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* AmbiguousSyntax:
-->'''Tammy:''' I can't believe you won't go to detention for me.
-->'''Tammy's Dad:''' I already told you, if I could I would, but I can't fit into your clothes, Tammy. You know I want to.
-->'''Tammy:''' You want to go to detention for me or you want to wear my clothes?
-->'''Tammy's Dad:''' Just go.



-->'''Linda''': Today was a good day.
-->'''Bob''': Yeah, I mean, we got screwed, but Jimmy got screwed more.
-->'''Linda''': ''Yeah...''

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-->'''Linda''': -->'''Linda:''' Today was a good day.
-->'''Bob''': -->'''Bob:''' Yeah, I mean, we got screwed, but Jimmy got screwed more.
-->'''Linda''': -->'''Linda:''' ''Yeah...''



* TemptingFate: As soon as Louise compliments Tina walking, she slips and throws a bunch of photos in the ground.

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* TemptingFate: As soon as Louise compliments Tina walking, she slips and throws knocks a bunch of photos in on the ground.floor.
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* WouldRatherSuffer: Tina refuses to let Tammy cow her into taking off her bracelet, saying she'd rather die. Tammy is all too eager to oblige her, screaming at her to die and grappling with her to try and force it off.

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* WouldRatherSuffer: Tina refuses to let Tammy cow her into taking off her bracelet, saying she'd rather die. Tammy is all too eager to oblige her, screaming at her to die and grappling with her Tina to try and force it off.
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* WouldRatherSuffer: Tina refuses to let Tammy cow her into taking off her bracelet, saying she'd rather die. Tammy is all to eager to oblige her, screaming at her to die and grappling with her to try and force it off.

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* WouldRatherSuffer: Tina refuses to let Tammy cow her into taking off her bracelet, saying she'd rather die. Tammy is all to too eager to oblige her, screaming at her to die and grappling with her to try and force it off.
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* WouldRatherSuffer: Tina refuses to let Tammy cow her into taking off her bracelet, saying she'd rather die. Tammy is all to eager to oblige her, screaming at her to die and grappling with her to try and force it off.
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-->'''Tammy:''' Take. It. Off!
-->'''Tina:''' I. Would. Rather. ''Die''.
-->'''Tammy:''' THEN YOU WILL DIE! (attacks Tina)

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Kick The Son Of A Bitch is now a disambiguation page.


* AssholeVictim: Neither Bob nor the audience feel bad when Jimmy Pesto is scammed into buying forty magazine subscriptions.
-->'''Linda''': Today was a good day.
-->'''Bob''': Yeah, I mean, we got screwed, but Jimmy got screwed more.
-->'''Linda''': ''Yeah...''



* KickTheSonOfABitch: Neither Bob nor the audience feel bad when Jimmy Pesto is scammed into buying forty magazine subscriptions.
-->'''Linda''': Today was a good day.
-->'''Bob''': Yeah, I mean, we got screwed, but Jimmy got screwed more.
-->'''Linda''': ''Yeah...''
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*SureLetsGoWithThat: The kids let Frond believe in his assumption that both Tina and Tammy willingly gave up their bracelets to complete Gene's lettuce costume, because the alternative is explaining that they had to forcefully remove Tammy's bracelet.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Frond believes the best way to overcome hostilities over fashion is to have the kids ''compete with each other in a fashion competition.'' Guess he's pretty irony-blind and the only reason the kids participate is to leave detention early.
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*DidntThinkThisThrough: Frond continues with Scared Fabulous even after Principal Spoors makes it clear he wants it shut down, and goes so far as to agree to the kids' ultimatum for letting them free if they beat him, which they do. It's not until Frond sees Principal Spoors pulling up to the school that he realizes Spoors expects to see seven kids in detention and won't be happy to find zero instead.

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!!Tropes:

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!!Tropes:!!The Trope-way Club:



** At the start of the episode, Zeke mirrors Judd Nelson's character on the way he is going to the school, even with his shades.

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** At the start of the episode, Zeke mirrors Judd Nelson's character Bender on the way he is going to the school, even with his shades.



** Mr. Frond is revealed to love fashion competitions. To a lesser degree, it seems that Jimmy Jr. and Zeke also have some interest in fashion, but clearly lack any real knowledge about it.

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** Mr. Frond is revealed to love fashion competitions. To a lesser degree, it seems that Jimmy Jr. and Zeke also have some interest in fashion, but clearly although they seem to lack any real knowledge about it.



* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: The worst Gene and Louise did was try to break up the fight between Tina and Tammy, and Tina didn't even fight back (if anything, Tammy was attacking ''her''), yet because Frond only sees the end of the fight he places all of the kids (Belcher kids included) in detention, not relenting even after Louise explains everything.

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* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: The worst Gene and Louise did was try to break up the fight between Tina and Tammy, and Tina didn't even fight back (if anything, it was less of a fight and more of Tammy was attacking ''her''), her), yet because Frond only sees the end of the fight walks in after everything's escalated he places all of the kids (Belcher kids included) in detention, not relenting even after Louise explains everything.



*ObliviouslyEvil: Since she's a child, Sally doesn't seem to be aware that she's basically being used to run a scam.



*PushoverParents: Tammy's father, to the point that he seriously considers going to detention in place of his daughter and only doesn't because he wouldn't be able to pass as her.



* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Mr. Frond's competition is [[IndyPloy grossly improvised]]: Out of the three judges (the only three teachers in the school at the time), only one seems to understand about fashion, one doesn't care and the other is a bit of a CloudCuckoolander. The materials were whatever they could find in school: respectively, office material, old mats and gym clothes and trash. Frond makes the competition happen anyway.

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* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Mr. Frond's competition is [[IndyPloy grossly improvised]]: Out of the three judges (the only three teachers in the school at the time), only one seems to understand anything about fashion, one doesn't care and the other is a bit of a CloudCuckoolander. The materials were whatever they could find in school: respectively, office material, old mats and gym clothes clothes, and trash. Frond makes the competition happen anyway.
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-->'''Linda''': Today was a good day.
-->'''Bob''': Yeah, I mean, we got screwed, but Jimmy got screwed more.
-->'''Linda''': ''Yeah...''
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** Louise jumps at Tammy to keep her from attacking Tina.

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** During the confrontation that gets them in trouble, Louise jumps at restrains Tammy to keep her from attacking Tina.Tina. Tina thanks Louise with a high-five.

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* PetTheDog: Bob is able to rope Jimmy into buying magazines from Sally, making up for his skepticism about their authenticity.

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* PetTheDog: PetTheDog:
** Louise jumps at Tammy to keep her from attacking Tina.
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Bob is able to rope Jimmy into buying magazines from Sally, making up for his skepticism about their authenticity.
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* FireAlarmDistraction: The students in Saturday detention manage to convince Mr. Frond to let them leave early, so when Principal Spoors shows up to check in on them, Mr. Frond panics and pulls the fire alarm as a distraction while he runs out of the building.
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* CantTakeCriticism: After leaving him numerous messages about his Scared Fabulous program, Frond finally gets a call from Principal Spoors, who says he hates it. Frond asks if he means that ironically.
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*BathroomStallGraffiti: While using the urinal, Mr. Frond spotted a crude stick figure of himself with the caption "Sweater vest? More like sweater mess!", which is what inspired him to do Scared Fabulous.


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*SmallNameBigEgo: Mr. Frond believes Scared Fabulous will go national.
*StrongFamilyResemblance: Jocelyn's mother debuts, and she looks just like her daughter.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Ms. Schnur hates all of the kids' outfits for various reasons: Tammy and Jocelyn's being too flirtatious for the Chinese food deliveryman, Jimmy Jr. and Zeke's being too offensive for suggesting that she is a couch, and the Belchers' because Tina knocked over all the photos of her nephew.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Ms. Schnur hates all of the kids' outfits for various reasons: Tammy and Jocelyn's being too flirtatious for the Chinese food deliveryman, Jimmy Jr. and Zeke's being too offensive for suggesting that she is a couch, and the Belchers' because Tina knocked over all the photos of her nephew.nephew and broke the glass for at least one of them.



* BigNo: Used for comedic value when Tammy takes the stapler out of Tina's hands.

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* BigNo: Used for comedic value effect when Tammy takes the stapler out of Tina's hands.hands, only for there to be a second one right in front of her.



* TheDreaded: Mr. Frond seems to be afraid of angering Principal Spoors. After leaving him messages about his Scared Fabulous program, Frond gets a call from Spoors, who hates the idea and likely ordered for detention to go as usual. He also told Frond to never call him on the weekend ever again, likely threatening to fire him.

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* TheDreaded: Mr. Frond seems to be afraid of angering Principal Spoors. After leaving him messages about his Scared Fabulous program, Frond gets a call from Spoors, who hates the idea and likely ordered for detention to go as usual. He also told Frond to never call him on the weekend ever again, likely threatening to fire him. When Spoors returns to the school at the end of the episode after the kids have been let off early from detention due to winning their bet against Frond, he panics and [[HourglassPlot intentionally trips the fire alarm just like Jocelyn did at the beginning of the episode.]]



* GilliganCut: After Tina reassures Mr. Frond that they all learned something about teamwork from the "Scared Fabulous" program, it cuts to the other kids having to wrestle Tammy into submission so they can use her bracelet for Gene's outfit in the final contest.

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* GilliganCut: After Tina reassures Mr. Frond that they all learned something about teamwork from the "Scared Fabulous" program, program and she's shown giving up her bracelet willingly, it cuts to the other kids having to wrestle Tammy into submission so they can use her bracelet for Gene's outfit in the final contest.
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* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: The worst Gene and Louise did was try to break up the fight between Tina and Tammy, and Tina didn't even fight back (if anything, Tammy was attacking ''her''), yet because Frond only sees the end of the fight he places all of the kids (Belcher kids included) in detention, not relenting even after Louise explains

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* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: The worst Gene and Louise did was try to break up the fight between Tina and Tammy, and Tina didn't even fight back (if anything, Tammy was attacking ''her''), yet because Frond only sees the end of the fight he places all of the kids (Belcher kids included) in detention, not relenting even after Louise explains everything.

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* DisasterDominoes: How all the kids wound up in detention on the same day. Tina and Tammy were fighting over their jelly charm bracelets, Jocelyn and Tina's siblings tried to break up the fight, Zeke thought they were playing "Red Rover" and tackled the girls, Jocelyn panicked and pulled the fire alarm, and Jimmy Jr. got caught up in the moment and tried to use a fire extinguisher as a smoke machine.

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*ContinuityNod: Mr. Branca previously mentioned his status as the ex-president of a foreign country in "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS5E12TheMilliechurianCandidate The Millie-churian Candidate]]".
*DeadpanSnarker: Tina gets a pretty good zinger on Tammy, all with her usual monotone delivery:
-->'''Tina:''' I'm a little disappointed, too. Before I saw it on ''you'', I thought this bracelet was classy.
* DisasterDominoes: How all the kids wound up in detention on the same day. Tina and Tammy were fighting over their jelly charm bracelets, Jocelyn bracelets; Jocelyn, Gene, and Tina's siblings Louise tried to break up the fight, fight; Zeke thought they were playing "Red Rover" and tackled the girls, girls; Jocelyn panicked and pulled the fire alarm, alarm; and Jimmy Jr. got caught up in the moment and tried to use a fire extinguisher as a smoke machine.



*FashionVictimVillain: In-universe; the students find Mr. Frond's sweater vest completely ridiculous.



*{{Irony}}: Tammy can't fart when she wants to, but when it's totally inconvenient for her she's a gas machine. She lampshades it.



*KickTheSonOfABitch: Neither Bob nor the audience feel bad when Jimmy Pesto is scammed into buying forty magazine subscriptions.
*TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: The worst Gene and Louise did was try to break up the fight between Tina and Tammy, and Tina didn't even fight back (if anything, Tammy was attacking ''her''), yet because Frond only sees the end of the fight he places all of the kids (Belcher kids included) in detention, not relenting even after Louise explains



* UnderestimatingBadassery: Mr. Frond doesn't consider letting the Belcher kids work in a trio while the other groups are duos an advantage. They are though, clearly far more clever than the other two teams and are crucial for them to win at the end. Even Tina warns Mr. Frond at the beginning that he's underestimating them.

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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Mr. Frond doesn't consider letting the Belcher kids work in a trio while the other groups are duos an advantage. They are though, clearly far more clever than the other two teams (only losing the first round due to something completely unrelated to their outfit) and are crucial for them the students to win escape at the end. Even Tina warns Mr. Frond at the beginning that he's underestimating them.

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** A parody of the song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" plays during the ending, the tune itself plays on the start of the episode.

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** A parody of the Music/SimpleMinds song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" plays during the ending, the ending. The tune itself plays on during the start of the episode.



* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Tammy and Tina's fight was preceded with this.
-->'''Tammy:''' Take. It. Off!
-->'''Tina:''' I. Would. Rather. Die!
* RedemptionRejection: Tammy had the opportunity to stop being a selfish asshole when she was asked to use her bracelet to complete the outfit the kids were working on, just after Tina took hers off and realized how dumb it was to argue about them. Tammy had to be ''restrained'' to get the bracelet off her wrist.

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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Tammy and Tina's fight was is preceded with this.
-->'''Tammy:''' Take. It. Off!
-->'''Tina:'''
Off!\\
'''Tina:'''
I. Would. Rather. Die!
* RedemptionRejection: Tammy had has the opportunity to stop being a selfish asshole {{jerkass}} when she was she's asked to use her bracelet to complete the outfit the kids were are working on, just after Tina took takes hers off and realized realizes how dumb it was to argue about them. Tammy had has to be ''restrained'' to get the bracelet off her wrist.



* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Mr. Frond's competition was grossly improvised: Out of the three judges(the only three teachers in the school at the time), only one seems to understand about fashion, the other one doesn't care and the other is a bit of a CloudCuckoolander. The materials were whatever they could find in school, respectively, office material, old mats and gym clothes and trash. He made the competition go anyway.

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* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Mr. Frond's competition was is [[IndyPloy grossly improvised: improvised]]: Out of the three judges(the judges (the only three teachers in the school at the time), only one seems to understand about fashion, the other one doesn't care and the other is a bit of a CloudCuckoolander. The materials were whatever they could find in school, school: respectively, office material, old mats and gym clothes and trash. He made Frond makes the competition go anyway.happen anyway.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Mr. Frond doesn't consider letting the Belcher kids work in a trio while the other groups are duos an advantage. They are though, clearly far more clever than the other two teams and are crucial for them to win at the end.

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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Mr. Frond doesn't consider letting the Belcher kids work in a trio while the other groups are duos an advantage. They are though, clearly far more clever than the other two teams and are crucial for them to win at the end. Even Tina warns Mr. Frond at the beginning that he's underestimating them.
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** The ending has the kids making the [[SignatureScene iconic]] dances of the film on the counter.

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** The ending has the kids making the [[SignatureScene iconic]] iconic dances of the film on the counter.
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* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Mr. Frond's competition was grossly improvised: Out of the three judges(the only three teachers in the school at the time), only one seems to understand about fashion, the other one doesn't care and the other is a bit of a CloudCuckoolander. The materials were whatever they could find in school, respectively, office material, old mats and gym clother and trash. He made the competition go anyway.

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* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Mr. Frond's competition was grossly improvised: Out of the three judges(the only three teachers in the school at the time), only one seems to understand about fashion, the other one doesn't care and the other is a bit of a CloudCuckoolander. The materials were whatever they could find in school, respectively, office material, old mats and gym clother clothes and trash. He made the competition go anyway.
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* TakeThatScrappy: This episode confirms that the main students hate Tammy as they're all shown pinning her down to take her friend bracelet away from her.
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After a fight over charm bracelets, Tina, Gene, Louise, Tammy, Jocelyn, Jimmy Jr., and Zeke have to serve detention at school. Mr. Frond makes a deal: participate in a fashion show and the winners will leave early. Meanwhile, Bob tries to convince Linda not to buy magazines from a girl.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Ms. Schnur hates all of the kids' outfits for various reasons: Tammy and Jocelyn's being too flirtatious for the Chinese food deliveryman, Jimmy Jr. and Zeke's being too offensive for suggesting that she is a couch, and the Belchers' because Tina knocked over all the photos of her nephew.
* BatmanGambit: Bob gloats about the magazine subscriptions he's buying because he knows Jimmy Pesto will stop at nothing to outperform him. It works when Jimmy decides to double Bob's offering.
* BigNo: Used for comedic value when Tammy takes the stapler out of Tina's hands.
* TheBreakfastPlot:
** A parody of the song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" plays during the ending, the tune itself plays on the start of the episode.
** At the start of the episode, Zeke mirrors Judd Nelson's character on the way he is going to the school, even with his shades.
** The ending has the kids making the [[SignatureScene iconic]] dances of the film on the counter.
** Although a far more subtle reference, the janitor of the movie was quite the NiceGuy, similarly, in the episode, the janitor Mr. Branca is the one that let the kids free.
** Similar to the movie, the episode ends with everyone getting out of the school together.
* BrutalHonesty: Linda outright tells Sally that she's probably involved in a scam.
* CharacterDevelopment: Tina's finally started to recognize what a bitch Tammy can be and snarks back at her, after repeatedly misunderstanding Tammy's animosity in the past.
* DisasterDominoes: How all the kids wound up in detention on the same day. Tina and Tammy were fighting over their jelly charm bracelets, Jocelyn and Tina's siblings tried to break up the fight, Zeke thought they were playing "Red Rover" and tackled the girls, Jocelyn panicked and pulled the fire alarm, and Jimmy Jr. got caught up in the moment and tried to use a fire extinguisher as a smoke machine.
* TheDreaded: Mr. Frond seems to be afraid of angering Principal Spoors. After leaving him messages about his Scared Fabulous program, Frond gets a call from Spoors, who hates the idea and likely ordered for detention to go as usual. He also told Frond to never call him on the weekend ever again, likely threatening to fire him.
* GilliganCut: After Tina reassures Mr. Frond that they all learned something about teamwork from the "Scared Fabulous" program, it cuts to the other kids having to wrestle Tammy into submission so they can use her bracelet for Gene's outfit in the final contest.
* HiddenDepths:
** Mr. Frond is revealed to love fashion competitions. To a lesser degree, it seems that Jimmy Jr. and Zeke also have some interest in fashion, but clearly lack any real knowledge about it.
** Mr. Branca the janitor was apparently the president of his old country who was ousted in a coup and forced to flee to America.
* IllKillYou: Tammy threatens to kill Tina over the friendship bracelet before lunging at her.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Tammy believes that Tina got the bracelet just to copy her, while Tina actually had no idea Tammy also had the bracelet. Later, when presented with the opportunity to help the entire group in exchange for her bracelet, everybody actually has to wrestle the bracelet off of her.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tina in the end has a comic version of this to the realization of how stupid the bracelets are, and that's even more stupid to have started a fight over it.
* OnlySaneMan: Principal Spoors calls Mr. Frond on the phone to tell him he hates his "Scared Fabulous" program idea and wants detention to go as it should.
* PetTheDog: Bob is able to rope Jimmy into buying magazines from Sally, making up for his skepticism about their authenticity.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Tammy and Tina's fight was preceded with this.
-->'''Tammy:''' Take. It. Off!
-->'''Tina:''' I. Would. Rather. Die!
* RedemptionRejection: Tammy had the opportunity to stop being a selfish asshole when she was asked to use her bracelet to complete the outfit the kids were working on, just after Tina took hers off and realized how dumb it was to argue about them. Tammy had to be ''restrained'' to get the bracelet off her wrist.
* TakeThatScrappy: This episode confirms that the main students hate Tammy as they're all shown pinning her down to take her friend bracelet away from her.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Tammy and Tina need to team up in the end, but they keep bickering.
* TemptingFate: As soon as Louise compliments Tina walking, she slips and throws a bunch of photos in the ground.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Mr. Frond doesn't consider letting the Belcher kids work in a trio while the other groups are duos an advantage. They are though, clearly far more clever than the other two teams and are crucial for them to win at the end.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Mr. Frond's competition was grossly improvised: Out of the three judges(the only three teachers in the school at the time), only one seems to understand about fashion, the other one doesn't care and the other is a bit of a CloudCuckoolander. The materials were whatever they could find in school, respectively, office material, old mats and gym clother and trash. He made the competition go anyway.

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