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The episode doesn’t treat this as surprising. It makes it very clear the three are well out of their depth.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Nancy, Dale and Peggy trying to cover a forest fire story by going straight into the fire works as well as you would expect: they get trapped by a falling tree, their equipment starts to melt, their news van catches fire and blows up, they all break down in tears and are ultimately lifted out by heli-saddles.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: While caught in the forest fire, Dale cradles Nancy so that they can die together. He tells Peggy to go die in an offscreen area.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: While caught in the forest fire, Dale cradles Nancy so that they can die together. He then tells Peggy to go die in an offscreen area.somewhere else.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Nancy, Dale and Peggy trying to cover a forest fire story by going straight into the fire works as well as you would expect.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Hank and Bobby end Jimmy's insanity by jumping out and scaring him.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Hank and Bobby end Jimmy's insanity by jumping out and scaring him.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Nancy, Dale and Peggy trying to cover a forest fire story by going straight into the fire works as well as you would expect.
expect: they get trapped by a falling tree, their equipment starts to melt, their news van catches fire and blows up, they all break down in tears and are ultimately lifted out by heli-saddles.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Hank and Bobby end Jimmy's insanity towards Bobby by jumping out and scaringhim.him in turn, although he's still shown doing it to his father the second they leave the room.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Hank and Bobby end Jimmy's insanity towards Bobby by jumping out and scaring
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Nancy ''demands'' Channel 84 buy new meteorological equipment, and they do so... but she doesn't count on them also hiring another meteorology expert to set the equipment up and quickly proves himself to much better than her, and thus didn't realize [[HoistByHisOwnPetard she essentially just fired herself from her own job]].
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Nancy ''demands'' Channel 84 buy new meteorological equipment, and they do so... but she doesn't count on them also hiring another meteorology expert to set the equipment up and quickly proves proving himself to a much better newscaster than her, and thus didn't realize [[HoistByHisOwnPetard she essentially just fired got herself fired from her own job]].
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Nancy ''demands'' Channel 84 buy new meteorological equipment, and they do so... but she doesn't count on them also hiring another meteorology expert to set the equipment up and quickly proves himself to much better than her, and thus didn't realize [[HoistByHisOwnPetard she essentially just fired herself from her own job]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Nancy insisting Channel 84 buy new meteorology equipment forces them to hire Irv to set it up, and as he proves much more charismatic than Nancy, she effectively screwed herself out of a job.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Irv gets Nancy's position generally for being more competent in meteorology. He also stumps News Anchor Miguel Hernandez with a joke about rhinoplasty, even after explaining it to him, because he mistook it for a joke on rhinoceros. Nancy at the end gets a promotion to co-anchor with Miguel.
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* SpecialGuest: Creator/BrendanFraser as Irv Bennett.
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* SpecialGuest: Creator/BrendanFraser (in his second appearance) as Irv Bennett.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Trying to cover a forest fire story by going straight into the fire as well as you would expect.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Trying Nancy, Dale and Peggy trying to cover a forest fire story by going straight into the fire works as well as you would expect.
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* SkewedPriorities: Peggy is ''hell-bent'' on helping Nancy get her job back no matter how dangerous and unworthy the situation is. Nancy soon decides that she doesn't care anymore about her job when her life is at stake. Her being humiliated by being put in a heli-saddle and being carried out of the forest can be interpreted as LaserGuidedKarma.
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* SkewedPriorities: Peggy is ''hell-bent'' on helping Nancy get her job back no matter how dangerous and unworthy the situation is. Nancy soon decides that she doesn't care anymore about her job when her life is at stake. Her Peggy being humiliated by being put in a heli-saddle and being carried out of the forest can be interpreted as LaserGuidedKarma.
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* ATasteOfYourOwnMedicine: Hank and Bobby end Jimmy's insanity by jumping out and scaring him.
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* ATasteOfYourOwnMedicine: ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Hank and Bobby end Jimmy's insanity by jumping out and scaring him.
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Channel 84 hires a new meteorologist, Irv Bennett, leaving Nancy Gribble out in the cold — and into the fire when she, Dale, and Peggy steal a news van to report on a forest fire. Meanwhile, Hank helps Bobby fight back against a bully who likes to pop out and scare people.
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* BittersweetEnding: Nancy does not get her old position back but does get a promotion as a co-news anchor, to which she is happy about.
* TheBully: Jimmy Bearden.
* FlippingTheBird: An offscreen example as when Nancy gets the weather wrong (again), an angry woman asks her if she can predict what her finger is going to do to her. Nancy's reaction says it all.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: While caught in the forest fire, Dale cradles Nancy so that they can die together. He tells Peggy to go die in an offscreen area.
** Nancy is this to the whole news team. See KickTheDog below for more details.
* GrewASpine: Jimmy's dad is at first just as afraid of Jimmy as Bobby is, but the ending shows him deciding that enough is enough.
* JumpScare: Jimmy Bearden's go-to bully tactic.
* KickTheDog: The newsteam really throw Nancy around in this episode; they demote her to a dead-end position, they use Nancy's predicament of being trapped in the forest fire for ratings, thus publicly humiliating her and do the same when she bawls her eyes out. To add insult to injury, they put Nancy (along with Dale and Peggy) in a heli-saddle for horses '''just as the forest fire is put out.'''
* PushoverParents: Jimmy's dad is also scared of him jumping out and scaring the heck out of him.
* SkewedPriorities: Peggy is ''hell-bent'' on helping Nancy get her job back no matter how dangerous and unworthy the situation is. Nancy soon decides that she doesn't care anymore about her job when her life is at stake. Her being humiliated by being put in a heli-saddle and being carried out of the forest can be interpreted as LaserGuidedKarma.
* SpecialGuest: Creator/BrendanFraser as Irv Bennett.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Trying to cover a forest fire story by going straight into the fire as well as you would expect.
* ATasteOfYourOwnMedicine: Hank and Bobby end Jimmy's insanity by jumping out and scaring him.
* TooDumbToLive: When trying to cover the forest fire by going straight into it, Nancy, Peggy and Dale predictably get caught in it.
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!!Tropes:
* BittersweetEnding: Nancy does not get her old position back but does get a promotion as a co-news anchor, to which she is happy about.
* TheBully: Jimmy Bearden.
* FlippingTheBird: An offscreen example as when Nancy gets the weather wrong (again), an angry woman asks her if she can predict what her finger is going to do to her. Nancy's reaction says it all.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: While caught in the forest fire, Dale cradles Nancy so that they can die together. He tells Peggy to go die in an offscreen area.
** Nancy is this to the whole news team. See KickTheDog below for more details.
* GrewASpine: Jimmy's dad is at first just as afraid of Jimmy as Bobby is, but the ending shows him deciding that enough is enough.
* JumpScare: Jimmy Bearden's go-to bully tactic.
* KickTheDog: The newsteam really throw Nancy around in this episode; they demote her to a dead-end position, they use Nancy's predicament of being trapped in the forest fire for ratings, thus publicly humiliating her and do the same when she bawls her eyes out. To add insult to injury, they put Nancy (along with Dale and Peggy) in a heli-saddle for horses '''just as the forest fire is put out.'''
* PushoverParents: Jimmy's dad is also scared of him jumping out and scaring the heck out of him.
* SkewedPriorities: Peggy is ''hell-bent'' on helping Nancy get her job back no matter how dangerous and unworthy the situation is. Nancy soon decides that she doesn't care anymore about her job when her life is at stake. Her being humiliated by being put in a heli-saddle and being carried out of the forest can be interpreted as LaserGuidedKarma.
* SpecialGuest: Creator/BrendanFraser as Irv Bennett.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Trying to cover a forest fire story by going straight into the fire as well as you would expect.
* ATasteOfYourOwnMedicine: Hank and Bobby end Jimmy's insanity by jumping out and scaring him.
* TooDumbToLive: When trying to cover the forest fire by going straight into it, Nancy, Peggy and Dale predictably get caught in it.
