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* ThatCloudLooksLike: Played with. Both Bobby and Peggy do this in the beginning with the clouds painted in Bobby's room. Then in the end, they do the same, but with Hank with them guessing with propane and propane accessories.

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* ThatCloudLooksLike: Played with. Both Bobby and Peggy do this in the beginning with the clouds painted in Bobby's room. Then in the end, they do the same, but with Hank with them guessing with propane and propane accessories.accessories.

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Hank attempts to pry out of Peggy the secret of the magic trick she participated in, but she refuses.

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After Peggy participates in a magic trick, Hank attempts to pry out of Peggy the secret of how the magic trick she participated in, but she refuses.was done out of her.
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* ShoutOut: To Series/BreakingTheMagiciansCodeMagicsBiggestSecretsFinallyRevealed. During the credits, Bobby, while wearing a mask similar to the Masked Magician's, explains that soon after Peggy climbed into the giant piñata [[spoiler: she was snuck out of an opening on the other side of it, and dressed as one of the dancers and escorted off stage while everyone else was distracted by the magician and the dancers]]. As the crowd [[spoiler: is too busy looking at the burning/exploding piñata, Peggy quickly sneaks back to her seat]]. Once Bobby finishes his explanation, he takes off the mask and [[BreakingTheFourthWall says to the audience "please don't tell my dad."]]

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* ShoutOut: To Series/BreakingTheMagiciansCodeMagicsBiggestSecretsFinallyRevealed. During the credits, Bobby, while wearing a mask similar to the Masked Magician's, explains that soon after Peggy climbed into the giant piñata [[spoiler: she was snuck out of an opening on the other side of it, and dressed as one of the dancers and escorted off stage while everyone else was distracted by the magician and the dancers]]. dancers. As the crowd [[spoiler: is too busy looking at the burning/exploding piñata, Peggy quickly sneaks back to her seat]].seat. Once Bobby finishes his explanation, he takes off the mask and [[BreakingTheFourthWall says to the audience "please don't tell my dad."]]
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* ShoutOut: To the series of specials that aired on Fox at the time titled "Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed." During the credits, Bobby, while wearing a mask similar to the Masked Magician's, explains that soon after Peggy climbed into the giant piñata [[spoiler: she was snuck out of an opening on the other side of it, and dressed as one of the dancers and escorted off stage while everyone else was distracted by the magician and the dancers]]. As the crowd [[spoiler: is too busy looking at the burning/exploding piñata, Peggy quickly sneaks back to her seat]]. Once Bobby finishes his explanation, he takes off the mask and [[BreakingTheFourthWall says to the audience "please don't tell my dad."]]

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* ShoutOut: To the series of specials that aired on Fox at the time titled "Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed." Series/BreakingTheMagiciansCodeMagicsBiggestSecretsFinallyRevealed. During the credits, Bobby, while wearing a mask similar to the Masked Magician's, explains that soon after Peggy climbed into the giant piñata [[spoiler: she was snuck out of an opening on the other side of it, and dressed as one of the dancers and escorted off stage while everyone else was distracted by the magician and the dancers]]. As the crowd [[spoiler: is too busy looking at the burning/exploding piñata, Peggy quickly sneaks back to her seat]]. Once Bobby finishes his explanation, he takes off the mask and [[BreakingTheFourthWall says to the audience "please don't tell my dad."]]
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And later on, with Hank and the guys pondering how the trick was done, with Bobby saying it was magic:

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And later ** Later on, with Hank and the guys pondering how the trick was done, with Bobby saying it was magic:

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* GirlInABox: Hank tricks Peggy by having a box and have her crawl in there to show how the trick was done. Then he drilled her shut in there and told her she's not coming out until she tells him the trick. He only lets her out due to them having to go to church and he even apologizes for it later on.



* JerkassBall: Hank is pretty bad here, with his contempt for magic and him trying to leave, spoiling how the tricks are done and trying to ruin the pinata trick after Peggy chooses to participate. And to say nothing about his attempts to figure out how the pinata trick worked, or that Peggy and Bobby were painting the latter's room with puffy clouds at the beginning.

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* JerkassBall: Hank is pretty bad here, with his contempt for magic and him trying to leave, spoiling leave the birthday. He spoils how the tricks are done and trying done, much to the irritation of Peggy. He attempts to ruin the pinata trick after Peggy chooses is chosen to participate. And to say nothing about his participate in it. After the trick is done, he attempts to figure out declare Nancy's birthday party over, but he gets foiled by Herrera, who takes his car keys. Afterwards, Hank constantly demands Peggy reveal how the pinata trick worked, or that was done, with her refusing each time. This culminates when he tricks Peggy and into going into a box, claiming he figured out the trick, when he just shuts her in there until she tells him how the trick was done. He only lets her out after Bobby were painting the latter's room with puffy lets them know they need to go to church. And of course there's his disapproval of having clouds at the beginning.painted on Bobby's walls as he removes them, thinking a boy's room should be blue only.


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* RejectedApology: While at church, Hank attempts to apologize for shutting Peggy in the box in an attempt to pry out of her how the magic trick was done. But Peggy shuts him up, stating "Thou shalt not speak to me."
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* BerserkButton: Hank has a hatred for magicians, especially since David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear.

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* BerserkButton: Hank has a hatred for magicians, especially since David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty Art/StatueOfLiberty disappear.
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* SmokeOut: Herrera does this after Hank orders everyone to go home and end the party. He takes Hank's truck keys and when Hank tries to kick his ass, Herrera throws a smoke bomb, disappearing and when it disappates, Hank finds himself surrounded by the dancers.

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* SmokeOut: Herrera does this after Hank orders everyone to go home and end the party. He takes Hank's truck keys and when Hank tries to kick his ass, Herrera throws a smoke bomb, disappearing and when it disappates, disippates, Hank finds himself surrounded by the dancers.

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* SlapSlapKiss: Hank and Peggy have a heated argument about their personalities and them trying to top each and after Hank one-ups her, she kicks him and the shin and Hanks does it back to her. And after a moment of them looking at each other, they end up laughing about it and make-up.


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* SlapSlapKiss: Hank and Peggy have a heated argument about their personalities and them trying to top each and after Hank one-ups her, she kicks him and the shin and Hank does it back to her. And after a moment of them looking at each other, they end up laughing about it and make-up.
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* ShoutOut: To the series of specials that aired on Fox at the time titled "Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed." During the credits, Bobby, while wearing a mask similar to the Masked Magician's, explains that soon after Peggy climbed into the giant piñata [[spoiler: she was snuck out of an opening on the other side of it, and dressed as one of the dancers and escorted off stage while everyone else was distracted by the magician and the dancers]]. As the crowd [[spoiler: is too busy looking at the burning/exploding piñata, Peggy quickly sneaks back to her seat]]. Once Bobby finishes his explanation, he takes off the mask and [[BreakingTheFourthWall says to the audience "please don't tell my dad."]]

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* AdviceBackfire: Peggy suggests to Bobby that he needs to be creative with his Sunday School report about Jesus. Of course, she wouldn't have thought he would have turned Jesus's miracles into a magic act.

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* AdviceBackfire: Peggy suggests to Bobby that he needs to be creative with his Sunday School report about Jesus. Of course, she wouldn't have thought he would have turned Jesus's miracles into a magic act.act and it bites her right back when Bobby lets slip that it was her idea in the first place.
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* JerkassBall: Hank is pretty bad here, with his contempt for magic and him trying to leave, spoiling how the tricks are done and trying to ruin the pinata trick after Peggy chooses to participate. And to say nothing about his attempts to figure out how the pinata trick worked.

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* JerkassBall: Hank is pretty bad here, with his contempt for magic and him trying to leave, spoiling how the tricks are done and trying to ruin the pinata trick after Peggy chooses to participate. And to say nothing about his attempts to figure out how the pinata trick worked.worked, or that Peggy and Bobby were painting the latter's room with puffy clouds at the beginning.
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** Subverted and played with at TheStinger, where Bobby explains the pinata trick which has Peggy going into the pinata and her crawling out of the tail and being dressed as one of [[LovelyAssistant assistants]] in a sombrero and poncho and dancing with them offstage before making it back to her seat. He then ends the explanation by saying "Please don't tell my dad".

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** Subverted and played with at TheStinger, where Bobby explains [[TheReveal explains]] the pinata trick which has Peggy going into the pinata and her crawling out of the tail and being dressed as one of [[LovelyAssistant assistants]] in a sombrero and poncho and dancing with them offstage before making it back to her seat. He then ends the explanation by saying "Please don't tell my dad".
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Hank attempts to pry out of Peggy the secret of the magic trick she participated in, but she refuses.
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* AdviceBackfire: Peggy suggests to Bobby that he needs to be creative with his Sunday School report about Jesus. Of course, she wouldn't have thought he would have turned Jesus's miracles into a magic act.
* BerserkButton: Hank has a hatred for magicians, especially since David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear.
* BigNo: Both Hank and Peggy when Bobby asks for volunteers involving a large wooden cross.
* BirthdayEpisode: The first half centers around Nancy's birthday at Abracapasta, a restaurant featuring magic tricks.
* BrickJoke: With Hank having a disagreement with Peggy and Bobby about the clouds on the walls, with Hank insinuating Bobby can go outside to look at clouds, with Bobby counter-pointing not at night and Peggy elaborating further that the only thing they can see at night is [[InanimateDancePartner Bill dancing with a mop]] from the window of his house. Then later on, with Hank and Peggy fighting, Bobby sees Bill doing just that.
* DisappearingBox: An elaborate version the Astounding Herrera does. Having a volunteer climb into the pinata and then lifting it up into the air, and Herrera trying to hit it with a torch blind-folded and then actually hitting it on [[RuleOfThree the third time]], which makes it blow up and shower the audience with candy and the volunteer appearing back in their seat.
* GirlInABox: Hank tricks Peggy by having a box and have her crawl in there to show how the trick was done. Then he drilled her shut in there and told her she's not coming out until she tells him the trick. He only lets her out due to them having to go to church and he even apologizes for it later on.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: For Bobby's Sunday school project, he's The Amazing Jesus, a magic act which involves turning water into wine and a slice of bread into a full loaf. While he means well to show how good Jesus is, he doesn't seem to realize how blasphemous his act is or how uncomfortable (save for one little girl) it's made everyone.
* JerkassBall: Hank is pretty bad here, with his contempt for magic and him trying to leave, spoiling how the tricks are done and trying to ruin the pinata trick after Peggy chooses to participate. And to say nothing about his attempts to figure out how the pinata trick worked.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Bobby's attempt to have Hank and Peggy make up is to repaint the clouds on the walls of his room and tell Peggy Hank did it. And when Peggy embraces a confused Hank, Bobby blatantly asks if she should share how the trick is done, which makes Peggy suspicious and when Hank finds the clouds back, the fighting gets worse, with Hank constantly denying he painted the clouds.
* OneTwinMustDie: Dale offers his own take on how the magic trick was done: by having a twin Peggy go into the pinata and then dying when Herrera lights it up with the torch and blowing it up.
* OutGambitted: Hank attempts to find out himself how the magic trick was performed by going to the show with Bobby and Luanne and have Luanne be the participant. Herrera instead is the one who goes into the pinata and has Luanne light it up. Afterwards, Herrera appears next to Hank, taunting him.
* RiddleForTheAges:
** What exactly is Bobby's magic trick involving a wooden cross?
** Subverted and played with at TheStinger, where Bobby explains the pinata trick which has Peggy going into the pinata and her crawling out of the tail and being dressed as one of [[LovelyAssistant assistants]] in a sombrero and poncho and dancing with them offstage before making it back to her seat. He then ends the explanation by saying "Please don't tell my dad".
* RunningGag: Peggy explaining to Hank the trick was done with magic with Bobby exclaiming his amazement, which leads to this exchange:
-->'''Hank:''' Aren't you late for school?\\
'''Bobby:''' It's Sunday.\\
'''Hank:''' Well what about Sunday school?\\
'''Bobby:''' (Makes an OhCrap exclamation)
And later on, with Hank and the guys pondering how the trick was done, with Bobby saying it was magic:
-->'''Hank:''' Bobby, don't you have some homework to do?\\
'''Bobby:''' No.\\
'''Hank:''' What about Sunday school homework?\\
'''Bobby:''' (Lets out a defeated sigh)
* SecretKeeper: Peggy absolutely refuses to budge about the pinata trick she took part of, much to Hank's chagrin.
* SlapSlapKiss: Hank and Peggy have a heated argument about their personalities and them trying to top each and after Hank one-ups her, she kicks him and the shin and Hanks does it back to her. And after a moment of them looking at each other, they end up laughing about it and make-up.
* SmokeOut: Herrera does this after Hank orders everyone to go home and end the party. He takes Hank's truck keys and when Hank tries to kick his ass, Herrera throws a smoke bomb, disappearing and when it disappates, Hank finds himself surrounded by the dancers.
* StageMagician: The Mexican magician the Astounding Herrera, who does typical tricks like turning a scarf into birds, [[SawAWomanInHalf sawing a woman in half]], levitating a woman in the air before topping it off with his Pinata of Death trick.
* ThatCloudLooksLike: Played with. Both Bobby and Peggy do this in the beginning with the clouds painted in Bobby's room. Then in the end, they do the same, but with Hank with them guessing with propane and propane accessories.

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