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'''Nate:''' I don't have a sick love of ... let's stay on you.

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'''Nate:''' I don't have a sick love of ... sicko love...let's stay on you.
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'''Rampone:''' Napoleons ''dead''.\\

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'''Rampone:''' Napoleons Napoleon's ''dead''.\\



-->'''Nate:''' [softly] Parker? What's going on?\\

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-->'''Nate:''' [softly] ''(softly)'' Parker? What's going on?\\



* NotWorthKilling: Eliot goes absolute berserk on the guy who beat up the client to the point Nate has to calm him down.

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* NotWorthKilling: Eliot goes absolute absolutely berserk on the guy Rampone, who beat up the client client, to the point Nate has to calm him down.
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-->'''Nate:''' Tell me, are you still getting them from France? Did Napoleon bring them to you on his horse?\\
'''Rampone:''' Napoleons ''dead''.\\
'''Lampard:''' [{{beat}}] Thank you, Rampone.
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Eliot's reaction to Hardison in his class.

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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Eliot's reaction to Hardison in his class.class.
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* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Before throwing down with Rampone, Eliot puts aside a plate of food and says, "I'm gonna eat that after I'm done with you." Rampone is not impressed, and has [[EvilIsPetty the audacity]] to toss a little seasoning on Eliot's steak before the fight starts.
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* BigEater: Played for comedy. Hardison isn't usually a big eater, but when Eliot's restaurant opens, we first see Hardison chowig down on a loaf of French bread, and later he's carrying a ''bell pepper'' with a bite taken out of it.

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* BigEater: Played for comedy. Hardison isn't usually a big eater, but when Eliot's restaurant opens, we first see Hardison chowig chowing down on a loaf of French bread, and later he's carrying a ''bell pepper'' with a bite taken out of it.
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* CrackIsCheaper: Black-market truffle smuggling is a bigger business than some hard drugs, with just as many shady brutal types involved in it.


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* FirstTimeFeeling: Parker's arc involves her discovering the joy of experiencing art, rather than the material worth and value of it.

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* ItsPronouncedTropay: "Gar Slabdash, the 'n' is mostly silent."


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* PronouncingMyNameForYou: "Gar Slabdash, the 'n' is mostly silent."
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* BigEater: Played for comedy. Hardison isn't usually a big eater, but when Eliot's restaurant opens, we first see Hardison chowig down on a loaf of French bread, and later he's carrying a ''bell pepper'' with a bite taken out of it.
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* DullSurprise: It's not that the student cooks are unsurprised by Eliot beating the shit out of a goon trying to kidnap him, it's that he's been ''Eliot'' the whole time. They're concerned, but not surprised.
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* ItsPronouncedTropay: "Gar Slabdash, the 'n' is mostly silent."
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* {{Squee}}: Hardison's not a food geek like Eliot, but then he sees the high tech gadgets in the training kitchen and he loses his shit, starts inventing wild, ridiculous new ways of fooding.
* TruthInTelevision: That high tech shit with the lasers and all that Hardison geeks out over? They're doing that. Chefs around the world are doing wild things with cutting edge tech to create new food experiences.
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'''Parker:'' Eliot has a thing. He loves food. Sophie loves theater. You have a sicko love of controlling people.\\

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'''Parker:'' '''Parker:''' Eliot has a thing. He loves food. Sophie loves theater. You have a sicko love of controlling people.\\
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* ICanLiveWithThat: Parker's having trouble with the fact that the others all have their passions, while she's still the weird kid. Nate draws it out of her.
-->'''Nate:''' [softly] Parker? What's going on?\\
'''Parker:''' I just, I don't have a thing.\\
'''Nate:''' What do you mean, "a thing"?\\
'''Parker:'' Eliot has a thing. He loves food. Sophie loves theater. You have a sicko love of controlling people.\\
'''Nate:''' I don't have a sick love of ... let's stay on you.
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-->'''Eliot:''' He's one of the guys who kept me from falling all the way down, so now I'm telling the other guy why I'm gonna help him.
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Misuse - Despite the name, this trope isn't actually about Crack Cocaine.


* CrackIsCheaper: When they hear someone discussing the price (but not the name) of truffles, the team immediately think they're talking about cocaine.
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* CrackIsCheaper: When they hear someone discussing the price (but not the name) of truffles, the team immediately think they're talking about cocaine.
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* DumbMuscle: Ramone.

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* DumbMuscle: Ramone.Rampone.



* SadistTeacher: Eliot is very harsh in his undercover job.

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* SadistTeacher: Eliot is very harsh in his undercover job. WholePlotReference: It's ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'' with truffles instead of drugs.
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Eliot goes undercover at a culinary school to take down a crooked investor who overcharges the students so he can stash his smuggled truffles.

!Tropes stolen in this job:
* DumbMuscle: Ramone.
* FryingPanOfDoom: Eliot uses this on thugs attacking in the kitchen.
* GranolaGirl: Sophie's cover for the job.
* ItsPersonal: The client of this con is the one who taught Eliot how to cook.
* ManBitesMan: Hardison does this to a mook.
* NotWorthKilling: Eliot goes absolute berserk on the guy who beat up the client to the point Nate has to calm him down.
* SadistTeacher: Eliot is very harsh in his undercover job.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Eliot's reaction to Hardison in his class.

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