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** Dan's "tech guy" claims that he played checkers with Frank Sinatra. "Not the singer, the clown." Later, one of the clowns at Art Artstein's headquarters is named Frank Sinatra.

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** Dan's "tech guy" claims that he played checkers with Frank Sinatra.Music/FrankSinatra. "Not the singer, the clown." Later, one of the clowns at Art Artstein's headquarters is named Frank Sinatra.
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* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: One of the art critics that looks at Dan's car considers it to be a metaphor for man's love of cupcakes. Another claims that it's an endorsement of corporate greed.

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* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: InUniverse; One of the art critics that looks at Dan's car considers it to be a metaphor for man's love of cupcakes. Another claims that it's an endorsement of corporate greed.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: As violent and crazy as he is, Dan still hates fascism.
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: One of the art critics that looks at Dan's car considers it to be a metaphor for man's love of cupcakes. Another claims that it's an endorsement of corporate greed.

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* InsultBackfire: Artstein tries to get revenge on Dan by making his last piece a huge TakeThat: it's just a statue of Dan, titled "Unnamed Jerk". However, Dan considers it the best piece Artstein's ever done, while the art critics think it's his worst.

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* SceneryCensor: Chris gets pressed into service as a nude model at Artstein's factory. A variety of objects hides his crotch from the camera. Chris brings the resulting painting home, and the painting is only ever seen from angles where everything below the waist is blocked by someone's head.

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* AssShove: With a flying crobar.
-->'''Dan:''' If I only had my crobar...
* BlatantLies: 'THIS IS NOT A SIGN'
** It's not a sign. It's a picture of a sign, and a reference to the painting "The Treachery of Images" by Rene Magritte.
* {{Callback}}: In Dan Vs Traffic, Dan mentions dappling in jetpack technology. In this episode, Elise wants to buy a painting to cover up [[ImpactSilhouette the hole where he blew through the wall]] of their house.

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* AssShove: With a flying crobar.
crowbar.
-->'''Dan:''' If I only had my crobar...
crowbar...
* BlatantLies: 'THIS IS NOT A SIGN'
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** It's not a sign. It's a picture of a sign, and a reference to Dan's "tech guy" claims that he played checkers with Frank Sinatra. "Not the painting "The Treachery singer, the clown." Later, one of Images" by Rene Magritte.
the clowns at Art Artstein's headquarters is named Frank Sinatra.
** During the art museum break-in, the tech guy eats the same pack of chips that Dan earlier tried to use as a ComicallySmallBribe.
* {{Callback}}: In Dan Vs Traffic, Dan mentions dappling dabbling in jetpack technology. In this episode, Elise wants to buy a painting to cover up [[ImpactSilhouette the hole where he blew through the wall]] of their house.


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* TheTreacheryOfImages: Art Artstein's headquarters have a painting of a sign, reading "THIS IS NOT A SIGN". It's what tips Dan and Chris off that Art is there.
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* ComicallySmallBribe: Dan attempting to bribe the art school clerk with a sandwich. When this fails, he throws in a packet of potato chips as well.
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** It's not a sign. It's a picture of a sign, and a reference to the painting, "The Treachery of Images" by Rene Magritte.

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** It's not a sign. It's a picture of a sign, and a reference to the painting, painting "The Treachery of Images" by Rene Magritte.
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** It's not a sign. It's a picture of a sign, and a reference to the painting, "The Treachery of Images" by Rene Magritte.
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-->'''Dan:''' [sighs] I love that car...

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-->'''Dan:''' [sighs] [''sighs''] I love that car...



-->'''Dan:''' Another reason they must pay.

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-->'''Dan:''' Another reason they art must pay.suffer.



-->'''Chris:''' But if that's art, and benches are art, and sunflowers are ''sometimes'' art, and then some art can be eaten - even though it shouldn't be - then... but... [sighs] I am never gonna figure this out!

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-->'''Chris:''' But if that's art, and benches are art, and sunflowers are ''sometimes'' art, and then some art can be eaten - even though it shouldn't be - then... but... [sighs] [''sighs''] I am never gonna figure this out!
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: How Chris feels for much of the episode.

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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: How InUniverse, this is how Chris feels for much of the episode.feels.
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* {{Callback}}: In Dan Vs Traffic, Dan mentions dappling in jetpack technology. In this episode, Elise wants to buy a painting to cover up [[ImpactSilhouette the hole where he blew through the wall]] of their house.
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-->'''Chris:''' But if that's art, and benches are art, and sunflowers are ''sometimes'' art, and then some art can be eaten - even though it shouldn't be - then... but... [sighs] I am never gonna figure this out!

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-->'''Chris:''' But if that's art, and benches are art, and sunflowers are ''sometimes'' art, and then some art can be eaten - even though it shouldn't be - then... but... [sighs] I am never gonna figure this out!
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* BlatantLies: 'THIS IS NOT A SIGN'
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When an artist turns Dan's car into a piece without his permission, Dan rages against the art world. Chris struggles to learn what makes good art.
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!!This episode provides examples of the following Tropes:

* AbandonedWarehouse: It's an old toy factory.
* AirVentPassageway
* TheAllegedCar:
-->'''Dan:''' [sighs] I love that car...
* AssShove: With a flying crobar.
-->'''Dan:''' If I only had my crobar...
* FakeFood: Chris eats some plastic food at the museum, not realising it's ''actually'' made of plastic.
-->'''Chris:''' Museum food tastes like plastic.
-->'''Dan:''' Another reason they must pay.
* KillItWithFire
* MeaningfulName: Art Artstein. Might also be considered an IronicName.
-->'''Chris:''' I guess if someone could explain art to me, it'd be someone named Art.
* PuppyDogEyes: On a cat, at that!
* SamusIsAGirl: Mr Mumbles is revealed to Dan.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Art Artstein's philosophy.
* SpringtimeForHitler: The art critics love the pieces that get vandalised by Dan and Chris.
-->'''Chris:''' Wait, people like our pointless squiggles?
* StarvingArtist: Discussed at the Academy of Art.
-->'''Clerk:''' Are you trying to bribe me... with a sandwich?
-->'''Dan:''' Come on, aren't you a starving artist? It's a really good sandwich.
* StealthPun: The episode title.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Dan seems to think the homeless tech guy can speak cat.
* {{Sad Clown}}s: Sitting on a bench as part of an exhibit.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: How Chris feels for much of the episode.
-->'''Chris:''' But if that's art, and benches are art, and sunflowers are ''sometimes'' art, and then some art can be eaten - even though it shouldn't be - then... but... [sighs] I am never gonna figure this out!

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