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1A class assignment reveals the deepest secrets and desires of Lucas and the students of Tree Hill High. Worried about college prospects, Skills turns to Haley. Nathan wrestles with Deb's suicide attempt. And Brooke's new classmate, Chase, learns that Brooke cheated on her calculus exam.
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5* CallBack:
6** Nathan and Peyton briefly discuss their relationship from early Season 1.
7** Peyton is shown to be hesitant to pose for a photo, largely because of Psycho Derek’s behaviour earlier this season.
8* CommonalityConnection: Glenda starts off believing Lucas is just a stereotypical jock; by the end of their assignment, she admits that he would’ve made a pretty good goth.
9* ADayInTheLimelight: Glenda Farrell and Shelley Simon, two previously introduced minor characters, are given more screen time and development in this episode than their previous episodes.
10* EmbarrassingMiddleName: To prove his point about how some of the class are relative strangers to one another, the social studies teacher asks Haley what Lucas’ middle name is, and she absentmindedly blurts out Eugene before realising.
11* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Shelley opens up to Mouth about her abortion and why she formed Clean Teens.
12* HiddenDepths: The entire point of the assignment is to highlight how little the class know about each other, and that there's more to them than the labels they were assigned. To wit, Glenda is genuinely surprised that Lucas has written the first draft of a novel, whilst Brooke opens up to Chase about her feelings of inadequacy stemming from her parents' neglect of her.
13* InternalReveal:
14** Haley blurts out Lucas’ EmbarrassingMiddleName when asked, revealing his full name of Lucas Eugene Scott to rest of the class.
15** Chase finds out that Brooke isn’t as smart as she claimed, and that she’s actually failing Calculus. She later comes clean to him about stealing the exams.
16** Nathan tells Peyton about Deb’s suicide attempt.
17* IResembleThatRemark: Peyton takes offence at being labelled a Prom Queen by the rest of the class, complaining that she’s clearly a loner. Glenda points out that Peyton’s a cheerleader dating one of star players on the Basketball team, so she’s a Prom Queen whilst Glenda is a Loner.
18* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When asked where he expects to be in ten years, Nathan just talks about his hopes for Haley and his unborn son. When Peyton points out that the question is about him specifically, Nathan just muses that he’ll be fine so long as his family are doing well.
19* MoodWhiplash: Nathan tells Peyton about Deb’s recent suicide attempt; she responds by telling him that she can’t whilstle. Thankfully, Nathan sees the funny side.
20* NoThemeTune: The opening title sequence is cut from the episode, and with it, "I Don’t Want To Be" by Gavin [=DeGraw=].
21* PopCultureIsolation: InUniverse. When Mouth impersonates basketball announcer Dick Vitale, Shelley has no idea who he's supposed to be impersonating.
22* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Glenda mistakes Lucas' impersonation of Gollum from Creator/PeterJackson’s ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy for Elmo from ''Series/SesameStreet''.
23* TheReveal:
24** Lucas is writing a novel.
25** Bevin isn’t actually an idiot; she just plays the part of a DumbBlonde to appease the rest of the cheerleaders.
26* SecretKeeper: Lucas tells Glenda that he’s writing a novel, and admits that he hasn’t told anyone else about it.
27* SelfServingMemory: Nathan muses that he & Peyton were pretty good together; she immediately reminds him that they were terrible together, and Nathan admits that he was hoping she’d forgotten that.
28* ShoutOut:
29** Peyton wears a Music/LynyrdSkynyrd t-shirt throughout the episode.
30** Part of the assignment requires an impression of a celebrity or famous character.
31*** Haley impersonates [[Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen Ashley Olsen]], Joey Potter from ''Series/DawsonsCreek'', and Tony Montana from ''Film/Scarface1983''.
32*** Peyton and Nathan both impersonate the title character of ''Film/{{Borat}}''.
33*** Lucas impersonates Captain Jack Sparrow from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', George Bailey from ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' and Gollum from Creator/PeterJackson’s ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy; Glenda mistakes Lucas’ Gollum for Elmo from ''Series/SesameStreet''.
34*** Brooke impersonates Creator/MarilynMonroe.
35*** Mouth impersonates legendary basketball announcer Dick Vitale.
36** Chase references the X Games, an annual extreme sports event held since 1995.
37* SmallNameBigEgo: Mouth takes offence at Shelley calling him a Geek, seemingly oblivious to the fact that he doesn’t fit as a Jock, Prom Queen, Loner or "Friendly".
38* TitleOnlyOpening: The episode foregoes the series’ traditional opening title sequence, and instead opens to a black title card.
39* TitledAfterTheSong: The title of the episode is taken from the song "Pictures of You" by Music/{{The Cure|Band}}.
40* UnusualEuphemism: The social studies teacher uses "Friendly" as one for [[ReallyGetsAround Slut]].
41* WellDoneSonGuy: Brooke admits to Chase that she doesn’t think she’s good enough because of her parents’ neglect.

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