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* TheReveal: We discover Catherine is named after her grandmother, who's gone unnamed up to this point, pointing out another way Selina tried and failed to win her approval.
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* TheReveal: We discover learn the name of Selina's mother, Catherine Eaton, who's gone unnamed up to this point. This also means Catherine is named after her grandmother, who's gone unnamed up to this point, pointing out another way Selina tried and failed to win her mother's approval.
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--->'''Selina:''' The only daughter of a pathological narcissist. All this woman ever did was criticize me or ignore me.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Right before Selina goes up to deliver her mother's eulogy she's informed that she lost the Nevada recount ''and'' that all the new O'Brien votes mean she has now lost the popular vote. Her tearful breakdown is misinterpreted as referring to her mother.
--> '''Selina:''' ''(through tears)'' I'm sorry, it's just all sort of hitting me right now. I have lost... so much. I'm sorry... I can't... ''(breaks down sobbing)'' Just not fair. This is just not fair.
--> '''Selina:''' ''(through tears)'' I'm sorry, it's just all sort of hitting me right now. I have lost... so much. I'm sorry... I can't... ''(breaks down sobbing)'' Just not fair. This is just not fair.
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* RacistGrandma: Selina again implies her mother was a racist when greeting the well-wishing crowds.
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* RacistGrandma: Selina again implies her mother was a racist when greeting the well-wishing crowds.
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* RacistGrandma: Selina again implies her mother was a racist when greeting the well-wishing crowds.
--> '''Selina:''' There are so many friendly and diverse faces here. And I wish that Mother were alive to see this on her property.
--> '''Selina:''' There are so many friendly and diverse faces here. And I wish that Mother were alive to see this on her property.
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*BlackComedy: Catherine crying over her grandmother's possible death is sad, but the WAY she cries is unfortunately hilarious.
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--->'''Ben:'''They’re wet-fingered.
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** On her end, Selina pulls the plug on her mother without Catherine there. Not out of any malice, but simply because she’s too neglectful to both remember Catherine cares about "Mee-Maw" and that subsequently she might wanna be there
* LastWords: While Granny Meyer doesn't have any last words because of her stroke, Selina ends up saying Ben's words of encouragement to her before the end - "The ones we've lost will always be with us."
* LastWords: While Granny Meyer doesn't have any last words because of her stroke, Selina ends up saying Ben's words of encouragement to her before the end - "The ones we've lost will always be with us."
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** On her end, Selina pulls the plug on her mother without Catherine there. Not out of any malice, but simply because she’s too neglectful to both remember Catherine cares about "Mee-Maw" and that subsequently she might wanna be there
there.
**Selina in general is pretty thoughtless about Catherine during this process, although this episode gives us a lot of insight into why she might feel that way.
* LastWords: While Granny Meyer doesn't have any last words because of her stroke, Selina ends up saying Ben's words of encouragement to her before the end -"The ones we've lost will "Those you love cannot be lost, because they are always be with us.a part of you." The benefits and disadvantages of that statement are not lost on her.
* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Tragically, Selina describing her mother:
--->'''Selina:''' The only daughter of a pathological narcissist. All this woman ever did was criticize me or ignore me.
*ObviouslyEvil: Jaffar, a proxy for the Chinese government, looks as evil as a person possibly could, whispering his lines, flaring his eyebrows, and giving a quality KubrickStare.
**Selina in general is pretty thoughtless about Catherine during this process, although this episode gives us a lot of insight into why she might feel that way.
* LastWords: While Granny Meyer doesn't have any last words because of her stroke, Selina ends up saying Ben's words of encouragement to her before the end -
* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Tragically, Selina describing her mother:
--->'''Selina:''' The only daughter of a pathological narcissist. All this woman ever did was criticize me or ignore me.
*ObviouslyEvil: Jaffar, a proxy for the Chinese government, looks as evil as a person possibly could, whispering his lines, flaring his eyebrows, and giving a quality KubrickStare.
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PhotographicMemory: Kent recognizes Ben’s words of advice from a card Ben’s wife sent him when Kent’s cat Fibonacci passed. [[PetTheDog He mentions he found them soothing.]]
She insists that they stay, theoretically because she cares about politics more than her mom, but in practice, probably because she doesn’t want to be alone for this
* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Tragically, Selina describing her mother:
--->'''Selina:''' The only daughter of a pathological narcissist. All this woman ever did was criticize me or ignore me.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Usman Ally makes his first appearance as the Qatari ambassador Jaffar.
Usman Ally looks as evil as a person possibly could, whispering his lines, flaring his eyebrows, and giving a quality KubrickStare
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**Selina also has a moment of genuine confiding with her staff, insisting they stay when they pull the plug so she doesn't have to be alone.
*PhotographicMemory: Kent recognizes Ben’s words of advice from a card Ben’s wife sent him when Kent’s cat Fibonacci passed. [[PetTheDog He mentions he found them soothing.
She insists that they stay, theoretically because she cares about politics more than her mom, but in practice, probably because she doesn’t want to be alone for this
* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Tragically, Selina describing her mother:
--->'''Selina:''' The only daughter of a pathological narcissist. All this woman ever did was criticize me or ignore me.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Usman Ally makes his first appearance as the Qatari ambassador
Usman Ally looks as evil as a person possibly could, whispering his lines, flaring his eyebrows, and giving a quality KubrickStare
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“There’s no evidence of a higher power.”
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: While the election tie is based on the Bush-Gore election of 2000, this ends up going farther, since the recount in Bush-Gore ended up in Bush's favor. Since the recount in this episode ends with a margin too small to be legally decisive, the decision about who to vote for will be decided in the House of Representatives.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: While the election tie is based on the Bush-Gore election of 2000, this ends up going farther, since the recount in Bush-Gore ended up in Bush's favor. Since the recount in this episode ends with a margin too small to be legally decisive, the decision about who to vote for will be decided in the House of Representatives.
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** Later, Selina cries at her mother’s memorial. Not because of her mother, but because she just lost the recount vote in Nevada. But the audience don't know that , so it looks like she IS crying about her mother, boosting her numbers further. She then also lets her daughter play the song she wanted to play, which makes Selina at least LOOK like a good mother herself.
* WellDoneSoneGuy: Selina is seen to have a major case of this with her mother, and one that was never resolved.
* WellDoneSoneGuy: Selina is seen to have a major case of this with her mother, and one that was never resolved.
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** Later, Selina cries at her mother’s memorial. Not because of her mother, but because she just lost the recount vote in Nevada. But the audience don't know that , that, so it looks like she IS crying about her mother, boosting her numbers further. She then also lets her daughter play the song she wanted to play, which makes Selina at least LOOK like a good mother herself.
*WellDoneSoneGuy: WellDoneSonGuy: Selina is seen to have a major case of this with her mother, and one that was never resolved.
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* ComedicWorkSeriousScene: This episode is almost entirely a drama, as Selina struggles with what do about her mother and the origin of a lot of her adulthood angst.
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* TheBusCameBack: Andrew appears in this episode, having rushed to Selina's mother when she had another stroke.
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--->'''Kent:'' Lazarus?
--->'''Selina:''' Rasputin
--->'''Selina:''' Rasputin
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--->'''Selina:'''
*BrickJoke: Bob shows up at the end of the episode and says “Congratulations”, clueless as ever
* TheBusCameBack: Andrew appears in this episode, having rushed to Selina's mother when she had another stroke.
* ComedicWorkSeriousScene: This episode is almost entirely a drama, as Selina struggles with what do about her mother and the origin of a lot of her adulthood angst.
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* MoralQuandary:
Kent tells her her mother’s hospitalization has given her a double-digit polling bump, and if she were to die, it might even spike again
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Selina starts out praying for her mother, but ends up praying for her campaign, because when it comes down to it, she doesn’t care about her mother and wants the victory way more than she wants her mother to have any weight in her life
LastWords: Selina parrots Ben’s words to her alone with her mother.
“You’ve gotta stay.”
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* ObliviousToTheirOwnDescripton: Tragically, Selina describing her mother:
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* ObliviousToTheirOwnDescripton: ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Tragically, Selina describing her mother:
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Uncle George - favorite of mother’s lawyers
“Did Eleanor Roosevelt eat pussy?”
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Usman Ally looks as evil as a person possibly could, whispering his lines, flaring his eyebrows, and giving a quality KubrickStare
*TheReveal: We discover Catherine is named after her grandmother, who's gone unnamed up to this point, pointing out another way Selina tried and failed to win her approval.
“There’s no evidence of
“Did Eleanor Roosevelt eat pussy?”
*RippedFromTheHeadlines: While the election tie is based on the Bush-Gore election of 2000, this ends up going farther, since the recount in Bush-Gore ended up in Bush's favor. Since the recount in this episode ends with a margin too small to be legally decisive, the decision about who to vote for will be decided in the House of Representatives.
*SadisticChoice: Selina faces an interesting take on this. If she pulls the plug on her mother, she's likely to get a polling bump and finally be free of the woman who harangued her her whole life. But if she does, she'll finally lose all hope of pleasing her, something she still wants.
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“Mee-Maw was so right about you.”
* RememberTheNewGuy: Usman Ally makes his first appearance as the Qatari ambassador Jaffar.
Usman Ally looks as evil as a person possibly could, whispering his lines, flaring his eyebrows, and giving a quality KubrickStare
We discover Catherine is named after her grandmother, pointing out another way Selina tried to win her approval
“There’s no evidence of a higher power.”
* TragicVillain:
This arguably is the most sympathetic Selina ever is. The evidence indicates that her mother was a narcissistic piece of shit who never made Selina feel good about herself, even well into adulthood after she’d become a historically significant politician, and who then hoodwinked everyone else into thinking she was the saint and Selina the problem. And what’s worse, Selina has no one to share the truth with, not even her own daughter. So she’s left with no choice but to pull the plug on a mother who made her life miserable and no way to get through the mourning or even relief of it.
* DoWrongRight: Selina cries at her mother’s memorial because she just lost the recount vote in Nevada, but it looks like she’s crying about her mother. She also lets her daughter play the song she wanted to play, which makes her at least look like a good mother.
Tom James says he hated his father
Bob shows up and says “Congratulations” to end the episode, clueless as ever
This goes farther(?) than the Bush-Gore election, since the
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“There’s no evidence of
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** Later, Selina cries at her mother’s
Tom James says he hated his father
Bob shows up
*WellDoneSoneGuy: Selina is seen to have a major case of this with her mother, and
*WhatYouAreInTheDark: Alone in her hospital room, Selina starts out praying for her mother, but ends up praying for her campaign, because when it comes down to
This goes farther(?)
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''Selina is forced to put her campaign on hold when her mother suffers a stroke.''
Selina and co visit her mother in hospital after a stroke and find themselves facing the option of pulling the plug on her. Amy and Dan continue soldiering on in Nevada.
*ComedicWorkSeriousScene: This episode is almost entirely a drama, as Selina struggles with what do about her mother and the origin of a lot of her adulthood angst.
!!Tropes:
*TheBusCameBack: Andrew appears in this episode, having rushed to Selina's mother when she had another stroke.
*BaitAndSwitchComment: Selina describing her mother's resilience in the face of elderly illness:
--->'''Selina:''' She’s like-
--->'''Kent:'' Lazarus?
--->'''Selina:''' Rasputin
*ComicallyMissingThePoint: Selina misunderstands Ben's description of the Qataris:
--->'''Ben:'''They’re wet-fingered.
--->'''Selina:''' They’re into assplay?
--->'''Ben:''' They have a gift for sensing prevailing political winds
*KickTheDog:
**Andrew enforces what a piece of shit he is by judging Selina for not being there at her mother’s stroke even though [[{{Hypocrite}} Andrew wouldn’t show up to something of his daughter’s selflessly unless there was a gun to his head.]]
**Then when the question of her mother's inheritance comes up, it’s shown half the reason Andrew showed up was to sniff around for anything he could squeeze out of it. Then he tries to seduce Selina again since he knows she'll be vulnerable after a personal loss.
**On her end, Selina pulls the plug on her mother without Catherine there. Not out of any malice, but simply because she’s too neglectful to both remember Catherine cares about "Mee-Maw" and that subsequently she might wanna be there
*MoralQuandary:
Kent tells her her mother’s hospitalization has given her a double-digit polling bump, and if she were to die, it might even spike again
*PetTheDog: Ben, normally a cynic about everything and no stranger to complicated feelings about family, gives Selina some sincere consoling advice about the passing of loved ones.
**Kent also gives the closest he can to sympathy, saying, "I grieve with thee."
**Tom James also consoles Selina and even hits at her hidden feelings by saying while he knows loss, he hated his father, and found it hard to be upset when ''he'' passed.
PhotographicMemory: Kent recognizes Ben’s words of advice from a card Ben’s wife sent him when Kent’s cat Fibonacci passed. [[PetTheDog He mentions he found them soothing.]]
Selina starts out praying for her mother, but ends up praying for her campaign, because when it comes down to it, she doesn’t care about her mother and wants the victory way more than she wants her mother to have any weight in her life
LastWords: Selina parrots Ben’s words to her alone with her mother.
“You’ve gotta stay.”
She insists that they stay, theoretically because she cares about politics more than her mom, but in practice, probably because she doesn’t want to be alone for this
*ObliviousToTheirOwnDescripton: Tragically, Selina describing her mother:
--->'''Selina:''' The only daughter of a pathological narcissist. All this woman ever did was criticize me or ignore me.
Uncle George - favorite of mother’s lawyers
“Did Eleanor Roosevelt eat pussy?”
*ShoutOut:
**Jonah and company are referred to as [[Franchise/DuckTales “Huey, Dewey, and Rapey”]]
**Kent's "I grieve with thee" may be one to Franchise/StarTrek, as it's what Vulcans say to each other after losses.
“Mee-Maw was so right about you.”
*RememberTheNewGuy: Usman Ally makes his first appearance as the Qatari ambassador Jaffar.
Usman Ally looks as evil as a person possibly could, whispering his lines, flaring his eyebrows, and giving a quality KubrickStare
We discover Catherine is named after her grandmother, pointing out another way Selina tried to win her approval
“There’s no evidence of a higher power.”
*TragicVillain:
This arguably is the most sympathetic Selina ever is. The evidence indicates that her mother was a narcissistic piece of shit who never made Selina feel good about herself, even well into adulthood after she’d become a historically significant politician, and who then hoodwinked everyone else into thinking she was the saint and Selina the problem. And what’s worse, Selina has no one to share the truth with, not even her own daughter. So she’s left with no choice but to pull the plug on a mother who made her life miserable and no way to get through the mourning or even relief of it.
*DoWrongRight: Selina cries at her mother’s memorial because she just lost the recount vote in Nevada, but it looks like she’s crying about her mother. She also lets her daughter play the song she wanted to play, which makes her at least look like a good mother.
Tom James says he hated his father
Bob shows up and says “Congratulations” to end the episode, clueless as ever
This goes farther(?) than the Bush-Gore election, since the
[[caption-width-right:350:]]
''Selina is forced to put her campaign on hold when her mother suffers a stroke.''
Selina and co visit her mother in hospital after a stroke and find themselves facing the option of pulling the plug on her. Amy and Dan continue soldiering on in Nevada.
*ComedicWorkSeriousScene: This episode is almost entirely a drama, as Selina struggles with what do about her mother and the origin of a lot of her adulthood angst.
!!Tropes:
*TheBusCameBack: Andrew appears in this episode, having rushed to Selina's mother when she had another stroke.
*BaitAndSwitchComment: Selina describing her mother's resilience in the face of elderly illness:
--->'''Selina:''' She’s like-
--->'''Kent:'' Lazarus?
--->'''Selina:''' Rasputin
*ComicallyMissingThePoint: Selina misunderstands Ben's description of the Qataris:
--->'''Ben:'''They’re wet-fingered.
--->'''Selina:''' They’re into assplay?
--->'''Ben:''' They have a gift for sensing prevailing political winds
*KickTheDog:
**Andrew enforces what a piece of shit he is by judging Selina for not being there at her mother’s stroke even though [[{{Hypocrite}} Andrew wouldn’t show up to something of his daughter’s selflessly unless there was a gun to his head.]]
**Then when the question of her mother's inheritance comes up, it’s shown half the reason Andrew showed up was to sniff around for anything he could squeeze out of it. Then he tries to seduce Selina again since he knows she'll be vulnerable after a personal loss.
**On her end, Selina pulls the plug on her mother without Catherine there. Not out of any malice, but simply because she’s too neglectful to both remember Catherine cares about "Mee-Maw" and that subsequently she might wanna be there
*MoralQuandary:
Kent tells her her mother’s hospitalization has given her a double-digit polling bump, and if she were to die, it might even spike again
*PetTheDog: Ben, normally a cynic about everything and no stranger to complicated feelings about family, gives Selina some sincere consoling advice about the passing of loved ones.
**Kent also gives the closest he can to sympathy, saying, "I grieve with thee."
**Tom James also consoles Selina and even hits at her hidden feelings by saying while he knows loss, he hated his father, and found it hard to be upset when ''he'' passed.
PhotographicMemory: Kent recognizes Ben’s words of advice from a card Ben’s wife sent him when Kent’s cat Fibonacci passed. [[PetTheDog He mentions he found them soothing.]]
Selina starts out praying for her mother, but ends up praying for her campaign, because when it comes down to it, she doesn’t care about her mother and wants the victory way more than she wants her mother to have any weight in her life
LastWords: Selina parrots Ben’s words to her alone with her mother.
“You’ve gotta stay.”
She insists that they stay, theoretically because she cares about politics more than her mom, but in practice, probably because she doesn’t want to be alone for this
*ObliviousToTheirOwnDescripton: Tragically, Selina describing her mother:
--->'''Selina:''' The only daughter of a pathological narcissist. All this woman ever did was criticize me or ignore me.
Uncle George - favorite of mother’s lawyers
“Did Eleanor Roosevelt eat pussy?”
*ShoutOut:
**Jonah and company are referred to as [[Franchise/DuckTales “Huey, Dewey, and Rapey”]]
**Kent's "I grieve with thee" may be one to Franchise/StarTrek, as it's what Vulcans say to each other after losses.
“Mee-Maw was so right about you.”
*RememberTheNewGuy: Usman Ally makes his first appearance as the Qatari ambassador Jaffar.
Usman Ally looks as evil as a person possibly could, whispering his lines, flaring his eyebrows, and giving a quality KubrickStare
We discover Catherine is named after her grandmother, pointing out another way Selina tried to win her approval
“There’s no evidence of a higher power.”
*TragicVillain:
This arguably is the most sympathetic Selina ever is. The evidence indicates that her mother was a narcissistic piece of shit who never made Selina feel good about herself, even well into adulthood after she’d become a historically significant politician, and who then hoodwinked everyone else into thinking she was the saint and Selina the problem. And what’s worse, Selina has no one to share the truth with, not even her own daughter. So she’s left with no choice but to pull the plug on a mother who made her life miserable and no way to get through the mourning or even relief of it.
*DoWrongRight: Selina cries at her mother’s memorial because she just lost the recount vote in Nevada, but it looks like she’s crying about her mother. She also lets her daughter play the song she wanted to play, which makes her at least look like a good mother.
Tom James says he hated his father
Bob shows up and says “Congratulations” to end the episode, clueless as ever
This goes farther(?) than the Bush-Gore election, since the
