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* FamousLastWords: "I'm Lou Paloma. Blow me."
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* Defiant to the End: Unable to prove his "innocence" and sentenced to death, Lou has only one thing to say to the prison guards: "I'm Lou Paloma. Blow me."
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* Defiant to the End: DefiantToTheEnd: Unable to prove his "innocence" and sentenced to death, Lou has only one thing to say to the prison guards: "I'm Lou Paloma. Blow me."
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* Cassandra Truth: Nobody believes Lou when he comes back. And when they find his fingerprints on the murder weapon, well...
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* Cassandra Truth: CassandraTruth: Nobody believes Lou when he comes back. And when they find his fingerprints on the murder weapon, well...
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Cassandra Truth: Nobody believes Lou when he comes back. And when they find his fingerprints on the murder weapon, well...
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Cassandra Truth: Nobody believes Lou when he comes back. And when they find his fingerprints on the murder weapon, well...
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*Defiant to the End: Unable to prove his "innocence" and sentenced to death, Lou has only one thing to say to the prison guards: "I'm Lou Paloma. Blow me."
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* FamousLastWords: "I'm Lou Paloma."
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* AdaptationNameChange: In the comic, the husband was named Matt Hall and the third member of the scheme was named Larry Grover.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the comic, Irene was a gold-digging nag who manipulated her HenpeckedHusband into the scheme she thought up, and she has an affair with the local undertaker. Irene and Larry betray Matt at the first opportunity and gladly accuse him of being the killer in order to cover their tracks. The TV version of Irene and Billy (standing in for Larry) do have an affair and keep the money, but they're portrayed in a positive light (such as sympathizing with the other over the abuse that Lou inflicts and neither of them being the one to think up this scheme).
* AdaptationalJobChange: Originally, the third member of this scam (Larry) was just a local undertaker who was only involved because of Irene. In this version, Billy is a coroner working for the police department, which justifies him being directly involved in the case and able to sell the lie.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Matt Hall had to be nagged into this insurance scam and was made the fall guy for his own murder in the end. Lou is an abusive sack of garbage who thinks up this scam himself and brings about his own demise by provoking the couple.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the comic, Irene was a gold-digging nag who manipulated her HenpeckedHusband into the scheme she thought up, and she has an affair with the local undertaker. Irene and Larry betray Matt at the first opportunity and gladly accuse him of being the killer in order to cover their tracks. The TV version of Irene and Billy (standing in for Larry) do have an affair and keep the money, but they're portrayed in a positive light (such as sympathizing with the other over the abuse that Lou inflicts and neither of them being the one to think up this scheme).
* AdaptationalJobChange: Originally, the third member of this scam (Larry) was just a local undertaker who was only involved because of Irene. In this version, Billy is a coroner working for the police department, which justifies him being directly involved in the case and able to sell the lie.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Matt Hall had to be nagged into this insurance scam and was made the fall guy for his own murder in the end. Lou is an abusive sack of garbage who thinks up this scam himself and brings about his own demise by provoking the couple.
* BadLiar: Early on, Irene struggles with keeping Mr. Neve off their backs and stumbles through Lou's coaching. She's develops a way better poker face later on, however.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Billy asks what he wants, Lou says he wants to be dead. He certainly gets that in the end.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Billy asks what he wants, Lou says he wants to be dead. He certainly gets that in the end.
* {{Blackmail}}: Lou has been so desperate for money that he's had Billy take it out of their mother's retirement account. To get him to help in this scheme, Lou threatens to tell Mother Paloma that Billy alone took the money (citing how Billy manages the account and signed the withdrawal slips). Irene later says she would've vouched for Billy, but Billy knows that wouldn't have mattered (for reasons that become quite apparent during the memorial service).
* DeadpanSnarker: Irene when Lou is trying to play dead but keeps scratching a persistent itch.
-->'''Irene:''' Oh, great. That's what we're gonna tell the police when they get here. "Oh, yes, Officer, he is dead, but he just can't stop scratching himself."
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Lou spills the beans to the cops to try to take Billy and Irene down with him, but he has absolutely no way to prove his identity (especially with his slightly altered face). Worse, after [=McClaine=] arrests him, his blood and fingerprints are matched to the knife and fireplace poker. With his body having officially been cremated, there's no way to prove his claims without Billy and Irene telling the truth.
* DueToTheDead: [=McClaine=] goes to Lou's sparsely attended memorial service out of respect, being the only non-family member there.
* EurekaMoment: After yelling at Mr. Neve (the man from the insurance company) on the phone, Lou bemoans how he's been giving them money his whole life and really needs some now, which leads to him thinking up his fraud scheme.
* EyesNeverLie: When he comes over to hear what Lou has to say, we get close-ups of Billy and Irene looking at each other, which make their attraction immediately clear.
-->'''Irene:''' Oh, great. That's what we're gonna tell the police when they get here. "Oh, yes, Officer, he is dead, but he just can't stop scratching himself."
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Lou spills the beans to the cops to try to take Billy and Irene down with him, but he has absolutely no way to prove his identity (especially with his slightly altered face). Worse, after [=McClaine=] arrests him, his blood and fingerprints are matched to the knife and fireplace poker. With his body having officially been cremated, there's no way to prove his claims without Billy and Irene telling the truth.
* DueToTheDead: [=McClaine=] goes to Lou's sparsely attended memorial service out of respect, being the only non-family member there.
* EurekaMoment: After yelling at Mr. Neve (the man from the insurance company) on the phone, Lou bemoans how he's been giving them money his whole life and really needs some now, which leads to him thinking up his fraud scheme.
* EyesNeverLie: When he comes over to hear what Lou has to say, we get close-ups of Billy and Irene looking at each other, which make their attraction immediately clear.
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* {{Foil}}: Billy is everything is brother isn't and could never be. While Lou is a LazyBum with no scruples about making a quick buck (even stooping so low as to fleece his mother's retirement fund), Billy is a respectable mortician who only goes along with his brother's schemes because Lou keeps blackmailing him. Lou treats Irene [[DomesticAbuse like crap]] and [[StayInTheKitchen won't let her get a job]], whereas Billy shows nothing but kindness toward his sister-in-law (later wife) and encourages her to get a career.
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* {{Foil}}: FamousLastWords: "I'm Lou Paloma."
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** Billy is everything is brother isn't and could never be. While Lou is a LazyBum with no scruples about making a quick buck (even stooping so low as to fleece his mother's retirement fund), Billy is a respectable mortician who only goes along with his brother's schemes because Lou keeps blackmailing him. Lou treats Irene [[DomesticAbuse like crap]] and [[StayInTheKitchen won't let her get a job]], whereas Billy shows nothing but kindness toward his sister-in-law (later wife) and encourages her to get acareer.career.
** From what we briefly hear of him, Mr. Neve has an ego and attitude quite similar to Lou. (They yell at each other in similar ways.) The difference is that Neve has a steady job and is berating a deadbeat with a list of excuses, whereas Lou can't hold down a job and treats everyone like crap without justification.
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** Billy is everything is brother isn't and could never be. While Lou is a LazyBum with no scruples about making a quick buck (even stooping so low as to fleece his mother's retirement fund), Billy is a respectable mortician who only goes along with his brother's schemes because Lou keeps blackmailing him. Lou treats Irene [[DomesticAbuse like crap]] and [[StayInTheKitchen won't let her get a job]], whereas Billy shows nothing but kindness toward his sister-in-law (later wife) and encourages her to get a
** From what we briefly hear of him, Mr. Neve has an ego and attitude quite similar to Lou. (They yell at each other in similar ways.) The difference is that Neve has a steady job and is berating a deadbeat with a list of excuses, whereas Lou can't hold down a job and treats everyone like crap without justification.
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* KarmicDeath: Early on, Lou reminds Billy that he took money from their mother's retirement account and threatens to rat him out for it. When Billy says the money was actually given to him, Lou retorts he'll deny everything and adds that it's Billy's name on the withdrawal slips. In the end, Lou is convicted and executed for his own murder because Billy denied knowledge of his involvement in this scheme and ensured there was no way to prove he handled the supposed murder weapons.
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* MomentKiller:
** While going over the story they've prepared, Billy and Irene are about to kiss, but then Lou stumbles back in cursing about his corpse make-up.
** With the others out of the room, Billy and Irene start making out on the coffin, but they have to give it up when Mother Paloma suddenly storms back in. Good thing, though, due to the mechanism for sliding the coffin into the furnace having accidentally been activated during the interim.
** While going over the story they've prepared, Billy and Irene are about to kiss, but then Lou stumbles back in cursing about his corpse make-up.
** With the others out of the room, Billy and Irene start making out on the coffin, but they have to give it up when Mother Paloma suddenly storms back in. Good thing, though, due to the mechanism for sliding the coffin into the furnace having accidentally been activated during the interim.
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* NoYou: During their brief phone conversation, Mr. Neve tells Lou to get a job and calls him a bum.
-->'''Lou:''' Hey, you can't talk to me like that! This is Lou Paloma you're talkin' to!\\
'''Mr. Neve:''' Hey, hey, hey! You can't talk to me like that!
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Mother Paloma has even less regard for Irene than Lou does.
* OhCrap: Billy when he thinks his beatdown of Lou actually resulted in AccidentalMurder.
-->'''Lou:''' Hey, you can't talk to me like that! This is Lou Paloma you're talkin' to!\\
'''Mr. Neve:''' Hey, hey, hey! You can't talk to me like that!
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Mother Paloma has even less regard for Irene than Lou does.
* OhCrap: Billy when he thinks his beatdown of Lou actually resulted in AccidentalMurder.
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* RageBreakingPoint: As part of the scam, Lou needs to be knocked out with a fireplace poker, but Irene is reluctant to try. Lou goads her by saying he cheated on her with her best friend. Irene proceeds to wail on him with the poker for that, though her efforts don't knock him out. However, it turns out that Billy is also enraged by this and gives Lou a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comic, the husband and the undertaker were not related.
* RightForTheWrongReasons:
** In her grief, Mother Paloma accuses Billy of killing Lou. Well, he certainly took part in this scheme and hit him with the fireplace poker. She also blames Irene for the supposed death, but only in the sense that Irene allegedly wasn't there to protect Lou.
** Like everyone else, the prosecutor thinks Lou is just some disgusting murderer playing a sadistic game, but he is technically right when he accuses Lou of trying to weasel his way back into a married couple's lives for financial gain.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comic, the husband and the undertaker were not related.
* RightForTheWrongReasons:
** In her grief, Mother Paloma accuses Billy of killing Lou. Well, he certainly took part in this scheme and hit him with the fireplace poker. She also blames Irene for the supposed death, but only in the sense that Irene allegedly wasn't there to protect Lou.
** Like everyone else, the prosecutor thinks Lou is just some disgusting murderer playing a sadistic game, but he is technically right when he accuses Lou of trying to weasel his way back into a married couple's lives for financial gain.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: The episode may very well have not happened, if not for Mr. Neve yelling at Lou over the phone about his life insurance policy.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: The episode opens with Lou having already been fired from Zemeckis Pizza, so named after executive producer Robert Zemeckis.
* TheUnfavorite: As if Mother Paloma favoring Lou isn't bad enough, she's openly disdainful of Billy. This was hinted at early on, but it's made clear at Lou's memorial service, no less.
-->'''Mother Palmoa:''' I wanna be with my son!\\
'''Billy:''' Ma, I'm your son, too.\\
'''Mother Paloma:''' Don't rub it in!
* UnwittingPawn: [=McClaine=] and the other police officers are this to the scam. However, Lou finds out too late that he's become this to Billy and Irene.
* VillainousBreakdown: Lou when found guilty for his own murder. He screams in a rage, as the bailiff snaps the cuffs on.
* TheUnfavorite: As if Mother Paloma favoring Lou isn't bad enough, she's openly disdainful of Billy. This was hinted at early on, but it's made clear at Lou's memorial service, no less.
-->'''Mother Palmoa:''' I wanna be with my son!\\
'''Billy:''' Ma, I'm your son, too.\\
'''Mother Paloma:''' Don't rub it in!
* UnwittingPawn: [=McClaine=] and the other police officers are this to the scam. However, Lou finds out too late that he's become this to Billy and Irene.
* VillainousBreakdown: Lou when found guilty for his own murder. He screams in a rage, as the bailiff snaps the cuffs on.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: Not only did Lou cheat on Irene, but he did so with her best friend.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Invoked. Billy and Irene out-gambit Lou by denying his claims and taking advantage of how his prints and blood are on all the evidence. As such, the authorities believe him to be a cold-hearted, sadistic murderer instead of a guy who had help pulling off an elaborate insurance fraud scheme.
* XanatosGambit: Billy and Irene convince Lou that her leaving the country with that insurance check so soon after the memorial service would look too suspicious, so he leaves for Rio on his own and stays away for months. In the meantime, Billy and Irene hook up and keep the money for themselves. They fully expect Lou to come back to make a scene that'll incriminate himself (and only himself), but they'd also win if he just stayed away.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Invoked. Billy and Irene out-gambit Lou by denying his claims and taking advantage of how his prints and blood are on all the evidence. As such, the authorities believe him to be a cold-hearted, sadistic murderer instead of a guy who had help pulling off an elaborate insurance fraud scheme.
* XanatosGambit: Billy and Irene convince Lou that her leaving the country with that insurance check so soon after the memorial service would look too suspicious, so he leaves for Rio on his own and stays away for months. In the meantime, Billy and Irene hook up and keep the money for themselves. They fully expect Lou to come back to make a scene that'll incriminate himself (and only himself), but they'd also win if he just stayed away.
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Nobody believes Lou's claims about not being an imposter.
* YourCheatingHeart: To get Irene to hit him, Lou tells her about how he slept with her best friend the previous month.
* YourCheatingHeart: To get Irene to hit him, Lou tells her about how he slept with her best friend the previous month.
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Nobody believes Lou's claims about not being an imposter.
* YourCheatingHeart: To get Irene to hit him, Lou tells her about how he slept with her best friend the previous month.imposter.
* YourCheatingHeart: To get Irene to hit him, Lou tells her about how he slept with her best friend the previous month.
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* ComfortingTheWidow: Billy and Irene become attracted to each other during Lou's memorial service, [[FakingTheDead though Lou is still alive at the time]].
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* FakingTheDead: Part of Lou's scheme, with help from Billy, in order to collect the fortune on his life insurance policy.
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* ThreatBackfire: Lou threatens to give up Billy and Irene's role in the plan if they don't give him his money. They don't even bother worrying as they know the cops will never believe this is really Lou.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Lou's plan. He does such a great job making it look like he's been murdered that no one, including the cops or D.A., believes his claims of who he is...and that the only way he could know all this is if he's the murderer.
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine Fake his own death, then collect the life insurance. But a thug's get-rich scheme can go dead wrong.]]'']]
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->''Fake his own death, then collect the life insurance. But a thug's get-rich scheme can go dead wrong.
-->-- '''DVD description for the episode'''
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* {{Foil}}: Billy is everything is brother isn't and could never be. While Lou is a LazyBum with no scruples about making a quick buck (even stooping so low as to fleece his mother's retirement fund), Billy is a respectable mortician who only goes along with his brother's schemes because Lou keeps blackmailing him. Lou treats Irene [[DomesticAbuser like crap]] and [[StayInTheKitchen won't let her get a job]], whereas Billy shows nothing but kindness toward his sister-in-law (later wife) and encourages her to get a career.
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* {{Foil}}: Billy is everything is brother isn't and could never be. While Lou is a LazyBum with no scruples about making a quick buck (even stooping so low as to fleece his mother's retirement fund), Billy is a respectable mortician who only goes along with his brother's schemes because Lou keeps blackmailing him. Lou treats Irene [[DomesticAbuser [[DomesticAbuse like crap]] and [[StayInTheKitchen won't let her get a job]], whereas Billy shows nothing but kindness toward his sister-in-law (later wife) and encourages her to get a career.
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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: In this Michael J. Fox-directed episode of a show co-produced by Robert Zemeckis, [=McClaine=] is played by James Tolkan (who appeared as various Stricklands in the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy). Fox's prosecutor character briefly questions him during the trial.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Detective [=McClane=] and his boys are [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]] throughout the episode.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Detective [=McClane=] Sgt. [=McClaine=] and his boys are [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]] throughout the episode.
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* MurderTheHypoteneuse: Lou gets this through Billy and Irene getting back at him.
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* MurderTheHypoteneuse: MurderTheHypotenuse: Lou gets this through Billy and Irene getting back at him.
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: No Nobody believes Lou's claims about not being an imposter.
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* WifeBasherBasher: Billy is this given how much he hates Lou for abusing Irene. And when given the chance, Billy hits Lou over the head with a fire poker as revenge for what he did to Irene.
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* WifeBasherBasher: Billy is this given how much he absolutely hates the way Lou for abusing treats Irene. And when given the chance, Billy hits Lou over the head with a fire poker as out of revenge for what he did to Irene.
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* MurderTheHypoteneuse: Lou gets this through Billy and Irene getting back at him.
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* LoveTriangle: Between Billy/Irene/Lou.
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* SiblingTriangle: Irene is married to Lou but is falling in love with his brother Billy who genuinely returns her feelings. They get together in the end after Lou's KarmicDeath.
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* WifeBasherBasher: Billy is this given how much he hates Lou for abusing Irene. And when given the chance, Billy hits Lou over the head with a fire poker as revenge for what he did to Irene.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Lou and Billy's mom thinks she's Eleanor Roosevelt!
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Lou and Billy's mom thinks the prosecutor is her son Lou and she herself thinks she's Eleanor Roosevelt!
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* CreatorCameo: Creator/MichaelJFox directed this episode and plays the prosecutor during the trial.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Lou (who admitted to cheating on her at least once) denounces Irene for hooking up with Billy while he was away.
* SanitySlippage: Lou's apparent death has driven Mother Paloma off the deep end.
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: No believes Lou's claims about not being an imposter.imposter.
* YourCheatingHeart: To get Irene to hit him, Lou tells her about how he slept with her best friend the previous month.
* YourCheatingHeart: To get Irene to hit him, Lou tells her about how he slept with her best friend the previous month.
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** Mother Paloma, as well--[[GenerationXerox must be where Lou got it from.]]
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Since Lou can't fake unconsciousness, he tells Irene to knock him out with the fireplace poker. To motivate her, he lists off several horrible things he's done to her. This prompts Billy, who ''hates'' how his brother treats Irene, to snatch the poker out of her hands and whack Lou in the head until he's knocked out.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Lou is an utter scumbag who treats his family horribly and would rather make a quick buck than an honest living. Billy and Irene commit perjury and insurance fraud, but both misdeeds were brought about by Lou's actions, and he completely deserves everything they subject him to in the climax.
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* BigBrotherBully: Lou. Lou, Lou, Lou.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Lou is an utter scumbag who treats his family horribly and would rather make a quick buck than an honest living. Billy and Irene commit perjury and insurance fraud, but bothmisdeeds felonies were brought about by Lou's actions, and he completely deserves everything they subject him to in the climax.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Lou is an utter scumbag who treats his family horribly and would rather make a quick buck than an honest living. Billy and Irene commit perjury and insurance fraud, but both
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* {{Jerkass}}: Lou. '''Lou.''' UpToEleven.
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* HumiliationConga: Lou goes through a well deserved one after returning from Rio. He finds that his wife and brother are married, kept the insurance money, spruced up the house, and basically pushed him completely out of their lives. When he tries to get back at them by exposing the scam to the cops, they refuse to believe him and arrest him for his own murder. At the subsequent trial, Lou is verbally shat upon by every witness (even his own mother unintentionally screws him over by calling herself Eleanor Roosevelt and mistaking the defense attorney for him), sentenced to death, and executed.
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* ThickerThanWater: Lou invokes this to get Billy's cooperation, [[Hypocrite despite the fact]] [[ItsAllAboutMe that he only cares about himself]].
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* ThickerThanWater: Lou invokes this to get Billy's cooperation, [[Hypocrite [[{{Hypocrite}} despite the fact]] [[ItsAllAboutMe that he only cares about himself]].
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Lou is an utter scumbag who treats his family horribly and would rather make a quick buck than an honest living. Billy and Irene commit perjury and manipulate the police, insurance fraud, but both misdeeds were brought about by Lou's actions, and he completely deserves everything they subject him to in the climax.
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* ParentalFavoritism: Lou and Billy's mom inexplicably favors Lou.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Lou thinks he's a big shot when he's really a worthless deadbeat.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Irene.
* ThickerThanWater: Lou invokes this to get Billy's cooperation, [[Hypocrite despite the fact]] [[ItsAllAboutMe that he only cares about himself]].
* SympatheticAdulterer: Irene.
* ThickerThanWater: Lou invokes this to get Billy's cooperation, [[Hypocrite despite the fact]] [[ItsAllAboutMe that he only cares about himself]].
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Lou is an utter scumbag who treats his family horribly and would rather make a quick buck than an honest living. Billy and Irene commit perjury and manipulate the police, but both misdeeds were brought about by Lou's actions, and he completely deserves everything they subject him to in the climax.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Lou and Billy's mom thinks she's Eleanor Roosevelt!
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Lou and Billy's mom thinks she's Eleanor Roosevelt!
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* PoliceAreUseless: Detective [=McClane=] and his boys are [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]] throughout the episode.
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Lou is shocked to find his house completely remodeled and Irene now married to Billy. Neither of them claims to know him, and when he calls the police to explain the insurance fraud and the double-cross, he is arrested, tried, and convicted of his own murder. He is executed in the electric chair, while Irene and Billy fly to Rio.
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Lou is shocked to find his house completely remodeled and Irene now married to Billy. Neither of them claims to know him, and when he calls the police to explain the insurance fraud and the double-cross, he is arrested, tried, and convicted of his own murder. He is executed in the electric chair, while Irene and Billy fly to Rio.Rio.
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!!The episode contains the following tropes:
* AssholeVictim: Lou gets what he deserves in the end.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Irene falls in love with, and later marries, Billy due to this trope.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Billy and Irene are genuinely nice people who want to do the right thing, but mistreat them one too many times at your peril. Lou found this out the hard way.
* {{Foil}}: Billy is everything is brother isn't and could never be. While Lou is a LazyBum with no scruples about making a quick buck (even stooping so low as to fleece his mother's retirement fund), Billy is a respectable mortician who only goes along with his brother's schemes because Lou keeps blackmailing him. Lou treats Irene [[DomesticAbuser like crap]] and [[StayInTheKitchen won't let her get a job]], whereas Billy shows nothing but kindness toward his sister-in-law (later wife) and encourages her to get a career.
* HappilyEverAfter: A rare example of this series using this trope. Everybody gets their just reward: Lou receives a satisfying KarmicDeath, while Irene and Billy live the high life on his insurance policy.
* HateSink: The episode hammers it in that you're supposed to hate Lou with every fiber of your being and dance for joy when he gets his JustDesserts. And you ''will''.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lou. UpToEleven.
* LazyBum: Lou can't hold down a job to save his life.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: No believes Lou's claims about not being an imposter.
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!!The episode contains the following tropes:
* AssholeVictim: Lou gets what he deserves in the end.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Irene falls in love with, and later marries, Billy due to this trope.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Billy and Irene are genuinely nice people who want to do the right thing, but mistreat them one too many times at your peril. Lou found this out the hard way.
* {{Foil}}: Billy is everything is brother isn't and could never be. While Lou is a LazyBum with no scruples about making a quick buck (even stooping so low as to fleece his mother's retirement fund), Billy is a respectable mortician who only goes along with his brother's schemes because Lou keeps blackmailing him. Lou treats Irene [[DomesticAbuser like crap]] and [[StayInTheKitchen won't let her get a job]], whereas Billy shows nothing but kindness toward his sister-in-law (later wife) and encourages her to get a career.
* HappilyEverAfter: A rare example of this series using this trope. Everybody gets their just reward: Lou receives a satisfying KarmicDeath, while Irene and Billy live the high life on his insurance policy.
* HateSink: The episode hammers it in that you're supposed to hate Lou with every fiber of your being and dance for joy when he gets his JustDesserts. And you ''will''.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lou. UpToEleven.
* LazyBum: Lou can't hold down a job to save his life.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: No believes Lou's claims about not being an imposter.
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After being fired from his job as a pizza delivery driver, Lou Paloma gets into an argument with his wife Irene over the dismal state of their finances. Irene's doubt over his ability to provide for the couple has become a long-standing frustration between them. With the reluctant help of his brother Billy, a coroner, Lou concocts a scheme to fake his own murder and collect $500,000 on his life insurance policy so he and Irene can start a new life in Rio.
At his memorial service, Billy and Irene become attracted to each other and have sex on top of Lou's coffin, nearly sending it into a cremation furnace with him still inside. As the three celebrate afterward, Billy and Irene suggest that Lou go to Rio first, leaving Irene and the money behind until it is safe for her to join him without raising suspicions. He does so and has plastic surgery to alter his appearance, but after six months of hearing nothing from Irene, he loses his patience and flies back to the US.
Lou is shocked to find his house completely remodeled and Irene now married to Billy. Neither of them claims to know him, and when he calls the police to explain the insurance fraud and the double-cross, he is arrested, tried, and convicted of his own murder. He is executed in the electric chair, while Irene and Billy fly to Rio.
At his memorial service, Billy and Irene become attracted to each other and have sex on top of Lou's coffin, nearly sending it into a cremation furnace with him still inside. As the three celebrate afterward, Billy and Irene suggest that Lou go to Rio first, leaving Irene and the money behind until it is safe for her to join him without raising suspicions. He does so and has plastic surgery to alter his appearance, but after six months of hearing nothing from Irene, he loses his patience and flies back to the US.
Lou is shocked to find his house completely remodeled and Irene now married to Billy. Neither of them claims to know him, and when he calls the police to explain the insurance fraud and the double-cross, he is arrested, tried, and convicted of his own murder. He is executed in the electric chair, while Irene and Billy fly to Rio.
