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* FurAndLoathing: The ''TheBirds'' reference has Dilly in a fur coat.

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* FurAndLoathing: The ''TheBirds'' ''Film/TheBirds'' reference has Dilly in a fur coat.



* ShoutOut - to Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''TheBirds''.

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* ShoutOut - to Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''TheBirds''.''Film/TheBirds''.
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* ShoutOut - to AlfredHitchcock's ''TheBirds''.

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* ShoutOut - to AlfredHitchcock's Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''TheBirds''.
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Ned makes a friend who, unlike the voluntarily isolated Ned, is ostracized for being different. The friendship is cut short, however, when Ned accidentally revives a pile of dead leaves the pair play in one day.

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Ned makes a friend in a boy named Eugene who, unlike the voluntarily isolated Ned, is ostracized for being different. The friendship is cut short, quickly meets an obstacle, however, when Ned accidentally revives a pile of dead leaves the pair play in one day.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Since Dilly believes Ned killed Billy, she sees a murder in revenge for a ruined sign and a food inspector call as this.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Ned only gets caught in the frame-up because he goes to the candy shop to remove Chuck and Olive's rats.

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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Ned only gets caught ends up as a suspect in the frame-up Billy's murder because he goes to the candy shop to remove Chuck and Olive's rats.
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* TheCorpseStopsHere

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* TheCorpseStopsHereTheCorpseStopsHere: How Ned ends up implicated in Billy's murder.



* MistakenForMurderer: Dilly frames Ned for killing Billy.

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* MistakenForMurderer: Dilly frames Ned for killing Billy.

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* FurAndLoathing: The ''TheBirds'' reference has Dilly in a fur coat.



* ShoutOut - to AlfredHitchcock's ''The Birds''.

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* ShoutOut - to AlfredHitchcock's ''The Birds''.''TheBirds''.
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* CargoShip: The first murder is by a man who loves his life-sized doll. [[invoked]]
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* JailBake

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* JailBakeJailBake: Olive bakes ''a pistol'' into a pie for Ned. He turns it down.
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* MistakenForMurderer
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished

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* MistakenForMurderer
MistakenForMurderer: Dilly frames Ned for killing Billy.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunishedNoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Ned only gets caught in the frame-up because he goes to the candy shop to remove Chuck and Olive's rats.
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* ForWantOfANail: Olive at one points states that an alternate universe where [[LoveHurts love was always requited]] would be nice, but something else would probably suck.
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* VerbalTic: Dilly stutters when she's ''upset.''

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* VerbalTic: Dilly ([[ManipulativeBitch deliberately]]) stutters when she's ''upset.''

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Ned and Chuck decide to assign themselves the boyfriend/girlfriend label, leaving Olive too morose to notice that alternate medicine salesman Alfredo is still trying to woo her.

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Ned and Chuck decide to assign themselves the boyfriend/girlfriend label, leaving Olive too morose to notice that alternate alternative medicine salesman Alfredo is still trying to woo her.


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* VerbalTic: Dilly stutters when she's ''upset.''
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-->'''Olive & Chuck''': [[IronicEcho Don't mess with the]] [[InsultBackfire Pie Hos!]]

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-->'''Olive ->'''Olive & Chuck''': [[IronicEcho Don't mess with the]] [[InsultBackfire Pie Hos!]]Hos!]]

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Ned makes a friend who, unlike the voluntarily isolated Ned, is ostracized for being different. The friendship is cut short, however, when Ned accidentally revives a pile of dead leaves the pair play in one day.



Brother and sister team Billy and Dilly Balsam open up a candy store across the street from the Pie Hole. Chuck and Olive are instantly defensive about the Pie Hole and its future. Ned, calmer, makes friendly overtures, but the Balsams soon make it clear that their intentions are anything but neighborly. It's not long before all-out war is raging between the two shops... and Ned's stoic pacifism looks more and more like conflict avoidance.

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Brother Ned and Chuck decide to assign themselves the boyfriend/girlfriend label, leaving Olive too morose to notice that alternate medicine salesman Alfredo is still trying to woo her.

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and sister team Billy and Dilly Balsam open up a candy store across the street from the Pie Hole. Chuck and Olive are instantly defensive about the Pie Hole and its future. Ned, calmer, makes friendly overtures, but the Balsams soon make it clear that their intentions are anything but neighborly. It's not long before all-out war is raging between the two shops... and Ned's stoic pacifism looks more and more like conflict avoidance.



* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: Sported by young Ned's friend.



* ShoutOut - to AlfredHitchcock's ''The Birds''

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* ShoutOut - to AlfredHitchcock's ''The Birds''Birds''.
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I don\'t think there\'s really an out-of-universe version that\'s notable. Whams are generally bombshells for everyone involved, characters and audience included


* WhamLine: In-universe example, when Ned confesses to having killed Charles Charles.

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* WhamLine: In-universe example, when Ned confesses to having killed Charles Charles.

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-->'''Olive & Chuck''': Don't mess with the Pie Hos!

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-->'''Olive & Chuck''': [[IronicEcho Don't mess with the the]] [[InsultBackfire Pie Hos!Hos!]]
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-->'''Olive & Chuck''': Don't mess with the Pie Hos!
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* FirstSnow: Averted; the snowstorm that hits at the end leaches all of the show's signature color out of the atmosphere and signals a dramatic shift in tone towards the serious.


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* JailBake

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*Main/TheCorpseStopsHere
*Main/InstitutionalApparel
*Main/MistakenForMurderer
*Main/NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished
*Main/ShoutOut - to AlfredHitchcock's ''The Birds''

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*Main/TheCorpseStopsHere
*Main/InstitutionalApparel
*Main/MistakenForMurderer
*Main/NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished
*Main/ShoutOut
*TheCorpseStopsHere
*InstitutionalApparel
*MistakenForMurderer
*NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished
*ShoutOut
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*WhamLine: In-universe example, when Ned confesses to having killed Charles Charles.

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