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* KickTheSonOfABitch: During the talent show, Chucky reveals that Lexy is not only cheating on Junior, but she's also botox curious, looks at ''[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]]'' porn and likes the smell of her own farts. After humiliating Jake and trying to weasel her way out of trouble, that AlphaBitch certainly had it coming.
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* CondescendingCompassion: After hearing about Jake's money troubles, Lexy starts a [=GoFundMe=] page for him, claiming it's to help, when it's really just to humiliate him.

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* CatScare: Aunt Bree is scared by Jake's cat when she goes up to Jake's room to talk on the phone.



** Chucky's method of electrocuting a victim is similar to how he disposed of Jill in ''Curse''

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** Chucky's method of electrocuting a victim is similar to how he disposed of Jill in ''Curse''''Curse''.
* CatScare: Aunt Bree is scared by Jake's cat when she goes up to Jake's room to talk on the phone.
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After purchasing a vintage Good Guy doll at a local yard sale, death and chaos begin to happen around teen artist Jake Wheeler’s hometown, Hackensack.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: During the talent show, Chucky reveals that Lexy is not only cheating on Junior, but she looks at [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]] porn and likes the smell of her own farts. After humiliating Jake and trying to weasel her way out of trouble, that AlphaBitch certainly had it coming.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: During the talent show, Chucky reveals that Lexy is not only cheating on Junior, but she she's also botox curious, looks at [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]] ''[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]]'' porn and likes the smell of her own farts. After humiliating Jake and trying to weasel her way out of trouble, that AlphaBitch certainly had it coming.
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* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: Chucky says this during the talent show after saying that he and Jake are friends and nothing more.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Several actors from prior ''Chucky'' movies appear, playing new characters, such as Michael Therriault, who played Dr. Foley in ''Cult'' but now plays Lexy's father.
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When 14-year-old budding artist Jake Wheeler buys a vintage Good Guy doll at a yard sale, intending to use it in his latest sculpture, his young life will change forever--for better and worse.
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YMMV trope. Also way too minor to be a Big Lipped Alligator Moment (it's easy to believe that Jake could be on medication).


* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Jake's father reminds him to take his pill for some unspecified reason, which never comes up again.

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* HateSink: Lexy behavior doesn't do her any favors.

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* HateSink: Lexy Lexy's behavior doesn't do her any favors. favors.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Jake's father pressures him into dating girls despite Jake and pretty much everyone else being very much aware that he's gay.

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* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: Chucky humiliates Lexy at the talent show by revealing her embarrassing secrets to the audience.



* InnocentlyInsensitive: Devon invites Jake on his podcast to talk about bullying. However, Jake ends up taking this the wrong way and snaps at Devon for wanting him to be a poster boy for bullied victims.



* KickTheSonOfABitch: During the talent show, Chucky reveals that Lexy is not only cheating on Junior, but she looks at [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]] porn and likes the smell of her own farts. After humiliating Jake and trying to weasel her way out of trouble, that AlphaBitch certainly had it coming.
* OhCrap: Jake when he realizes Chucky has been talking (and moving) without batteries.



* YouLookFamiliar: Several actors from prior ''Chucky'' movies appear, playing new characters, such as Michael Therriault, who played Dr. Foley in ''Cult'' but now plays Lexy's father.

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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Chucky projectile vomits the whiskey he drank in order to electrocute Luke.
* YouLookFamiliar: Several actors from prior ''Chucky'' movies appear, playing new characters, such as Michael Therriault, who played Dr. Foley in ''Cult'' but now plays Lexy's father.father.
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: After Luke punches Jake and threatens to kill him for saying that he's gay, Jake angrily says, "It should’ve been ''you'' inside that car instead of Mom."
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Due to everyone thinking it's AllPartOfTheShow, the audience finds Chucky's invoking his LaughablyEvil side on stage at the talent show hilarious, even while he insults Jake's classmates and family.
* AllPartOfTheShow: Everyone thinks Chucky's sentience is part of Jake's ventriloquist act at the school's talent show.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Chucky assumes Jake is talking about his cat when in reality he is talking about his father, whom Chucky has just murdered. That being said, it may have been just a cruel quip on Chucky's part.

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* CatScare: Aunt Bree is scared by Jake's cat when she goes up to Jake's room to talk on the phone.



*** Jake trying to force Chucky to talk is similar to Karen's.

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*** ** Jake Googles Chucky and Good Guy doll-related incidents online and finds reference to Andy Barclay, Chucky's original owner, and several murders from the first, second, and third movies in the franchise.
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Jake trying to force Chucky to talk is similar to Karen's.what Karen did in the first movie, even using the same words.



* FantasyForbiddingFather: Lucas doesn't see any reason for

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* EarlyBirdCameo: Tiffany appears at the yard sale in the beginning. She's the woman dressed in all red.
* EvilDetectingDog: Cat in this case. Binx, Jake's pet cat, immediately knows something's off about Chucky.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Lucas doesn't see any reason for Jake to become an artist since he views it as no sensible way to make a living. But it is heavily implied that he associates it with Jake being gay, which he disapproves of/is in denial about.


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* KickTheDog: Chucky kills Jake's cat just because it kept bothering him.
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Closed Note tags on IT trope.


* InsistentTerminology: Jake isn't into retro, he's into vintage. There's a ten dollar price difference.[[note]]"Vintage" refers to an item from the past, while "retro" refers to an item made to replicate the past.[[/note]

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* InsistentTerminology: Jake isn't into retro, he's into vintage. There's a ten dollar price difference.[[note]]"Vintage" refers to an item from the past, while "retro" refers to an item made to replicate the past.[[/note][[/note]]
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When 14-year-old budding artist Jake Wheeler buys a vintage Good Guy doll at a yard sale, intending to use it in his latest sculpture, his young life will change forever--for better and worse.

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!!Tropes in this episode include:
* AssholeVictim:
** Chucky's first kill in this episode is Lucas, but he spends it a homophobic, alcoholic mess who physically and verbally abuses Jake.
** Chucky publicly embarrasses Lexy onstage, spilling her secrets and watching everybody laugh at her, after she spends the entire episode bullying Jake.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Jake's father reminds him to take his pill for some unspecified reason, which never comes up again.
* CallBack:
** A man on the phone, presumably Andy, advises Jake to check if the Chucky doll still has his batteries. This is how Karen was able to deduce his existence.
*** Jake trying to force Chucky to talk is similar to Karen's.
** Chucky's method of electrocuting a victim is similar to how he disposed of Jill in ''Curse''
* DeathByIrony: Chucky exploits this, downing a bottle of whiskey and then puking it onto Lucas, electrocuting him. It leads the police to assume he simply got drunk and didn't know what he was doing, ie a death by misadventure.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Lucas doesn't see any reason for
* HateSink: Lexy behavior doesn't do her any favors.
* InsistentTerminology: Jake isn't into retro, he's into vintage. There's a ten dollar price difference.[[note]]"Vintage" refers to an item from the past, while "retro" refers to an item made to replicate the past.[[/note]
* TimeSkip: WordOfGod states this episode takes place two weeks after ''Film/CultOfChucky''.
* TitleDrop: What the officers decide killed Lucas.
* YouLookFamiliar: Several actors from prior ''Chucky'' movies appear, playing new characters, such as Michael Therriault, who played Dr. Foley in ''Cult'' but now plays Lexy's father.

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