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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Because their prior interactions all went badly for him, the deeply paranoid and insane Bill is now convinced that Dib is conspiring against him.
** When Gaz is blamed for the damage caused to Game Slave Inc. headquarters by the rampaging rat people, she realizes she can't tell people what really happened because with her as the only witness, no one will ever believe it.
*** Gaz earlier abused her position during her trip to Game Slave Inc. by snitching on workers and/or making sure they get the blame for slights. So when she's accused of the damage committed by the rat slaves, a worker she abused is quick to pin the blame onto her. Even if he ''had'' been willing to believe her possible claim that the rat creatures were responsible or if he had also witnessed the incident, he'd be hopping at the chance to pay her back for her horrid behavior.
** Because everyone (except Tenn) causes or otherwise gets involved in trouble during their Career Day assignments, they all end up sent to detention.



* WakingNonSequitur: When Dib dozes off during Bill's explanation of his grand conspiracy theory and gets slapped back awake, he blurts out "Bigfoot's tonsillitis!"

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* WakingNonSequitur: When Dib dozes off during Bill's explanation of his grand conspiracy theory and gets slapped back awake, he blurts out "Bigfoot's tonsillitis!"tonsillitis!"
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* SeriousBusiness: The company that Steve interns at takes its coffee ''very' seriously. To the point of the idea of someone taking it from them being treated as a declaration of war.

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* SeriousBusiness: The company that Steve interns at takes its coffee ''very' ''very'' seriously. To the point of the idea of someone taking it from them being treated as a declaration of war.
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** The exchange between Tenn and Slab Rankle about the enslavement of the rat people is paraphrased from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' regarding the legality of one of Jimmy's experiments.
-->'''Tenn''': Is that legal?
-->'''Slab''': In some states. Depends on how you define 'legal'.

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** The exchange between Tenn and Slab Rankle about the enslavement of the rat people is paraphrased from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' regarding the legality of one of Jimmy's experiments.
-->'''Tenn''': -->'''Tenn:''' Is that legal?
-->'''Slab''':
legal?\\
'''Slab:'''
In some states. Depends on how you define 'legal'.

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* RealityEnsues:
** Because their prior interactions all went badly for him, the deeply paranoid and insane Bill is now convinced that Dib is conspiring against him.
** When Gaz is blamed for the damage caused to Game Slave Inc. headquarters by the rampaging rat people, she realizes she can't tell people what really happened because with her as the only witness, no one will ever believe it.
*** Gaz earlier abused her position during her trip to Game Slave Inc. by snitching on workers and/or making sure they get the blame for slights. So when she's accused of the damage committed by the rat slaves, a worker she abused is quick to pin the blame onto her. Even if he ''had'' been willing to believe her possible claim that the rat creatures were responsible or if he had also witnessed the incident, he'd be hopping at the chance to pay her back for her horrid behavior.
** Because everyone (except Tenn) causes or otherwise gets involved in trouble during their Career Day assignments, they all end up sent to detention.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Because their prior interactions all went badly for him, the deeply paranoid and insane Bill is now convinced that Dib is conspiring against him.
** When Gaz is blamed for the damage caused to Game Slave Inc. headquarters by the rampaging rat people, she realizes she can't tell people what really happened because with her as the only witness, no one will ever believe it.
*** Gaz earlier abused her position during her trip to Game Slave Inc. by snitching on workers and/or making sure they get the blame for slights. So when she's accused of the damage committed by the rat slaves, a worker she abused is quick to pin the blame onto her. Even if he ''had'' been willing to believe her possible claim that the rat creatures were responsible or if he had also witnessed the incident, he'd be hopping at the chance to pay her back for her horrid behavior.
** Because everyone (except Tenn) causes or otherwise gets involved in trouble during their Career Day assignments, they all end up sent to detention.
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With Career Day having come again, Dib, his friends, and the Irkens have to deal with their various job assignments.

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*AccidentalMisnaming: The actress that Viera interns for repeatedly gets her name wrong, cycling through every other name that starts with a "V". And then Rebecca, which an annoyed Viera notes doesn't even fit that pattern.
*ArcWelding: In canon, the Ham Demon was just a [[NoodleIncident random gag monster]] that Zim fought in Tak's initial appearance. Here, it's made clear that Tak had created the Ham Demon as a means of keeping Zim busy.
*BadBoss: Mrs. Albertson, the Game Slave executive that Gaz shadows for Career Day, has her employees beaten by security guards at the drop of a hat if they even slightly break her rules.
*BerserkButton: For Claudia von Wunderbar, it's correcting her or falling short of her petty desires.
*ButForMeItWasTuesday: Steve notes that his and Viera's lives have gotten pretty weird if he can consider it pretty normal that she's being chased by a movie crew led by a banshee witch.
*BystanderSyndrome: Dib ultimately chooses to not step in when Tak is fighting the Ham Demon, figuring she can handle it by herself.
*CantTakeCriticism: Claudia von Wunderbar treats anyone correcting her as an insult.
*ConspiracyTheorist: Bill shows up again, and if anything seems ''less'' rational than he was last time.
*DisproportionateRetribution: Claudia von Wunderbar tries to kill Viera for correcting her on saying Viera's name (after already being mad over Viera failing to bring her coffee when the machine broke).
*EvenEvilHasStandards:
**Nyx, has no problem with enslaving "[[FantasticRacism lesser races]]" if it's for a ''purpose'', but doing it just to save labor costs enrages her.
**Subverted by Tenn. She's initially wary when she finds out that Slab Rankle is enslaving the rat people in the Mall's garage, but not out of morals; she's just worried about if being involved with this will drag her into legal trouble. Upon being told that it's not technically illegal, she has no problem with it.
*EyeScream: Skoodge gets zapped in the eye by the malfunctioning Job Evaluator drone.
*FormerChildStar: Claudia von Wunderbar is noted as having been a fairly successful child star who is now long past her prime.
*HoistByHisOwnPetard: Tak ends up having to fight the same Ham Demon she once unleashed to attack Zim.
*HollywoodHacking: Tak uses her hypnotic implant to hack the Job Evaluator so that she gets a job at her own company.
*{{Hypocrite}}: Zim tells Nyx to quit whining about her Career Day assignment, while Skoodge points out that he was just doing the same thing.
*TheIlluminati: Bill believes that they, along with the Freemasons and Templars, are part of a secret conspiracy to control the world.
*JerkassHasAPoint:
**Played with. Bill does somewhat have a right to be suspicious of Dib after their last meeting. However, Dib points out that most of what happened was either a coincidence or his own fault.
**As abrasive as Mrs. Albertson is to her workers, she is right they are acting lazy, and she even points out that while her punishments are extreme, they were [[ReadTheFinePrint in her contracts]] so they knew what they were getting into.
*LaserGuidedKarma:
**Gaz spends most of her time interning at Game Slave Incorporated headquarters goading the boss into having employees beaten by security guards for "discipline". Later, one of them takes the opportunity to frame her for something that isn't her fault, leading to her being "disciplined".
**Tak uses her mind control implant to hack the Job Evaluator, in order to cheat the system and spend her Career Day assignment at her own front company. However, due to circumstances outside her control, this results in her having to fight the Ham Demon and apparently getting blamed for the damage it causes.
*LetsYouAndHimFight: In a spur of the moment panicked decision, Steve tricks the coffee-obsessed employees of the office he's interning at that the movie crew chasing Viera is coming to steal their coffee, causing them to fight each other.
*MundaneMadeAwesome: The corporation Steve interns at is dedicating its resources towards developing a high-tech ''paper clip'' that they think will make them billions.
*MythologyGag: Bill's grand conspiracy theory includes secret societies of wizards whose magic is powered by Poop soda. This was the plot of Issues 29 and 30 of the comic series.
*OurBansheesAreLouder: Claudia von Wunderbar normally looks like a normal woman, but when angry she turns into a hag and starts floating.
*ThePrimadonna: Claudia von Wunderbar is shrill and demanding and quick to blame other people if anything even slightly goes wrong with her performances.
*QuitYourWhining: Zim tells Nyx to stop complaining about her Career Day assignment (even though he was just doing the same thing).
*ReadTheFinePrint: Mrs. Albertson, the Game Slave executive, points out that their contracts all spell out that she's completely allowed to have her employees beaten if they violate company rules.
*RealityEnsues:
**Because their prior interactions all went badly for him, the deeply paranoid and insane Bill is now convinced that Dib is conspiring against him.
**When Gaz is blamed for the damage caused to Game Slave Inc. headquarters by the rampaging rat people, she realizes she can't tell people what really happened because with her as the only witness, no one will ever believe it.
***Gaz earlier abused her position during her trip to Game Slave Inc. by snitching on workers and/or making sure they get the blame for slights. So when she's accused of the damage committed by the rat slaves, a worker she abused is quick to pin the blame onto her. Even if he ''had'' been willing to believe her possible claim that the rat creatures were responsible or if he had also witnessed the incident, he'd be hopping at the chance to pay her back for her horrid behavior.
**Because everyone (except Tenn) causes or otherwise gets involved in trouble during their Career Day assignments, they all end up sent to detention.
*SeriousBusiness: The company that Steve interns at takes its coffee ''very' seriously. To the point of the idea of someone taking it from them being treated as a declaration of war.
*SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Dib’s reaction when Bill offhandedly refers to Viera as his girlfriend.
*ShoutOut:
**At one point while discussing his grand conspiracy theory, Bill slightly paraphrases one of ComicBook/TheQuestion's [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited most famous lines]], regarding how the plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are "called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister."
**The exchange between Tenn and Slab Rankle about the enslavement of the rat people is paraphrased from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' regarding the legality of one of Jimmy's experiments.
-->'''Tenn''': Is that legal?
-->'''Slab''': In some states. Depends on how you define 'legal'.
**While freeing the rat people, Nyx [[Film/{{Braveheart}} shouts "Freedom!" while half her face is covered in blue paint.]]
*SmallNameBigEgo: Claudia von Wunderbar's name is a bit long, but still not nearly enough to match how incredible she seems to think she is.
*StringTheory: Bill has an extensive one detailing the grand set of conspiracies he believes he's uncovered. But given it's all based on his InsaneTrollLogic, Dib notes that it's a bizarre mess that makes no sense whatsoever.
*ThisIsGonnaSuck: Dib's reaction to having to listen to Bill's insane conspiracy theories.
*UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The whole movie crew knows Claudia is a banshee and don't care, treating her wanting to feed on Viera as totally normal.
*WakingNonSequitur: When Dib dozes off during Bill's explanation of his grand conspiracy theory and gets slapped back awake, he blurts out "Bigfoot's tonsillitis!"

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