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* BitingTheHandHumor: After Creator/StevenSpielberg gets abducted, Freakazoid remarks, "At least now we won't have to listen to any more of those [[Creator/DreamWorksSKG DreamWorks]] stories." During the abduction, Spielberg gives notes on the color of the abduction field.
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* BitingTheHandHumor: After Creator/StevenSpielberg gets abducted, Freakazoid remarks, "At least now we won't have to listen to any more of those [[Creator/DreamWorksSKG DreamWorks]] stories." During the abduction, Spielberg gives notes on the color of the abduction field.field, executive producing his own kidnapping.
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* BitingTheHandHumor: After Creator/StevenSpielberg gets abducted, Freakazoid remarks, "At least now we won't have to listen to any more of those [[Creator/DreamWorksSKG DreamWorks]] stories."
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* BitingTheHandHumor: After Creator/StevenSpielberg gets abducted, Freakazoid remarks, "At least now we won't have to listen to any more of those [[Creator/DreamWorksSKG DreamWorks]] stories."" During the abduction, Spielberg gives notes on the color of the abduction field.
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* {{Nerd}}: Nerdator intends to harness the essence of nerds, who he says write all the best books, make the top-grossing movies, design sophisticated technology, and run successful governments. Dexter is literally the last nerd on Earth to be abducted.
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* AllJustADream: After the writers attempt to end the episode early by having Dexter get eaten by the alien, Spielberg walks it back by claiming it was just a bad dream.
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* SelfDeprecation: Originally, the writers intended for Dexter to immediately get eaten by an alien. They figured they could just rerun ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and go home early. They're disappointed when Spielberg tells them they can't.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere / SelfDeprecation: Originally, the writers intended for Dexter to immediately get eaten by an alien. They figured they could go home early and just rerun ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and go home early. ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. They're disappointed when Spielberg tells them they can't.can't, especially given he ''initially'' agreed[[note]]resulting in the first 11 seconds of the intro being played before he changed his mind[[/note]].
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* AccidentalMisnaming: "Goodbye, Red Underwear Man."
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Steff makes herself scarce when Freakazoid and Bo-Ron are trying on x-ray specs.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Steff makes herself scarce when Freakazoid and Bo-Ron are trying on x-ray specs.
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* SeriousBusiness: AT&T, MCI, and Sprint engage in a all-out war in order to become Bo-Ron's long distance carrier.
* TakeThat: "Diane Sawyer acts sincere, but she's actually faking it."
* TakeThat: "Diane Sawyer acts sincere, but she's actually faking it."
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* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Freakazoid talks to Nerdator about the downsides of being a nerd, capping off with how all the cute girls will just want to be friends and nothing more. He immediately pulls out Steff, who says this. The Nerdator switches to abducting good-looking people so that he can harness their ability to get babes.
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* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Freakazoid talks to Nerdator about the downsides of being a nerd, capping off with how all the cute girls will just want to be friends and nothing more. He immediately pulls out Steff, who says this. The Nerdator switches to abducting good-looking people so that he can harness their ability to get babes.babes.
* MotorMouth: Tom Snyder keeps talking over his guest, Pope John Paul II.
* {{Nerd}}: Nerdator intends to harness the essence of nerds, who he says write all the best books, make the top-grossing movies, design sophisticated technology, and run successful governments. Dexter is literally the last nerd on Earth to be abducted.
* TakeThat:
** Fan Boy confuses Creator/WilliamShatner's hairpiece for a Tribble.
** When Dexter points out Newt Gingrich wasn't imprisoned, Nerdator says he isn't a nerd and calls him a chubby boy.
** Nerdator muses that without the nerds, the nations of the worlds will have to put "good looking but vapid airheads" in prominent positions. An ImagineSpot depicts Kato Kaelin struggling as President.
* YouWannaGetSued: Bill Gates is among those abducted, and Joe acknowledges how this could be risky.
-->'''Joe:''' Soon after, the following incident occurred in the office of computer whiz, Bill Gates, whom I can mention by name because he happens to be a close, personal friend of Steven Spielberg, the executive producer of this fine program, so he ''probably'' won't sue us.
* MotorMouth: Tom Snyder keeps talking over his guest, Pope John Paul II.
* {{Nerd}}: Nerdator intends to harness the essence of nerds, who he says write all the best books, make the top-grossing movies, design sophisticated technology, and run successful governments. Dexter is literally the last nerd on Earth to be abducted.
* TakeThat:
** Fan Boy confuses Creator/WilliamShatner's hairpiece for a Tribble.
** When Dexter points out Newt Gingrich wasn't imprisoned, Nerdator says he isn't a nerd and calls him a chubby boy.
** Nerdator muses that without the nerds, the nations of the worlds will have to put "good looking but vapid airheads" in prominent positions. An ImagineSpot depicts Kato Kaelin struggling as President.
* YouWannaGetSued: Bill Gates is among those abducted, and Joe acknowledges how this could be risky.
-->'''Joe:''' Soon after, the following incident occurred in the office of computer whiz, Bill Gates, whom I can mention by name because he happens to be a close, personal friend of Steven Spielberg, the executive producer of this fine program, so he ''probably'' won't sue us.
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* BitingTheHandHumor: After Creator/StevenSpielberg gets abducted, Freakazoid remarks, "At least now we won't have to listen to any more of those Dreamworks stories."
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* BitingTheHandHumor: After Creator/StevenSpielberg gets abducted, Freakazoid remarks, "At least now we won't have to listen to any more of those Dreamworks [[Creator/DreamWorksSKG DreamWorks]] stories."
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!!Tropes Found in “Nerdator”:
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!!Tropes Found in
* BitingTheHandHumor: After Creator/StevenSpielberg gets abducted, Freakazoid remarks, "At least now we won't have to listen to any more of those Dreamworks stories."
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Freakazoid talks to Nerdator about the downsides of being a nerd, capping off with how all the cute girls will just want to be friends and nothing more. He immediately pulls out Steff, who says this. The Nerdator switches to abducting good-looking people so that he can harness their ability to get babes.
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'''Release Date:''' February 3, 1996
'''Next Time, Phone Ahead:''' In a parody of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', an alien named Bo-Ron is found and cared for by Freakazoid, who tries to help him "phone home".
'''Nerdator:''' A ''Franchise/{{Predator}}''-like alien abducts Earth nerds (including Dexter) so he can steal their tech savvy.
!!Tropes Found in “Next Time, Phone Ahead”:
!!Tropes Found in “Nerdator”:
'''Next Time, Phone Ahead:''' In a parody of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', an alien named Bo-Ron is found and cared for by Freakazoid, who tries to help him "phone home".
'''Nerdator:''' A ''Franchise/{{Predator}}''-like alien abducts Earth nerds (including Dexter) so he can steal their tech savvy.
!!Tropes Found in “Next Time, Phone Ahead”:
!!Tropes Found in “Nerdator”:
