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** The garbage becomes too much in one room and creates an EldritchAbomination that Bob eventually has to fight.
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* '''Lampshaded''': "I gotta warn you about the place we'll be visiting. Imagine that [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] and ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible rented an apartment together. Yeah, it's that bad."

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* '''Lampshaded''': "I gotta warn "Okay, you about the place we'll be visiting. Imagine that [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] and ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible rented an apartment together. Yeah, it's that know [[ThePigPen how bad Bob's hygiene is]]. Well, his house is just as bad."



* '''Discussed''': "Okay, you know [[ThePigPen how bad Bob's hygiene is]]. Well, his house is just as bad."

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* '''Discussed''': "Okay, "I gotta warn you know [[ThePigPen how bad Bob's hygiene is]]. Well, his house is just as about the place we'll be visiting. Imagine that [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] and ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible rented an apartment together. Yeah, it's that bad."

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* '''Double Subverted''': Bob brings Alice back to his apartment, and her reaction to the trash is very negative. However, Bob acts shocked about the "vandals who destroyed his house," and Alice believes him, though it actually was just Bob having a really messy house. (This was, of course, the plot of a certain Snickers commercial.)

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* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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Bob brings Alice back to his apartment, and her reaction to the trash is very negative. However, Bob acts shocked about the "vandals who destroyed his house," and Alice believes him, though it actually was just Bob having a really messy house. (This was, of course, the plot of a certain Snickers commercial.)
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* '''Played For Drama''’:

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* '''Played For Drama''’:Drama''':
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* '''Played For Drama''’:
** There is something seriously, seriously wrong with Bob. This is not a sign of "meh" laissez-faire laziness, this is a sign of suicidal apathy.
** The character of the "Reconstructed" example has a NeatFreak FantasyForbiddingFather who insists he believes the character's stuff is this no matter how hard the "hoarder" tries to sway him, and tosses it all away at the first opportunity with a smug "[[UnwantedAssistance you'll thank me for this eventually]]".
* '''Played For Horror''':
** The stinky mile-high pile of garbage is a cover-up for the cadaver Bob stashed in a wall.
** The literal ton of newspapers Bob hoarded collapse on top of him and bury him alive, killing him. For further horror, [[TruthInTelevision this is an actual thing that has happened to hoarders]].

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* '''Inverted''': NeatFreak
* '''Subverted''': Bob opens his door, and we see what appears to be a scene of TrashOfTheTitans squalor, but it's revealed that this is actually the result of vandalism.

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* '''Inverted''': NeatFreak
NeatFreak.
* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Bob opens his door, and we see what appears to be a scene of TrashOfTheTitans squalor, but it's revealed that this is actually the result of vandalism.



* '''Zig Zagged''': When Bob has a big project at work, he lets his house get messy, but once he's done he tries to keep it cleaner. The way Alice knows Bob is busy or stressed is by checking the trash level.
* '''Averted''': Bob’s living space stays within the normal bounds of decent sanitation.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''': When Bob has a big project at work, he lets his house get messy, but once he's done he tries to keep it cleaner. The way Alice knows Bob is busy or stressed is by checking the trash level.
* '''Averted''': Bob’s Bob's living space stays within the normal bounds of decent sanitation.

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* '''Subverted''': Bob opens his door, and we see what appears to be a scene of TrashOfTheTitans squalor, but it's revealed that this is actually the result of vandalism. ** Bob opens the door to see insufferable trash, but he then realizes it's not really his home.

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* '''Subverted''': Bob opens his door, and we see what appears to be a scene of TrashOfTheTitans squalor, but it's revealed that this is actually the result of vandalism. vandalism.
** Bob opens the door to see insufferable trash, but he then realizes it's not really his home.

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* '''Straight''': The character's house is filled with useless clutter, meaningless paper documents, rotting food, organic detritus, and the organisms that feed off of such substances.

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* '''Straight''': The character's Bob's house is filled with useless clutter, meaningless paper documents, rotting food, organic detritus, and the organisms that feed off of such substances.



* '''Subverted''': The character opens the door, and we see what appears to be a scene of TrashOfTheTitans squalor, but it's revealed that this is actually the result of vandalism, or that it's not really his home, or any other situation where TrashOfTheTitans doesn't apply.

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* '''Subverted''': The character Bob opens the his door, and we see what appears to be a scene of TrashOfTheTitans squalor, but it's revealed that this is actually the result of vandalism, or that vandalism. ** Bob opens the door to see insufferable trash, but he then realizes it's not really his home, or any other situation where TrashOfTheTitans doesn't apply.home.



** But it turns out that was a second home that Bob owned; he just didn’t live in it full-time.



** The character decides that if he's going to live like this, he might as well get paid for it, and rents his living space out for purposes of storing garbage.
** The character literally lives DownInTheDumps
** The character is forced to clean up. He is next seen in a HazmatSuit; wielding a flamethrower.

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** The character Bob decides that if he's going to live like this, he might as well get paid for it, and rents his living space out for purposes of storing garbage.
** The character Bob literally lives DownInTheDumps
DownInTheDumps.
** The character is forced [[NeatFreak Alice]] forces Bob to clean up.up his home. He is next seen in a HazmatSuit; wielding a flamethrower.



* '''Averted''': The living space stays within the normal bounds of decent sanitation.

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* '''Averted''': The Bob’s living space stays within the normal bounds of decent sanitation.



** A TrashOfTheTitans character works hard at changing his ways, or the story's [[AnAesop Aesop]] centers around keeping your house clean, etc.
** Alice needs a place to stay, but Bob refuses on the grounds that her own house is maintained in TrashOfTheTitans filth, and he doesn't want his own house to end up like that.

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** A TrashOfTheTitans character Bob works hard at changing his ways, or the story's [[AnAesop Aesop]] centers around keeping your house clean, etc.
** Alice Bob needs a place to stay, but Bob Alice refuses on the grounds that her his own house is maintained in TrashOfTheTitans filth, and he she doesn't want his her own house to end up like that.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Everything in the house is made of garbage, even the walls and furniture.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Everything in the house is made of garbage, even the walls and furniture.walls, the furniture, ''and the ceiling.''
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* '''Lampshaded''': "I gotta warn you about the place we'll be visiting. Imagine that [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] and HagarTheHorrible rented an apartment together. Yeah, it's that bad."

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* '''Lampshaded''': "I gotta warn you about the place we'll be visiting. Imagine that [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] and HagarTheHorrible ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible rented an apartment together. Yeah, it's that bad."
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???When Bob has a big project at work, he lets his house get messy, but once he's done he tries to keep it cleaner. The way Alice knows Bob is busy or stressed is by checking the trash level.
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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???Bob needs to be able to hide incriminating evidence from the local police, so he ensures that nobody else would ever have a hope of finding anything in the mess he's made.
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** The character is forced to clean up. He is next seen in a HazmatSuit; wielding a flamethrower.

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* '''Justified''': It can be justified by many character traits, including [[LazyBum laziness]], [[ThePigPen an indifference to or preference for living in a dirty environment]], [[AbsentMindedProfessor being preoccupied with other thoughts]], [[TheDitz being totally thoughtless]], or an addiction to alcohol or other drugs, or some mental or physical disability.
** There is either insufficient or no garbage collection services available - either the collectors are on strike or the city grew a lot faster than the local government can keep up with demand (i.e., rapidly urbanizing Third-World cities).
* '''Inverted''': NeatFreak



* '''Justified''':
** It can be justified by many character traits, including [[LazyBum laziness]], [[ThePigPen an indifference to or preference for living in a dirty environment]], [[AbsentMindedProfessor being preoccupied with other thoughts]], [[TheDitz being totally thoughtless]], or an addiction to alcohol or other drugs, or some mental or physical disability.
** There is either insufficient or no garbage collection services available - either the collectors are on strike or the city grew a lot faster than the local government can keep up with demand (i.e., rapidly urbanizing Third-World cities).
* '''Inverted''': NeatFreak



* '''Double Subversion''': Bob brings Alice back to his apartment, and her reaction to the trash is very negative. However, Bob acts shocked about the "vandals who destroyed his house," and Alice believes him, though it actually was just Bob having a really messy house. (This was, of course, the plot of a certain Snickers commercial.)
* '''Parodied''': The character decides that if he's going to live like this, he might as well get paid for it, and rents his living space out for purposes of storing garbage.

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* '''Double Subversion''': Subverted''': Bob brings Alice back to his apartment, and her reaction to the trash is very negative. However, Bob acts shocked about the "vandals who destroyed his house," and Alice believes him, though it actually was just Bob having a really messy house. (This was, of course, the plot of a certain Snickers commercial.)
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The character decides that if he's going to live like this, he might as well get paid for it, and rents his living space out for purposes of storing garbage.



* '''Deconstructed''': The plot centers around the Health Department preventing the community from suffering the dangers of places like this. Perhaps even with the health inspectors as the main characters, rather than the messy residents or their acquaintances.
* '''Reconstructed''': The messy character successfully argues that his lifestyle wasn't harming anyone, and the Health Department shouldn't intervene to change him.

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* '''Deconstructed''': The plot centers around the Health Department preventing the community from suffering the dangers of places like this. Perhaps even with the health inspectors as the main characters, rather than the messy residents or their acquaintances.
* '''Reconstructed''': The messy character successfully argues that his lifestyle wasn't harming anyone, and the Health Department shouldn't intervene to change him.
'''Zig Zagged''': ???



* '''Defied''': A TrashOfTheTitans character works hard at changing his ways, or the story's [[AnAesop Aesop]] centers around keeping your house clean, etc.

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* '''Defied''': '''Exploited''': ???
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A TrashOfTheTitans character works hard at changing his ways, or the story's [[AnAesop Aesop]] centers around keeping your house clean, etc.



* '''Deconstructed''': The plot centers around the Health Department preventing the community from suffering the dangers of places like this. Perhaps even with the health inspectors as the main characters, rather than the messy residents or their acquaintances.
* '''Reconstructed''': The character in question turns to be diligent and [[MacGyvering extremely resourceful]] recycler[=/=]scavenger. The piles of "garbage" he has gathered are in fact usable[=/=]useful stuff that careless[=/=]wasteful people has thrown away, and which the character cleans, repairs and repurposes so that they might be used once again by him[=/=]her or by anyone else that might need them.



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Back to--OH GOD. CLEAN THIS PLACE UP!! GEEZ...I can't even FIND the [[TrashOfTheTitans BACK BUTTON]] in this GARBAGE!!GARBAGE!!
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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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* '''Lampshaded''': "I gotta warn you about the place we'll be visiting. Imagine that [[SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] and HagarTheHorrible rented an apartment together. Yeah, it's that bad."

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* '''Lampshaded''': "I gotta warn you about the place we'll be visiting. Imagine that [[SesameStreet [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] and HagarTheHorrible rented an apartment together. Yeah, it's that bad."
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* '''Conversed''': "I love it when these TV shows not only drop the shiny, artificial image of keeping everything clean, but go to the opposite end of the scale and have everything be over-the-top dirty. Kind of like you and me, come to think of it."

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* '''Conversed''': "I love it when these TV shows not only drop the shiny, artificial image of keeping everything clean, but go to the opposite end of the scale and have everything be over-the-top dirty. Kind of like you and me, come to think of it.""
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Back to--OH GOD. CLEAN THIS PLACE UP!! GEEZ...I can't even FIND the [[TrashOfTheTitans BACK BUTTON]] in this GARBAGE!!
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* '''Justified''': It can be justified by many character traits, including [[LazyBum laziness]], [[ThePigPen an indifference to or preference for living in a dirty environment]], [[AbsentMindedProfessor being preoccupied with other thoughts]], [[TheRalphWiggum being totally thoughtless]], or an addiction to alcohol or other drugs, or some mental or physical disability.

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* '''Justified''': It can be justified by many character traits, including [[LazyBum laziness]], [[ThePigPen an indifference to or preference for living in a dirty environment]], [[AbsentMindedProfessor being preoccupied with other thoughts]], [[TheRalphWiggum [[TheDitz being totally thoughtless]], or an addiction to alcohol or other drugs, or some mental or physical disability.
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* '''Downplayed''': The place is dirty, but a person with normal standards of cleanliness [[YourMileageMayVary (whatever those are}]] would feel only a little uncomfortable, rather than finding the place intolerable.

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* '''Downplayed''': The place is dirty, but a person with normal standards of cleanliness [[YourMileageMayVary (whatever those are}]] would feel only a little uncomfortable, rather than finding the place intolerable.
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* '''Downplayed''': The place is dirty, but a person with normal standards of cleanliness [[YourMileageMayVary (whatever those are}]] would feel only a little uncomfortable, rather than finding the place intolerable.
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** The character literally lives DownInTheDumps
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** There is either insufficient or no garbage collection services available - either the collectors are on strike or the city grew a lot faster than the local government can keep up with demand (i.e., rapidly urbanizing Third-World cities).
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* '''Justified''': It can be justified by many character traits, including [[LazyBum laziness]], [[ThePigPen an indifference to or preference for living in a dirty environment]], [[AbsentMindedProfessor being preoccupied with other thoughts]], [[TheRalphWiggum being totally thoughtless]], or some mental or physical disability.

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* '''Justified''': It can be justified by many character traits, including [[LazyBum laziness]], [[ThePigPen an indifference to or preference for living in a dirty environment]], [[AbsentMindedProfessor being preoccupied with other thoughts]], [[TheRalphWiggum being totally thoughtless]], or an addiction to alcohol or other drugs, or some mental or physical disability.
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* '''Double Subversion''': Bob brings Alice back to his apartment, and her reaction to the trash is very negative. However, Bob acts shocked about the "vandals who destroyed his house," and Alice believes him. (This was, of course, the plot of a certain Snickers commercial.)

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* '''Double Subversion''': Bob brings Alice back to his apartment, and her reaction to the trash is very negative. However, Bob acts shocked about the "vandals who destroyed his house," and Alice believes him.him, though it actually was just Bob having a really messy house. (This was, of course, the plot of a certain Snickers commercial.)
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* '''Discussed''': "Okay, you know [[ThePigPen how bad Bob's hygiene is]]. Well, his house is just as bad.

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* '''Discussed''': "Okay, you know [[ThePigPen how bad Bob's hygiene is]]. Well, his house is just as bad."
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* '''Subverted''': The character opens the door, and we see what appears to be a scene of TrashOfTheTitans squalor, but it's revealed that this is actually the result of vandalism, or that it's not really his home, or anything situation where TrashOfTheTitans doesn't apply.

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* '''Subverted''': The character opens the door, and we see what appears to be a scene of TrashOfTheTitans squalor, but it's revealed that this is actually the result of vandalism, or that it's not really his home, or anything any other situation where TrashOfTheTitans doesn't apply.
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* '''Inverted''': The character's living space is exaggeratedly clean.

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* '''Inverted''': The character's living space is exaggeratedly clean.NeatFreak
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* '''Justified''': It can be justified by many character traits, including [[{{Sloth}} laziness]], [[ThePigPen an indifference to or preference for living in a dirty environment]], [[AbsentMindedProfessor being preoccupied with other thoughts]], [[TheRalphWiggum being totally thoughtless]], or some mental or physical disability.

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* '''Justified''': It can be justified by many character traits, including [[{{Sloth}} [[LazyBum laziness]], [[ThePigPen an indifference to or preference for living in a dirty environment]], [[AbsentMindedProfessor being preoccupied with other thoughts]], [[TheRalphWiggum being totally thoughtless]], or some mental or physical disability.

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Click '''Basic Trope''': Someone's living environment is filled with all forms of garbage.
* '''Straight''': The character's house is filled with useless clutter, meaningless paper documents, rotting food, organic detritus, and
the edit button organisms that feed off of such substances.
* '''Exaggerated''': Everything in the house is made of garbage, even the walls and furniture.
* '''Justified''': It can be justified by many character traits, including [[{{Sloth}} laziness]], [[ThePigPen an indifference
to start or preference for living in a dirty environment]], [[AbsentMindedProfessor being preoccupied with other thoughts]], [[TheRalphWiggum being totally thoughtless]], or some mental or physical disability.
* '''Inverted''': The character's living space is exaggeratedly clean.
* '''Subverted''': The character opens the door, and we see what appears to be a scene of TrashOfTheTitans squalor, but it's revealed that
this new page. is actually the result of vandalism, or that it's not really his home, or anything situation where TrashOfTheTitans doesn't apply.
* '''Double Subversion''': Bob brings Alice back to his apartment, and her reaction to the trash is very negative. However, Bob acts shocked about the "vandals who destroyed his house," and Alice believes him. (This was, of course, the plot of a certain Snickers commercial.)
* '''Parodied''': The character decides that if he's going to live like this, he might as well get paid for it, and rents his living space out for purposes of storing garbage.
* '''Deconstructed''': The plot centers around the Health Department preventing the community from suffering the dangers of places like this. Perhaps even with the health inspectors as the main characters, rather than the messy residents or their acquaintances.
* '''Reconstructed''': The messy character successfully argues that his lifestyle wasn't harming anyone, and the Health Department shouldn't intervene to change him.
* '''Averted''': The living space stays within the normal bounds of decent sanitation.
* '''Enforced''': "This character needs to be as much of a StrawLoser as we can make him. Let's make him live in an extremely dirty apartment."
* '''Lampshaded''': "I gotta warn you about the place we'll be visiting. Imagine that [[SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] and HagarTheHorrible rented an apartment together. Yeah, it's that bad."
* '''Invoked''': A character perpetrating a SpringtimeForHitler ZanyScheme decides to go the route of deliberately making some area as dirty as the TrashOfTheTitans trope.
* '''Defied''': A TrashOfTheTitans character works hard at changing his ways, or the story's [[AnAesop Aesop]] centers around keeping your house clean, etc.
** Alice needs a place to stay, but Bob refuses on the grounds that her own house is maintained in TrashOfTheTitans filth, and he doesn't want his own house to end up like that.
* '''Discussed''': "Okay, you know [[ThePigPen how bad Bob's hygiene is]]. Well, his house is just as bad.
* '''Conversed''': "I love it when these TV shows not only drop the shiny, artificial image of keeping everything clean, but go to the opposite end of the scale and have everything be over-the-top dirty. Kind of like you and me, come to think of it."

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