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* AnswerCut: Dylan has a job where he delivers random items people order (like food or diapers) to them. Sometimes, though, he eats customers' food (e.g. enough fries not to be noticeable). As Dylan says he didn't draw all the dicks, one of the defenses he has is that he's too dumb to delete the security footage that was wiped. Peter then brings up to the audience that Dylan has a youtube channel and does have basic knowledge of uploading videos. He poses about Dylan "Is he really dumb as he lets on?" Cut to:
-->'''Customer Dylan is delivering food to:''' Did you eat the fries?\\
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'''Dylan:''' Yeah.\\
'''Peter (talking to the audience again):''' Personally, I think he is.
-->'''Customer Dylan is delivering food to:''' Did you eat the fries?\\
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'''Dylan:''' Yeah.\\
'''Peter (talking to the audience again):''' Personally, I think he is.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: Peter and Sam sometimes re-consult old footage to find stuff as they get new pieces of information. The footage is often shown as it was the first time, but with focus on something Peter, Sam, and the audience missed the first time.
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* ReactionShot: In the penultimate episode, we see [[spoiler: Dylan react when Peter shows him the video Mackenzie sent, but don't see the video itself. The finale starts with the video, revealing that Mackenzie was cheating on Dylan and he almost caught her.]]
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* RevealShot: Minor case early on: Dylan's brother is talking about how he used to terrorize Shapiro's class and warned Dylan not to take the class because Shapiro will have it out for him. He says Dylan didn't listen, because he's an idiot. Then a camera pan out reveals Dylan was there right next to him (''facing him too'') the whole time.
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* RealityEnsues: After the show goes viral InUniverse, a lot of the footage starts having serious consequences for everyone. The documentary as a whole puts a lot of people's personal lives out in the open, and not everyone is happy with Peter about that.
** Sara Pearson feels utterly humiliated by the digging they do into her sexual history while trying to establish if Alex Trimboli is a credible witness.
** Kraz is fired for, among other things, stating that one of his underage students is hot on-camera and accusing Rafferty of selling roofies.
** Mr. Janson and his daughter are harassed by fans of the show for not giving up the tape. In turn, she contacts Peter and [[spoiler: destroys the tape in front of his face to make it clear how cruel the situation has become.]]
** When Sam shows Gabi [[spoiler: evidence that Brandon's been cheating on her with Sarah]] and makes a joke about it, she's not endeared to him. She's pissed that he would take such an awful situation and try using it to get closer to her.
** Sara Pearson feels utterly humiliated by the digging they do into her sexual history while trying to establish if Alex Trimboli is a credible witness.
** Kraz is fired for, among other things, stating that one of his underage students is hot on-camera and accusing Rafferty of selling roofies.
** Mr. Janson and his daughter are harassed by fans of the show for not giving up the tape. In turn, she contacts Peter and [[spoiler: destroys the tape in front of his face to make it clear how cruel the situation has become.]]
** When Sam shows Gabi [[spoiler: evidence that Brandon's been cheating on her with Sarah]] and makes a joke about it, she's not endeared to him. She's pissed that he would take such an awful situation and try using it to get closer to her.
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** After the show goes viral InUniverse, a lot of the footage starts having serious consequences for everyone. The documentary as a whole puts a lot of people's personal lives out in the open, and not everyone is happy with Peter about that.
** *** Sara Pearson feels utterly humiliated by the digging they do into her sexual history while trying to establish if Alex Trimboli is a credible witness.
** *** Kraz is fired for, among other things, stating that one of his underage students is hot on-camera and accusing Rafferty of selling roofies.
** *** Mr. Janson and his daughter are harassed by fans of the show for not giving up the tape. In turn, she contacts Peter and [[spoiler: destroys the tape in front of his face to make it clear how cruel the situation has become.]]
** *** When Sam shows Gabi [[spoiler: evidence that Brandon's been cheating on her with Sarah]] and makes a joke about it, she's not endeared to him. She's pissed that he would take such an awful situation and try using it to get closer to her.her.
** Aside from the fallout from the documentary, there is a brutal moment where Dylan [[spoiler: meets Shapiro after he's exonerated. He expects her to be super-apologetic about it and say she was wrong about him. She does apologize for accusing him of drawing the dicks. However, she says that Dylan was a terror to her for four years, and she stands by her assessment that he's a dumb no-good hoodlum without a hope. She wishes him good luck at least, but you can see that Dylan is devastated.]]
** After the show goes viral InUniverse, a lot of the footage starts having serious consequences for everyone. The documentary as a whole puts a lot of people's personal lives out in the open, and not everyone is happy with Peter about that.
** Aside from the fallout from the documentary, there is a brutal moment where Dylan [[spoiler: meets Shapiro after he's exonerated. He expects her to be super-apologetic about it and say she was wrong about him. She does apologize for accusing him of drawing the dicks. However, she says that Dylan was a terror to her for four years, and she stands by her assessment that he's a dumb no-good hoodlum without a hope. She wishes him good luck at least, but you can see that Dylan is devastated.]]
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-->'''Ms. Shapiro:''' ...But, let's be honest with each other Dylan, you have terrorized me for four years in and out of this classroom. And your brother, four before that. So, yes, I'm sorry I suspected you vandalized the cars; I was wrong about that. But I don't believe I was wrong about you.
-->'''Ms. Shapiro:''' ...But, let's be honest with each other Dylan, you have terrorized me for four years in and out of this classroom. And your brother, four before that. So, yes, I'm sorry I suspected you vandalized the cars; I was wrong about that. But I don't believe I was wrong about you.
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** It's found out that [[spoiler:Mackenzie had a video that proved Dylan was right and didn't draw the dicks this whole time, which she hid because it was also proof she cheated on Dylan. Dylan is upset about the cheating and that she had this video the whole time, but neither he or Peter calls Mackenzie out specifically for hiding the video.]]
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* ConvictionByContradiction: [[spoiler:Not 'conviction', but strong evidence, as Christa claims to have gotten CPR training during the day of the vandalism. However, she freaks out when Ming passes out from intoxication at a party, asking if anyone knows CPR, strongly implying that she committed the crime.]]
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* ConvictionByContradiction: [[spoiler:Not 'conviction', but strong evidence, as Christa claims to have gotten CPR training during the day time of the vandalism. However, she freaks out when Ming passes out from intoxication at a party, asking party and asks if anyone knows CPR, CPR. This strongly implying implies that she committed her alibi is fake, and therefore was capable of committing the crime.]]
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* ConvictionByContradiction: [[spoiler: Not 'conviction', but strong evidence, as Christa claims to have gotten CPR training during the day of the vandalism. However, she freaks out when Ming passes out from intoxication at a party, asking if anyone knows CPR, strongly implying that she committed the crime.]]
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* ConvictionByContradiction: [[spoiler: Not [[spoiler:Not 'conviction', but strong evidence, as Christa claims to have gotten CPR training during the day of the vandalism. However, she freaks out when Ming passes out from intoxication at a party, asking if anyone knows CPR, strongly implying that she committed the crime.]]
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* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: [[spoiler:One of the most important details regarding the crime is that someone tampered with the security footage. Peter discovers that Dylan is utterly HopelessWithTech beyond the regular teen knowledge of how to use a cell phone.]]
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* ConsummateLiar: Alex Trimboli is constantly lying in order to get popular--claiming to get a handjob from Sarah Pearson, saying he was the drunkest person at Nana's party, and giving info about the dick drawing in order to bring back off-campus lunches for seniors.
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* ConsummateLiar: Alex Trimboli is constantly lying in order to get popular--claiming to get a handjob from Sarah Pearson, saying he was the drunkest person at Nana's party, and giving info about the dick drawing in order to bring back off-campus lunches for seniors. [[spoiler: In the final episode, it's revealed that he actually may not have been lying about seeing someone spraypaint the dicks; he may have just been mistaken about ''who'' was doing the spraying.]]
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* HiddenDepths: Sara Pearson, whose characterization up until that point is mostly just that she's [[HelloNurse very attractive]] and has a [[ReallyGetsAround hookup list]], actually [[spoiler: knows CPR, something that all-round honor student Christa Carlyle doesn't manage.]]
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* ReallyGetsAround: Coach Rafferty dates a lot of moms.
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** Sarah Pearson has hooked up with a lot of people, including the likes of [[{{Gonk}} Pat Micklewaite]].
** Coach Rafferty dates a lot of
** Sarah Pearson has hooked up with a lot of people, including the likes of [[{{Gonk}} Pat Micklewaite]].
* StacysMom: Sam does a whole side segment on the attractive moms of students at Hanover High. One of them is Peter's mom, which Peter is...not pleased by.
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** Sara Pearson to Peter, for exposing the fact that her hookup list exists.
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** [[spoiler: It's probably not a coincidence that Christa's last name, '''Carlyle''', has both the word ''car'' in it[[labelnote:note]] the dicks were drawn on the faculty's vehicles [[/labelnote]], but also a word that sounds like ''lie.''[[labelnote:note]] something that Christa is definitely guilty of doing, regardless of whether she really planned the dick drawings [[/labelnote]] ]]
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** Kraz compares Shapiro to [[Series/GameOfThrones Varys]], or, in his words, "the bald guy with no dick."
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* ThePromposal: Brandon gives one to Gabi at Nana's party. He shoves her in a pool, then gives her a towel with "prom?" written on it.
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: One-sided. Sam and Gabi grew up together and have become very close friends, but Sam has an obvious crush on her.
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* GamerChick: Mackenzie is one with a pretty successful Twitch channel.
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* WildTeenParty: The party at Rachel Balducci's house, aka the infamous Nana's Party, which occurred the weekend before the dicks. Everyone was there except for Peter and Sam, and everyone and every''thing'' got trashed. It's also the sight of several important events: Bandon's prom-posal to Gabi, Dylan and Mackenzie's break-up, and Alex supposedly drinking eleven beers.
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** Dylan mentions not understanding ''Film/{{Inception}}''
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** Dylan mentions not understanding ''Film/{{Inception}}''''Film/{{Inception}}''.
** Peter outright says that he's making a series like ''Podcast/{{Serial}}'' when someone asks him why he's filming.
** Peter outright says that he's making a series like ''Podcast/{{Serial}}'' when someone asks him why he's filming.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Dylan's crew, the Wayback Boys, go way back.
* {{Gonk}}: Pat Micklewaite, which is why Peter is so frustrated by him being so popular despite being an apparent loser like he is. Pat gets invited to parties and is on multiple girls' hook-up lists, but Peter is barely acknowledged.
** Subverted with the Wayback Boys. They only gain a few hundred more subscribers from the attention, but they still think it means they're viral stars.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: When Dylan and his parents are consulting their lawyer over the phone and Peter chimes in, he explains his presence thusly:
-->'''Peter:''' I'm making a documentary about Dylan's case. Kind of like Serial?\\
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'''Lawyer:''' That's a terrible idea.
-->'''Peter:''' I'm making a documentary about Dylan's case. Kind of like Serial?\\
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'''Lawyer:''' That's a terrible idea.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Peter believes that this could be [[spoiler: Mackenzie's]] motivation for drawing the dicks. [[spoiler: Coach Rafferty dated her mom, ruining her parents' chance of getting back together. She in turn files a complaint against him, which is dismissed. So she trashes his office, which he cleans up before anyone finds out. So she draws the dicks]]. Turns out to be RightForTheWrongReasons. [[spoiler: Christa is likely responsible for all of those things as a continued vendetta against him for humiliating her during football tryouts.]]
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* SeriousBusiness: Part of the series appeal is that it takes everything completely seriously--the dicks, whether Alex got a handjob from Sarah, off-campus lunches, anything and everything is treated as an important factor in the case.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Mrs. Shapiro is this to Dylan. Pat Micklewaite becomes one to Peter as he begins to find more and more evidence of him being more popular than he is.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Mrs. Shapiro is this to Dylan. Pat Micklewaite becomes one to Peter as he begins to find more and more evidence of him being more popular than he is.
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* SoapBoxSadie: Christa, whose almost entire story arc is devoted to promoting various causes at the school. Played with to some degree, as [[spoiler: she's revealed to actually have been interested in joining football as a kicker, and wasn't just trying to prove a point about gender equality.]]
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* SmurfettePrinciple: Brianna aka "Ganj" is the only girl in the Wayback Boys.
* SoapBoxSadie: Christa, whose almost entire story arc is devoted to promoting various causes at theschool.school--even if they tend to backfire on her. Played with to some degree, as [[spoiler: she's revealed to actually have been interested in joining football as a kicker, and wasn't just trying to prove a point about gender equality.]]]]
* SpottingTheThread: Peter notices that the dicks Dylan drew on the whiteboards have a different design (ball hairs, no mushroom head) than those on the cars. It's the first piece of evidence that convinces him that Dylan may not be responsible.
* SternTeacher: Mrs. Shapiro toes the line between this and SadistTeacher, and it's really dependent on who's testimonies you believe. She ''may'' have pressured a girl into accusing another student of cheating because Shapiro didn't like him. She also ''might'' have told Keene to get rid of off-campus lunches so that when she brought them back she would be seen as the good guy. But she is also very fast to brush Dylan off because of his actions [[spoiler: and lies to help him get expelled ''and'' only gave a half-hearted apology to him after his exoneration]], and she begins acting just as cold to Peter and Sam as the documentary goes on.
* SoapBoxSadie: Christa, whose almost entire story arc is devoted to promoting various causes at the
* SpottingTheThread: Peter notices that the dicks Dylan drew on the whiteboards have a different design (ball hairs, no mushroom head) than those on the cars. It's the first piece of evidence that convinces him that Dylan may not be responsible.
* SternTeacher: Mrs. Shapiro toes the line between this and SadistTeacher, and it's really dependent on who's testimonies you believe. She ''may'' have pressured a girl into accusing another student of cheating because Shapiro didn't like him. She also ''might'' have told Keene to get rid of off-campus lunches so that when she brought them back she would be seen as the good guy. But she is also very fast to brush Dylan off because of his actions [[spoiler: and lies to help him get expelled ''and'' only gave a half-hearted apology to him after his exoneration]], and she begins acting just as cold to Peter and Sam as the documentary goes on.
* ToiletHumour: Most of Dylan and the Wayback Boys' videos.
* WaxingLyrical: Alex gave a RousingSpeech during summer camp that was apparently just a Music/{{Drake}} song with the n-word swapped for "red team".
* WaxingLyrical: Alex gave a RousingSpeech during summer camp that was apparently just a Music/{{Drake}} song with the n-word swapped for "red team".
** Mr. Preston's daughter to Peter for causing her and her father to be harassed about the voicemail tape.
** Gabi and Peter both to Sam, when he [[spoiler:callously tells Gabi about Brandon's cheating in an I-told-you-so kind of way.]]
** Gabi and Peter both to Sam, when he [[spoiler:callously tells Gabi about Brandon's cheating in an I-told-you-so kind of way.]]
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* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: [[spoiler: Sara manages to revive Ming with this when he passes out at party. It works and he wakes up none the worse for wear, but it's not really clear what he passed out from and how exactly the CPR worked.]]
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* RealityEnsues: After the show goes viral InUniverse, a lot of the footage starts having serious consequences for everyone.
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* RealityEnsues: After the show goes viral InUniverse, a lot of the footage starts having serious consequences for everyone. The documentary as a whole puts a lot of people's personal lives out in the open, and not everyone is happy with Peter about that.
** Sara Pearson feels utterly humiliated by the digging they do into her sexual history while trying to establish if Alex Trimboli is a credible witness.
** Sara Pearson feels utterly humiliated by the digging they do into her sexual history while trying to establish if Alex Trimboli is a credible witness.
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On Tuesday, March 15, somebody snuck inot Hanover High School and spray painted 27 penises on the 27 cars of the school's faculty. Senior class clown Dylan Maxwell is accused of the crime and subsequently expelled. However, documentary filmmaker Peter Maldonado believes there is more to the story. Together with his best friend Sam Ecklund he creates the doc series ''American Vandal'' to investigate the case and prove Dylan's innocence. But along the way, they discover many more secrets about the school than they expected.
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On Tuesday, March 15, somebody snuck inot into Hanover High School and spray painted 27 penises on the 27 cars of the school's faculty. Senior class clown Dylan Maxwell is accused of the crime and subsequently expelled. However, documentary filmmaker Peter Maldonado believes there is more to the story. Together with his best friend Sam Ecklund Ecklund, he creates the doc documentary series ''American Vandal'' to investigate the case and prove Dylan's innocence. But along the way, they discover many more secrets about the school than they expected.
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* AlphaBitch: Subverted with Sara. Early interviews paint a picture of her as this, but she's later revealed to be a fairly normal girl who doesn't care about popularity (getting with [[spoiler:Pat Micklewaite]] of all people).
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* SoapBoxSadie: Christa, whose almost entire story arc is devoted to promoting various causes at the school. Played with to some degree, as [[spoiler: she's revealed to actually have been interested in joining football as a kicker, and wasn't just trying to prove a point about gender equality.]]
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* YouCanAlwaysTellALiar: [[spoiler: Alex has several tells, both subtle and obvious. Whenever he's just told a lie on camera, he briefly shoots a nervous glance directly toward it. He also overuses the phrase "100%" when lying about his certainty of something.]]
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* AffectionateParody: Of true crime docs like ''Podcast/{{Serial]]'' or Netflix's own ''Series/MakingAMurderer''.
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* AffectionateParody: Of true crime docs like ''Podcast/{{Serial]]'' ''Podcast/{{Serial}}'' or Netflix's own ''Series/MakingAMurderer''.''Making A Murderer''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Who drew the dicks?'']]
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On Tuesday, March 15, somebody snuck inot Hanover High school School and spray painted 27 penises on the 27 cars of the school's faculty. Senior class clown Dylan Maxwell is accused of drawing 27 penises on the cars of the school's faculty. With Dylan expelled as a result, crime and subsequently expelled. However, documentary filmmaker Peter Maldonado and believes there is more to the story. Together with his best friend Sam Ecklund create he creates the doc series ''American Vandal'' to investigate the case and prove Dylan's innocence.
innocence. But along the way, they discover many more secrets about the school than they expected.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Dylan thinks he prank itself is funny, he's just pissed that he was blamed for it.
* AffectionateParody: Of true crime docs like''Serial'' ''Podcast/{{Serial]]'' or ''Making A Murderer''.Netflix's own ''Series/MakingAMurderer''.
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* BittersweetEnding: For Season One. [[spoiler:Dylan is exonerated of drawing the dicks on the teachers' cars, but he loses his girlfriend for the last time, has no college prospects, and he resigns himself to being the idiot that everyone sees him as. It is also never confirmed who really drew the dicks, but if it really is Christa, she receives no punishment for it. Also, Peter's documentary alienates him from some of the students whose secrets have been exposed as a result. On the upside, Sam and Gabi are on better terms.]]
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* BerserkButton: Mackenzie's parents' divorce hit her really hard, so anything having to do with them will set her off.
* BittersweetEnding: For Season One. [[spoiler:Dylan is exonerated of drawing the dicks on the teachers' cars, but he loses his girlfriend for the last time, has no college prospects, and he resigns himself to being the idiot that everyone sees him as. It culminates in him drawing a dick on Shapiro's driveway for real, and thus getting arrested. It is also never confirmed who really drew the dicks, but if it really is Christa, she receives no punishment for it. Also, Peter's documentary alienates him from some of the students whose secrets have been exposed as a result. On the upside, Sam and Gabi are on better terms.]]
* BittersweetEnding: For Season One. [[spoiler:Dylan is exonerated of drawing the dicks on the teachers' cars, but he loses his girlfriend for the last time, has no college prospects, and he resigns himself to being the idiot that everyone sees him as. It culminates in him drawing a dick on Shapiro's driveway for real, and thus getting arrested. It is also never confirmed who really drew the dicks, but if it really is Christa, she receives no punishment for it. Also, Peter's documentary alienates him from some of the students whose secrets have been exposed as a result. On the upside, Sam and Gabi are on better terms.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: Averted. [[spoiler: Christa's alibi was that she was getting her CPR and First Aid certificate. However, when Ming passes out at the post-grad party, she panics and asks if anyone knows CPR.]]
* ConsummateLiar: Alex Trimboli is constantly lying in order to get popular--claiming to get a handjob from Sarah Pearson, saying he was the drunkest person at Nana's party, and giving info about the dick drawing in order to bring back off-campus lunches for seniors.
* ConsummateLiar: Alex Trimboli is constantly lying in order to get popular--claiming to get a handjob from Sarah Pearson, saying he was the drunkest person at Nana's party, and giving info about the dick drawing in order to bring back off-campus lunches for seniors.
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* CoolTeacher: Mr. Kraz desperately tries to be this.
* DoubleEntendre: All of the episode titles contain some reference to sex.
* InstantWebHit: By episode 5, Peter and Sam have to deal with the fact that American Vandal has gained online attention and that people are submitting theories about who the vandal is.
* DoubleEntendre: All of the episode titles contain some reference to sex.
* InstantWebHit: By episode 5, Peter and Sam have to deal with the fact that American Vandal has gained online attention and that people are submitting theories about who the vandal is.
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* CoolTeacher: Mr. Kraz desperately tries to be this.
this. Most of his attempts range from TotallyRadical to straight-up crossing boundaries with students.
* CountryMatters: Dylan's mom calls Mrs. Shapiro a See You Next Tuesday.
* DoubleEntendre: All of the episode titles contain some reference to sex or penises.
* DrivingQuestion: Who drew the dicks?
* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler: Christa]] waits until after graduation to do anymore follow up interviews, because by then nothing Peter uncovers about them won't have any effect on their prospects.
* HopeSpot: Episode 4 ends with Mr. Janson's daughter contacting Peter about the voicemail tape that could exonerate Dylan. In episode 5, [[spoiler: she destroys the tape in front of Peter's face out of spite for bringing her and her father unnecessary harassment.]]
* HotForTeacher: Coach Rafferty is crushed on by a few students.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title is a DoubleEntendre for penises or sex.
* IAmSpartacus: During an assembly, Christa and Gabi lead a cry of "I drew the dicks!" amongst the students.
* InstantWebHit: By episode 5, Peter and Sam have to deal with the fact thatAmerican Vandal ''American Vandal'' has gained online attention and that people are submitting theories about who the vandal is.
* CountryMatters: Dylan's mom calls Mrs. Shapiro a See You Next Tuesday.
* DoubleEntendre: All of the episode titles contain some reference to sex or penises.
* DrivingQuestion: Who drew the dicks?
* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler: Christa]] waits until after graduation to do anymore follow up interviews, because by then nothing Peter uncovers about them won't have any effect on their prospects.
* HopeSpot: Episode 4 ends with Mr. Janson's daughter contacting Peter about the voicemail tape that could exonerate Dylan. In episode 5, [[spoiler: she destroys the tape in front of Peter's face out of spite for bringing her and her father unnecessary harassment.]]
* HotForTeacher: Coach Rafferty is crushed on by a few students.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title is a DoubleEntendre for penises or sex.
* IAmSpartacus: During an assembly, Christa and Gabi lead a cry of "I drew the dicks!" amongst the students.
* InstantWebHit: By episode 5, Peter and Sam have to deal with the fact that
* LeftItIn: Peter's sole devotion to telling the truth means he leaves in plenty of damning clips of people, including those close to him, even after the ''beg'' him to cut it out.
* NerdGlasses: Peter and Ming both have them.
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* RealityEnsues: After the show goes viral InUniverse, Kraz is fired for stating that one of his underage students is hot on-camera, among other things.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Mackenzie gives one to Peter when he accuses her of drawing the dicks.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Mackenzie gives one to Peter when he accuses her of drawing the dicks.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The protest during the assembly in episode 6 is well-intentioned, but it whips things into such a frenzy that Vice Principal Keene bans ''American Vandal'' from being filmed or viewed on campus.
* RealityEnsues: After the show goes viral InUniverse, a lot of the footage starts having serious consequences for everyone.
** Kraz is firedfor for, among other things, stating that one of his underage students is hot on-camera, among other things.
on-camera and accusing Rafferty of selling roofies.
** Mr. Janson and his daughter are harassed by fans of the show for not giving up the tape. In turn, she contacts Peter and [[spoiler: destroys the tape in front of his face to make it clear how cruel the situation has become.]]
** When Sam shows Gabi [[spoiler: evidence that Brandon's been cheating on her with Sarah]] and makes a joke about it, she's not endeared to him. She's pissed that he would take such an awful situation and try using it to get closer to her.
** The documentary as a whole puts a lot of people's personal lives out in the open, and not everyone is happy with Peter about that.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peter is on the receiving end of a few thanks to the documentary.
** Mackenzie gives one to Peter when he accuses her of drawing thedicks.dicks.
-->'''Mackenzie:''' It's so easy for you to sit there behind that stupid camera and make accusations about people you don't even know. And look I am sorry if we ignored you before, but if this is what you're really like then I guess there's a reason everyone thought you were such a loser. And now everyone's secrets are out, throughout the entire school all because - what? You - you what? You had to make the best movie? You know what, when this is all over, so are you, okay? Because you are nobody and you're just mad about it.
* RealityEnsues: After the show goes viral InUniverse, a lot of the footage starts having serious consequences for everyone.
** Kraz is fired
** Mr. Janson and his daughter are harassed by fans of the show for not giving up the tape. In turn, she contacts Peter and [[spoiler: destroys the tape in front of his face to make it clear how cruel the situation has become.]]
** When Sam shows Gabi [[spoiler: evidence that Brandon's been cheating on her with Sarah]] and makes a joke about it, she's not endeared to him. She's pissed that he would take such an awful situation and try using it to get closer to her.
** The documentary as a whole puts a lot of people's personal lives out in the open, and not everyone is happy with Peter about that.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peter is on the receiving end of a few thanks to the documentary.
** Mackenzie gives one to Peter when he accuses her of drawing the
-->'''Mackenzie:''' It's so easy for you to sit there behind that stupid camera and make accusations about people you don't even know. And look I am sorry if we ignored you before, but if this is what you're really like then I guess there's a reason everyone thought you were such a loser. And now everyone's secrets are out, throughout the entire school all because - what? You - you what? You had to make the best movie? You know what, when this is all over, so are you, okay? Because you are nobody and you're just mad about it.
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* TeenDrama: Under the affectionate true crime documentary styling, it's a teen drama about the kids at Hanover High.
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** Gabi and Peter both to Sam, when he [[spoiler:callously tells Gabi about Brandon's cheating in an I-told-you-so kind of way.]]
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler: Ms. Shapiro doesn't waste a second after her apologizing to Dylan for accusing him of drawing the dicks to point out that she may have chosen the wrong crime but her main assessment of him as a hooligan still stands.]]
* SadClown: [[spoiler: Dylan after he's exonerated and finds out what the average opinion of him is.]]
* SadClown: [[spoiler: Dylan after he's exonerated and finds out what the average opinion of him is.]]
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* ConvictionByContradiction: [[spoiler: Not 'conviction', but strong evidence, as Carla claims to have gotten CPR training during the day of the vandalism. However, she freaks out when Ming passes out from intoxication at a party, asking if anyone knows CPR, strongly implying that she committed the crime.]]
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* ConvictionByContradiction: [[spoiler: Not 'conviction', but strong evidence, as Carla Christa claims to have gotten CPR training during the day of the vandalism. However, she freaks out when Ming passes out from intoxication at a party, asking if anyone knows CPR, strongly implying that she committed the crime.]]
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* InstantViralHit: By episode 5, Peter and Sam have to deal with the fact that American Vandal has gained online attention and that people are submitting theories about who the vandal is.
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* InstantViralHit: InstantWebHit: By episode 5, Peter and Sam have to deal with the fact that American Vandal has gained online attention and that people are submitting theories about who the vandal is.
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* RealityEnsues:
** After the show goes viral InUniverse, Kraz is fired for stating that one of his underage students is hot on-camera, among other things.
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** After the show goes viral InUniverse, Kraz is fired for stating that one of his underage students is hot on-camera, among other things.
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* RealityEnsues:
**RealityEnsues: After the show goes viral InUniverse, Kraz is fired for stating that one of his underage students is hot on-camera, among other things.
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* AnAesop: [[spoiler: High school is only four years of your life, and people defining you based on who you were in high school is not healthy for anyone, whether you be prom royalty or dropout. Asking yourself who you are during this crucial developmental period is a bad idea, as your identity as a person hasn't solidified yet.]]
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* AnAesop: [[spoiler: High school is only four years of your life, and people defining you based on who you were in high school is not healthy for anyone, whether you be prom royalty or dropout. Asking yourself who you are during this crucial developmental period is a bad idea, as your identity as a person hasn't solidified yet.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Kraz and a few others seem to think this is the case with Ms. Shapiro; Carla even states that one of her friends was coerced into saying a student Shapiro didn't like cheated off of her.
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* {{Bookends}}: The series begins and ends with footage of Peter asking Dylan who he is, and Dylan responding that it's a stupid question.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Kraz and a few others seem to think this is the case with Ms. Shapiro;Carla Christa even states that one of her friends was coerced into saying a student Shapiro didn't like cheated off of her.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Kraz and a few others seem to think this is the case with Ms. Shapiro;
* ConvictionByContradiction: [[spoiler: Not 'conviction', but strong evidence, as Carla claims to have gotten CPR training during the day of the vandalism. However, she freaks out when Ming passes out from intoxication at a party, asking if anyone knows CPR, strongly implying that she committed the crime.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Carla and Van Delore, if they drew the dicks.]]
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* InstantViralHit: By episode 5, Peter and Sam have to deal with the fact that American Vandal has gained online attention and that people are submitting theories about who the vandal is.
* KarmaHoudini:[[spoiler:Carla [[spoiler:Christa and Van Delore, Delorey, if they drew the dicks.]]
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* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:By the end of the series, Peter and Sam theorize that Van Delore drew the dicks while Carla deleted the tapes. Van Delore sounds a lot like "Vandal Or".]]
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* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:By the end of the series, Peter and Sam theorize that Van Delore Delorey drew the dicks while Carla Christa deleted the tapes. Van Delore Delorey sounds a lot like "Vandal Or"."Vandalery".]]
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* RealityEnsues: After the show goes viral InUniverse, Kraz is fired for stating that one of his underage students is hot on-camera.
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* RealityEnsues: RealityEnsues:
** After the show goes viral InUniverse, Kraz is fired for stating that one of his underage students is hoton-camera.on-camera, among other things.
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* SadisticTeacher: [[spoiler:Coach Rafferty is this to Carla, at the very least, putting her in a tackle drill when she tried out for the position of kicker on the football team in retaliation for a walkout. This may have been her motivation to draw the dicks.]]
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* SadisticTeacher: [[spoiler:Coach Rafferty is this to Carla, Christa, at the very least, putting her in a tackle drill when she tried out for the position of kicker on the football team in retaliation for a walkout. This may have been her motivation to draw the dicks.]]
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High school class clown Dylan Maxwell is accused of drawing 27 penises on the cars of the school's faculty. With Dylan expelled as a result, documentary filmmaker Peter Maldonado and his best friend Sam Ecklund create the doc series ''American Vandal'' to prove Dylan's innocence.
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High school class clown Dylan Maxwell is accused of drawing 27 penises on the cars of the school's faculty. With Dylan expelled as a result, documentary filmmaker Peter Maldonado and his best friend Sam Ecklund create the doc series ''American Vandal'' to investigate the case and prove Dylan's innocence.
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* AnAesop: [[spoiler: High school is only four years of your life, and people defining you based on who you were in high school is not healthy for anyone, whether you be prom royalty or dropout. Asking yourself who you are during this crucial developmental period is a bad idea, as your identity as a person hasn't solidified yet.]]
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* CoolTeacher: Kraz desperately tries to be this.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Kraz and a few others seem to think this is the case with Ms. Shapiro; Carla even states that one of her friends was coerced into saying a student Shapiro didn't like cheated off of her.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Dylan's case had circumstantial evidence, at best, but several teachers and other students saw him as a failure from the word "go" and barely gave him a chance to defend himself.
* CoolTeacher: Mr. Kraz desperately tries to bethis.this.
* DoubleEntendre: All of the episode titles contain some reference to sex.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Carla and Van Delore, if they drew the dicks.]]
* KidDetective: Peter and Sam.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** The opening credits have the names of characters in the series listed as producers, as if this were an actual true-crime drama.
** The show goes viral around episode 5, and Peter devotes a segment to discussing theories that members of the audience have about the case.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:By the end of the series, Peter and Sam theorize that Van Delore drew the dicks while Carla deleted the tapes. Van Delore sounds a lot like "Vandal Or".]]
* NiceGuy: Ming, an exchange student who's part of the Morning Show Nine, who seems to be one of the kindest students in school. When building a case against him, Sam dismisses it with three words:
--> "Dude. It's Ming."
* RealityEnsues: After the show goes viral InUniverse, Kraz is fired for stating that one of his underage students is hot on-camera.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Dylan's case had circumstantial evidence, at best, but several teachers and other students saw him as a failure from the word "go" and barely gave him a chance to defend himself.
* CoolTeacher: Mr. Kraz desperately tries to be
* DoubleEntendre: All of the episode titles contain some reference to sex.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Carla and Van Delore, if they drew the dicks.]]
* KidDetective: Peter and Sam.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** The opening credits have the names of characters in the series listed as producers, as if this were an actual true-crime drama.
** The show goes viral around episode 5, and Peter devotes a segment to discussing theories that members of the audience have about the case.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:By the end of the series, Peter and Sam theorize that Van Delore drew the dicks while Carla deleted the tapes. Van Delore sounds a lot like "Vandal Or".]]
* NiceGuy: Ming, an exchange student who's part of the Morning Show Nine, who seems to be one of the kindest students in school. When building a case against him, Sam dismisses it with three words:
--> "Dude. It's Ming."
* RealityEnsues: After the show goes viral InUniverse, Kraz is fired for stating that one of his underage students is hot on-camera.
* SadisticTeacher: [[spoiler:Coach Rafferty is this to Carla, at the very least, putting her in a tackle drill when she tried out for the position of kicker on the football team in retaliation for a walkout. This may have been her motivation to draw the dicks.]]
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* TheStoner: Dylan and his buddies.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Dylan's girlfriend Mackenzie has a relationship with another gamer on Twitch.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Dylan's girlfriend Mackenzie has a relationship with another gamer on Twitch.]]
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* SmokingGun: [[spoiler: The Spray Paint can, which helps narrow down who, specifically, was targeted in the dick drawing attack.]]
* TheStoner: Dylan and hisbuddies.
buddies, The "Wayback Boys".
*YourCheatingHeart: ThenLetMeBeEvil: [[spoiler: Dylan falls into this attitude by the end of the series. He has no prospects for the future, and everyone's pigeonholed him into being an idiot, so he decides to fulfill that role.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Many times.
** When analyzing the motives of the Morning Show Nine, Sam makes a joke video about how Peter did it, while Peter makes a much more serious video about how Sam is trying to frame Brandon because he has a crush on Gabi. He storms out of the set, but they patch things up by next episode.
** Peter to Dylan for lying about not knowing which car was Ms. Shapiro's.
** Dylan and Mackenzie to Peter for [[spoiler:accusing Mackenzie of being the vandal]].
** Sara Pearson to Peter, for exposing the fact that her hookup list exists.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** [[spoiler:Dylan's girlfriend Mackenzie has a relationship with another gamer on Twitch.]]
** [[spoiler:Gabi's boyfriend Brandon cheated on her with multiple people.]]
* TheStoner: Dylan and his
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* WhatTheHellHero: Many times.
** When analyzing the motives of the Morning Show Nine, Sam makes a joke video about how Peter did it, while Peter makes a much more serious video about how Sam is trying to frame Brandon because he has a crush on Gabi. He storms out of the set, but they patch things up by next episode.
** Peter to Dylan for lying about not knowing which car was Ms. Shapiro's.
** Dylan and Mackenzie to Peter for [[spoiler:accusing Mackenzie of being the vandal]].
** Sara Pearson to Peter, for exposing the fact that her hookup list exists.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** [[spoiler:Dylan's girlfriend Mackenzie has a relationship with another gamer on Twitch.]]
** [[spoiler:Gabi's boyfriend Brandon cheated on her with multiple people.]]
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* TheStoner: Dylan and his buddies.
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* TheStoner: Dylan and his buddies.buddies.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Dylan's girlfriend Mackenzie has a relationship with another gamer on Twitch.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Dylan's girlfriend Mackenzie has a relationship with another gamer on Twitch.]]
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* CoolTeacher: Kraz desperately tries to be this.
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* The Stoner: Dylan and his buddies.
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''American Vandal'' is a 2017 {{Netflix}} original {{Mockumentary}} series set in Oceanside, CA.
High school class clown Dylan Maxwell is accused of drawing 27 penises on the cars of the school's faculty. With Dylan expelled as a result, documentary filmmaker Peter Maldonado and his best friend Sam Ecklund create the doc series ''American Vandal'' to prove Dylan's innocence.
!!This show provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody: Of true crime docs like ''Serial'' or ''Making A Murderer''.
* BittersweetEnding: For Season One. [[spoiler:Dylan is exonerated of drawing the dicks on the teachers' cars, but he loses his girlfriend for the last time, has no college prospects, and he resigns himself to being the idiot that everyone sees him as. It is also never confirmed who really drew the dicks, but if it really is Christa, she receives no punishment for it. Also, Peter's documentary alienates him from some of the students whose secrets have been exposed as a result. On the upside, Sam and Gabi are on better terms.]]
* BookDumb: Dylan, who even says he isn't "book smart".
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Mackenzie gives one to Peter when he accuses her of drawing the dicks.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Mrs. Shapiro is this to Dylan.
* ShoutOut:
** Dylan mentions not understanding ''Film/{{Inception}}''
* The Stoner: Dylan and his buddies.
High school class clown Dylan Maxwell is accused of drawing 27 penises on the cars of the school's faculty. With Dylan expelled as a result, documentary filmmaker Peter Maldonado and his best friend Sam Ecklund create the doc series ''American Vandal'' to prove Dylan's innocence.
!!This show provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody: Of true crime docs like ''Serial'' or ''Making A Murderer''.
* BittersweetEnding: For Season One. [[spoiler:Dylan is exonerated of drawing the dicks on the teachers' cars, but he loses his girlfriend for the last time, has no college prospects, and he resigns himself to being the idiot that everyone sees him as. It is also never confirmed who really drew the dicks, but if it really is Christa, she receives no punishment for it. Also, Peter's documentary alienates him from some of the students whose secrets have been exposed as a result. On the upside, Sam and Gabi are on better terms.]]
* BookDumb: Dylan, who even says he isn't "book smart".
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Mackenzie gives one to Peter when he accuses her of drawing the dicks.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Mrs. Shapiro is this to Dylan.
* ShoutOut:
** Dylan mentions not understanding ''Film/{{Inception}}''
* The Stoner: Dylan and his buddies.
