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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peter wants to press the button the Exterminator shows him to activate the fumigation but changes his mind when the man again wants to go out to dinner with him, showing even he has common sense to refuse a request from someone he just met and has no acquaintance with.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peter wants to press the button the Exterminator shows him to activate the fumigation but changes his mind when the man again wants to go out to dinner with him, showing even he has common sense to refuse a request from annoyed by someone he just met and has no acquaintance with.with immediately wanting to hang out with him.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peter wants to press the button the Exterminator shows him to activate the fumigation but changes his mind when the man again wants to go out to dinner with him, annoyed by someone he just met and has no acquaintance with wanting to hang out with him.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peter wants to press the button the Exterminator shows him to activate the fumigation but changes his mind when the man again wants to go out to dinner with him, annoyed by showing even he has common sense to refuse a request from someone he just met and has no acquaintance with wanting to hang out with him.with.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peter wants to press the button the Exterminator shows him to activate the fumigation but changes his mind when the man again wants to go out to dinner with him, annoyed by someone he just met wanting to hang out with him.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peter wants to press the button the Exterminator shows him to activate the fumigation but changes his mind when the man again wants to go out to dinner with him, annoyed by someone he just met and has no acquaintance with wanting to hang out with him.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peter wants to press the button the Exterminator shows him to activate the fumigation but changes his mind when the man again wants to go out to dinner with him, annoyed by someone he just met and has no acquaintance with wanting to hang out with him.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peter wants to press the button the Exterminator shows him to activate the fumigation but changes his mind when the man again wants to go out to dinner with him, annoyed by someone he just met and has no acquaintance with wanting to hang out with him.


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** Peter and Lois didn't bother to tell the Exterminator that their kids and Brian were still inside the house just as he got it fumigated.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peter wants to press the button the Exterminator shows him to activate the fumigation but changes his mind when the man again wants to go out to dinner with him, annoyed by someone he just met wanting to hang out with him.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peter wants to press the button the Exterminator shows him to activate the fumigation but changes his mind when the man again wants to go out to dinner with him, annoyed by someone he just met and has no acquaintance with wanting to hang out with him.
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* ImagineSpot: A lonely Exterminator imagines Peter and Lois taking him out to dinner and Peter taking him to his house while placing his jacket on him when he feels cold.

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* ImagineSpot: A The lonely Exterminator imagines Peter and Lois taking him out to dinner and Peter taking him to his house while placing his jacket on him when he feels cold.
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The exterminator called in to fumigate the Griffins' house is so lonely that he imagines Peter and Lois taking him out to dinner.
* ImagineSpot: A lonely exterminator imagines Peter and Lois taking him out to dinner and Peter taking him to his house while placing his jacket on him when he feels cold.

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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The exterminator Exterminator called in to fumigate the Griffins' house is so lonely that he imagines Peter and Lois taking him out to dinner.
* ImagineSpot: A lonely exterminator Exterminator imagines Peter and Lois taking him out to dinner and Peter taking him to his house while placing his jacket on him when he feels cold.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peter wants to press the button the Exterminator shows him to activate the fumigation but changes his mind when the man again wants to go out to dinner with him, annoyed by someone he just met wanting to hang out with him.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The exterminator called in to fumigate the Griffins' house is so lonely that he imagines Peter and Lois taking him out to dinner.
* ImagineSpot: A lonely exterminator imagines Peter and Lois taking him out to dinner and Peter taking him to his house while placing his jacket on him when he feels cold.
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* MouseWorld: [[ExaggeratedTrope And how!]] -- There is a whole ''ecosystem'' of microscopic animals in the shag carpet of Stewie's room.

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* MouseWorld: [[ExaggeratedTrope And how!]] -- There is a whole ''ecosystem'' ''[[ExaggeratedTrope ecosystem]]'' of microscopic animals in the shag carpet of Stewie's room.



* SeinfeldianConversation: Stewie and Brian get back into the house by climbing the lattice on the wall. Stewie points out that "every [[TheEighties Eighties]] movie has one, so the fat man thought we should have one too". Then, for the whole duration of the climb, the duo discuss ''which'' Eighties movies did actually contain a lattice.

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* SeinfeldianConversation: Stewie and Brian get back into the house by climbing the lattice on the wall. Stewie points out that "every [[TheEighties Eighties]] movie has one, so the fat man thought we should have one too". Then, for the whole duration of the climb, the duo discuss [[DiscussedTrope discuss]] ''which'' Eighties movies did actually contain a lattice.



* YourSizeMayVary: It's a plot point that Brian and Stewie shrink to a slightly smaller size than a rat, yet a later scene (before they get a second dose of ShrinkRay, mind) shows them to be smaller than a ''housefly''.

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* YourSizeMayVary: It's a plot point that Brian and Stewie shrink to a slightly smaller size than a rat, yet a later scene (before (''before'' they get a second dose of ShrinkRay, mind) ShrinkRay) shows them to be smaller than a ''housefly''.
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* ChurchOfHappyology: Lampshaded by Stewie:
-->'''Stewie''': And we won't get in trouble because we didn't use the actual name!
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* EldritchAbomination: The dust mites play with this. To anyone else, wouldn't be this but, to the other micro animals, they are seen as this with the way they behave (killing almost anything in their paths) and their designs seem to invoke this (see [[https://familyguyaddicts.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/fg_facespace_dustmite_default_680194x.png?w=150&h=150 here]]).

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* EldritchAbomination: The dust mites play with this. To anyone else, they wouldn't be this but, to the other micro animals, they are seen as this with the way they behave (killing almost anything in their paths) paths for no reason) and their designs seem to invoke this (see [[https://familyguyaddicts.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/fg_facespace_dustmite_default_680194x.png?w=150&h=150 here]]).
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* EldritchAbomination: The dust mites play with this. To anyone else, wouldn't be this but, to the other micro animals, they are seen as this with the way they behave (killing almost anything in their paths) and their designs seem to invoke this (see [[https://familyguyaddicts.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/fg_facespace_dustmite_default_680194x.png?w=150&h=150 here]])

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* EldritchAbomination: The dust mites play with this. To anyone else, wouldn't be this but, to the other micro animals, they are seen as this with the way they behave (killing almost anything in their paths) and their designs seem to invoke this (see [[https://familyguyaddicts.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/fg_facespace_dustmite_default_680194x.png?w=150&h=150 here]])here]]).
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* ShrinkRay: Much of the hilarity comes from this, as Stewie uses one to get back at Brian for some pranks.

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* ShrinkRay: Much of the hilarity comes from this, as Stewie uses one to get back at Brian for some pranks. Things go wrong, however, when he accidentally shrinks them both down to microscopic size.
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* IncredibleShrinkingMan
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* ArtistLicenseBiology: Being that they actually live and thrive (best) in water, you can't drown tardigrades ("water bears").

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* ArtistLicenseBiology: ArtisticLicenseBiology: Being that they actually live and thrive (best) in water, you can't drown tardigrades ("water bears").

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*ArtistLicenseBiology: Being that they actually live and thrive (best) in water, you can't drown tardigrades ("water bears").
*EldritchAbomination: The dust mites play with this. To anyone else, wouldn't be this but, to the other micro animals, they are seen as this with the way they behave (killing almost anything in their paths) and their designs seem to invoke this (see [[https://familyguyaddicts.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/fg_facespace_dustmite_default_680194x.png?w=150&h=150 here]])



* InventionalWisdom: Stewie is not very good at labelling. When your machine has both a tiny button and a big button labelled "tiny", with opposite functions, mix-ups are hard to avoid (see PoorCommunicationKills below). [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] up to a point, since Stewie didn't expect anyone to use his machine when he built it, and presumably knows what his buttons do.

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* InventionalWisdom: Stewie is not very good at labelling.labeling. When your machine has both a tiny button and a big button labelled "tiny", with opposite functions, mix-ups are hard to avoid (see PoorCommunicationKills below). [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] up to a point, since Stewie didn't expect anyone to use his machine when he built it, and presumably knows what his buttons do.



* ShrinkRay

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* ShrinkRayShrinkRay: Much of the hilarity comes from this, as Stewie uses one to get back at Brian for some pranks.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: The shrink ray has a tiny button and a large button labelled "tiny", as mentioned under InventionalWisdom. Stewie ask Brian to push "the tiny button" to return them to normal size. HilarityEnsues.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: Or shrinks, in this case. The shrink ray has a tiny button and a large button labelled "tiny", as mentioned under InventionalWisdom. Stewie ask Brian to push "the tiny button" to return them to normal size. HilarityEnsues.
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* InventionalWisdom: Stewie is not very good at labelling. When your machine has both a tiny button and a big button labelled "tiny", with opposite functions, mix-ups are hard to avoid (see PoorCommunicationKills below). [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] up to a point, since Stewie didn't expect anyone to use his machine when he built it, and presumably knows what his buttons do.
* MisterExposition: Stewie tells Brian all he (and the audience) needs to know about microscopic animals.


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* PoorCommunicationKills: The shrink ray has a tiny button and a large button labelled "tiny", as mentioned under InventionalWisdom. Stewie ask Brian to push "the tiny button" to return them to normal size. HilarityEnsues.
-->'''Stewie:''' I didn't say 'hit the big button that says "tiny"'! I said 'hit the tiny button'! The one you pressed is going to shrink us down to microscopic size!
-->'''Brian:''' Why did you make the "tiny" button big?!
-->'''Stewie:''' I had to make it big enough to write "tiny" on it!
* SeinfeldianConversation: Stewie and Brian get back into the house by climbing the lattice on the wall. Stewie points out that "every [[TheEighties Eighties]] movie has one, so the fat man thought we should have one too". Then, for the whole duration of the climb, the duo discuss ''which'' Eighties movies did actually contain a lattice.
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* ShrinkRay

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* ShrinkRayMouseWorld: [[ExaggeratedTrope And how!]] -- There is a whole ''ecosystem'' of microscopic animals in the shag carpet of Stewie's room.
* ShoutOut:
** The vacuuming scene is reminiscent of the lawnmower scene in ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids''. Brian and Stewie being thrown in the garbage and having to cross the lawn back is also likely a homage to the movie.
** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade tardigrade]] society in the second half of the episode may owe something to ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' popularizing tardigrades earlier in 2018.
* ShrinkRay
* YourSizeMayVary: It's a plot point that Brian and Stewie shrink to a slightly smaller size than a rat, yet a later scene (before they get a second dose of ShrinkRay, mind) shows them to be smaller than a ''housefly''.
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After Brian humiliates Stewie for his size, Stewie invents a ShrinkRay to get back at him. Soon, however, Stewie has to shrink himself to save Brian from a hungry rat. Things get a turn for the worse when the duo is vacuumed up and thrown in the garbage by an unaware Lois. Things get a ''further'' turn for the worse when Stewie and Brian manage to get back to the ShrinkRay, but press the wrong button and shrink themselves to microscopic size...
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* IncredibleShrinkingMan
* ShrinkRay

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