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* DevelopmentGag: The entire premise of the Toad Car is based on a line in a meeting to executives discussing the differences between Tulip and M.T., "Tulip would clean up her room, [[NonSequitur while M.T. would kick a toad]]." Although she doesn't get to kick it in this instance.
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* {{Absurdism}}: The Toad Car is easily the most bizarre of the cars shown. It's a completely blank room with a toad inside, and in order to leave you have to kick it. The Toad doesn't enjoy this life, though, and kicking it will make your number go up. However, it's put up against Jesse and M.T. being tailed by the Mirror Police, making the situation a great deal more serious.


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* DevelopmentGag: The entire premise of the Toad Car is based on a line in a meeting to executives discussing the differences between Tulip and M.T., "Tulip would clean up her room, [[NonSequitur while M.T. would kick a toad]]." Although she doesn't get to kick it in this instance.
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* SadisticChoice: In order to unlock the doors of the Toad Car, Jesse or M.T. need to kick a clearly distressed toad or hold off with the risk of the Mirror Police tailing them managing to break in. What makes this even ''more'' complicated is that Jesse's number goes ''up'' if he's going to kick the toad and ''down'' if he refuses. In the end, it's ''[[TakeAThirdOption Alan Dracula]]'' that kicks the toad to open the doors.

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* SadisticChoice: The entire setup of the Toad Car is a parody of this trope, with an extremely blatant choice set in a white room in a way that plays it for laughs. The context in this episode makes it more real, though: In order to unlock the doors of the Toad Car, Jesse or M.T. need to kick a clearly distressed toad or hold off with the risk of the Mirror Police tailing them managing to break in. What makes this even ''more'' complicated is that Jesse's number goes ''up'' if he's going to kick the toad and ''down'' if he refuses. In the end, it's ''[[TakeAThirdOption Alan Dracula]]'' that kicks the toad to open the doors.
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->Written by Justin Michael\\
Storyboarded by Kellye Perdue & Sam Spina
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b2night2_kellye.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Where trust is questioned and toads are kicked.\\
[--Credit: Storyboard artist [[https://twitter.com/peroroh/ Kellye Perdue]]--]]]
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* TheReveal: When Jesse watches a video on his phone from a time before he entered the train, it at first seemed like he was picked on by older kids when he was little. Turns out that it wasn't a younger Jesse getting bullied, but his little brother, and [[BigBrotherBully Jesse]] ''[[BigBrotherBully himself]]'' [[BigBrotherBully was recording the entire incident]] with his "[[ToxicFriendInfluence friends]]" (though now, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Jesse looks to regret letting that happen]]).
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* FridgeLogic: InUniverse - Jesse questions, if the Mirror Police can jump out of anything reflective, why they can't jump out of M.T. herself when ''she'' is reflective. M.T. [[DopeSlap flicks him in the forehead]] for even ''thinking'' such a thing.


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* HandWave: Jesse questions, if the Mirror Police can jump out of anything reflective, why they can't jump out of M.T. herself when ''she'' is reflective. M.T. [[DopeSlap flicks him in the forehead]] for even thinking such a ridiculous thing, because people can't jump out of people.
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* HeroicSacrifice: The toad willingly asks to be kicked if doing so will save Jesse and M.T. Bumping into Alan Dracula solves that dilemma for them.

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* HeroicSacrifice: The toad willingly asks to be kicked if doing so will save Jesse and M.T.T.. Bumping into Alan Dracula solves that dilemma for them.

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* FridgeLogic: InUniverse - Jesse questions, if the Mirror Police can jump out of anything reflective, why they can't jump out of M.T. herself when ''she'' is reflective. M.T. [[DopeSlap flicks him in the forehead]] for even ''thinking'' such a thing.



* SadisticChoice: In order to unlock the doors of the Toad Car, Jesse or MT need to kick a clearly distressed toad or hold off with the risk of the Mirror Police tailing them managing to break in. What makes this even ''more'' complicated is that Jesse's number goes ''up'' if he's going to kick the toad and ''down'' if he refuses. In the end, it's ''[[TakeAThirdOption Alan Dracula]]'' that kicks the toad to open the doors.

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* SadisticChoice: In order to unlock the doors of the Toad Car, Jesse or MT M.T. need to kick a clearly distressed toad or hold off with the risk of the Mirror Police tailing them managing to break in. What makes this even ''more'' complicated is that Jesse's number goes ''up'' if he's going to kick the toad and ''down'' if he refuses. In the end, it's ''[[TakeAThirdOption Alan Dracula]]'' that kicks the toad to open the doors.

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* GoodCopBadCop: While Agent Mace wants to use force to get inside the car, Agent Sieve tries to convince Jesse to let them in by playing to his sympathies.



* SadisticChoice: In order to unlock the doors of the Toad Car, Jesse or MT need to kick a clearly distressed toad or hold off with the risk of the Mirror Police tailing them managing to break in. That makes this even ''more'' complicated is that Jesse's number goes ''up'' if he's going to kick the toad and ''down'' if he refuses. In the end, it's ''[[TakeAThirdOption Alan Dracula]]'' that kicks the toad to open the doors.

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* SadisticChoice: In order to unlock the doors of the Toad Car, Jesse or MT need to kick a clearly distressed toad or hold off with the risk of the Mirror Police tailing them managing to break in. That What makes this even ''more'' complicated is that Jesse's number goes ''up'' if he's going to kick the toad and ''down'' if he refuses. In the end, it's ''[[TakeAThirdOption Alan Dracula]]'' that kicks the toad to open the doors.

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* HeroicSacrifice: The toad willingly asks to be kicked if doing so will save Jesse and M.T. Bumping into Alan Dracula solves that dilema for them.

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* HeroicSacrifice: The toad willingly asks to be kicked if doing so will save Jesse and M.T. Bumping into Alan Dracula solves that dilema dilemma for them.


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* PetTheDog: Jesse grabs the toad on the way out of the car, not only saving the toad a life of pain but trapping the Mirror Police in a car they can no longer open.
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* HeroicSacrifice: The toad willingly asks to be kicked if doing so will save Jesse and M.T. Bumping into Alan Dracula solves that dilema for them.
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* Continuity Nod:

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* Continuity Nod:
** Again we see that Jesse visited the Cross-Eyed Ducks car, and another picture shows that he and M.T. visited Randall's car.
** M.T. gives Jesse the full story about her and Tulip.
* InternalReveal: Jesse learns about M.T.'s past as a living reflection.


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* ToxicFriendInfluence: It's clear from the video Jesse watches that his "friends" are jerks and bullies who push him around, and even got his little brother hurt and showed no remorse for it.
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Mirror Tulip and Jesse get stuck in a car and face an unusual dilemma.
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* SadisticChoice: In order to unlock the doors of the Toad Car, Jesse or MT need to kick a clearly distressed toad or hold off with the risk of the Mirror Police tailing them managing to break in. That makes this even ''more'' complicated is that Jesse's number goes ''up'' if he's going to kick the toad and ''down'' if he refuses. In the end, it's ''[[TakeAThirdOption Alan Dracula]]'' that kicks the toad to open the doors.
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