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* ArcWords: Discussed by Rabbi and the man putting up the billboard. When it finally reads "the future is now," both men are confused as to what it refers to.

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* ArcWords: Discussed by Rabbi and the man putting up the billboard.UsefulNotes/{{billboard}}. When it finally reads "the future is now," both men are confused as to what it refers to.
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* OnceASeason: Shares similarities with's third series episode [[Recap/FargoS03E03TheLawOfNonContradiction Law Of Non Contradiction]]. Both episodes deviates notoriously from the season's and overall series's norm, it presents a auto-conclusive story that almost can be enjoyed out of context and serves as DayInTheLimelight for specific characters and both are divisive among the audience (while being critically acclaimed). Altough Series 1 and 2 doesn't strictly have an episode like this, it's has become a very common feature for the show to employ a plurality of narrative and audiovisual devices for the purpose of a more enriched storytelling. Such as the third person narrator on Series Two's [[Recap/FargoS02E09TheCastle The Castle]] that relates the episode as some kind of historical tale.

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* OnceASeason: Shares similarities with's third series episode [[Recap/FargoS03E03TheLawOfNonContradiction Law Of Non Contradiction]]. Both episodes deviates notoriously from the season's and overall series's norm, it presents a auto-conclusive story that almost can be enjoyed out of context and serves as DayInTheLimelight for specific characters and both are divisive among the audience (while ([[CriticalDissonance while being critically acclaimed).acclaimed]]). Altough Series 1 and 2 doesn't strictly have an episode like this, it's has become a very common feature for the show to employ a plurality of narrative and audiovisual devices for the purpose of a more enriched storytelling. Such as the third person narrator on Series Two's [[Recap/FargoS02E09TheCastle The Castle]] that relates the episode as some kind of historical tale.
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* OnceASeason: Shares similarities with's third series episode [[Recap/FargoS03E03TheLawOfNonContradiction Law Of Non Contradiction]]. Both episodes deviates notoriously from the season's and overall series's norm, it presents a auto-conclusive story that almost can be enjoyed out of context and serves as DayInTheLimelight for specific characters and both are divisive among the audience (while being critically acclaimed). Altough Series 1 and 2 doesn't strictly have an episode like this, it's has become a very common feature for the show to deliver at least one episode that deliberately employs different narrative and audiovisual devices.

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* OnceASeason: Shares similarities with's third series episode [[Recap/FargoS03E03TheLawOfNonContradiction Law Of Non Contradiction]]. Both episodes deviates notoriously from the season's and overall series's norm, it presents a auto-conclusive story that almost can be enjoyed out of context and serves as DayInTheLimelight for specific characters and both are divisive among the audience (while being critically acclaimed). Altough Series 1 and 2 doesn't strictly have an episode like this, it's has become a very common feature for the show to deliver at least one episode that deliberately employs different employ a plurality of narrative and audiovisual devices.devices for the purpose of a more enriched storytelling. Such as the third person narrator on Series Two's [[Recap/FargoS02E09TheCastle The Castle]] that relates the episode as some kind of historical tale.
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* OnceASeason: Shares similarities with's third series episode [[Recap/FargoS03E03TheLawOfNonContradiction Law Of Non Contradiction]].. Both episodes deviates notoriously from the season's and overall series's norm, it presents a auto-conclusive story that almost can be enjoyed out of context and serves as DayInTheLimelight for specific characters and both are divisive among the audience (while being critically acclaimed). Altough Series 1 and 2 doesn't strictly have an episode like this, it's very common, or not rare at least, on the show to deliver at least one episode that deliberately employs different narrative and audiovisual devices.

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* OnceASeason: Shares similarities with's third series episode [[Recap/FargoS03E03TheLawOfNonContradiction Law Of Non Contradiction]]..Contradiction]]. Both episodes deviates notoriously from the season's and overall series's norm, it presents a auto-conclusive story that almost can be enjoyed out of context and serves as DayInTheLimelight for specific characters and both are divisive among the audience (while being critically acclaimed). Altough Series 1 and 2 doesn't strictly have an episode like this, it's has become a very common, or not rare at least, on common feature for the show to deliver at least one episode that deliberately employs different narrative and audiovisual devices.
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* OnceASeason: Shares similarities with's third series episode [[Recap/FargoS03E03TheLawOfNonContradiction Law Of Non Contradiction]].. Both episodes deviates notoriously from the season's and overall series's norm, it presents a auto-conclusive story that almost can be enjoyed out of context and serves as DayInTheLimelight for specific characters and both are divisive among the audience (while being critically acclaimed). Altough Series 1 and 2 doesn't strictly have an episode like this, it's very common, or not rare at least, on the show to deliver at least one episode that deliberately employs different narrative and audiovisual devices.
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* RunningGag: Rabbi's unfounded irritation at the billboard.
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* WholePlotReference: [[spoiler:Film/TheWizardOfOz]] but backwards.

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* WholePlotReference: [[spoiler:Film/TheWizardOfOz]] but backwards. Is more evident once Satchel opens the door of his room after realizing that [[spoiler:Rabbi won't come back]] and the episode switchs from black and white to color.
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* WholePlotReference: [[spoiler:Film/TheWizardOfOz]]

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* WholePlotReference: [[spoiler:Film/TheWizardOfOz]][[spoiler:Film/TheWizardOfOz]] but backwards.
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** The classic folk tale Literature/GoldiLocks
* WholePlotReference: [[spoiler:Film/TheWizardOfOz]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A lot of stuff in this episode, in classic ''Fargo'' fashion, but mostly the [[spoiler: scene by the end of the episode where Satchel confronts a seriously injured man played by the same actor of long-dead Yiddles Milligan]]

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A lot of stuff in this episode, in classic ''Fargo'' fashion, but mostly the [[spoiler: scene [[spoiler:scene by the end of the episode where Satchel confronts a seriously injured man man, next to a what seems to be a MadScientist, played by the same actor of long-dead of Yiddles Milligan]]Milligan, Rabbi's father, who "cursed" him long while ago, just a moment before his death at the hands of his own son.]]
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** MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A lot of stuff in this episode, in classic ''Fargo'' fashion, but mostly the [[spoiler: scene by the end of the episode where Satchel confronts a seriously injured man played by the same actor of long-dead Yiddles Milligan]]

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** * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A lot of stuff in this episode, in classic ''Fargo'' fashion, but mostly the [[spoiler: scene by the end of the episode where Satchel confronts a seriously injured man played by the same actor of long-dead Yiddles Milligan]]
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** MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A lot of stuff in this episode, in classic ''Fargo'' fashion, but mostly the [[spoiler: scene by the end of the episode where Satchel confronts a seriously injured man played by the same actor of long-dead Yiddles Milligan]]
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Rabbi decides to buy Satchel a cupcake for his birthday, a decision that [[spoiler:leads him into the path of Constant Calamita, Omie Sparkman, and a tornado that swallows all three of them up]].
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Rabbi and Satchel lay low at an eccentric hotel in Liberal, Kansas as Calamita continues his pursuit.
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:It is presumed that Rabbi and Calamita were killed in the storm, but NeverFoundTheBody leaves their fates ambiguous]].
* ArcWords: Discussed by Rabbi and the man putting up the billboard. When it finally reads "the future is now," both men are confused as to what it refers to.
* CanineCompanion: Satchel ends up taking in a dog he finds in the hotel dresser.
* ADayInTheLimelight[=/=]ADeathInTheLimelight: This episode takes place far away from the gang war and follows Rabbi and Satchel as they stay in a strange hotel. [[spoiler:By the end, Rabbi has been sucked into a violent vortex, presumed dead]].
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The episode plays out in black and white up until the end after [[spoiler:Satchel is left abandoned at the hotel]].
* ADogNamedDog: {{Subverted}}. The dog Satchel finds is named Rabbit.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: This episode is shown through a framing device in the wreckage of a building. The ending reveals that this building was [[spoiler:ravaged by a tornado]].
* ForgottenBirthday: Satchel is disappointed that Rabbi won't let him keep his new dog because he wanted ''just one'' thing for his birthday. Rabbi is flustered to learn that it's Satchel's birthday at all.
* FramingDevice: The "History of True Crime in the Midwest" book makes a return at the episode's beginning, this time without a narrator.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:See AmbiguousSituation above]].
* ShoutOut: The vortex near the end is an inversion of the vortex at the end of [[Creator/CoenBrothers the Coen brothers']] ''Film/ASeriousMan''. In that movie, [[spoiler:it threatens the main characters' son, whereas here, it leaves a young boy without his guardian]].
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