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* SanitySlippage: Ed depended on the Magic Meatball so much that when it breaks, he hallucinates it coming alive.

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* SanitySlippage: Ed depended on the Magic Meatball so much that when it breaks, he loses it and hallucinates it coming alive.to life.
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* ThePeterPrinciple: Ed rises in Conglom-O's ranks and does well up until the meatball breaks and he has a nervous breakdown, [[StatusQuoIsGod resulting in him getting demoted to his original position.]]
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** Ed remarks that "Being an executive is easy". Right after that, he is greeted with a mountain of paperwork that reads like word salad to him.

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** Ed remarks that "Being being an executive is easy".easy. Right after that, he is greeted with a mountain of paperwork that reads like word salad to him.
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** Rocko manages to save the letter from going through the mail slots, but gets picked up by a crane drops the letter.

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** Rocko manages to save the letter from going through the mail slots, but he gets picked up by a crane and drops the letter.

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* HopeSpot:
** Rocko manages to save the letter from going through the mail slots, but gets picked up by a crane drops the letter.
** Wallace opens Rocko's love letter, but [[NeverLearnedToRead he can't read it]]. Rocko calms down, but then panics back in full force when Heffer offers to read it aloud for him.



* MistakenForGay: Rocko signed his love letter "to my mail carrier". And guess [[FatBestFriend who]] just happened to be delivering letters that day?

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* MistakenForGay: Rocko signed his love letter "to my mail carrier". And guess [[FatBestFriend who]] just happened to be delivering letters that day?day? This is what actually prevents Rocko from getting beaten to a pulp, because Wallace assumed the love letter was for Heffer.

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* AllTakeAndNoGive: Ed hallucinates the Magic Meatball acting like this.
* AnimateInanimateObject: The Magic Meatball seems like this, but eventually becomes subverted when Ed has some SanitySlippage due to his dependence on it.
* CompanionCube: Ed ends up forming this sort of relationship with the Magic Meatball, up to and including marrying it.



* TemptingFate: Ed remarks that "Being an executive is easy". Right after that, he is greeted with a mountain of paperwork that reads like word salad to him.

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* TemptingFate: SanitySlippage: Ed depended on the Magic Meatball so much that when it breaks, he hallucinates it coming alive.
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Ed remarks that "Being an executive is easy". Right after that, he is greeted with a mountain of paperwork that reads like word salad to him.him.
** "Behind this door lies the answer to all our problems!" Mr. Noway opens the door to reveal Ed having a mental breakdown.

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* MistakenForGay: Rocko's signed his love letter "to my mail carrier". And guess [[FatBestFriend who]] just happened to be delivering letters that day?

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* MistakenForGay: Rocko's Rocko signed his love letter "to my mail carrier". And guess [[FatBestFriend who]] just happened to be delivering letters that day?


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* LiteralMetaphor: Ed moving up in the company's ranks is represented by his office literally being elevated.
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* FloatingAdviceReminder: As Ed slacks off into the dead of night, the transparent floating head of of Noway yells at him to keep up or get out.


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* TemptingFate: Ed remarks that "Being an executive is easy". Right after that, he is greeted with a mountain of paperwork that reads like word salad to him.

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* RelativeError: Rocko initially thinks Wallace is Alicia's boyfriend, but the endof the episode reveals that they're siblings.

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* RelativeError: Rocko initially thinks Wallace is Alicia's boyfriend, but the endof end of the episode reveals that they're siblings.


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* Magic8Ball: The Magic Meatball is a parody of the 8-Ball.

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* ContinuityNod: Wallace, Alicia's older brother, was first seen in "[[Recap/RockosModernLifeS2E11JunkJunkiesDayOfTheFlecko Junk Junkies]]".



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* LoveLetterLunacy
KissingInATree: Heffer teases Rocko over his crush on the mail carrier by singing this.
* LoveLetterLunacy: Rocko goes through a lot of shenanigans just to get Alicia's love letter back.
* MistakenForGay: Rocko's signed his love letter "to my mail carrier". And guess [[FatBestFriend who]] just happened to be delivering letters that day?
-->'''Wallace:''' You mean... you? And you? ''[He begins to tear up]'' That's so sweet!
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Implied to be the case with Wallace, who gets furious when Rocko and Heffer come to the door with the love letter for Alicia.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Heffer has a job as a mail carrier in this episode.
* PackedHero: Rocko gets compressed into a box shape as a part of an AmusingInjury he suffers.
* RelativeError: Rocko initially thinks Wallace is Alicia's boyfriend, but the endof the episode reveals that they're siblings.
* ThrowTheDogABone: The end of the episode implies Rocko's feelings for Alicia are requited.
* UnstoppableMailman: Heffer refuses to give back Rocko's love letter when asked because he thinks it's his sacred duty to deliver the mail.
* WhereItAllBegan: Rocko hitching a ride to the post office to get his love letter back results in a series of shenanigans that send him right back to where he started- his house.
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* DelayedReaction: When Ed finish his paperwork on his first night, Noway shows up with another employee and calls out Bighead for not keeping up until he realize Bighead was indeed done.
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* FunWithAcronyms: '''S'''ealed '''W'''ith '''A''' '''K'''iss.
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The eighth episode of the fourth season of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''.



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* AccidentalMisnaming: When Mr. Noway gives Ed his own office, he writes Ed's name as "Ded Bigfed".
* AlliterativeTitle: '''M'''agic '''M'''eatball.
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* AbsurdAltitude: As Ed gets promoted, his office gets higher and higher, until he has a view of Earth from sub-orbital space.
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'''S.W.A.K.'''

Rocko has a crush on his new mail-carrier, but tries to keep a love note from falling into the hands of her hulking big brother.

'''Magic Meatball''':

Ed Bighead gets a promotion, but becomes dependent on a fortune-telling toy in order to keep it.

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* LoveLetterLunacy

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* TropaholicsAnonymous: At the end, Ed joins a support group for people obsessed with using a Magic Meatball.

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