words?" before their showdown begins. Bill's response is, "Fill my hand, you [[PardonMyKlingon son of a Bill.]]"
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* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Bill said this to Joshua after nervously refusing to handshake him; it is later revealed in the climax that he did that on purpose to protect his handshake.
-->'''Bill:''' If you'll excuse me, I've got to get our shopping done.
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* BrickJoke: The old man Alice encounters at the store appeared again in the cafe.



'''Alice:''' [walking away] I don't know you.

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'''Alice:''' [walking away] I don't know you.you.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After struggling to balance her social life with work, Gloria regrets it and decided to put things right.
* StrikeEpisode: After Cricket did all the work in the cafe and dealing with everyone's orders, he decided to go on strike until Gloria can help him.
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* TheDogBitesBack: After Joshua crushed Cricket's hand, the latter was able to return the favor after spending hours on holding onto a rope in the barn.


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* OhCrap:
** Joshua had this the moment Cricket was about to crush his hand with his powerful handshake.
** Tilly and Remy after seeing that Cricket was about to use his handshake to hurt everyone's hand.


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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Good Ol' Joe the moment Joshua wanted to shake his hand.


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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Gloria and her friends from "Clubbed".
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* CrushingHandshake: Joshua is feared for his handshake, so strong it makes grown men cry. After spending hours hanging from the barn ceiling, Cricket's hand becomes strong enough to crush Joshua's hand, and then procedes to do the same to everyone else in town... until he's beaten by Bill, whose handshake is even more powerful than Joshua's ever was.

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* CrushingHandshake: Joshua is feared for his handshake, so strong it makes grown men cry. After spending hours hanging from the barn ceiling, Cricket's hand becomes strong enough to crush Joshua's hand, and then procedes proceeds to do the same to everyone else in town... until he's beaten by Bill, whose handshake is even more powerful than Joshua's ever was.
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* AnAesop:
** You're not defined by just one particular trait.
** True strength doesn't come from showing off, it's about believing in oneself to have it and knowing when to use it.


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* AnAesop:
** Leave the job to someone trustworthy enough to handle it properly, and who is smart enough to know the skills.
** If you can't balance your social life with work, it's best to make room for it by having it someplace else.
** Appreciate your youth when you still have it.
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* CrushingHandshake: Joshua is feared for his handshake, so strong it makes grown men cry. After spending hours hanging from the barn ceiling, Cricket's hand becomes strong enough to crush Joshua's hand, and then procedes to do the same to everyone else in town... until he's beaten by Bill, whose handshake is even more powerful than Joshua's ever was.
* DrunkWithPower: Beating Joshua quickly goes to Cricket's head, and soon starts terrorizing the citizens of Smalton by crushing their hands. It takes Bill and his own crushing handshake to bring Cricket down to size.



* AscendedExtra: Gloria's three friends all get big roles here.

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* AscendedExtra: Gloria's three friends all get big roles here.here.
* FirstGrayHair: Tilly finds a gray hair in her brush and assumes it's hers. She at first tries to act younger than she is, then acting older thinking she should resign herself to being old. In the end, it turns out the gray hair belongs to Dirtbag, who is shedding; then Tilly finds one on Bill's head and tries to pick it off... only to find that it's ''Bill's'', which leaves poor Bill devastated.
* HypocriticalHumor:
-->'''Alice:''' Youngsters just don't listen to their elders.\\
'''Old Man:''' Grandchildren, am I right?\\
'''Alice:''' [walking away] I don't know you.
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* EyeRecall: Cricket does this when he remembers Bill backing out of a handshake with Joshua which simultaneously revealed his secret feat of hand strength.
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* PretentiousPronunciation: Joshua insists his name is pronounced "Josh-wa", and not "Josh-ooh-a".
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* PanUpToTheSkyEnding: The episode closes on a pan up to the sunset sky.
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!! "Handshaken'" contains examples of:

* ShowdownAtHighNoon: Parodied during Cricket's faceoff between Joshua and his friends, and again between he and Bill in the climax.



Unable to juggle her social life with her job at the cafe, Gloria hires her three friends as extra assistance, but things soon take a turn for the worse when their habits get in the way. Meanwhile, Tilly becomes convinced she's getting older and tries to embrace how much youth she has within her.

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Unable to juggle her social life with her job at the cafe, Gloria hires her three friends as extra assistance, but things soon take a turn for the worse when their habits get in the way. Meanwhile, Tilly becomes convinced she's getting older and tries to embrace how much youth she has within her.her.

!! "Coffee Mates" contains examples of:

* AscendedExtra: Gloria's three friends all get big roles here.
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'''Handshaken''''

After Bill's archrival Joshua mocks him for his handshake, Cricket challenges the bully to a handshaking duel and easily overpowers him, and soon all the power goes to his head.

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'''Coffee Mates'''

Unable to juggle her social life with her job at the cafe, Gloria hires her three friends as extra assistance, but things soon take a turn for the worse when their habits get in the way. Meanwhile, Tilly becomes convinced she's getting older and tries to embrace how much youth she has within her.

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