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* AnAesop: Don't make promises you can't keep. Chris never meant to follow up on his campaign promises, or knew most were far out of his reach, but the students actually listened to him, and are livid that absolutely nothing has changed.



* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Michael gets kicked out of his mother's house and crashes at his sister Rochelle's, and doesn't do anything other than sitting around eating, sleeping, and being a nuisance. Julius has to kick him out in nothing but his underwear when he reaches his RageBreakingPoint.

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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Michael gets kicked out of his mother's house and crashes at his sister Rochelle's, and doesn't do anything other than sitting around eating, sleeping, and being a nuisance. Julius has to kick him out in nothing but his underwear when he reaches his RageBreakingPoint.RageBreakingPoint.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: All of those grandiose campaign promises Chris made to get elected were actually taken at face value. The student body is quite pissed that none of it was followed up on, and want Chris impeached.
** All of the promises were very unrealistic anyway, so he had absolutely no chance of making them happen.
*** ..until the end of the episode, when somehow, the school got Cherry Kool-Aid to flow through the water fountains!
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* RageBreakingPoint: Julius can't stand Michael's freeloading off them and wants him gone, but Rochelle protects him until she can get him to leave by promising to make his favorite breakfast food, just for him. So Julius getting home to find Michael still there, and ''eating the food that Rochelle made for him'' , he hits his breaking point and throws Michael out in his underwear.
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* RealityEnsues: All of those grandiose campaign promises Chris made to get elected were actually taken at face value. The student body is quite pissed that none of it was followed up on, and want Chris impeached.

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* RealityEnsues: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: All of those grandiose campaign promises Chris made to get elected were actually taken at face value. The student body is quite pissed that none of it was followed up on, and want Chris impeached.
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* AnAesop: Don't make promises you can't keep. Chris never meant to follow up on his campaign promises, or knew most were far out of his reach, but the students actually listened to him, and are livid that absolutely nothing has changed.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Chris' method of getting elected by lying and exaggerating his promises and the following angry reactions from the student body is directly acknowledged as being reminiscent of actual presidential elections.
* HumiliationConga: Chris spends the episode being called out for his broken promises, slandered by an overzealous paparazzo, framed for stealing from a restaurant, impeached right after a passionate speech, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and had his Cherry Kool-Aid promise happen without his input.]]
* IntrepidReporter: Lisa spends the episode obsessively trying to get Chris impeached to sell a juicy news story.
* RealityEnsues: All of those grandiose campaign promises Chris made to get elected were actually taken at face value. The student body is quite pissed that none of it was followed up on, and want Chris impeached.
** All of the promises were very unrealistic anyway, so he had absolutely no chance of making them happen.
*** ..until the end of the episode, when somehow, the school got Cherry Kool-Aid to flow through the water fountains!
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Michael gets kicked out of his mother's house and crashes at his sister Rochelle's, and doesn't do anything other than sitting around eating, sleeping, and being a nuisance. Julius has to kick him out in nothing but his underwear when he reaches his RageBreakingPoint.

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