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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* AdultFear:
** The fear of a friend committing suicide permeates the episode, culminating when they freak out and almost break down the bathroom door when they think Rebecca has attempted suicide again.
** Also, the idea that your parent may have attempted suicide while you were a child, and you didn't even know.
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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: It's revealed that the title sequence of Rebecca watching talent show versions of herself is taken from this episode.



* ThemeTuneCameo: It's revealed that the title sequence of Rebecca watching talent show versions of herself is taken from this episode.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After mentioning "Diagnosis with a capital D" Rebecca and Paula refer it as a D - [[DoubleEntendre and then they're off to the races]].

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* StepfordSmiler: Nathaniel's parents, unsurprisingly. It becomes painfully clear that they have a strict policy of insisting that everything is fine, and absolutely refusing to talk about anything "unpleasant", no matter how serious a problem is. [[spoiler:To the point of spending 20 years refusing to admit that his mother had attempted suicide and required hospitalization.]]

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* StepfordSmiler: Nathaniel's parents, unsurprisingly. It becomes painfully clear that they have a strict policy of insisting that everything is fine, and absolutely refusing to talk about anything "unpleasant", no matter how serious a problem is. [[spoiler:To the point of spending 20 years refusing to admit denying that his mother had attempted suicide and required hospitalization.]]
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* StepfordSmiler: Nathaniel's parents, unsurprisingly. It becomes painfully clear that they have a strict policy of insisting that everything is fine, and absolutely refusing to talk about anything "unpleasant", no matter how serious a problem is. [[spoiler:To the point of spending 20 years refusing to admit that his mother had attempted suicide and required hospitalization.]]

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Josh makes Rebecca's suicide about him, like he did with Greg's drinking problem.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Josh makes Rebecca's suicide about him, like he did with Greg's drinking problem. In the end, though, he overhears Rebecca talking about his irrelevance to the situation, and it seems to get through to him.


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* NotSoStoic: Both Nathaniel and Valencia try to appear as aloof and unaffected as always, but by the end of this episode, both completely break down. Valencia ends up weeping over how scared she is of losing Rebecca, and Nathaniel [[spoiler:finally comes to terms with his mother's past suicide attempt.]]
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: A volunteer worker at a teen suicide hotline tries to bond with Valencia over suicide awareness, but Valencia snottily dismisses her because the hotline doesn't have a hashtag and therefore isn't, in her mind, a ''real'' movement.

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"A Diagnosis" Sung by Rachel Bloom

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\n"A !!"A Diagnosis" Sung [-(sung by Rachel Bloom
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"This Is My Movement" Sung by Gabrielle Ruiz

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"This !!"This Is My Movement" Sung [-(sung by Gabrielle Ruiz
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-->''I can't wait any longer. I've really, really got to SH---ine a light on this issue.''

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-->''I can't wait any longer. I've really, really got to [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion SH---ine a light on this issue.issue]].''



* PreciousPuppies: Josh intends to apologize to Rebecca and make her feel better with a tiny terrier puppy, but he ends up not giving it to her.



* TitleDrop: Rebecca to her friends towards the end [[spoiler: unaware that Josh is right outside]].

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* TitleDrop: Rebecca to her friends towards the end [[spoiler: unaware that Josh is right outside]].outside.
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* ContinuityNod: The actor who catches the diagnosis envelope that Rebecca throws also caught Rebecca's coat in the pilot episode's "West Covina". WordOfGod says [[http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/the-stories-behind-5-crazy-ex-girlfriend-songs.html the songs share tonal similarities]].
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Josh makes Rebecca's suicide about him, like he did with Greg's drinking problem.

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* AdultFear: The fear of a friend committing suicide permeates the episode, culminating when they freak out and almost break down the bathroom door when they think Rebecca has attempted suicide again.

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* AdultFear: AdultFear:
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The fear of a friend committing suicide permeates the episode, culminating when they freak out and almost break down the bathroom door when they think Rebecca has attempted suicide again.again.
** Also, the idea that your parent may have attempted suicide while you were a child, and you didn't even know.
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* CouldSayItBut: When Nathaniel's father refuses to discuss his mother's suicide attempt, he later asks her when they're alone and she tells him how she "made a mistake with her sleeping pills" and went to a place where she learned how to "sleep without pills" in a way that makes it clear that yes, she did attempt suicide.

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* CouldSayItBut: When Nathaniel's father refuses to discuss his mother's suicide attempt, he later asks her when they're alone and she tells him how she "made a mistake with her sleeping pills" and went to a place where she learned how to "sleep without pills" in a way that makes it clear that yes, she did attempt suicide.suicide and was committed for a month while she recovered.
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* AdultFear: The fear of a friend committing suicide permeates the episode, culminating when they freak out and almost break down the bathroom door when they think Rebecca has attempted suicide again.
* AttentionWhore: Subverted. Valencia spends most of the episode vlogging about Rebecca's suicide and cultivating her own fan group, but it's just her way of coping with her friend's suicide attempt.
* BrutalHonesty: When Valencia breaks down crying, she asks Rebecca to promise to never try to kill herself again. Rebecca stops and thinks, then says that no, she can't promise that, because the truth is she is still mentally ill.
* CouldSayItBut: When Nathaniel's father refuses to discuss his mother's suicide attempt, he later asks her when they're alone and she tells him how she "made a mistake with her sleeping pills" and went to a place where she learned how to "sleep without pills" in a way that makes it clear that yes, she did attempt suicide.






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Written by Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna and Ilana Peña, directed by Max Winkler. Original airdate November 17 2017.

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Written by Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna [=McKenna=] and Ilana Peña, directed by Max Winkler. Original airdate November 17 2017.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Supposed to be about the communal power of social media, but switched at the very end:
-->'''Heather''': ''It sounds like you're just talking about poop.''
-->'''Valencia''': ''What? No. I rarely poop. It's been a month.''
* FreudianSlip: Played with and averted (before the switch at the end).
-->'''Valencia''': ''My movement's getting stronger, there's no containing it.''
-->''I can't wait any longer. I've really, really got to SH---ine a light on this issue.''
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* ClimacticMusic: Rebecca imagines finally finding out her correct diagnosis as triumphant. Followed by an AntiClimax, as she has difficulties with accepting it throughout the episode.
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* ThemeTuneCameo: It's revealed that the title sequence of Rebecca watching talent show versions of herself is taken from this episode.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After mentioning "Diagnosis with a capital D" Rebecca and Paula refer it as a D - [[DoubleEntendre and then they're off to the races]].
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3x06 "Josh Is Irrelevant"

Written by Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna and Ilana Peña, directed by Max Winkler. Original airdate November 17 2017.

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"A Diagnosis" Sung by Rachel Bloom

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"This Is My Movement" Sung by Gabrielle Ruiz

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* ToiletHumour: One long extended poop joke.

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