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* AdultFear: Homer's ex-girlfriend was pregnant when he got captured. He only agreed to be part of Hap's "study" because he thought he'd get money to take care of the baby. He's never met his child and fears they think he abandoned them.
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Being imprisoned in Hap's lap gradually takes its toll on the OA, despite the presence of others.

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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Being imprisoned in Hap's lap lab gradually takes its toll on the OA, despite the presence of others.
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* AngstySurvivingTwin: Betty has a decreased twin brother named Theo. She's still torn up about his death.

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* AngstySurvivingTwin: Betty has a decreased deceased twin brother named Theo. She's still torn up about his death.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Homer helps a devastated OA cheer up by getting her to do jumping jacks. The power of movement is going to be very important to the story.
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* LampshadeHanging: After hearing about how the letter for help was lost, everyone is quick to point out the inherent FridgeLogic in the fact they tried to mail Homer's ring.
-->'''Jesse:''' Those football rings are clunky, um, wouldn't Hap have, like, noticed it in the envelope anyway?\\
'''OA:''' Maybe.\\
'''Buck:''' Well, you were going to put it in the middle of the mail pile, right? Hap wouldn't notice that?\\
'''Steve:''' Oh, shut up guys, seriously you ask the dumbest questions.
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* AdultFear: Homer's ex-girlfriend was pregnant when he got captured. He only agreed to part of Hap's "study" because he thought he'd get money to take care of the baby. He's never met his child and fears they think he abandoned them.

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* AdultFear: Homer's ex-girlfriend was pregnant when he got captured. He only agreed to be part of Hap's "study" because he thought he'd get money to take care of the baby. He's never met his child and fears they think he abandoned them.



* BeneathSuspicion: Hap assumes the OA is harmless because her disability. She takes advantage of this by drugging him.

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* BeneathSuspicion: Hap assumes the OA is harmless because of her disability. She takes advantage of this by drugging him.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Hap tricked several people who had NDEs in order to capture and experiment on them.

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* ManipulativeBastard: Hap tricked several people who had NDEs [=NDEs=] in order to capture and experiment on them.
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* IdiotBall: It is somehow a surprise to Hap that the dish the OA makes him has tomato in it even though, since the OA is blind, he had to personally order all the ingredients for her.

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* ShoutOut: The drawing of Betty on the classroom whiteboard with her in Music/NickiMinaj's "Anaconda" pose.

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* ShoutOut: The drawing of Betty on the classroom whiteboard with her in Music/NickiMinaj's "Anaconda" pose.pose.
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* AdultFear: Homer's ex-girlfriend was pregnant when he got captured. He only agreed to part of Hap's "study" because he thought he'd get money to take care of the baby. He's never met his child and fears they think he abandoned them.
* AngstySurvivingTwin: Betty has a decreased twin brother named Theo. She's still torn up about his death.
* BeneathSuspicion: Hap assumes the OA is harmless because her disability. She takes advantage of this by drugging him.
* BreakTheCutie: Happens to the OA after finding a woman's dead body in Hap's bathroom. Then again when she loses the letter.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Being imprisoned in Hap's lap gradually takes its toll on the OA, despite the presence of others.
* GreatEscape: The OA, Rachel, Homer, and Scott attempt this several times, but each attempt fails.
* HopeSpot: The NDE club ''almost'' manages to get a letter to the outside, but it slips through the OA's fingers and gets lost down the stream.
* {{Maid}}: Hap allows the OA to work upstairs as his housekeeper because she's blind and presumably harmless.
* ManipulativeBastard: Hap tricked several people who had NDEs in order to capture and experiment on them.
* PetTheDog:
** Hap lets the OA make sandwiches for the other prisoners after feeding them nothing but pellets.
** Betty saves Steve from getting sent to Ashville by convincing his parents to place him in special education.
* PlotAllergy: Hap has an allergic reaction to the soup the OA made him, rather than pass out because of the sleeping pills.
* ShoutOut: The drawing of Betty on the classroom whiteboard with her in Music/NickiMinaj's "Anaconda" pose.
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'''Season 1 Episode 03''':
!Champion
A journalist approaches the family with an offer. At Hap's, a bond is forged with Homer and the others as they hatch a desperate plan.

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