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* FromBadToWorse: Inversion. The jacket grants more extravagant good luck as the episode progresses (from making the crosswalk signal turn green just as the they approach to literally flying through the window followed by a couple dozen dance lesson coupons), making it harder and harder for the bears to get rid of it.


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* PlagueOfGoodFortune: The jacket grants more extravagant good luck as the episode progresses. from making the crosswalk signal turn green just as the they approach to a couple dozen dance lesson coupons blowing in through the window, making it harder and harder for the bears to get rid of it.
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** Even the music played at the very end sounds very similar to the opening bars of "Treason of Isengard".

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* WholePlotReference: A jacket with powerful abilities and a corrupting influence that must be destroyed by returning it to where it came... sounds a lot like Literature/TheLordOfTheRings.

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* WholePlotReference: A jacket with powerful abilities and a corrupting influence that must be destroyed by returning it to where it came... sounds a lot like Literature/TheLordOfTheRings.''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
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-->'''Red Hoodie Guy''': (to his friends) We're the best of friends, man. Nothing will ever come between us. (notices the jacket on the ground) Huh?

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-->'''Red Hoodie Guy''': (to his friends) We're the best of friends, man. Nothing will ever come between us. (notices the jacket on the ground) Huh?Huh? Woah, sweet jacket...
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* {{Bookends}}: The episode starts with the bears finding the jacket in the dumpster. It ends with them putting it back... [[HereWeGoAgain and then three humans find it]].

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* {{Bookends}}: BookEnds: The episode starts with the bears finding the jacket in the dumpster. It ends with them putting it back... [[HereWeGoAgain and then three humans find it]].

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* InformedAttribute: The jacket's AppleOfDiscord properties. Although Ice Bear running off with it starts the three physically fighting, most of the initial conflict comes from Grizz's inability to share. His "Decision-Machine" suggests he's not the most give-and-take kind of person.


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* InformedAttribute: The jacket's AppleOfDiscord properties. Although Ice Bear running off with it starts the three physically fighting, most of the initial conflict comes from Grizz's inability to share. His "Decision-Machine" suggests he's not the most give-and-take kind of person.
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* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: As the bears walk over to the dumpster, they are tempted with the jacket's good luck. Vending machines discharge their goods as they pass by, and a man offers free cupcakes on the street.
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Since the jacket is an object rather than a character, this trope fits better


* TheCatCameBack: No matter how many times the bears try to get rid of the jean jacket, it always returns.

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* TheCatCameBack: ClingyMacGuffin: No matter how many times the bears try to get rid of the jean jacket, it always returns.
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* BookEnds: The episode starts with the bears finding the jacket in the dumpster. It ends with them putting it back... [[HereWeGoAgain and then three humans find it]].

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* BookEnds: {{Bookends}}: The episode starts with the bears finding the jacket in the dumpster. It ends with them putting it back... [[HereWeGoAgain and then three humans find it]].

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* FromBadToWorse: Inversion. The jacket grants more extravagant good luck as the episode progresses (from making the crosswalk signal turn green just as the they approach to literally flying through the window followed by a couple dozen dance lesson coupons), making it harder and harder for the bears to get rid of it.



* FromBadToWorse: Inversion. The jacket grants more extravagant good luck as the episode progresses (from making the crosswalk signal turn green just as the they approach to literally flying through the window followed by a couple dozen dance lesson coupons), making it harder and harder for the bears to get rid of it.
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* FromBadToWorse: Inversion. The jacket grants more extravagant good luck as the episode progresses (from making the crosswalk signal turn green just as the they approach to literally flying through the window followed by a couple dozen dance lesson coupons), making it harder and harder for the bears to get rid of it.
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* InformedAttribute: The jacket's AppleOfDiscord properties. Although Ice Bear running off with it starts the three physically fighting, most of the initial conflict comes from Grizz's inability to share. His "decision-Machine" suggests he's not the most give-and-take kind of person.

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* InformedAttribute: The jacket's AppleOfDiscord properties. Although Ice Bear running off with it starts the three physically fighting, most of the initial conflict comes from Grizz's inability to share. His "decision-Machine" "Decision-Machine" suggests he's not the most give-and-take kind of person.
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* InformedWrongness: The jacket's AppleOfDiscord properties. Although Ice Bear running off with it starts the three physically fighting, most of the initial conflict comes from Grizz's inability to share. His "decision-Machine" suggests he's not the most give-and-take kind of person.

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* InformedWrongness: InformedAttribute: The jacket's AppleOfDiscord properties. Although Ice Bear running off with it starts the three physically fighting, most of the initial conflict comes from Grizz's inability to share. His "decision-Machine" suggests he's not the most give-and-take kind of person.
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* InformedWrongness: The jacket's AppleOfDiscord properties. Although Ice Bear running off with it starts the three physically fighting, most of the initial conflict comes from Grizz's inability to share. His "decision-Machine" suggests he's not the most give-and-take kind of person.

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* HeroicSacrifice: After the jacket "chooses" Grizz (by ''somehow'' putting itself on over him) as they try to put it back in the dumpster, Grizz decides to dive into it. Slightly subverted in that he climbs back out afterwards, now sans jacket.

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* HeroicSacrifice: After the Parodied: The jacket "chooses" Grizz (by ''somehow'' putting itself on over him) as they try to put it back in the dumpster, Grizz decides to dive by getting blown onto him, and he "sacrifices" himself by going into the dumpster to get rid of it. Slightly subverted in that Panda and Ice Bear treat this the same way as if he climbs back out afterwards, now sans jacket.was actually going to die.



-->'''Red Hoodie Guy''': (to his friends) We're the best of friends, man. Nothing will ever come between us. (notices the jacket on the ground) Huh?

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-->'''Red Hoodie Guy''': (to his friends) We're the best of friends, man. Nothing will ever come between us. (notices the jacket on the ground) Huh?Huh?
* WholePlotReference: A jacket with powerful abilities and a corrupting influence that must be destroyed by returning it to where it came... sounds a lot like Literature/TheLordOfTheRings.
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* PantheraAwesome: The jean jacket has a picture of a roaring tiger in the back.

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* PantheraAwesome: The jean jacket has a picture of a roaring tiger in the back.back.
* TemptingFate: The last words of the episode?
-->'''Red Hoodie Guy''': (to his friends) We're the best of friends, man. Nothing will ever come between us. (notices the jacket on the ground) Huh?
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* BookEnds: The episode starts with the bears finding the jacket in the dumpster. It ends with them putting it back... [[HereWeGoAgain and then three humans find it]].
** Similarly, the plot is kicked off and ultimately resolved thanks to the act of dumpster diving.
* BrickJoke: The "Be Funky and Fresh" sheet music, which kicked off the plot by being blown into the dumpster, is blown back into Ice Bear and Panda's possession at the end after Grizz [[HeroicSacrifice dives into the dumpster]].
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Let's be real, it's kinda hard to tell if the jacket was ''actually'' lucky or not... [[ZigZaggedTrope although]], once you factor in the TheCatCameBack aspect (''especially'' during the climax)...
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-->'''Grizz''': Ha ha! Whoo! Probability, am I right?


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* HalfWayPlotSwitch: From an AppleOfDiscord story to a TheCatCameBack tale the moment they get free pizza.

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* DisneyDeath: Grizz has one when the jacket chooses him and he decides to perform a HeroicSacrifice.

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* DisneyDeath: Grizz has one when the jacket chooses "chooses" him and he decides to perform a HeroicSacrifice.HeroicSacrifice.
* TheGMIsACheatingBastard: The Decision-Machine, a spinner that is roughly 75% Grizz, 17% Pan, and 8% Ice. [[SarcasmMode Gee, wonder who it's meant to favor...]]


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* HeroicSacrifice: After the jacket "chooses" Grizz (by ''somehow'' putting itself on over him) as they try to put it back in the dumpster, Grizz decides to dive into it. Slightly subverted in that he climbs back out afterwards, now sans jacket.
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*CryIntoChest: Panda bursts into tears and cries on Ice Bear in response to Grizz's DisneyDeath.
*DisneyDeath: Grizz has one when the jacket chooses him and he decides to perform a HeroicSacrifice.

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* GoodLuckCharm: The jean jacket leads the bears to all sorts of good fortune, even as they desperately try to rid themselves of it.

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* TheCatCameBack: No matter how many times the bears try to get rid of the jean jacket, it always returns.
* GoodLuckCharm: The jean jacket leads the bears to all sorts of good fortune, even as they desperately try to rid themselves of it.it.
* HereWeGoAgain: Right after the bears return the jacket to the dumpster where they found it, a group of human friends find it.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Grizz realizes that the jacket is tearing them apart when in the middle of fighting for it they slap Panda in the face.
* PantheraAwesome: The jean jacket has a picture of a roaring tiger in the back.
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* AppleOfDiscord: The bears start to argue over the jean jacket when they realize its power. They decide to get rid of it when Panda gets smacked in the cheek during their wrestling over it.
* GoodLuckCharm: The jean jacket leads the bears to all sorts of good fortune, even as they desperately try to rid themselves of it.
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After finding a bedazzled jean jacket in a dumpster, the bears fight over who gets to wear the "lucky" garment.
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