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* JackhammeredConversation: The string of curse words that Dong-baek lets loose in the final episode after bashing Heung-sik over the head with a glass mug, are drowned out by the sound of a passing truck.
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* NatureVersusNurture: DiscussedTrope in the last episode. As Seok-yong agonizes about why his son turned out to be a SerialKiller and what he could have done differently as a father, Heung-sik smirks and says "I guess you wouldn't know if I was raised like this or born like this."
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* ChekhovsGun: In Hyang-mi's first appearance she is said to be a compulsive kleptomaniac, and a couple of times she is shown stealing small items. That's why Dong-baek's bracelet is seen on the wrist of the murder victim.
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** In Hyang-mi's first appearance she is said to be a compulsive kleptomaniac, and a couple of times she is shown stealing small items. That's why Dong-baek's bracelet is seen on the wrist of the murdervictim.victim.
** In the last couple of episodes, after Seok-yong is identified as the Joker and arrested, he seems strangely fixated on getting his glasses back from home, insisting on this repeatedly and refusing to cooperate if he doesn't get his glasses. The reason is that the bag that contains his glasses also contains his son's yellow ear plug, the one that matches the one that a dying Hyang-mi swallowed.
** In Hyang-mi's first appearance she is said to be a compulsive kleptomaniac, and a couple of times she is shown stealing small items. That's why Dong-baek's bracelet is seen on the wrist of the murder
** In the last couple of episodes, after Seok-yong is identified as the Joker and arrested, he seems strangely fixated on getting his glasses back from home, insisting on this repeatedly and refusing to cooperate if he doesn't get his glasses. The reason is that the bag that contains his glasses also contains his son's yellow ear plug, the one that matches the one that a dying Hyang-mi swallowed.
* SecretTest: In the last episode Yong-sik grills Seok-yong, who was arrested and charged as being the Joker, why he crammed Hyang-mi's throat full of sawdust and super glue. Seok-yong says it was to shut her up. Then Yong-sik drops the bomb: neither sawdust nor super glue were found in Hyang-mi's throat. He has figured out that Seok-yong is covering for his son, Heung-sik.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Yong-sik getting arrested for defending her from Gyu-tae in episode 6 finally motivates Dong-baek to stop being such an ExtremeDoormat. She stomps over to the police station and swears out a complaint against Gyu-tae for three years of relentless sexual harassment and verbal assault.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Yong-sik getting arrested for defending her from Gyu-tae in episode 6 finally motivates Dong-baek to stop being such an ExtremeDoormat. She stomps over to the police station and swears out a complaint against Gyu-tae for three years of relentless sexual harassment and verbal assault.assault.
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: The ending of the series gives no hint as to whether Jong-yeol will get visitation rights to the son he didn't even know he had until Pil-gu was eight years old. He gives Dong-baek a slush fund for Pil-gu's support, so one might think he would, but the series never states this.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The Joker storyline seems to be wrapped up in episode 18 with the arrest of Seok-yong, Heung-shik's father--the DNA under Hyang-mi's fingernails matched him. It isn't a completely obvious case of YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle, as there seems to be plenty of plot to fill out the remaining two episodes, like the various romances or Jung-sook's kidney failure. But there's still the matter of the unidentified yellow object that Hyang-mi swallowed before she died. Sure enough, the last episode reveals that Heung-shik ''is'' the killer after all. Seok-yong had DNA under his fingernails because he was helping his son dispose of Hyang-mi after the fact. The mysterious yellow object? Heung-shik's ear plug.
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: The ending of the series gives no hint as to whether Jong-yeol will get visitation rights to the son he didn't even know he had until Pil-gu was eight years old. He gives Dong-baek a slush fund for Pil-gu's support, so one might think he would, but the series never states this.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The Joker storyline seems to be wrapped up in episode 18 with the arrest of Seok-yong, Heung-shik's father--the DNA under Hyang-mi's fingernails matched him. It isn't a completely obvious case of YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle, as there seems to be plenty of plot to fill out the remaining two episodes, like the various romances or Jung-sook's kidney failure. But there's still the matter of the unidentified yellow object that Hyang-mi swallowed before she died. Sure enough, the last episode reveals that Heung-shik ''is'' the killer after all. Seok-yong had DNA under his fingernails because he was helping his son dispose of Hyang-mi after the fact. The mysterious yellow object? Heung-shik's ear plug.
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* AnswerCut: In episode 19 Ja-young comes over to the Camellia to shoot the breeze with Dong-baek. They chat for a while, and then Ja-young asks if Dong-baek has any hard liquor in the place. Cut to Gyu-tae and Dong-baek carrying a drunk off her ass Ja-young to the car.
* BlandNameProduct: Apparently the producers weren't willing to pay for any Major League Baseball logos. So in the final scene of the final episode, Pil-gu is revealed to have made it to MLB, with the LA "Modgers".
* DistantFinale: The last scene of the last episode skips forward 20 years or so to reveal that Pil-gu made the major leagues after all. Dong-baek and Yong-sik are shown, from behind, watching the press conference on TV.
* GirlPosse: The ladies of the neighborhood, who once hated and bullied Dong-baek. They rally to protect her in the later episodes, after it becomes clear that the Joker is after her personally.
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* RunningGag: Throughout the series, Yong-sik follows Dong-baek around and pursues the Joker. His supervisor Chief Byun keeps pestering him to follow up on a complaint by a woman who says her dog was impregnated by a neighbor dog. This gag that is repeated in many episodes pays off in episode 15 when Yong-sik wants to see a security camera on a radish farm...and it turns out that the radish farmer is Yeong-sim, the woman who was complaining about her dog. She says he'll have to get a warrant.
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* RunningGag: Throughout the series, Yong-sik follows Dong-baek around and pursues the Joker. His supervisor Chief Byun keeps pestering him to follow up on a complaint by a woman who says her dog was impregnated by a neighbor dog. This gag that is repeated in many episodes pays off in episode 15 when Yong-sik wants to see a security camera on a radish farm...and it turns out that the radish farmer is Yeong-sim, the woman who was complaining about her dog. She says he'll have to get a warrant. The final episode reveals why Chief Byun kept bothering Yong-sik about looking into the dog problem; Yeong-sim is Chief Byun's girlfriend.
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* SeriousBusiness:
** Getting married to a woman who already has a kid is portrayed as an earth-shattering decision.
** When news breaks in episode 19 that Jessica was married before, it is treated as a gigantic scandal. Jong-ryul has to call a press conference in the last episode to defend his wife's honor.
** Getting married to a woman who already has a kid is portrayed as an earth-shattering decision.
** When news breaks in episode 19 that Jessica was married before, it is treated as a gigantic scandal. Jong-ryul has to call a press conference in the last episode to defend his wife's honor.
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* ShutUpHannibal: In the last episode Heung-sik tries to play some sort of weird mind game with Yong-sik, claiming that while he murdered the other five victims, he didn't kill the delivery man. Yong-sik blows him off. When Heung-sik claims that everybody can be a Joker, Yong-sik shoots back that the Jokers of the world will always be hugely outnumbered by decent people.
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* TimeShiftedActor: A couple of scenes feature an adult Pil-gu, like the FlashForward at the end of episode 18, as well as the DistantFinale at the end of the series.
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* RoundTableShot: Episode 17 features a RoundTableShot showing the married ladies of the neighborhood, as they sit together and debate what to do about the Joker.
