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* StudioEpisode: In this episode, Angelica audtions to be on ''Miss Carol's Happy House'' and is chosen as a finalist. On the day she visits the studio, she overhears Miss Carol saying the "real" fun phrase to Miss Stephanie, which includes an expletive. When Angelica tells her parents the fun phrase, they forbid her from going to the studio again but change their minds and let her go after all under the condition that she not say the fun phrase. Angelica eventually says the fun phrase out of pressure from Miss Carol, then exposes Miss Carol's true colors by having her reveal that she said it on live television. Miss Carol ends up getting fired from her show, which gets retooled as ''Miss Stephanie's Happy House''. Angelica ends up getting barred from the retool due to saying the fun phrase, but Timmy, another finalist, gets to appear in her place.
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* IdiotBall: Multiple characters in the episode hold the ball for being dumb.
** Drew and Charlotte first off make the mistake of failing to address their daughter's swearing properly as they fail to ask Angelica where she learned the bad word from, hesitate in explaining why the word Angelica heard from Miss Carol was bad and why she should not say it. They instead immediately assume that Angelica already knew and they never confront Miss Carol for teaching the bad word to their daughter.
*** Charlotte especially takes the idiocy for leaving Angelica unsupervised in the studio order to take a phone call and leaving Angelica exposed to hearing the dirty word.
** The production staff in charge of Miss Carol's happy house make the idiotic mistake of failing to clarify Angelica about the actual fun phrase and they also fail to give her a proper rehearsal on it, leaving Angelica unable to figure out what to say aside from the "fun phrase" that Miss Carol said that contained the bad word.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Miss Carol's karma for her nasty behavior towards children and for willing to swear in the studio within earshot of kids is guided towards her when the very kid she said the bad word in front of used the bad word against her, getting Miss Carol fired by the studio for her behavior.
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* FearInducedIdiocy: There is an audition for ''[[ShowWithinAShow Miss Carol's Happy House]]''. One of the kids, Timmy[[note]]Not to be confused with Timmy [=McNulty=][[/note]], is so nervous when he's onstage that he just mutters, "Hubba, hubba..." Later, after Miss Carol is fired and replaced by her assistant Stephanie, Timmy becomes her new Happy Helper, and when he's on TV, he's still babbling nonsense.
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* PerformanceAnxiety: Timmy stutters when he is asked by Miss Carol what she thinks of her kids. When he is chosen to appear on ''Miss Stephanie's Happy House'', all he can do is stare with his mouth wide open.
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-->'''Angelica''' (''overjoyed and oblivious to how horrified everyone in the studio is''): See?! See?! She DID say it!

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