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* CompleteTheQuoteTitle: "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." A quote by Creator/FScottFitzgerald. When a reporter brings that up to Jim, Nick's campaign manager, [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure Jim doesn't recognize the quote, and thinks Fitzgerald is someone who ran for city council]].

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* CompleteTheQuoteTitle: "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." A quote by Creator/FScottFitzgerald. When a reporter brings that up to Jim, Nick's campaign manager, [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure Jim doesn't recognize the quote, quote and thinks Fitzgerald is someone who ran for city council]].
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* CompleteTheQuoteTitle: "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." A quote by Creator/FScottFitzgerald. When a reporter brings that up to Wasicsko's campaign manager, [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure he doesn't recognize the quote, and thinks Fitzgerald is someone who ran for city council]].

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* CompleteTheQuoteTitle: "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." A quote by Creator/FScottFitzgerald. When a reporter brings that up to Wasicsko's Jim, Nick's campaign manager, [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure he Jim doesn't recognize the quote, and thinks Fitzgerald is someone who ran for city council]].
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* CompleteTheQuoteTitle: "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." A quote by Creator/FScottFitzgerald.

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* CompleteTheQuoteTitle: "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." A quote by Creator/FScottFitzgerald. When a reporter brings that up to Wasicsko's campaign manager, [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure he doesn't recognize the quote, and thinks Fitzgerald is someone who ran for city council]].
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, Oscar Newman ''did'' in fact have that beard.
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* [[WeWinBecauseYouDidnt We Win Because You Didn't]]: In one of the last elections of the series, Angelo Martinelli runs as an independent, and while he doesn't win and his political career is over due to a second electoral loss, he takes it as a win because his campaign sucked votes away from his rival, Chema.

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* [[WeWinBecauseYouDidnt We Win Because You Didn't]]: In one of the last elections of the series, Angelo Martinelli runs as an independent, and while he doesn't win and his political career is over due to a second electoral loss, he takes it as a win victory because his campaign sucked votes away from his rival, Chema.Chema, eliminating him from Yonkers politics as well.
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* [[WeWinBecauseYouDidnt We Win Because You Didn't]]: In one of the last elections of the series, Angelo Martinelli runs as an independent, and while he doesn't win and his political career is over due to a second electoral loss, he takes it as a win because his campaign sucked votes away from his rival, Chema.
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Your Cheating Heart is an index, not a trope.


* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Vinnie tells Nay that Nick had an affair with her. It's not clear if she's telling the truth]].
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The plot begins when New York judge Leonard B. Sand (Bob Balaban) orders that new public housing units be built in predominantly white neighborhoods in the largely segregated city of Yonkers, New York. Many white, middle-class citizens are outraged, fearing that the lower-class and predominantly black and Hispanic tenants of the housing will turn their communities into slums.

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The plot begins when New York judge Leonard B. Sand (Bob Balaban) (Creator/BobBalaban) orders that new public housing units be built in predominantly white neighborhoods in the largely segregated city of Yonkers, New York. Many white, middle-class citizens are outraged, fearing that the lower-class and predominantly black and Hispanic tenants of the housing will turn their communities into slums.
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* NothingButHits: A given when your protagonist is a fan of ''[[Music/BruceSpringsteen The Boss]]''. Uncommon for a Simon's work, a good number of tracks are non-diegetic.

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* NothingButHits: A given when your protagonist is a fan of ''[[Music/BruceSpringsteen "[[Music/BruceSpringsteen The Boss]]''. Boss]]." Uncommon for a Simon's work, a good number of tracks are non-diegetic.
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Vinnie tells Nay that Nick had an affair with her. It's not clear if she's telling the truth]].

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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Vinnie tells Nay that Nick had an affair with her. It's not clear if she's telling the truth]].truth]].
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* NothingButHits: A given when your protagonist is a fan of ''[[Music/BruceSpringsteen The Boss]]''

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* NothingButHits: A given when your protagonist is a fan of ''[[Music/BruceSpringsteen The Boss]]''Boss]]''. Uncommon for a Simon's work, a good number of tracks are non-diegetic.
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* NothingButHits: A given when you protagonist is a fan of ''[[Music/BruceSpringsteen The Boss]]''

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* NothingButHits: A given when you your protagonist is a fan of ''[[Music/BruceSpringsteen The Boss]]''
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* ShoutOut: Simon slides some references to ''The Wire'' here and there. Examples include "same as it ever was" and "yellow tops"
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* NothingButHits: A given when you protagonist is a fan of ''[[Music/BruceSpringsteen The Boss]]''

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