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* AudienceParticipation: Subverted. The live audience raised their hand to vote for their preferred mayoral candidate (Hiram [=McDaniels=] or The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home), but Cecil reminds everyone that votes are meaningless because the election is decided by interpreting the pulsing from Hidden Gorge.
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* AudienceParticipation: Subverted. The live audience raised their hand to vote for their preferred mayoral candidate (Hiram [=McDaniels=] or The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home), but Cecil reminds everyone that votes are meaningless because the election is decided by interpreting the pulsing from Hidden Gorge.
** The live audience raised their hand to vote for their preferred mayoral candidate (Hiram [=McDaniels=] or The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home), but Cecil reminds everyone that votes are meaningless because the election is decided by interpreting the pulsing from Hidden Gorge.
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* CallBack: From the ban on wheat and wheat by-products to [=StrexPets=]
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* CallBack: CallBack:
** From the ban on wheat and wheat by-products to [=StrexPets=]
** From the ban on wheat and wheat by-products to [=StrexPets=]
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* DarkHorseVictory: The mayoral election between Hiram [=McDaniels=] and the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home is won by Dana Cardinal. Given the way elections are decided in Night Vale, this is less surprising than most examples.
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* LiteralMetaphor: After tallying the votes, Cecil notes that some people voted for both candidates, thus negating themselves. That doesn't just mean they cancelled out their votes, they actually [[FadingAway caused themselves to fade from existence entirely]].
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-->''At Whole Foods, we don't have any rotting, decaying matter mixed into our products. There are no secret blood rooms in our stores. Where we keep the secret blood. None of the boxes of cereal contain spiders, and if they did, they would be very friendly, helpful spiders. Why, wouldn't you be lucky to find a spider like that in a box of Whole Foods cereal? Or not just one. Hundreds of them. But anyway, you won't. Whole Foods serves only the freshest food, and we certainly do not keep venomous snakes under the fruit in our produce section. Why would we? That would be dangerous and not good for business. No one has died of a snake bite at Whole Foods. No one you know. Whole Foods: why in the world would we poison our frozen dinners? We definitely do not do that.''
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-->''At Whole Foods, we don't have any rotting, decaying matter mixed into our products. There are no secret blood rooms in our stores. Where stores where we keep the secret blood. None of the boxes of cereal contain spiders, and if they did, they would be very friendly, helpful spiders. Why, wouldn't you be lucky to find a spider like that in a box of Whole Foods cereal? Or not just one. Hundreds of them. But anyway, you won't. Whole Foods serves only the freshest food, and we certainly do not keep venomous snakes under the fruit in our produce section. Why would we? That would be dangerous and not good for business. No one has died of a snake bite at Whole Foods. No one you know. Whole Foods: why in the world would we poison our frozen dinners? We definitely do not do that.''
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
-->''At Whole Foods, we don't have any rotting, decaying matter mixed into our products. There are no secret blood rooms in our stores. Where we keep the secret blood. None of the boxes of cereal contain spiders, and if they did, they would be very friendly, helpful spiders. Why, wouldn't you be lucky to find a spider like that in a box of Whole Foods cereal? Or not just one. Hundreds of them. But anyway, you won't. Whole Foods serves only the freshest food, and we certainly do not keep venomous snakes under the fruit in our produce section. Why would we? That would be dangerous and not good for business. No one has died of a snake bite at Whole Foods. No one you know. Whole Foods: why in the world would we poison our frozen dinners? We definitely do not do that.''
-->''At Whole Foods, we don't have any rotting, decaying matter mixed into our products. There are no secret blood rooms in our stores. Where we keep the secret blood. None of the boxes of cereal contain spiders, and if they did, they would be very friendly, helpful spiders. Why, wouldn't you be lucky to find a spider like that in a box of Whole Foods cereal? Or not just one. Hundreds of them. But anyway, you won't. Whole Foods serves only the freshest food, and we certainly do not keep venomous snakes under the fruit in our produce section. Why would we? That would be dangerous and not good for business. No one has died of a snake bite at Whole Foods. No one you know. Whole Foods: why in the world would we poison our frozen dinners? We definitely do not do that.''
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* WeInterruptThisProgram: Lauren and Kevin [[BreakingTheFourthWall interrupt the show's announcer]] at the beginning of the show
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* WeInterruptThisProgram: Lauren and Kevin [[BreakingTheFourthWall interrupt the show's announcer]] at the beginning of the show
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Lampshaded. Carlos realizes he has no idea how he got to Night Vale, or where it even is.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Lampshaded. Carlos realizes he has no idea how he got to Night Vale, or where it even is.
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* BadBoss: Cecil, according to Intern Maureen. Aside from [[RedShirt the staggering fatality rate of his internship program]], he also makes his interns do ridiculous tasks that aren't in the job description, like editing his ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' slash fic.
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* ImNotAHeroIm: Carlos to Dana:
-->''I'm not a hero. I'm a scientist.''
-->''I'm not a hero. I'm a scientist.''
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Parodied. Lauren calls ''Pteranodon''s dinosaurs, but Kevin tells her they're not dinosaurs, they're ''arachnids''.
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--> ''Today's Proverb: 'Wonderwall' is the only '90s song visible from space.''
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--> ''Today's Proverb: 'Wonderwall' is the only '90s song visible from space.''
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->''"Think back, look forward, listen timelessly. Welcome to Night Vale."''
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** When the recording of the show was released in its 2-part format, the first half ends with Joseph Fink saying in a monotone voice, "End of Part A", followed by the same chime heard in "Numbers".
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* InventorOfTheMundane: Carlos claims to have invented a highly scientific device which "looks a lot like a big umbrella".
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** [[spoiler:The winner of the election is neither of the candidates]]
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** [[spoiler:The winner Cecil describes "a crowd of people shouting 'Take! Down! Strex!'" and whips up the election is neither of audience into doing so, before stopping them, because the candidates]]crowd was far away and not involved in the story - which is, of course, true.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Kevin calls Night Vale a dystopia
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* HypocriticalHumor: Kevin calls Night Vale a dystopiadystopia. He's not wrong, but for a Desert Bluffs resident this is the pot calling the kettle black.
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In a live special: The rebellion against [=StrexCorp=] begins for real, the old oak doors have reappeared, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and it's Election Day]].
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* AudienceParticipation: Subverted. The live audience raised their hand to vote for their preferred mayoral candidate (Hiram [=McDaniels=] or The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home), but Cecil reminds everyone that votes are meaningless because the election is decided by interpreting the pulsing from Hidden Gorge.
**[[spoiler:The winner of the election is neither of the candidates]]
* CallBack: From the ban on wheat and wheat by-products to [=StrexPets=]
* HypocriticalHumor: Kevin calls Night Vale a dystopia
* MultiPartEpisode: The second in the series, after "The Sandstorm" (Episode 19)
* VoiceOfTheResistance: According to Cecil, the radio station has become this since the last episode.
-->'''Cecil:''' "Hello listeners. I speak to you now from the one spot in Night Vale that remains truly ours, the studios of the Night Vale Community Radio Station."
* WeInterruptThisProgram: Lauren and Kevin [[BreakingTheFourthWall interrupt the show's announcer]] at the beginning of the show
--> ''Today's Proverb: 'Wonderwall' is the only '90s song visible from space.''
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* AudienceParticipation: Subverted. The live audience raised their hand to vote for their preferred mayoral candidate (Hiram [=McDaniels=] or The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home), but Cecil reminds everyone that votes are meaningless because the election is decided by interpreting the pulsing from Hidden Gorge.
**[[spoiler:The winner of the election is neither of the candidates]]
* CallBack: From the ban on wheat and wheat by-products to [=StrexPets=]
* HypocriticalHumor: Kevin calls Night Vale a dystopia
* MultiPartEpisode: The second in the series, after "The Sandstorm" (Episode 19)
* VoiceOfTheResistance: According to Cecil, the radio station has become this since the last episode.
-->'''Cecil:''' "Hello listeners. I speak to you now from the one spot in Night Vale that remains truly ours, the studios of the Night Vale Community Radio Station."
* WeInterruptThisProgram: Lauren and Kevin [[BreakingTheFourthWall interrupt the show's announcer]] at the beginning of the show
--> ''Today's Proverb: 'Wonderwall' is the only '90s song visible from space.''
