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* This brief moment from "Pulling Double Booty" when Hayley is outlining her three-way with Stan (posing as his body double) and a waitress (though it is more funny than depressing, it does get a little sad when you realize that once upon a time, Stan really did love Hayley and wants her to be the sweet, obedient girl she used to be).
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* This brief moment from "Pulling Double Booty" when Hayley is outlining her three-way with Stan (posing as his body double) and a waitress (though it is more funny than depressing, it does get a little sad when you realize that once upon a time, Stan really did love Hayley and [[UsedRoBeASweetKid wants her to be the sweet, obedient girl she used to be).be]]).
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* ''Stan's Best Friend'': The story of how young Stan was forced to kill his dog because he thought he had a terminal disease (Turns out it was because his mom was moving into an apartment that didn't allow dogs or cats. Rabbits, however, were only allowed on a case-by-case basis). Even Stan said the story was so sad, that he wasn't going to undercut the flashback with a joke. He wasn't kidding, given that Francine was reduced to tears when Stan told her about it.
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* ''Stan's Best Friend'': The story of how young Stan was forced to kill his dog because he thought he had a terminal disease (Turns out it was because his mom was moving into an apartment that didn't allow dogs or cats. Rabbits, however, were only allowed on a case-by-case basis). Even Stan himself said the story was so sad, that he wasn't going to undercut the flashback with a joke. He wasn't kidding, given that Francine was reduced to tears when Stan told her about it.
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* "Beyond The Alcove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Klaus" features Klaus hypnotising everyone in town into loving him. While what he does is pure NightmareFuel, [[FridgeHorror it makes you realise]] Klaus is so desperate and starved for affection that he has to hypnotise people to get it.
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* ''Stan's Best Friend'': The story of how young Stan was forced to kill his dog because he thought he had a terminal disease (Turns out it was because his mom was moving into an apartment that didn't allow dogs or cats. Rabbits, however, were only allowed on a case-by-case basis). Even Stan said the story was so sad, that he wasn't going to undercut the flashback with a joke.
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* ''Stan's Best Friend'': The story of how young Stan was forced to kill his dog because he thought he had a terminal disease (Turns out it was because his mom was moving into an apartment that didn't allow dogs or cats. Rabbits, however, were only allowed on a case-by-case basis). Even Stan said the story was so sad, that he wasn't going to undercut the flashback with a joke. He wasn't kidding, given that Francine was reduced to tears when Stan told her about it.
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* In "I Am The Walrus" Stan, inspired by a walrus documentary, proves himself to Steve that he's the real man of the house by doing the one thing Steve can't yet: have sex. Roger invites Steve to a party at the prospect of getting laid but it ends in failure and the poor boy has a mental breakdown. Stan arrives just in time to see his son crying. Roger congratulates Stan, telling him that now Steve will never challenge him again and he won't have any son of his own challenging him since he'll never have children. Stan realizes that he's made Steve inept and apologizes for trying to make him live like a walrus and helps him with one other way of being a man: shaving.
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* In "I Am The Walrus" Walrus", Stan, inspired by a walrus documentary, proves himself to Steve that he's the real man of the house by doing the one thing Steve can't yet: have sex. Roger invites Steve to a party at the prospect of getting laid but it ends in failure and the poor boy has a mental breakdown. Stan arrives just in time to see his son crying. Roger congratulates Stan, telling him that now Steve will never challenge him again and he won't have any son of his own challenging him since he'll never have children. Stan realizes that he's made Steve inept and apologizes for trying to make him live like a walrus and helps him with one other way of being a man: shaving.
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** The second person to find it is Lt. Eddie Thacker. After coming across the scene of Jim's death, he finds the Golden Turd and pockets it, bringing it home to show to his wife Marylin. While Marylin is excited to use it to retire in luxury, Eddie is torn up about stealing evidence and risking his pension, the then arguing about his desire to turn it in and face punishment. While Eddie is able to realize the Turd is what's making them fight and seems to calm Marylin down, she actually puts rat poison in his tea and kills him. She's caught soon after and sentence to death row, her last words before lethal injection being her apologizing to her son Vincent.
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** The second person to find it is Lt. Eddie Thacker. After coming across the scene of Jim's death, he finds the Golden Turd and pockets it, bringing it home to show to his wife Marylin. While Marylin is excited to use it to retire in luxury, Eddie is torn up about stealing evidence and risking his pension, the two then arguing about his desire to turn it in and face punishment. While Eddie is able to realize the Turd is what's making them fight and seems to calm Marylin down, she actually puts rat poison in his tea and kills him. She's caught soon after and sentence to death row, her last words before lethal injection being her apologizing to her son Vincent.
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** Once Roger is put back together and poops the Turd again, Stan offers to destroy it when the rest of the family becomes mesmerized by it. Instead, he takes it and goes into hiding for twenty years, living under a fake name in Vermont. One by one, Steve, Hayley, and Francine all arrive looking for the Turd, and don't hesitate to attack each other to get it. Steve nearly beats Stan to death with a pipe, Hayley kills Steve by crushing him between her truck and his car, Francine executes Hayley after backstabbing her, and Stan and Francine proceed to fight to the death over it, Francine tricking Stan into giving her mercy before shooting him in the head with a nail gun, before getting her scarf caught in a power saw and getting strangled to death. Roger coming across their corpses is enough [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes to drive him to tears]], and prompts him to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong tell his past self]] to hide the damn Turd somewhere no one can find it.
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** Once Roger is put back together and poops the Turd again, Stan offers to destroy it when the rest of the family becomes mesmerized by it. Instead, he takes it and goes into hiding for twenty years, living under a fake name in Vermont. One by one, Steve, Hayley, and Francine all arrive looking for the Turd, and don't hesitate to attack each other to get it. Steve nearly beats Stan to death with a pipe, Hayley kills Steve by crushing him between her truck and his car, Francine executes Hayley after backstabbing her, and Stan and Francine proceed to fight to the death over it, Francine tricking Stan into giving her mercy before shooting him in the head with a nail gun, before getting her scarf caught in a power saw and getting strangled to death. Roger coming across their corpses is enough [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes to drive him to tears]], and prompts him to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong tell his past self]] to hide the damn Turd somewhere no one can find it.it.
* In "Trophy Wife, Trophy Life," it's revealed that Tuttle's whole life is watched in Korea as part of a reality show called ''Sad Fatso''. Klaus, Steve, Hayley, and Roger start coming over to his house so that they can get on TV, but this ends up tanking the ratings because they're making Tuttle happy. Once they find out how unpopular they are, they flatly reject Tuttle by slamming a door in his face. The side plot ends with him eating a cake out of his garbage, must to the cruel joy of the Korean viewers.
* In "Trophy Wife, Trophy Life," it's revealed that Tuttle's whole life is watched in Korea as part of a reality show called ''Sad Fatso''. Klaus, Steve, Hayley, and Roger start coming over to his house so that they can get on TV, but this ends up tanking the ratings because they're making Tuttle happy. Once they find out how unpopular they are, they flatly reject Tuttle by slamming a door in his face. The side plot ends with him eating a cake out of his garbage, must to the cruel joy of the Korean viewers.
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** The first person to find it was an electrician named Jim. After he and his best friend Mikey find it at the powerplant, Jim beats Mikey to death with it so he can have it for himself. When he tries to call his fiancé Abby to tell her about it though, he learns that she was having an affair, and breaks down crying over what he did. He ends up turning to the bottle, and is DrivenToSuicide by driving on to the train tracks.
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** The first person to find it was an electrician named Jim. After he and his best friend Mikey find it at the powerplant, Jim beats Mikey to death with it so he can have it for himself.himself, and nearly attacks a police officer when it looks like he might get caught. When he tries to call his fiancé Abby to tell her about it though, he learns that she was having an affair, and breaks down crying over what he did. He ends up turning to the bottle, and is DrivenToSuicide by driving on to the train tracks.
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* In Into the Woods Stan realizes he didn't abandon a kid being bullied when they were children but was left behind by the other kid and he was just so traumatized he switched the scenario. Then Francine tries to make him feel better by doing a middle school reunion, but everyone turns out to be doing better than him, including one guy who found money in the woods that Stan was hiding out in literally a day before the reunion. Then to really make matters worse when the bullies that led to Stan's trauma show up and ask Francine if she is Stan's wife and... she pretty much calls him a loser and says she doesn't know him. Stan runs out ashamed, but when he and Francine are driving home and she's apologizing Stan switches the scenario in his head again and apologizes and Francine just accepts it. He's that traumatized that he copes by playing it off as if it's his fault.
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* In Into "Into the Woods Woods" Stan realizes he didn't abandon a kid being bullied when they were children but was left behind by the other kid and he was just so traumatized he switched the scenario. Then Francine tries to make him feel better by doing a middle school reunion, but everyone turns out to be doing better than him, including one guy who found money in the woods that Stan was hiding out in literally a day before the reunion. Then to really make matters worse when the bullies that led to Stan's trauma show up and ask Francine if she is Stan's wife and... she pretty much calls him a loser and says she doesn't know him. Stan runs out ashamed, but when he and Francine are driving home and she's apologizing Stan switches the scenario in his head again and apologizes and Francine just accepts it. He's that traumatized that he copes by playing it off as if it's his fault.
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* "Little Bonnie Ramirez" ''really'' tips the scale on Roger's level of cruelty. To put it plainly, Roger has Francine arrested and falsely imprisoned for abducting a child persona of his [[DisproportionateRetribution simply because she said he was losing his edge]]. That itself is PlayedForLaughs, but later on, he gets her out of it by swapping her with a television actress who played Francine in a reenactment. What's so sad about this is that the actress was a genuinely kind and caring individual who helped the Smiths throughout the episode for literally nothing. The Smiths are [[EvenEvilHasStandards visibly uncomfortably]] as she is dragged away crying.
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* "Little Bonnie Ramirez" ''really'' tips the scale on Roger's level of cruelty. To put it plainly, Roger has Francine arrested and falsely imprisoned for abducting a child persona of his [[DisproportionateRetribution simply because she said he was losing his edge]]. That itself is PlayedForLaughs, but later on, he gets her out of it by swapping her with a television actress who played Francine in a reenactment. What's so sad about this is that the actress was a genuinely kind and caring individual who helped the Smiths throughout the episode for literally nothing. The Smiths are [[EvenEvilHasStandards visibly uncomfortably]] as she is dragged away crying.crying.
* The Golden Turd may be an ArtifactOfDoom and pure NightmareFuel, but the things it does to the people that find it are tragic. The only solace is that since Roger contacted himself in the past and convinced himself to send it to Boca Raton before anyone else finds it, that none of these tragedies had to occur anymore.
** The first person to find it was an electrician named Jim. After he and his best friend Mikey find it at the powerplant, Jim beats Mikey to death with it so he can have it for himself. When he tries to call his fiancé Abby to tell her about it though, he learns that she was having an affair, and breaks down crying over what he did. He ends up turning to the bottle, and is DrivenToSuicide by driving on to the train tracks.
** The second person to find it is Lt. Eddie Thacker. After coming across the scene of Jim's death, he finds the Golden Turd and pockets it, bringing it home to show to his wife Marylin. While Marylin is excited to use it to retire in luxury, Eddie is torn up about stealing evidence and risking his pension, the then arguing about his desire to turn it in and face punishment. While Eddie is able to realize the Turd is what's making them fight and seems to calm Marylin down, she actually puts rat poison in his tea and kills him. She's caught soon after and sentence to death row, her last words before lethal injection being her apologizing to her son Vincent.
** The third person to find it is Vincent Edmonds. After having to see his mother be executed for killing his father, he goes back to their home, his old room specifically, to question why his mother would ever do it. He overhears a child outside cry for help after he's hit by a car, only to trip on a loose floorboard and find the Turd hidden underneath it. He then proceeds to ignore the child crying out for help in favor of calling a CorruptCorporateExecutive who had offered a back alley deal for his campaign for POTUS. The night of the convention, he's become so obsessed with the Turd he just sits there staring at it when his manager comes in saying the papers will be running the story about his back alley deal. The moment his manager reaches for the Turd, Vincent ''lunges'' at him while crying out "Mine!" as if he were [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Gollum]], only for get beaten to death with the Turd. The manager is shortly after gunned down by Secret Service, his dying breaths having him ''still'' reaching for the Turd beneath the couch before he's shot dead.
** After a cleaning lady finds the Turd, she takes it to the Vatican and gives it to the Pope, who brings it before a secret order comprised of the worlds' religious leaders, dedicated to destroying the Golden Turd. Right as it looks like they are united in what to do, they all turn on each other and kill themselves in a shootout.
** Once Roger is put back together and poops the Turd again, Stan offers to destroy it when the rest of the family becomes mesmerized by it. Instead, he takes it and goes into hiding for twenty years, living under a fake name in Vermont. One by one, Steve, Hayley, and Francine all arrive looking for the Turd, and don't hesitate to attack each other to get it. Steve nearly beats Stan to death with a pipe, Hayley kills Steve by crushing him between her truck and his car, Francine executes Hayley after backstabbing her, and Stan and Francine proceed to fight to the death over it, Francine tricking Stan into giving her mercy before shooting him in the head with a nail gun, before getting her scarf caught in a power saw and getting strangled to death. Roger coming across their corpses is enough [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes to drive him to tears]], and prompts him to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong tell his past self]] to hide the damn Turd somewhere no one can find it.
* The Golden Turd may be an ArtifactOfDoom and pure NightmareFuel, but the things it does to the people that find it are tragic. The only solace is that since Roger contacted himself in the past and convinced himself to send it to Boca Raton before anyone else finds it, that none of these tragedies had to occur anymore.
** The first person to find it was an electrician named Jim. After he and his best friend Mikey find it at the powerplant, Jim beats Mikey to death with it so he can have it for himself. When he tries to call his fiancé Abby to tell her about it though, he learns that she was having an affair, and breaks down crying over what he did. He ends up turning to the bottle, and is DrivenToSuicide by driving on to the train tracks.
** The second person to find it is Lt. Eddie Thacker. After coming across the scene of Jim's death, he finds the Golden Turd and pockets it, bringing it home to show to his wife Marylin. While Marylin is excited to use it to retire in luxury, Eddie is torn up about stealing evidence and risking his pension, the then arguing about his desire to turn it in and face punishment. While Eddie is able to realize the Turd is what's making them fight and seems to calm Marylin down, she actually puts rat poison in his tea and kills him. She's caught soon after and sentence to death row, her last words before lethal injection being her apologizing to her son Vincent.
** The third person to find it is Vincent Edmonds. After having to see his mother be executed for killing his father, he goes back to their home, his old room specifically, to question why his mother would ever do it. He overhears a child outside cry for help after he's hit by a car, only to trip on a loose floorboard and find the Turd hidden underneath it. He then proceeds to ignore the child crying out for help in favor of calling a CorruptCorporateExecutive who had offered a back alley deal for his campaign for POTUS. The night of the convention, he's become so obsessed with the Turd he just sits there staring at it when his manager comes in saying the papers will be running the story about his back alley deal. The moment his manager reaches for the Turd, Vincent ''lunges'' at him while crying out "Mine!" as if he were [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Gollum]], only for get beaten to death with the Turd. The manager is shortly after gunned down by Secret Service, his dying breaths having him ''still'' reaching for the Turd beneath the couch before he's shot dead.
** After a cleaning lady finds the Turd, she takes it to the Vatican and gives it to the Pope, who brings it before a secret order comprised of the worlds' religious leaders, dedicated to destroying the Golden Turd. Right as it looks like they are united in what to do, they all turn on each other and kill themselves in a shootout.
** Once Roger is put back together and poops the Turd again, Stan offers to destroy it when the rest of the family becomes mesmerized by it. Instead, he takes it and goes into hiding for twenty years, living under a fake name in Vermont. One by one, Steve, Hayley, and Francine all arrive looking for the Turd, and don't hesitate to attack each other to get it. Steve nearly beats Stan to death with a pipe, Hayley kills Steve by crushing him between her truck and his car, Francine executes Hayley after backstabbing her, and Stan and Francine proceed to fight to the death over it, Francine tricking Stan into giving her mercy before shooting him in the head with a nail gun, before getting her scarf caught in a power saw and getting strangled to death. Roger coming across their corpses is enough [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes to drive him to tears]], and prompts him to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong tell his past self]] to hide the damn Turd somewhere no one can find it.
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* "The Long March" starts out with a hell of an AdultFear with Hayley being promoted to Assistant Manager at a sandwich shop. She fears that she will spend the rest of her life stuck at that stressful, monotonous job -- a fear that a misguided Stan cheerfully confirms when he happily tells her that her life will revolve entirely around her employment until the day she dies. He even bluntly tells Hayley that he never really respected or cared about her as a person before she got that job. The fact that Stan [[InnocentlyInsensitive never loses his cheery demeanor despite how depressing his words clearly are]] is just icing on the cake.
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* "The Long March" starts out with a hell of an AdultFear with Hayley being promoted to Assistant Manager at a sandwich shop. She fears that she will spend the rest of her life stuck at that stressful, monotonous job -- a fear that a misguided Stan cheerfully confirms when he happily tells her that her life will revolve entirely around her employment until the day she dies. He even bluntly tells Hayley that he never really respected or cared about her as a person before she got that job. The fact that Stan [[InnocentlyInsensitive never loses his cheery demeanor despite how depressing his words clearly are]] is just icing on the cake.
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** The entire episode is a TearJerker with Stan being determined to keep Kisses, the family's new puppy, alive after it gets critically injured [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by a group of pirate cats that crushed it with their hot air balloon's basket.]] The vet tells the family that Kisses would not last much longer, but Stan refuses to let Kisses die, so he puts the dog on life support, and then decides to steal Kisses from the hospital, taking him to a non licensed veterinarian to keep Kisses alive. She does so, but winds up [[TragicMonster making Kisses a complete freak that barely resembles a dog and seems to be in even more pain than ever.]] Steve [[InelegantBlubbering spends several scenes crying his eyes out]] seeing that his new pet is on the verge of death.
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** The entire episode is a TearJerker with Stan being determined to keep Kisses, the family's new puppy, alive after it gets critically injured [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by a group of pirate cats that crushed it with their hot air balloon's basket.]] The vet tells the family that Kisses would not last much longer, but Stan refuses to let Kisses die, so he puts the dog on life support, and then decides to steal Kisses from the hospital, taking him to a non licensed veterinarian to keep Kisses alive. She does so, but winds up [[TragicMonster making Kisses a complete Frankenstein-like freak that barely resembles a dog and seems to be in even more pain than ever.]] Steve [[InelegantBlubbering spends several scenes crying his eyes out]] seeing that his new pet is on the verge of death.
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** The entire episode is a TearJerker with Stan being determined to keep Kisses, the family's new puppy, alive after it gets critically injured [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by a group of pirate cats that crushed it with their hot air balloon's basket.]] The vet tells the family that Kisses would not last much longer, but Stan refuses to let Kisses die, so he puts the dog on life support, and then decides to steal Kisses from the hospital, taking him to a non licensed veterinarian to keep Kisses alive. She does so, but winds up [[TragicMonster making Kisses a complete FrankensteinMonster freak that barely resembles a dog and seems to be in even more pain than ever.]] Steve [[InelegantBlubbering spends several scenes crying his eyes out]] seeing that his new pet is on the verge of death.
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** The entire episode is a TearJerker with Stan being determined to keep Kisses, the family's new puppy, alive after it gets critically injured [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by a group of pirate cats that crushed it with their hot air balloon's basket.]] The vet tells the family that Kisses would not last much longer, but Stan refuses to let Kisses die, so he puts the dog on life support, and then decides to steal Kisses from the hospital, taking him to a non licensed veterinarian to keep Kisses alive. She does so, but winds up [[TragicMonster making Kisses a complete FrankensteinMonster freak that barely resembles a dog and seems to be in even more pain than ever.]] Steve [[InelegantBlubbering spends several scenes crying his eyes out]] seeing that his new pet is on the verge of death.
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** The entire episode is a TearJerker with Stan being determined to keep Kisses, the family's new puppy, alive after it gets critically injured [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by a group of pirate cats that crushed it with their hot air balloon's basket.]] The vet tells the family that Kisses would not last much longer, but Stan refuses to let Kisses die, so he puts the dog on life support, and then decides to steal Kisses from the hospital, taking him to a non licensed veterinarian to keep Kisses alive. She does so, but winds up [[TragicMonster making Kisses a complete freak that barely resembles a dog and seems to be in even more pain than ever.]] Steve [[InelegantBlubbering spends several scenes crying his eyes out]] seeing that his new pet is on the verge of death.
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** The entire episode is a TearJerker with Stan being determined to keep Kisses, the family's new puppy, alive after it gets critically injured [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by a group of pirate cats that crushed it with their hot air balloon's basket.]] The vet tells the family that Kisses would not last much longer, but Stan refuses to let Kisses die, so he puts the dog on life support, and then decides to steal Kisses from the hospital, taking him to a non licensed veterinarian to keep Kisses alive. She does so, but winds up [[TragicMonster making Kisses a complete FrankensteinMonster freak that barely resembles a dog and seems to be in even more pain than ever.]] Steve [[InelegantBlubbering spends several scenes crying his eyes out]] seeing that his new pet is on the verge of death.
-->'''Francine''': ''(screams in horror)''
-->'''Steve''': ''(wails loudly)'' ''Oh, my God! Please, kill this dog!! End this!!!!''
-->'''Stan''': I know he's hard to look at now but he's still Kisses! Look deep into his eyes which are now his balls and you'll see--
-->'''Francine''': Okay, whatever that is, it's ''not'' Kisses.
-->'''Francine''': ''(screams in horror)''
-->'''Steve''': ''(wails loudly)'' ''Oh, my God! Please, kill this dog!! End this!!!!''
-->'''Stan''': I know he's hard to look at now but he's still Kisses! Look deep into his eyes which are now his balls and you'll see--
-->'''Francine''': Okay, whatever that is, it's ''not'' Kisses.
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'''Stan:''' ''There's'' that vacant stare of a fellow marcher!
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* In "I Am The Walrus" Stan, inspired by a walrus documentary, proves himself to Steve that he's the real man of the house by doing the one thing Steve can't yet: have sex. Roger invites Steve to a party at the prospect of getting laid but it ends in failure and the poor boy has a mental breakdown. Stan arrives just in time to see his son crying. Roger congratulates Stan, telling him that now Steve will never challenge him again and he won't have any son of his own challenging him since he'll never have children. Stan realizes that he's made Steve inept and apologizes for trying to make him live like a walrus and helps him with one other way of being a man: shaving.
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** That episodes end credits are played over the image of Snot crying next to Honey's body, ''holding the macaroni necklace she made him''.
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** What's worse? Even as the world is about to be consumed in a nuclear Holocaust? Stan can't even BARE to say he loves Steve! No matter the circumstances, even the END OF THE WORLD, Stan refuses to give his son genuine mutual respect or affection.
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While this show has BlackComedy similar to ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', there's bound to be some [[TearJerker Tragedy]] here.
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* "Brave N00b World" ends with Steve and Stan ultimately causing the end of the world and all of them dying... again, but then the world is sort of 3D printed back into existence except there's a small change and Stan doesn't take the call and just wants to hang out with Steve for father-son day... this is so unnerving to Steve that he realizes the world is fake and goes insane from it... essentially Stan is such a terrible father that the mere thought of him being loving to his kids in a certain way even for a second is so out of place that it's out of character and makes you realize the world is fake!
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* "Brave N00b World" ends with Steve and Stan ultimately causing the end of the world and all of them dying... again, but then the world is sort of 3D printed back into existence except there's a small change and Stan doesn't take the call and just wants to hang out with Steve for father-son day... this is so unnerving to Steve that he realizes the world is fake and goes insane from it... essentially Stan is such a terrible father that the mere thought of him being loving to his kids in a certain way even for a second is so out of place that it's out of character and makes you realize the world is fake!fake!
* "Little Bonnie Ramirez" ''really'' tips the scale on Roger's level of cruelty. To put it plainly, Roger has Francine arrested and falsely imprisoned for abducting a child persona of his [[DisproportionateRetribution simply because she said he was losing his edge]]. That itself is PlayedForLaughs, but later on, he gets her out of it by swapping her with a television actress who played Francine in a reenactment. What's so sad about this is that the actress was a genuinely kind and caring individual who helped the Smiths throughout the episode for literally nothing. The Smiths are [[EvenEvilHasStandards visibly uncomfortably]] as she is dragged away crying.
* "Little Bonnie Ramirez" ''really'' tips the scale on Roger's level of cruelty. To put it plainly, Roger has Francine arrested and falsely imprisoned for abducting a child persona of his [[DisproportionateRetribution simply because she said he was losing his edge]]. That itself is PlayedForLaughs, but later on, he gets her out of it by swapping her with a television actress who played Francine in a reenactment. What's so sad about this is that the actress was a genuinely kind and caring individual who helped the Smiths throughout the episode for literally nothing. The Smiths are [[EvenEvilHasStandards visibly uncomfortably]] as she is dragged away crying.
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* ''Stan's Best Friend'': The story of how young Stan was forced to kill his dog because he thought he had a terminal disease ([[spoiler:Turns out it was because his mom was moving into an apartment that didn't allow dogs or cats. Rabbits, however, were only allowed on a case-by-case basis]]). Even Stan said the story was so sad, that he wasn't going to undercut the flashback with a joke.
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* ''Stan's Best Friend'': The story of how young Stan was forced to kill his dog because he thought he had a terminal disease ([[spoiler:Turns (Turns out it was because his mom was moving into an apartment that didn't allow dogs or cats. Rabbits, however, were only allowed on a case-by-case basis]]).basis). Even Stan said the story was so sad, that he wasn't going to undercut the flashback with a joke.
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* ''National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well: The Hole Story'' puts a depressing new light on all the previous Francine-centric episodes where she either tries to find a career or some new form of fulfillment beyond what she has. Because she was saved from a well when she was younger, and a firefighter died [[spoiler: though not really]] so she could live, Francine's previous attempts at jobs and careers were all to prove that her life really was worth saving. She's felt that she's done nothing with her life, meaning that firefighter died for nothing and it's on her head.
* The flashback of Roger's most memorable moments on "Naked to the Limit: One More Time" when Roger is about to go back to his home planet ([[spoiler:in the end he doesn't but it still hits home]]) set to ''Suicide is Painless'' (best known as the theme song to ''M*A*S*H'', both the movie and the TV show).
* The flashback of Roger's most memorable moments on "Naked to the Limit: One More Time" when Roger is about to go back to his home planet ([[spoiler:in the end he doesn't but it still hits home]]) set to ''Suicide is Painless'' (best known as the theme song to ''M*A*S*H'', both the movie and the TV show).
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* ''National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well: The Hole Story'' puts a depressing new light on all the previous Francine-centric episodes where she either tries to find a career or some new form of fulfillment beyond what she has. Because she was saved from a well when she was younger, and a firefighter died [[spoiler: though not really]] really so she could live, Francine's previous attempts at jobs and careers were all to prove that her life really was worth saving. She's felt that she's done nothing with her life, meaning that firefighter died for nothing and it's on her head.
* The flashback of Roger's most memorable moments on "Naked to the Limit: One More Time" when Roger is about to go back to his home planet([[spoiler:in (in the end he doesn't but it still hits home]]) home) set to ''Suicide is Painless'' (best known as the theme song to ''M*A*S*H'', both the movie and the TV show).
* The flashback of Roger's most memorable moments on "Naked to the Limit: One More Time" when Roger is about to go back to his home planet
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* A large amount of the episode "Lost in Space", but especially the Majestic musical number. [[spoiler: Jeff is being shown supposed proof that he never loved Hayley at all, and he cries and falls to his hands and knees at the footage of him not appreciating his wife enough, now with the knowledge that he may never see her again. Scrappy or not, you'll just want to give Jeff a hug after that.]]
** [[spoiler: When Jeff confronts the Majestic, he finds out Emperor Zing is forcing it to show only bad memories, or else he'll get killed.]]
** [[spoiler: When Jeff confronts the Majestic, he finds out Emperor Zing is forcing it to show only bad memories, or else he'll get killed.]]
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* A large amount of the episode "Lost in Space", but especially the Majestic musical number. [[spoiler: Jeff is being shown supposed proof that he never loved Hayley at all, and he cries and falls to his hands and knees at the footage of him not appreciating his wife enough, now with the knowledge that he may never see her again. Scrappy or not, you'll just want to give Jeff a hug after that.]]
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**[[spoiler: When Jeff confronts the Majestic, he finds out Emperor Zing is forcing it to show only bad memories, or else he'll get killed.]]
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** [[spoiler: Also take into account of the FridgeHorror, all the alien slaves are being kept from their true love, and probably took the test and failed. One alien is seen crying at the beginning and another was so depressed he hit the bottle (although the latter was [[CrossesTheLineTwice also]] a funny moment), and it's understandable. Also during the start of the revolution, Roger's people and the slaves were all angry at Emperor Zing for his lies to them about love, that they were separated from their loved ones for nothing.]]
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** [[spoiler: Also take into account of the FridgeHorror, all the alien slaves are being kept from their true love, and probably took the test and failed. One alien is seen crying at the beginning and another was so depressed he hit the bottle (although the latter was [[CrossesTheLineTwice also]] a funny moment), and it's understandable. Also during the start of the revolution, Roger's people and the slaves were all angry at Emperor Zing for his lies to them about love, that they were separated from their loved ones for nothing.]]
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* "The Full Cognitive Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith" becomes very melancholic towards the end, when Stan realises that Bullock is suffering from dementia [[spoiler: except not really]] and decides to kill him rather than let the CIA turn him into a vegetable. It winds up becoming deeply depressing watching Bullock having a clear mental breakdown, and watching Stan trying to give the deputy director the best day of his life before going to MercyKill him.
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* "The Full Cognitive Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith" becomes very melancholic towards the end, when Stan realises that Bullock is suffering from dementia [[spoiler: except not really]] really and decides to kill him rather than let the CIA turn him into a vegetable. It winds up becoming deeply depressing watching Bullock having a clear mental breakdown, and watching Stan trying to give the deputy director the best day of his life before going to MercyKill him.
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* Longest Distant Relationship: Hayley finds out Jeff is going back to Earth and is going through a wormhole to make it there, and she agrees to wait. After going through the wormhole, he does arrive [[spoiler: 60 years later. She has been waiting for 60 years and everyone in her family is worse off. Later on, she suffers a heart attack and is at the hospital, and Jeff decides to go back and tell Hayley to move on, ending their relationship.]]
** To make things worse, he [[spoiler: ended their relationship because he believed that she'd end up with a nice millionaire. The ending makes it seem like in the end, she'll at least be [[Main/HopeSpot happy with someone again]], only for Roger to [[Main/ItMakesSenseInContext kill him]], leaving her heartbroken and alone again.]]
* Sidney Hoffman's sub plot in "The One That Got Away". Convinced he stole from his credit card, Roger conspires to ruin his entire life, spreading lies to get him fired, dumped by his girlfriend and sabotaged his beautiful garden. [[spoiler: It turns out Sidney is in fact a persona of Roger's that took a life of his own to deal with the trauma of his first unselfish thought, Roger ultimately "kills" him after he hires an assassin to stop his conspiracy]].
** To make things worse, he [[spoiler: ended their relationship because he believed that she'd end up with a nice millionaire. The ending makes it seem like in the end, she'll at least be [[Main/HopeSpot happy with someone again]], only for Roger to [[Main/ItMakesSenseInContext kill him]], leaving her heartbroken and alone again.]]
* Sidney Hoffman's sub plot in "The One That Got Away". Convinced he stole from his credit card, Roger conspires to ruin his entire life, spreading lies to get him fired, dumped by his girlfriend and sabotaged his beautiful garden. [[spoiler: It turns out Sidney is in fact a persona of Roger's that took a life of his own to deal with the trauma of his first unselfish thought, Roger ultimately "kills" him after he hires an assassin to stop his conspiracy]].
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* Longest Distant Relationship: Hayley finds out Jeff is going back to Earth and is going through a wormhole to make it there, and she agrees to wait. After going through the wormhole, he does arrive [[spoiler: 60 years later. She has been waiting for 60 years and everyone in her family is worse off. Later on, she suffers a heart attack and is at the hospital, and Jeff decides to go back and tell Hayley to move on, ending their relationship.]]
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** To make things worse, he[[spoiler: ended their relationship because he believed that she'd end up with a nice millionaire. The ending makes it seem like in the end, she'll at least be [[Main/HopeSpot [[HopeSpot happy with someone again]], only for Roger to [[Main/ItMakesSenseInContext [[ItMakesSenseInContext kill him]], leaving her heartbroken and alone again.]]
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* Sidney Hoffman's sub plot in "The One That Got Away". Convinced he stole from his credit card, Roger conspires to ruin his entire life, spreading lies to get him fired, dumped by his girlfriend and sabotaged his beautiful garden.[[spoiler: It turns out Sidney is in fact a persona of Roger's that took a life of his own to deal with the trauma of his first unselfish thought, Roger ultimately "kills" him after he hires an assassin to stop his conspiracy]].conspiracy.
** To make things worse, he
* Sidney Hoffman's sub plot in "The One That Got Away". Convinced he stole from his credit card, Roger conspires to ruin his entire life, spreading lies to get him fired, dumped by his girlfriend and sabotaged his beautiful garden.
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* In "Holy Shit Jeff's Back!", [[spoiler: Hayley learning that Jeff is dead (after being dissected by the Collectors AKA the Dissectors); thankfully he gets better at the end.]]
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* In "Holy Shit Jeff's Back!", [[spoiler: Hayley learning that Jeff is dead (after being dissected by the Collectors AKA the Dissectors); thankfully he gets better at the end.]]
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* In Into the Woods Stan realizes he didn't abandon a kid being bullied when they were children but was left behind by the other kid and he was just so traumatized he switched the scenario. Then Francine tries to make him feel better by doing a middle school reunion, but everyone turns out to be doing better than him, including one guy who found money in the woods that Stan was hiding out in literally a day before the reunion. Then to really make matters worse when the bullies that led to Stan's trauma show up and ask Francine if she is Stan's wife and... she pretty much calls him a loser and says she doesn't know him. Stan runs out ashamed, but when he and Francine are driving home and she's apologizing Stan switches the scenario in his head again and apologizes and Francine just accepts it. He's that traumatized that he copes by playing it off as if it's his fault.
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* In Into the Woods Stan realizes he didn't abandon a kid being bullied when they were children but was left behind by the other kid and he was just so traumatized he switched the scenario. Then Francine tries to make him feel better by doing a middle school reunion, but everyone turns out to be doing better than him, including one guy who found money in the woods that Stan was hiding out in literally a day before the reunion. Then to really make matters worse when the bullies that led to Stan's trauma show up and ask Francine if she is Stan's wife and... she pretty much calls him a loser and says she doesn't know him. Stan runs out ashamed, but when he and Francine are driving home and she's apologizing Stan switches the scenario in his head again and apologizes and Francine just accepts it. He's that traumatized that he copes by playing it off as if it's his fault.fault.
* "Brave N00b World" ends with Steve and Stan ultimately causing the end of the world and all of them dying... again, but then the world is sort of 3D printed back into existence except there's a small change and Stan doesn't take the call and just wants to hang out with Steve for father-son day... this is so unnerving to Steve that he realizes the world is fake and goes insane from it... essentially Stan is such a terrible father that the mere thought of him being loving to his kids in a certain way even for a second is so out of place that it's out of character and makes you realize the world is fake!
* "Brave N00b World" ends with Steve and Stan ultimately causing the end of the world and all of them dying... again, but then the world is sort of 3D printed back into existence except there's a small change and Stan doesn't take the call and just wants to hang out with Steve for father-son day... this is so unnerving to Steve that he realizes the world is fake and goes insane from it... essentially Stan is such a terrible father that the mere thought of him being loving to his kids in a certain way even for a second is so out of place that it's out of character and makes you realize the world is fake!
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** And to top it off, Steve's teacher ends up so depressed that he declares "Life dismissed" and jumps out a window.
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** And to top it off, Steve's teacher ends up so depressed that he declares "Life dismissed" and jumps out a window.window.
*In Into the Woods Stan realizes he didn't abandon a kid being bullied when they were children but was left behind by the other kid and he was just so traumatized he switched the scenario. Then Francine tries to make him feel better by doing a middle school reunion, but everyone turns out to be doing better than him, including one guy who found money in the woods that Stan was hiding out in literally a day before the reunion. Then to really make matters worse when the bullies that led to Stan's trauma show up and ask Francine if she is Stan's wife and... she pretty much calls him a loser and says she doesn't know him. Stan runs out ashamed, but when he and Francine are driving home and she's apologizing Stan switches the scenario in his head again and apologizes and Francine just accepts it. He's that traumatized that he copes by playing it off as if it's his fault.
*In Into the Woods Stan realizes he didn't abandon a kid being bullied when they were children but was left behind by the other kid and he was just so traumatized he switched the scenario. Then Francine tries to make him feel better by doing a middle school reunion, but everyone turns out to be doing better than him, including one guy who found money in the woods that Stan was hiding out in literally a day before the reunion. Then to really make matters worse when the bullies that led to Stan's trauma show up and ask Francine if she is Stan's wife and... she pretty much calls him a loser and says she doesn't know him. Stan runs out ashamed, but when he and Francine are driving home and she's apologizing Stan switches the scenario in his head again and apologizes and Francine just accepts it. He's that traumatized that he copes by playing it off as if it's his fault.
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* "Flirting With Disaster" brutally shows the consequences of Roger's shoddy made birdhouses. We get a supposedly cartoony scene of an anthropomorphic family of birds, before the house suddenly begins to fall apart around them, with the husband screaming in horror as support beams crush both his wife and children and he gets engulfed in fire and debris. This alone, in spite of the intentional {{Narm}} is morbid, but then we get a perspective shot from Steve afterwards who finds the broken birdhouse with the corpses of two realistic birds and their crushed eggs. Steve is understandably heartbroken and furious at Roger.
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* "Flirting With Disaster" brutally shows the consequences of Roger's shoddy made birdhouses. We get a supposedly cartoony scene of an anthropomorphic family of birds, before the house suddenly begins to fall apart around them, with the husband screaming in horror as support beams crush both his wife and children and he gets engulfed in fire and debris. This alone, in spite of the intentional {{Narm}} is morbid, but then we get a perspective shot from Steve afterwards who finds the broken birdhouse with the corpses of two realistic birds and their crushed eggs. Steve is understandably heartbroken and furious at Roger.Roger.
* Stan's final monologue in "The Adventures of Twill Ongenbone And His Boy Jabari."
-->'''Steve:''' So, who was president when you were a kid?
-->'''Stan:''' Oh, I don't know, I guess I think about killing myself pretty frequently. And why not? What's so great about living? You know when I'm happy? For about five seconds in the morning when I first wake up, before I remember who I am and what my life is all about- ''(voice breaks)'' anxiety, disappointment, diarrhea more often than not. ''(sighs)'' I don't, I don't know if there's an afterlife, but who cares? Nothingness couldn't be any worse than this meaningless march through my empty days.
** And to top it off, Steve's teacher ends up so depressed that he declares "Life dismissed" and jumps out a window.
* Stan's final monologue in "The Adventures of Twill Ongenbone And His Boy Jabari."
-->'''Steve:''' So, who was president when you were a kid?
-->'''Stan:''' Oh, I don't know, I guess I think about killing myself pretty frequently. And why not? What's so great about living? You know when I'm happy? For about five seconds in the morning when I first wake up, before I remember who I am and what my life is all about- ''(voice breaks)'' anxiety, disappointment, diarrhea more often than not. ''(sighs)'' I don't, I don't know if there's an afterlife, but who cares? Nothingness couldn't be any worse than this meaningless march through my empty days.
** And to top it off, Steve's teacher ends up so depressed that he declares "Life dismissed" and jumps out a window.
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** The entire episode is a TearJerker with Stan being determined to keep Kisses, the family's new puppy, alive after it gets critically injured [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by a group of pirate cats that crushed it with their hot air balloon's basket.]] The vet tells the family that Kisses would not last much longer, but Stan refuses to let Kisses die, so he puts the dog on life support, and then decides to steal Kisses from the hospital, taking him to a non licensed veterinarian to keep Kisses alive. She does so, but winds up [[TragicMonster making Kisses a complete freak that barely resembles a dog and seems to be in even more pain than ever.]] Steve spends several scenes crying his eyes out seeing that his new pet is on the verge of death.
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** The entire episode is a TearJerker with Stan being determined to keep Kisses, the family's new puppy, alive after it gets critically injured [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by a group of pirate cats that crushed it with their hot air balloon's basket.]] The vet tells the family that Kisses would not last much longer, but Stan refuses to let Kisses die, so he puts the dog on life support, and then decides to steal Kisses from the hospital, taking him to a non licensed veterinarian to keep Kisses alive. She does so, but winds up [[TragicMonster making Kisses a complete freak that barely resembles a dog and seems to be in even more pain than ever.]] Steve [[InelegantBlubbering spends several scenes crying his eyes out out]] seeing that his new pet is on the verge of death.
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* "Flirting With Disaster" brutally shows the consequences of Roger's shoddy made birdhouses. We get a supposedly cartoony scene of an anthropomorphic family of birds, before the house suddenly begins to fall apart around them, with the husband screaming in horror as support beams crush both his wife and children and he gets engulfed in fire and debris. This alone, in spite of the intentional {{Narm}} is morbid, but then we get a perspective shot from Steve afterwards who finds the broken birdhouse with the corpses of two realistic birds and their crushed eggs.
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* "Flirting With Disaster" brutally shows the consequences of Roger's shoddy made birdhouses. We get a supposedly cartoony scene of an anthropomorphic family of birds, before the house suddenly begins to fall apart around them, with the husband screaming in horror as support beams crush both his wife and children and he gets engulfed in fire and debris. This alone, in spite of the intentional {{Narm}} is morbid, but then we get a perspective shot from Steve afterwards who finds the broken birdhouse with the corpses of two realistic birds and their crushed eggs. Steve is understandably heartbroken and furious at Roger.
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* Longest Distant Relationship: Hayley finds out Jeff is going back to Earth and is going through a wormhole to make it there, and she agrees to wait. After going through the wormhole, he does arrive [[spoiler:60 years later. She has been waiting for 60 years and everyone in her family is worse off. Later on, she suffers a heart attack and is at the hospital, and Jeff decides to go back and tell Hayley to move on, ending their relationship.]]
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* Longest Distant Relationship: Hayley finds out Jeff is going back to Earth and is going through a wormhole to make it there, and she agrees to wait. After going through the wormhole, he does arrive [[spoiler:60 [[spoiler: 60 years later. She has been waiting for 60 years and everyone in her family is worse off. Later on, she suffers a heart attack and is at the hospital, and Jeff decides to go back and tell Hayley to move on, ending their relationship.]]
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* In "Holy Shit Jeff's Back!", [[spoiler: Haley learning that Jeff is dead (after being dissected by the Collectors AKA the Dissectors); thankfully he gets better at the end.]]
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* In "Holy Shit Jeff's Back!", [[spoiler: Haley Hayley learning that Jeff is dead (after being dissected by the Collectors AKA the Dissectors); thankfully he gets better at the end.]]
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-->'''Tortoise:''' OH, GOD! Oh, no, no, I wanted to win, but not like this! Oh, we had different approaches sure, but I ''always'' respected the hell out of you!
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* The subplot from "Delorean Story-an" parodying ''Literature/TheTortoiseAndTheHare''. A bit of careless driving by Stan leaves Steve leaning out of the car, causing his head to hit a running hare (named Andy). We then see a tortoise approach the now dead hare and cry, saying that he always respected him. The tortoise then decides that he and the hare should finish the race together, so he drags the hare's corpse down the road.
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* The subplot from "Delorean Story-an" parodying ''Literature/TheTortoiseAndTheHare''. A bit of careless driving by Stan leaves a sleeping Steve leaning out of the car, causing his head to hit a running hare (named Andy). We then see a tortoise approach the now dead hare and cry, saying that he always respected him. The tortoise then decides that he and the hare should finish the race together, so he drags the hare's corpse down the road.
