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* In "Long Distance Call", the grandmother's explicit FreudianExcuse is that her first two children [[OutlivingOnesOffspring died in infancy]], which made her very possessive of her one surviving son Chris, who ultimately broke her heart by leaving home to get married and by treating her like she was "good for nothing" even after she came to live with him in her old age. This is why she so adores her grandson Billy: he's a ReplacementGoldfish for her children and she feels as if only he still care about her. But there's another, unspoken factor too. The grandmother is clearly a European immigrant, with a strong foreign accent. (Her actress, Lili Darvas, was Hungarian.) This explains even more why she feels out-of-place and rejected in the house of her Americanized son and his American wife. (The Creator/{{Pixar}} short ''WesternAnimation/{{Bao}}'' shows similar tension between a foreign-born mother and her Americanized son and his fiancée, although unlike the ''Twilight Zone'' characters, they manage to reconcile.)
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* The ending of "The Silence" reveals, to win his bet, Jamie had the nerves to his vocal chords severed. Their agreed time for the bet to start was anytime after 10PM on the day after Colonel Taylor made the wager, so the game room could be converted into a space for him to live in. Who did Jamie turn to for the operation on such short notice? It's unlikely a licensed surgeon would agree to it, so did he turn to a BackAlleyDoctor instead?
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* Gunter Lütze's fate is already horrifying, but do remember one thing: we only saw the tip of the iceberg. There's ''thousands'' more things he experienced we didn't see. For all intents and purposes, Lütze experienced a painful, agonizing death ''thousands'' of times. No wonder it drove him completely insane. Of course, [[LaserGuidedKarma every single one of those was a death he himself personally inflicted while enjoying every minute of it]], which is FridgeHorror of its own. And then Becker mentions that God has something '''worse''' planned for him.
* Gunter Lutze, a sadistic maniac who tortured and kill countless people, has a lot of fridge horror.
** Lutze is shown to be an unrepentant war criminal who got off on the evil things he did. What kind of horrors was he up to in South America?
** Lutze remembers that he did kill Becker and tries to lunge at his ghost. What kind of ''things'' could Lutze have done if he did have someone there to grab.

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* "Death's Head Revisited" provides several examples through its VillainProtagonist Gunter Lütze, a sadistic maniac who tortured and killed countless people at a Nazi death camp.
** Lütze is shown to be an unrepentant war criminal who got off on the evil things he did. What kind of horrors was he up to in South America?
** Lütze remembers that he did kill Becker and tries to lunge at his ghost. What kind of ''things'' could Lutze have done if he did have someone there to grab.
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Lütze's fate is already horrifying, but do remember one thing: we only saw the tip of the iceberg. There's ''thousands'' more things he experienced we didn't see. For all intents and purposes, Lütze experienced a painful, agonizing death ''thousands'' of times. No wonder it drove him completely insane. Of course, he's an AssholeVictim because [[LaserGuidedKarma every single one of those was a death he himself personally inflicted while enjoying every minute of it]], which is FridgeHorror of its own. And then Becker mentions that God has something '''worse''' planned for him.
* Gunter Lutze, a sadistic maniac who tortured and kill countless people, has a lot of fridge horror.
** Lutze is shown to be an unrepentant war criminal who got off on the evil things he did. What kind of horrors was he up to in South America?
** Lutze remembers that he did kill Becker and tries to lunge at his ghost. What kind of ''things'' could Lutze have done if he did have someone there to grab.
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* Gunter Lütze's fate is already horrifying, but do remember one thing: we only saw the tip of the iceberg. There's ''thousands'' more things he experienced we didn't see. For all intents and purposes, Lütze experienced a painful, agonizing death ''thousands'' of times. No wonder it drove him completely insane. Of course, [[LaserGuidedKarma every single one of those was a death he himself personally inflicted while enjoying every minute of it]], which is FridgeHorror of its own.

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* Gunter Lütze's fate is already horrifying, but do remember one thing: we only saw the tip of the iceberg. There's ''thousands'' more things he experienced we didn't see. For all intents and purposes, Lütze experienced a painful, agonizing death ''thousands'' of times. No wonder it drove him completely insane. Of course, [[LaserGuidedKarma every single one of those was a death he himself personally inflicted while enjoying every minute of it]], which is FridgeHorror of its own. And then Becker mentions that God has something '''worse''' planned for him.
* Gunter Lutze, a sadistic maniac who tortured and kill countless people, has a lot of fridge horror.
** Lutze is shown to be an unrepentant war criminal who got off on the evil things he did. What kind of horrors was he up to in South America?
** Lutze remembers that he did kill Becker and tries to lunge at his ghost. What kind of ''things'' could Lutze have done if he did have someone there to grab.
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* While in "The Chaser," the exact nature of the "glove cleaner" might be obvious to some viewers, the dialogue is subtle enough to make it FridgeHorror to others. A first casual viewing might leave a viewer thinking it was only the antidote to the love potion; that Roger only buys it to make Leila stop loving him, and [[spoiler: can't go through with it because he doesn't want to break up their marriage with a baby on the way.]] But of course, a closer listen to the dialogue about the "glove cleaner" – "tasteless," "odorless," "painless," "no way to trace it" – leads to the realization that it's actually PerfectPoison. Roger was going to ''kill'' Leila to free himself from her smothering love, and [[spoiler: can't go through with it because he can't bring himself to kill his own unborn child.]]
** Further horror: What kind of life awaits [[spoiler: Roger and Leila's child]], with [[spoiler: a mother]] overwhelmingly and demeaningly obsessed with her husband, and [[spoiler: a father]] [[AwfulWeddedLife unhappily stuck with her]], who was once willing to brainwash her into loving him and then to murder her to escape from her smothering?



* The DownerEnding of "The Long Morrow" has a rather obvious solution: now that they know the hibernation system works, put ''Douglas'' into hibernation for a few decades while Sandra ages. When she's old enough that he's no longer too old for her, they can revive him and the pair can live out their twilight years together.
* While in "The Chaser," the exact nature of the "glove cleaner" might be obvious to some viewers, the dialogue is subtle enough to make it FridgeHorror to others. A first casual viewing might leave a viewer thinking it was only the antidote to the love potion; that Roger only buys it to make Leila stop loving him, and [[spoiler: can't go through with it because he doesn't want to break up their marriage with a baby on the way.]] But of course, a closer listen to the dialogue about the "glove cleaner" – "tasteless," "odorless," "painless," "no way to trace it" – leads to the realization that it's actually PerfectPoison. Roger was going to ''kill'' Leila to free himself from her smothering love, and [[spoiler: can't go through with it because he can't bring himself to kill his own unborn child.]]
** Further horror: What kind of life awaits [[spoiler: Roger and Leila's child]], with [[spoiler: a mother]] overwhelmingly and demeaningly obsessed with her husband, and [[spoiler: a father]] [[AwfulWeddedLife unhappily stuck with her]], who was once willing to brainwash her into loving him and then to murder her to escape from her smothering?

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* The DownerEnding of "The Long Morrow" has a rather obvious solution: now that they know the hibernation system works, put ''Douglas'' into hibernation for a few decades while Sandra ages. When she's old enough that he's no longer too old for her, they can revive him and the pair can live out their twilight years together.
* While in "The Chaser," the exact nature of the "glove cleaner" might be obvious to some viewers, the dialogue is subtle enough to make it FridgeHorror to others. A first casual viewing might leave a viewer thinking it was only the antidote to the love potion; that Roger only buys it to make Leila stop loving him, and [[spoiler: can't go through with it because he doesn't want to break up their marriage with a baby on the way.]] But of course, a closer listen to the dialogue about the "glove cleaner" – "tasteless," "odorless," "painless," "no way to trace it" – leads to the realization that it's actually PerfectPoison. Roger was going to ''kill'' Leila to free himself from her smothering love, and [[spoiler: can't go through with it because he can't bring himself to kill his own unborn child.]]
** Further horror: What kind of life awaits [[spoiler: Roger and Leila's child]], with [[spoiler: a mother]] overwhelmingly and demeaningly obsessed with her husband, and [[spoiler: a father]] [[AwfulWeddedLife unhappily stuck with her]], who was once willing to brainwash her into loving him and then to murder her to escape from her smothering?
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* While in "The Chaser," the exact nature of the "glove cleaner" might be obvious to some viewers, the dialogue is subtle enough to make it FridgeHorror to others. A first casual viewing might leave a viewer thinking it was only the antidote to the love potion; that Roger only buys it to make Leila stop loving him, and can't go through with it because he doesn't want to break up their marriage [[spoiler: with a baby on the way.]] But of course, a closer listen to the dialogue about the "glove cleaner" – "tasteless," "oderless," "painless," "no way to trace it" – leads to the realization that it's actually PerfectPoison. Roger was going to ''kill'' Leila to free himself from her smothering love, and can't go through with it because [[spoiler: he can't bring himself to kill his own unborn child.]]

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* While in "The Chaser," the exact nature of the "glove cleaner" might be obvious to some viewers, the dialogue is subtle enough to make it FridgeHorror to others. A first casual viewing might leave a viewer thinking it was only the antidote to the love potion; that Roger only buys it to make Leila stop loving him, and [[spoiler: can't go through with it because he doesn't want to break up their marriage [[spoiler: with a baby on the way.]] But of course, a closer listen to the dialogue about the "glove cleaner" – "tasteless," "oderless," "odorless," "painless," "no way to trace it" – leads to the realization that it's actually PerfectPoison. Roger was going to ''kill'' Leila to free himself from her smothering love, and [[spoiler: can't go through with it because [[spoiler: he can't bring himself to kill his own unborn child.]]]]
** Further horror: What kind of life awaits [[spoiler: Roger and Leila's child]], with [[spoiler: a mother]] overwhelmingly and demeaningly obsessed with her husband, and [[spoiler: a father]] [[AwfulWeddedLife unhappily stuck with her]], who was once willing to brainwash her into loving him and then to murder her to escape from her smothering?
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* The DownerEnding of "The Long Morrow" has a rather obvious solution: now that they know the hibernation system works, put ''Douglas'' into hibernation for a few decades while Sandra ages. When she's old enough that he's no longer too old for her, they can revive him and the pair can live out their twilight years together.

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* The DownerEnding of "The Long Morrow" has a rather obvious solution: now that they know the hibernation system works, put ''Douglas'' into hibernation for a few decades while Sandra ages. When she's old enough that he's no longer too old for her, they can revive him and the pair can live out their twilight years together.together.
* While in "The Chaser," the exact nature of the "glove cleaner" might be obvious to some viewers, the dialogue is subtle enough to make it FridgeHorror to others. A first casual viewing might leave a viewer thinking it was only the antidote to the love potion; that Roger only buys it to make Leila stop loving him, and can't go through with it because he doesn't want to break up their marriage [[spoiler: with a baby on the way.]] But of course, a closer listen to the dialogue about the "glove cleaner" – "tasteless," "oderless," "painless," "no way to trace it" – leads to the realization that it's actually PerfectPoison. Roger was going to ''kill'' Leila to free himself from her smothering love, and can't go through with it because [[spoiler: he can't bring himself to kill his own unborn child.]]
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* Mr. Foster's revenge in "The Masks" is even nastier than it initially appears: with their faces so drastically altered, it's likely that his heirs won't even be able to claim the inheritance with which he'd tempted them, because ''nobody's going to believe who they are''. Heck, even the property they'd already owned may be out of reach.

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* Mr. Foster's revenge in "The Masks" is even nastier than it initially appears: with their faces so drastically altered, it's likely that his heirs won't even be able to claim the inheritance with which he'd tempted them, because ''nobody's going to believe they're who they say they are''. Heck, even the property they'd already owned may be out of reach.
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* Mr. Foster's revenge in "The Masks" is even nastier than it initially appears: with their faces so drastically altered, it's likely that his heirs won't even be able to claim the inheritance with which he'd tempted them, because ''nobody's going to believe who they are''. Heck, even the property they'd already owned may be out of reach.
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* "The Self Improvement Of Salvadore Ross:" Ross purchased Maitland's compassion to win Leah's heart, but in the process turned the old man bitter enough to shoot Ross dead. As a result, it seems likely all those physical traits he bought all died with him, meaning he's permanently changed Leah's kind old father into the same insensitive, egotistical man he'd been.

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* "The Self Improvement Of Salvadore Ross:" Ross purchased Maitland's compassion to win Leah's heart, but in the process turned the old man bitter enough to shoot Ross dead. As a result, it seems likely all those physical traits he bought all died with him, meaning he's permanently changed Leah's kind old father into the same insensitive, egotistical man he'd been.




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* "The Self Improvement Of Salvadore Ross:" Ross purchased Maitland's compassion to win Leah's heart, but in the process turned the old man bitter enough to shoot Ross dead. As a result, it seems likely all those physical traits he bought all died with him, meaning he's permanently changed Leah's kind old father into the same insensitive, egotistical man he'd been.
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* "The Self Improvement Of Salvadore Ross:" Ross purchased Maitland's compassion to win Leah's heart, but in the process turned the old man bitter enough to shoot Ross dead. As a result, it seems likely all those physical traits he bought all died with him, meaning he's permanently changed Leah's kind old father into the same insensitive, egotistical man he'd been.
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*** Pip offered to "arrange for [him] to lose" on occasion (presumably at random), and that there could be risk in the heist scenario. Rocky declines because he feels like it wouldn't be the same, and it's true that it wouldn't be "real", but "a combination of skill and random chance" is how a lot of electronic games work. The video game analogy is actually rather apt.

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*** Pip offered to "arrange for [him] to lose" on occasion (presumably at random), and that there could be risk in the heist scenario. Rocky declines because he feels like it wouldn't be the same, and it's true that it wouldn't be "real", but "a combination artificially-generated risk (including an element of skill and random chance" chance in some cases) is how a lot of basically electronic games work.in a nutshell. The video game analogy is actually rather apt.
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*** Pip offered to "arrange for [him] to lose" on occasion (presumably at random), and that there could be risk in the heist scenario. Rocky declines because he feels like it wouldn't be the same, and it's true that it wouldn't be "real", but that basically ''is'' how electronic games, particularly electronic games with random factors (actually generated by some kind of random-number algorithm), work. The video game analogy is actually rather apt.

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*** Pip offered to "arrange for [him] to lose" on occasion (presumably at random), and that there could be risk in the heist scenario. Rocky declines because he feels like it wouldn't be the same, and it's true that it wouldn't be "real", but that basically ''is'' "a combination of skill and random chance" is how electronic games, particularly a lot of electronic games with random factors (actually generated by some kind of random-number algorithm), work. The video game analogy is actually rather apt.
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*** Pip offered to "arrange for [him] to lose" on occasion (presumably at random), and that there could be risk in the heist scenario. Rocky declines because he feels like it wouldn't be the same, and it's true that nothing he does will have long-term consequences, but the flip side of that is that he could take on a short-term challenge without it affecting his life long-term. The video game analogy is actually rather apt.

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*** Pip offered to "arrange for [him] to lose" on occasion (presumably at random), and that there could be risk in the heist scenario. Rocky declines because he feels like it wouldn't be the same, and it's true that nothing he does will have long-term consequences, it wouldn't be "real", but the flip side of that is that he could take on a short-term challenge without it affecting his life long-term.basically ''is'' how electronic games, particularly electronic games with random factors (actually generated by some kind of random-number algorithm), work. The video game analogy is actually rather apt.
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* The DownerEnding of "The Long Morrow" has a rather obvious solution: now that they know the hibernation system works, put ''Douglas'' into hibernation for a few decades while Sandra ages. When she's old enough that he's no longer too old for her, they can revive him and the pair can live out the rest of their lives together.

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* The DownerEnding of "The Long Morrow" has a rather obvious solution: now that they know the hibernation system works, put ''Douglas'' into hibernation for a few decades while Sandra ages. When she's old enough that he's no longer too old for her, they can revive him and the pair can live out the rest of their lives twilight years together.
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*** Pip offered to "arrange for [him] to lose" on occasion (presumably at random), and that there could be risk in the heist scenario. Rocky declines because he feels like it wouldn't be the same, and it's true that nothing he does will have long-term consequences, but the flip side of that is that he could take on a short-term challenge without it affecting his life long-term. The video game analogy is actually rather apt.
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* Gunter Lütze's fate is already horrifying, but do remember one thing: we only saw the tip of the ice burg. There's ''thousands'' more things he experienced we didn't see. For all intents and purposes, Lütze experienced a painful, agonizing death ''thousands'' of times. No wonder it drove him completely insane. Of course, [[LaserGuidedKarma every single one of those was a death he himself personally inflicted while enjoying every minute of it]], which is FridgeHorror of its own.

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* Gunter Lütze's fate is already horrifying, but do remember one thing: we only saw the tip of the ice burg.iceberg. There's ''thousands'' more things he experienced we didn't see. For all intents and purposes, Lütze experienced a painful, agonizing death ''thousands'' of times. No wonder it drove him completely insane. Of course, [[LaserGuidedKarma every single one of those was a death he himself personally inflicted while enjoying every minute of it]], which is FridgeHorror of its own.
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* The second episode, "One For The Angels", had Lou Bookman negotiate with Death that he would live until he'd given a pitch [[TitleDrop for the angels]] - by the end, he'd made such a pitch to the Angel of Death himself.
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** Also, the Kanamits' technology is clearly all designed to make humans (or whatever race they're attempting to eat) wholly complacent and helpless. Those anti-nuclear force fields that they offered every nation to end the Cold War? They'll block any concentrated attack on their own ships. The ability to grow massive amounts of food? They're [[FatteningTheVictim fattening their prey]]. In other words, there's ''no'' defending the Earth from the Kanamits, and now that the word has gotten out about their true intentions, they'll probably [[BitchInSheepsClothing drop the polite act]] and move into full-on conquest.
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* In the episode "Living Doll", Talky Tina says "you better be nice to me!" after she [[spoiler: murders Erich]], which implies [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist her motives are selfish]] and she didn't do it to protect Christie. It's impossible to get rid of or destroy Tina, so Christie's stuck with a vindictive, homicidal magic doll, possibly forever. So...what happens to Christie if she gets a new favorite toy, or when she starts outgrowing dolls?

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* In the episode "Living Doll", Talky Tina says "you better be nice to me!" after she [[spoiler: murders Erich]], which implies [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist her motives are selfish]] and she didn't do it to protect Christie. It's impossible to get rid of or destroy Tina, so Christie's stuck with a vindictive, homicidal magic doll, possibly forever. So...what happens to Christie if she gets a new favorite toy, or when she starts outgrowing dolls? What if Annabelle thinks Tina is too dangerous to be around her daughter and tries to get rid of her? Furthermore, given that Tina appears indestructible, the cycle will probably repeat itself with multiple owners.

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* "One More Pallbearer:" Radin has an obvious fear of humiliation... so much so that he summons three of his lifelong grudges to apologize through fear. When they refuse and belittle his pettiness, his [[VillainousBSOD sanity starts to shatter]]... because he's now been humiliated in a far more epic scale... by his own childish actions.
** His shock at their refusal to grovel is apparent: how can this be? This makes no sense! Because to him, honor is such a foreign concept that he cannot conceive it, even when it is standing right in front of him.
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* In the episode "Living Doll", Talky Tina says "you better be nice to me!" after she [[spoiler: murders Erich]], which implies her motives are selfish and she didn't do it to protect Christie. It's impossible to get rid of or destroy Tina, so Christie's stuck with a vindictive, homicidal magic doll, possibly forever. So...what happens to Christie if she gets a new favorite toy, or when she starts outgrowing dolls?

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* In the episode "Living Doll", Talky Tina says "you better be nice to me!" after she [[spoiler: murders Erich]], which implies [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist her motives are selfish selfish]] and she didn't do it to protect Christie. It's impossible to get rid of or destroy Tina, so Christie's stuck with a vindictive, homicidal magic doll, possibly forever. So...what happens to Christie if she gets a new favorite toy, or when she starts outgrowing dolls?
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*** The episode and it's sequel don't back the idea of Anthony constantly reading everyone's mind up, regardless of what Rod says in the intro. The drunk guy was no doubt thinking bad thoughts about Anthony, but Anthony only reacted when he began talking. And while drunk, he suggests killing Anthony with a fire poker, and another character grabs it as if it might work (though to be fair, neither was probably thinking straight at the time.) And in the sequel episode, people explicitly discuss killing Anthony when he's not around, and a man tries to hit Anthony in the back of the head, and Anthony doesn't react until his also-powered daughter banished the man, also suggesting an plotted ambush will work.
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** The manager also tells him, "Remember, you have unlimited credit," implying that any betting he does is part of the prize his wife won. In reality, it just means that the casino would cash his checks (or other markers) and he's out the money instead.
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** In Grand Theft Auto, you're actually ''playing'' -- it's a genuine test of your skill that can lead to success or failure depending on how well you do. You don't get to tell the game at the beginning to make sure you win. Even if Rocky literally had a video game to play in this setting, he would win every time, which would get boring just like winning the casino games every time did (and, as he concludes, having Pip make him lose sometimes wouldn't help because it still wouldn't be real). The problem isn't the bank robbery scenario wouldn't be a real robbery -- it's that the risk and test and skill involved wouldn't be real. There's no market for any kind of game that guarantees you win every time (or even where you get to determine how often you'll win and lose).
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** Another moment of fridge brilliance from the episode. By the end, Peter is convinced he's "All steel; no softness, no weakness." Only when the police finally come down on him he breaks. As much as he claims to be without softness, one of steel's important points is that it is relatively able to flex and move in order to carry heavy loads. Peter has no idea what steel's true strength is, just like how he has no idea just how vital sentiment and kindness are to a man.

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** Another moment of fridge brilliance from the episode. By the end, Peter is convinced he's "All steel; no softness, no weakness." Only when the police finally come down on him he breaks. As much as he claims to be without softness, one of steel's important points is that it is relatively able to flex and move in order to carry heavy loads. Peter has no idea what steel's true strength is, [[VirtueIsWeakness just like how he has no idea just how vital sentiment and kindness are to a man.man]].
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** Also, there's a good chance Mrs. Gibbs is going to be suffering from survivor's guilt, as she was so gung-ho about the Las Vegas vacation in the first place.

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