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* AssholeVictim: Downplayed with Mr. Nutt the hotel manager. He's a belligerent, caustic {{Jerkass jerk}} with a huge chip on his shoulder, but has a somewhat legitimate FreudianExcuse and certainly didn't deserve to die.
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Mulder and Scully investigate a murder in a town where nearly everyone is a retired circus performer.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The episode opens with two boys playing in the water as something large and scaly approaches... and it turns out to be their father, who has ichthyosis and performs as an "alligator man". A few minutes later, after the boys leave, the Alligator Man gets attacked by the actual monster of the week.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The Conundrum will eat anything: "Live animals, dead animals, rocks, lightbulbs, corkscrews, battery cables, cranberries... "
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The Conundrum will eat anything: "Live animals, dead animals, rocks, lightbulbs, light bulbs, corkscrews, battery cables, cranberries... "
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* CircusEpisode: Mulder and Scully investigate a series of disappearances in a small town that relies economically on the circus industry. Just about everyone they meet is a circus performer of some kind - even the local sheriff is a former "dog-boy".
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* CircusEpisode: Mulder and Scully investigate a series of disappearances in a small town that relies economically on the circus industry. Just about everyone they meet is a circus performer of some kind - even the local sheriff is a former "dog-boy"."dog-faced boy".
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* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse response to Dr. Blockhead's performance at Glazebrook's funeral. None of the congragants were amused.
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* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse response to Dr. Blockhead's performance at Glazebrook's funeral. None of the congragants congregants were amused.
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* TheFunInFuneral: Glazebrook's funeral is so whacky that Mulder [[DeadpanSnarker jokes that he can't wait for the wake.]]
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* TheFunInFuneral: Glazebrook's funeral is so whacky wacky that Mulder [[DeadpanSnarker jokes that he can't wait for the wake.]]
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* WholePlotReference: Tom Reamy's 1977 short story "The Detweiler Boy".
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* EatingTheEnemy: The monster is defeated when the Conundrum eats it. It is previously established that the Conundrum will eat anything.
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* MyEyesAreUpHere: Played with in a scene where Scully and Lanny meet while wearing loose robes. She can't resist looking at his undeveloped conjoined twin; he can't resist looking at her cleavage.
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* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse response to Dr. Blockhead's performance at Glazebrook's funeral. None of the congragants were amused.
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* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse response to Dr. Blockhead's performance at Glazebrook's funeral. None of the congragants were amused.
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* CastTheExpert: Many of the extras were circus performers, underscoring how despite the physical... oddities... they were still normal people at everyday jobs.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: the first ''X-Files'' episode to intentionally go out of its way to be comedic. Although it still contains its' fair share [[NightmareFuel of scares]] and insight.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001704/ Mr. Vargas]] is Lanny.
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* CircusEpisode: Mulder and Scully investigate a series of disappearances in a small town that relies economically on the circus industry. Just about everyone they meet is a circus performer of some kind - even the local sheriff is a former "dog-boy".
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* SherlockScan: Spoofed. The local motel is run by a ''little person'' and Mulder, rather innocently, asks if he's done any circus work, as the whole town consists of circus performers, sideshows, and freaks. The clerk is naturally offended by this and attempts to make a point about stereotyping by performing a scan on Mulder. Unfortunately, he stereotypes Mulder as an FBI agent.
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* SherlockScan: Spoofed. The local motel is run by a ''little person'' and Mulder, rather innocently, innocuously, asks if he's done any circus work, as the whole town consists of circus performers, sideshows, and freaks.performers. The clerk is naturally offended by this and attempts to make a point about stereotyping by performing a scan on Mulder. Unfortunately, he stereotypes Mulder as an FBI agent.
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* SherlockScan: Spoofed. The local motel is run by a ''little person'' and Mulder, rather innocently, asks if he's done any circus work, as the whole town consists of circus performers, sideshows, and freaks. The clerk is naturally offended by this and attempts to make a point about stereotyping by performing a scan on Mulder. Unfortunately, he stereotypes Mulder as an FBI agent.
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* CastTheExpert: Many of the extras were circus performers, underscoring how despite the physical... oddities... they were still normal people at everyday jobs.
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* DumbMuscle: Lenny. He also has a case of SimpletonVoice. Though it's implied this is at least partially due to his heavy drinking.
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* DumbMuscle: Lenny. He also has a case of SimpletonVoice. Though it's implied this is at least partially mostly due to his heavy drinking.
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* DumbMuscle: Lenny. He also has a case of SimpletonVoice.
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* DumbMuscle: Lenny. He also has a case of SimpletonVoice. Though it's implied this is at least partially due to his heavy drinking.
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* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:Did Gillian Anderson really eat that cricket or not?]]
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* TheUnreveal: TheUnReveal: [[spoiler:Did Gillian Anderson really eat that cricket or not?]]
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* RedHerring: Sheriff used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy. The revelation that he used to be a circus performer appears to be very significant.
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* RedHerring: Sheriff used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy. The revelation that he used to be a circus performer appears to be very significant.significant, but when Scully and Mulder talk to him about it, he's nonplussed and simply speaks about his past in a matter-of-fact manner. He even somewhat [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the trope:
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* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:Did Gillian Anderson really eat that cricket or not?]]
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: the first ''X-Files'' episode to intentionally go out of its way to be comedic. Although it still contains its' fair share [[NightmareFuel of scares]] and insight.
* DumbMuscle: Lenny. He also has a case of SimpletonVoice.
* HumansAreSpecial: A subtle aesop, using circus performers to highlight that in the end people are still people.
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* SideBoob: When Lenny comes to wake Scully telling her another body had been found, the audience sees Lenny's gaze spotting her partially undressed underneath her robe. At the same time, Scully is looking down Lenny's robe to see his conjoined twin. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny They both realize what they're doing and immediately wrap their robes up tighter]].
* WhamLine: the last line of the episode, no less.
* WhamLine: the last line of the episode, no less.
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* RedHerring: Sheriff used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy.
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* RedHerring: Sheriff used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy. The revelation that he used to be a circus performer appears to be very significant.
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* HallofMirrors: Scully chases Leonard in the hall of mirrors at the funhouse. She fires at him but ends up breaking the mirror that reflected him. She walks down a hallway and bumps into a mirror. And then into Mulder so they decide to catch him outside.
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* HallofMirrors: HallOfMirrors: Scully chases Leonard in the hall of mirrors at the funhouse. She fires at him but ends up breaking the mirror that reflected him. She walks down a hallway and bumps into a mirror. And then into Mulder so they decide to catch him outside.
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* CannotKeepASecret: Fortunately for her, Mulder just blurts out that they found out that Sheriff Hamilton [[spoiler:used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy.]]
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* CannotKeepASecret: Fortunately for her, Mulder just blurts out that they found out that Sheriff Hamilton [[spoiler:used used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001704/ Mr. Vargas]] is Lanny.
* HallofMirrors: Scully chases Leonard in the hall of mirrors at the funhouse. She fires at him but ends up breaking the mirror that reflected him. She walks down a hallway and bumps into a mirror. And then into Mulder so they decide to catch him outside.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001704/ Mr. Vargas]] is Lanny.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001704/ Mr. Vargas]] is Lanny.
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* RedHerring: Sheriff used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The Conundrum will eat anything: "Live animals, dead animals, rocks, lightbulbs, corkscrews, battery cables, cranberries... "
* BrickJoke: The Conundrum will eat ''anything''.
* CannotKeepASecret: Fortunately for her, Mulder just blurts out that they found out that Sheriff Hamilton [[spoiler:used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy.]]
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Scully, trying to explain.
* BrickJoke: The Conundrum will eat ''anything''.
* CannotKeepASecret: Fortunately for her, Mulder just blurts out that they found out that Sheriff Hamilton [[spoiler:used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy.]]
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Scully, trying to explain.
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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Scully, trying to explain.
* CannotKeepASecret: Fortunately for her, Mulder just blurts out that they found out that Sheriff Hamilton [[spoiler:used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy.]]
* CannotKeepASecret: Fortunately for her, Mulder just blurts out that they found out that Sheriff Hamilton [[spoiler:used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy.]]
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* BrickJoke: The Conundrum will eat ''anything''.
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!!Tropes:
* TheFunInFuneral: Glazebrook's funeral is so whacky that Mulder [[DeadpanSnarker jokes that he can't wait for the wake.]]
* ICanExplain: "What are you doing?" "We're exhuming your... potato."
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Scully, trying to explain.
* CannotKeepASecret: Fortunately for her, Mulder just blurts out that they found out that Sheriff Hamilton [[spoiler:used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy.]]
* Dumb Muscle: Lenny.
* TheFunInFuneral: Glazebrook's funeral is so whacky that Mulder [[DeadpanSnarker jokes that he can't wait for the wake.]]
* ICanExplain: "What are you doing?" "We're exhuming your... potato."
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Scully, trying to explain.
* CannotKeepASecret: Fortunately for her, Mulder just blurts out that they found out that Sheriff Hamilton [[spoiler:used to be Jim-Jim the Dog-Faced Boy.]]
* Dumb Muscle: Lenny.
