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* CanadaEh: Roger flies between Quebec and Albany, and is arrested on Canadian soil.
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** The episode treats ''French'' French and Quebecois French as being perfectly interchangable when in fact, pronounciations and even entire words are completely different.
** All the accents are ''French'' French accents rather than Quebecois accents.
** The police arresting Roger Peralta speak exclusively French while detaining him, even though actual French-Canadian police would speak English while arresting an American, since a bunch of strange people touching and grabbing another person while speaking a language they don't understand is likely to result in a physical altercation.

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** The episode treats ''French'' European French and Quebecois French as being perfectly interchangable when in fact, pronounciations and even entire words are completely different.
** All the accents are ''French'' The policemen in Canada speak with French accents rather than Quebecois accents.
** The police arresting Roger Peralta speak exclusively French while detaining him, even though actual French-Canadian police would speak English while arresting an American, since a bunch of strange random people touching and grabbing another person while speaking a language they don't understand is likely to result in a physical altercation.
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* BigNo: Charles when his goatee is removed by Jake.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Paradoxically, played for drama -- it's framed as a joke, but the point Roger is missing is just further evidence of exactly how little he values his son.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Paradoxically, played for drama -- it's drama--it's framed as a joke, but the point Roger is missing is just further evidence of exactly how little he values his son.



* FauxFluency: Downplayed with the Québécois cop in the airport. His French is correct and his accent is top-notch - but it's a France French accent, not a Québec French accent (two ''very'' different accents).
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Holt is explaining his brain-teaser, the squad's lunches can be seen next to them - including a personal cheese platter (for Gina) and a family-size pizza, ruled down the centre and labelled "H" and "S" (Hitchcock and Scully, natch).

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* FauxFluency: Downplayed with the Québécois cop in the airport. His French is correct and his accent is top-notch - but top-notch--but it's a France French French accent, not a Québec French accent (two ''very'' different accents).
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While Holt is explaining his brain-teaser, the squad's lunches can be seen next to them - including them--including a personal cheese platter (for Gina) board for Gina and a family-size pizza, ruled down the centre and labelled "H" and "S" (Hitchcock "S", for Hitchcock and Scully, natch).Scully.
** When Roger is telling the Oregon story, Jake can be seen in the background mouthing part of the story.
* GodzillaThreshold: The fact that Jake actually asks for Scully's help shows just how desperate Jake is to prove his father's innocence. Holt considers this Jake doing him a favor.



* GodzillaThreshold: The fact that Jake actually asks for Scully's help shows just how desperate Jake is to prove his father's innocence. Holt considers this Jake doing him a favor.



* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: See ComicallyMissingThePoint, above. Jake calls his dad out for being a lousy father and a mediocre pilot. Guess which one he objects to. Played for both laughs and drama, as it shows where his priorities lie. (And possibly that he realizes there's [[NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse no point in making excuses for his parenting]]).

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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: See ComicallyMissingThePoint, above. Jake calls his dad out for being a lousy father and a mediocre pilot. Guess which one he objects to. Played for both laughs and drama, as it shows where his priorities lie. (And possibly that he realizes there's [[NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse no point in making excuses for his parenting]]).



* RiddleForTheAges: The brain-teaser, which not even Holt knows the answer to[[labelnote:If you are curious]] the answer is on the TwelveCoinsPuzzle page[[/labelnote]].
* SelectiveObliviousness: Much as Jake tries to pretend otherwise, it's clear that Roger Peralta is a selfish jerk who is only using his son. It's implied that Jake knows this deep down but doesn't want to to accept it -- until the end, when he finally ends up CallingTheOldManOut.

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* RiddleForTheAges: The brain-teaser, which not even Holt knows the answer to[[labelnote:If you are curious]] the answer is on the TwelveCoinsPuzzle page[[/labelnote]].
* SelectiveObliviousness: Much as Jake tries to pretend otherwise, it's clear that Roger Peralta is a selfish jerk who is only using his son. It's implied that Jake knows this deep down but doesn't want to to accept it -- until it--until the end, when he finally ends up CallingTheOldManOut.



* TheUnreveal: The brain-teaser Holt gives the team is never solved[[labelnote:If you are curious]] the answer is on the TwelveCoinsPuzzle page[[/labelnote]].
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* NoLoveForTheWicked: Gina uses the term asexual as an insult to imply something wrong with Terry and Amy.
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* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: This episode gets a lot wrong regarding Canadian French;
** The episode treats ''French'' French and Quebecois French as being perfectly interchangable when in fact, pronounciations and even entire words are completely different.
** All the accents are ''French'' French accents rather than Quebecois accents.
** The police arresting Roger Peralta speak exclusively French while detaining him, even though actual French-Canadian police would speak English while arresting an American, since a bunch of strange people touching and grabbing another person while speaking a language they don't understand is likely to result in a physical altercation.
** When Roger Peralta's vindictive girlfriend tells the security guards, in French, that Jake and Charles are not real pilots and to escort them out, she is using literal translations of English-to-French words and as a result, she is speaking a broken French sentence that makes no sense in either version of the language.

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* RealityEnsues: Jake and Charles using standard sitcom logic, try to pass as pilots by wearing Roger's uniforms and faking pilot lingo. The bartender at the Commodore Club, who works with actual pilots all day, immediately realizes that their uniforms don't fit and their slang is gibberish, and calls airport security.


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* WrongGenreSavvy: Jake and Charles using standard sitcom logic, try to pass as pilots by wearing Roger's uniforms and faking pilot lingo. The bartender at the Commodore Club, who works with actual pilots all day, immediately realizes that their uniforms don't fit and their slang is gibberish, and calls airport security.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Roger Peralta is a proud womanizer and he's in his current predicament because one of the women he's involved with discovered she wasn't the only one and framed him for drug smuggling in return.

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* YourCheatingHeart: WomanScorned: Roger Peralta is a proud womanizer and he's in his current predicament because one of the women he's involved with discovered she wasn't the only one and framed him for drug smuggling in return.
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* ConfessToALesserCrime: A variant. [[spoiler: Jake manages to prove that his dad wasn't smuggling drugs, by proving that he was having multiple affairs.]]
-->'''Jake:''' [[spoiler: Turns out, his side piece planted the drugs because she found out about his actual girlfriend. And his other side piece... Point is, my dad's a good guy!]]

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* ConfessToALesserCrime: A variant. [[spoiler: Jake manages to prove that his dad wasn't smuggling drugs, by proving that he was having multiple affairs.]]
affairs.
-->'''Jake:''' [[spoiler: Turns out, his side piece planted the drugs because she found out about his actual girlfriend. And his other side piece... Point is, my dad's a good guy!]]guy!



* YourCheatingHeart: Roger Peralta is a proud womanizer [[spoiler: and he's in his current predicament because one of the women he's involved with discovered she wasn't the only one and framed him for drug smuggling in return.]]

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* YourCheatingHeart: Roger Peralta is a proud womanizer [[spoiler: and he's in his current predicament because one of the women he's involved with discovered she wasn't the only one and framed him for drug smuggling in return.]]
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* ConfessToALesserCrime: A variant. [[spoiler: Jake manages to prove that his dad wasn't smuggling drugs, by proving that he was having multiple affairs.
-->'''Jake:''' Turns out, his side piece planted the drugs because she found out about his actual girlfriend. And his other side piece... Point is, my dad's a good guy!]]

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* ConfessToALesserCrime: A variant. [[spoiler: Jake manages to prove that his dad wasn't smuggling drugs, by proving that he was having multiple affairs.
affairs.]]
-->'''Jake:''' [[spoiler: Turns out, his side piece planted the drugs because she found out about his actual girlfriend. And his other side piece... Point is, my dad's a good guy!]]
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* ConfessToALesserCrime: A variant. Jake manages to prove that his dad wasn't smuggling drugs, by proving that he was having multiple affairs.
-->'''Jake:''' Turns out, his side piece planted the drugs because she found out about his actual girlfriend. And his other side piece... Point is, my dad's a good guy!

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* ConfessToALesserCrime: A variant. [[spoiler: Jake manages to prove that his dad wasn't smuggling drugs, by proving that he was having multiple affairs.
-->'''Jake:''' Turns out, his side piece planted the drugs because she found out about his actual girlfriend. And his other side piece... Point is, my dad's a good guy!guy!]]



* TeamDad: Once again, it's reinforced that Jake is coming to view Holt as a father-figure. Lampshaded at one point when Captain Peralta and Captain Holt are standing side-by-side in front of Jake, both in uniform. This prompts Jake to note that he's having a weird moment.

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* TeamDad: Once again, it's reinforced that Jake is coming to view Holt as a father-figure. Lampshaded at one point when Captain Peralta and Captain Holt are standing side-by-side in front of Jake, both in uniform.very similar uniforms. This prompts Jake to note that he's having a weird moment.



* YourCheatingHeart: Roger Peralta is a proud womanizer and he's in his current predicament because one of the women he's involved with discovered she wasn't the only one and framed him for drug smuggling in return.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Roger Peralta is a proud womanizer [[spoiler: and he's in his current predicament because one of the women he's involved with discovered she wasn't the only one and framed him for drug smuggling in return.]]
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* ConfessToALesserCrime: A variant. Jake manages to prove that his dad wasn't smuggling drugs, by proving that he was having multiple affairs.
-->'''Jake:''' Turns out, his side piece planted the drugs because she found out about his actual girlfriend. And his other side piece... Point is, my dad's a good guy!


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* SkewedPriorities: Scully is sent to talk to the Quebecois cops, and comes back with information about where Jake's dad is being taken, and which airport restaurant has the best poutine. He's obviously much more enthusiastic about the latter.

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