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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lacey claims to be a law-abiding citizen that's willing to just pay for her mistakes in an attempt to get Brent and Karen to stop trying to trick each other with petty infractions, only to regret it when it turns out she's broken an old law about serving fish on days other than Friday that has the punishment of jailtime.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lacey claims to be a law-abiding citizen that's willing to just pay for her mistakes in an attempt to get Brent and Karen to stop trying to trick each other with petty infractions, only and to regret it prove her point, she is even willing to go to the precinct when it turns out she's broken an old law about serving fish on days other than Friday Friday. Then she learns that has she'll have to be held in a cell for a minimum of seven days while just waiting for a judge to arrive, let alone what the actual punishment of jailtime.would be afterwards.
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** Some of the antiquated lies have extreme penalties to them, such as serving fish for non-religious purposes leading to a week of incarceration, or how Brent and Karen's feud got Lacey involved and nearly incarcerated ends up with Brent in a stockade for a full 24 hours because he's "a man of business that misled a maiden".

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** Some of the antiquated lies laws have extreme penalties to them, such as serving fish for non-religious purposes leading to a week of incarceration, or how Brent and Karen's feud got Lacey involved and nearly incarcerated ends up with Brent in a stockade for a full 24 hours because he's "a man of business that misled a maiden".

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* BlatantLies: After Brent's MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, he comments to Karen that Lacey's crocodile tears fooled them both. Karen, who'd already had her moment when Lacey threatened to call a lawyer, states unconvincingly that Lacey really got them both and she "wasn't in on it at all".



* DisproportionateRetribution: The episode starts with Karen upset at Brent for a rock that got stuck in the police car's tire from his unpaved road. When Brent removes the rock with a folding knife and charges her $5 for it, she confiscates the blade and gives him a $60 ticket for possessing a folding weapon. Davis calls Karen out on this soon after, though he admits Brent was also a jerk.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: DisproportionateRetribution:
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The episode starts with Karen upset at Brent for a rock that got stuck in the police car's tire from his unpaved road. When Brent removes the rock with a folding knife and charges her $5 for it, she confiscates the blade and gives him a $60 ticket for possessing a folding weapon. Davis calls Karen out on this soon after, though he admits states Brent was also a jerk.jerk in order to try and calm her down.
** Some of the antiquated lies have extreme penalties to them, such as serving fish for non-religious purposes leading to a week of incarceration, or how Brent and Karen's feud got Lacey involved and nearly incarcerated ends up with Brent in a stockade for a full 24 hours because he's "a man of business that misled a maiden".



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Karen and Brent realize that they may have gone too far when Lacey has a breakdown and claims she might need to sell the Ruby to pay legal fees, though it soon turns out she was exaggerating to guilt trip them.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Karen and starts to panic about locking up Lacey when she threatens to actually call a lawyer over it. Later, Brent realize realizes that they may have gone too far when Lacey has a breakdown and claims she might need to sell the Ruby to pay legal fees, though it soon turns out she was exaggerating to guilt trip them.him and Karen was in on it.


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* ProducePelting: After being put in a stockade for "misleading a maiden", a hungry Brent mentions how this usually goes hand-in-hand with StockPunishment to convince Lacey to throw a chili dog at his face so he can eat it.


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* StockPunishment: As punishment for getting Lacey put in jail, Brent ends up in an actual stockade kept at the police station.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the A Plot, Karen's surprised that she was able to get off scot-free after everything that's happened, only to immediately end up with another annoying rock stuck in the police car's tire.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the A Plot, [[TemptingFate Karen's surprised that she was able to get off scot-free after everything that's happened, happened]], only to immediately end up with another annoying rock stuck in the police car's tire.

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* BrickJoke: In addition to [[LiteralMetaphor the truth about Brent's record]], early in the episode Karen brings up how the police station has a lot of old-fashioned equipment from when the antiquated laws were first established; at the end, for being "a man of business that knowingly tricked a maiden", Brent's put into a stockade.



* ExactWords: In exchange for keeping Oscar busy all day, Wanda asks Emma about Brent's supposed "police record", and Emma promises to admit everything she knows about it. At the end of the episode, Emma admits that she knows absolutely nothing...though fortunately for Wanda, Brent willingly explains that he was talking about a ''vinyl'' record of Music/ThePolice.

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* ExactWords: ExactWords:
** When Emma notices that [[GoodLuckCharm Oscar's quarter]] has gone missing, she calls Hank and asks him to please tell her that he hasn't exchanged it yet. So Hank says he hasn't. Then Emma asks for it back, and he admits he ''did'' exchange it, but said he didn't because Emma asked him to say that.
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In exchange for keeping Oscar busy all day, Wanda asks Emma about Brent's supposed "police record", and Emma promises to admit everything she knows about it. At the end of the episode, Emma admits that she knows absolutely nothing...though fortunately for Wanda, Brent willingly explains that he was talking about a ''vinyl'' record of Music/ThePolice.Music/ThePolice.
* GetRichQuickScheme: Hank has recently started a business as a "money manager", offering to take people's spare change to local businesses and exchange them for bills, charging a 10% cut for his service.



* ShoutOut: When Davis becomes disillusioned with the law as a result of Karen and Brent's feud, he starts letting people jaywalk and litter right in front of him, and someone immediately announces that Film/ThePurge has begun.

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* ShoutOut: RageBreakingPoint: When Davis is feeling disillusioned, he permits littering, jaywalking, and even someone spitting their gum onto a window...but after he and the elderly Mavis are nearly run over by a speeding car, and he catches Zeke [[ToiletHumor publicly urinating]], he's so fed up that he rounds up all the petty offenders and puts them in jail.
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** While trying to keep Oscar distracted, Wanda asks him to film a suspected shoplifter and gives him a flashlight, saying it's a Film/JamesBond-style secret camera.
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When Davis becomes disillusioned with the law as a result of Karen and Brent's feud, he starts letting people jaywalk and litter right in front of him, and someone immediately announces that Film/ThePurge has begun.
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* ExactWords: In exchange for keeping Oscar busy all day, Wanda asks Emma about Brent's supposed "police record", and Emma promises to admit everything she knows about it. At the end of the episode, Emma admits that she knows absolutely nothing...though fortunately for Wanda, Brent willingly explains that he was talking about a ''vinyl'' record of Music/ThePolice.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lacey claims to be a law-abiding citizen that's willing to just pay for her mistakes in an attempt to get Brent and Karen to stop trying to trick each other with petty infractions, only to regret it when it turns out an old law involving serving fish on Fridays has the punishment of jailtime.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lacey claims to be a law-abiding citizen that's willing to just pay for her mistakes in an attempt to get Brent and Karen to stop trying to trick each other with petty infractions, only to regret it when it turns out she's broken an old law involving about serving fish on Fridays days other than Friday that has the punishment of jailtime.



* LiteralMetaphor: Brent is rather upset at the $60 ticket he receives at the episode's start, claiming that he's already been in trouble for having a police record, to Wanda's confusion. [[BrickJoke At the end of the episode]], it turns out that he just has a vinyl music record he borrowed from the officers and never returned.

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* LiteralMetaphor: Brent is rather upset at the $60 ticket he receives at the episode's start, claiming that he's already been in trouble for having a concerned about his police record, to Wanda's confusion. [[BrickJoke At the end of the episode]], it turns out that he just has a vinyl music record he of Music/ThePolice that the officers had borrowed from him, and he didn't want Karen holding it hostage if he didn't pay the officers and never returned.fine.

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'''A Plot:''' Brent and Karen go to war over the antiquated laws in Dog River. This leads to Lacey going to jail, and Davis losing his passion.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Kinda tough to spread mustard with this, but nothing illegal about it!"]]

'''A Plot:''' Brent and Karen go to war over the antiquated laws in Dog River. This leads to Lacey going to jail, and Davis losing his passion.
passion for justice.



* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lacey claims to be a law-abiding citizen that's willing to fess up to her mistakes in an attempt to get Brent and Karen to stop trying to trick each other with petty infractions, only to regret it when it turns out an old law involving serving fish on Fridays has the punishment of jailtime.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The first "antiquated law" Brent tries to use to get revenge on Karen is that woman are only allowed to wear dresses in public, not pants.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The episode starts with Karen upset at Brent for a rock that got stuck in the police car's tire from his unpaved road. When Brent removes the rock with a folding knife and charges her $5 for it, she confiscates the blade and gives him a $60 ticket for possessing a folding weapon. Davis calls Karen out on this soon after, though he admits they were both jerks.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lacey claims to be a law-abiding citizen that's willing to fess up to just pay for her mistakes in an attempt to get Brent and Karen to stop trying to trick each other with petty infractions, only to regret it when it turns out an old law involving serving fish on Fridays has the punishment of jailtime.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The first "antiquated law" Brent tries to use to get revenge on Karen is that woman women are only allowed to wear dresses in public, not pants.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The episode starts with Karen upset at Brent for a rock that got stuck in the police car's tire from his unpaved road. When Brent removes the rock with a folding knife and charges her $5 for it, she confiscates the blade and gives him a $60 ticket for possessing a folding weapon. Davis calls Karen out on this soon after, though he admits they were both jerks.Brent was also a jerk.



* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the A Plot, Karen's surprised that she was able to get off scott-free after everything that's happened, only to immediately end up with another annoying rock stuck in the police car's tire.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the A Plot, Karen's surprised that she was able to get off scott-free scot-free after everything that's happened, only to immediately end up with another annoying rock stuck in the police car's tire.



* LoopholeAbuse: After having his folding blade confiscated, Brent learns that REGULAR blades are legal, and decides to show off a machete and a sword.

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* LoopholeAbuse: After having his folding blade confiscated, Brent learns that REGULAR blades are legal, and decides to show off a machete and a sword.sword just because he can.
* ManChild: When Brent is removing the rock from the police car's tire, Wanda notes that his ComicBook/{{Spiderman}} underwear is riding up, which she didn't know came in ages "Bald and Up". [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Brent's quick to point out]] that he's just bald''ing''.



* TimeSkip: TheTag has Brent wonder if people from the future will think that modern laws are as weird as he thinks Dog River's old laws are now. It then flash-forwards thousands of years to Brent, Wanda, and Hank lookalikes musing how absurd it was that murder used to be illegal, followed by Wanda zapping Hank into a pile of ash and Brent instantly reintegrating him.

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* TimeSkip: TheTag has Brent wonder if people from the future will think that modern laws are as weird as he thinks Dog River's old laws are now. It then flash-forwards thousands of years to Brent, Wanda, and Hank lookalikes musing how absurd it was that murder used to be illegal, followed by Wanda [[ReducedToDust zapping Hank into a pile of ash ash]] with a DisintegratorRay and Brent [[DeathIsCheap instantly reintegrating him.him]].
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* LiteralMetaphor: Brent is rather upset at the $60 ticket he receives at the episode's start, claiming that he's already been in trouble for having a police record, to Wanda's confusion. [[BrickJoke At the end of the episode]], it turns out that he just has a vinyl music record he borrowed from the officers and never returned.

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* ShoutOut: When Davis becomes disillusioned with the law as a result of Karen and Brent's feud, he starts letting people jaywalk and litter right in front of him, and someone immediately announces that Film/ThePurge has begun

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* ShoutOut: When Davis becomes disillusioned with the law as a result of Karen and Brent's feud, he starts letting people jaywalk and litter right in front of him, and someone immediately announces that Film/ThePurge has begunbegun.
* TimeSkip: TheTag has Brent wonder if people from the future will think that modern laws are as weird as he thinks Dog River's old laws are now. It then flash-forwards thousands of years to Brent, Wanda, and Hank lookalikes musing how absurd it was that murder used to be illegal, followed by Wanda zapping Hank into a pile of ash and Brent instantly reintegrating him.

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* GoodLuckCharm: Oscar's quarter, which Hank doesn't realize the importance of when he decides to take it as a "money manager".

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* GoodLuckCharm: Oscar's quarter, which Hank doesn't realize the importance of when he decides to take it as a "money manager". When it's finally found at Corner Gas, Oscar admits the only reason he thinks it's valuable is that it was minted with actual silver, making it worth roughly three dollars.
* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the A Plot, Karen's surprised that she was able to get off scott-free after everything that's happened, only to immediately end up with another annoying rock stuck in the police car's tire.



* ShoutOut: When Davis becomes disillusioned with the law as a result of Karen and Brent's feud, he starts letting people jaywalk and litter right in front of him, and someone immediately announces that ThePurge has begun

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* ShoutOut: When Davis becomes disillusioned with the law as a result of Karen and Brent's feud, he starts letting people jaywalk and litter right in front of him, and someone immediately announces that ThePurge Film/ThePurge has begun
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'''A Plot:''' Brent and Karen go to war over the antiquated laws in Dog River. This leads to Lacey going to jail, and Davis losing his passion.

'''B Plot:''' Hank and Emma track down Oscar's prize quarter. Wanda is asked to distract Oscar during their search.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lacey claims to be a law-abiding citizen that's willing to fess up to her mistakes in an attempt to get Brent and Karen to stop trying to trick each other with petty infractions, only to regret it when it turns out an old law involving serving fish on Fridays has the punishment of jailtime.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The first "antiquated law" Brent tries to use to get revenge on Karen is that woman are only allowed to wear dresses in public, not pants.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The episode starts with Karen upset at Brent for a rock that got stuck in the police car's tire from his unpaved road. When Brent removes the rock with a folding knife and charges her $5 for it, she confiscates the blade and gives him a $60 ticket for possessing a folding weapon. Davis calls Karen out on this soon after, though he admits they were both jerks.
* GoodLuckCharm: Oscar's quarter, which Hank doesn't realize the importance of when he decides to take it as a "money manager".
* LoopholeAbuse: After having his folding blade confiscated, Brent learns that REGULAR blades are legal, and decides to show off a machete and a sword.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Karen and Brent realize that they may have gone too far when Lacey has a breakdown and claims she might need to sell the Ruby to pay legal fees, though it soon turns out she was exaggerating to guilt trip them.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: While looking for Oscar's quarter, Emma and Hank look through a charity coin bin before deciding to check the bar next, which a bystander mistakes as them robbing donations to buy booze.
* ShoutOut: When Davis becomes disillusioned with the law as a result of Karen and Brent's feud, he starts letting people jaywalk and litter right in front of him, and someone immediately announces that ThePurge has begun
* ToiletHumor: Zeke ends up getting Davis passionate about the law again when he's caught publicly pissing against a wall, which Davis finds absolutely disgusting.

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