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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Charles starts out as a pleasant, unassuming English instructor, but as soon as he gets famous he starts timing his arrivals at the university so as to coincide with the students coming out. Eventually it wears off, as he starts to regret his involvement in the fix.



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* WellDoneSonGuy: Mark is this to Charles.
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* HollywoodNewEngland: Of the immensely cultured, IvyLeague variety. The Van Dorens lived in Connecticut.

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* HollywoodNewEngland: Of the immensely cultured, IvyLeague Ivy League variety. The Van Dorens lived in Connecticut.

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* HollywoodNewEngland: Of the immensely cultured, IvyLeague variety. The Van Dorens lived in Connecticut.
* WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: So very, very much.


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* EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth: Inverted. One of Herb's teeth is actually brown, and at one point he asks his wife if she thinks he should get them capped. Definitely a factor in why the sponsors decide they've had enough of him.


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* HollywoodNewEngland: Dick's thick Boston accent has rather a lot of this.
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* JewishAndNerdy: ''So very, very much'' a quiz show champion with Yiddish patois-peppered parlance.
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* JewishAndNerdy: ''So very, very much'' - a quiz show quiz-show champion with Yiddish patois-peppered parlance.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage.
YiddishAsASecondLanguage: When he is not wolfing down ''rugulach'', he is ''schvitzing'' off his ''tuchis''.
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* JewishAndNerdy: ''So very, very much''.

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* JewishAndNerdy: ''So very, very much''.much'' a quiz show champion with Yiddish patois-peppered parlance.

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* JewishAndNerdy: ''So very, very much''.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: He is involved in the center of the game show scandals.



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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Is suing the game 21 for his poor treatment.



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!Charles Van Doren
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!Herbie Stempel
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!Dick Goodwin
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!Mark Van Doren
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