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* At a mall department store, Cameron tries on several ladies' business outfits. Her attempts at putting on the clothes and "I don't want to be seen in this" reactions are just priceless.
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* The [[StylisticSuck intentionally bad]] commercial for the Giant Pro looks like it could be a Creator/TimAndEric sketch.

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* The [[StylisticSuck intentionally bad]] commercial for the Giant Pro looks like it could be a Creator/TimAndEric sketch.sketch; however, to be fair, many computer and technology ads of the period, both in print and on television, were rather ridiculous.

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* Lev flirts with another user on Community; however, it turns out to be a guy.
** This is subverted as Lev is fully aware of this. The humor comes from the others coming to the realization that he is gay and their awkward acceptance of it.

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* Lev flirts with another user on Community; however, it turns out to be a guy.
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guy. This is subverted as Lev is fully aware of this. The humor comes from the others coming to the realization that he is gay and their awkward acceptance of it. [[HilariousInHindsight Made even funnier]] by a RealLife Supreme Court ruling a couple of days before the episode aired that legalized gay marriage across the U.S.
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** This is subverted as Lev is fully aware of this. The humor comes from the others coming to the realization that he is gay and their awkward acceptance of it.
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* Lev flirts with another user on Community; however, it turns out to be a guy.
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* In "High Plains Hardware", Donna's mother Susan shows her a novelty headstone from her father's latest catalog.
-->'''Donna:''' "Bowser"? It's not exactly a bird's name. \\
'''Susan:''' ''(scoffs)'' Poor thing's dead by now. I expect you can call it whatever you like. ''(tinny music plays from the headstone)'' \\
'''Donna:''' Is that Chopin's "Funeral March"? \\
'''Susan:''' The Japanese never sleep. Look here. It's our back pager this month. Your father thinks we'll move half a million.
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* The FPS-like scenes with Cameron playing the nerf gun game at Mutiny.
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* Gordon telling Donna that he got milk [[spoiler:after he stole the Giant prototype]].

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* Gordon casually telling Donna that he got milk [[spoiler:after he stole the Giant prototype]].



* Gordon's online handle: "Sexybeard".

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* Gordon's online handle: Mutiny username: "Sexybeard".
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* Joe finding out that the mainframes in the oil company aren't even running 24/7.
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* Donna recites messages printed out either from in-game chats or from the forums on the Mutiny BBS:
-->'''Donna:''' Listen to this: "Your understanding of U.S.-Soviet relations is as shortsighted as a lemur with cataracts." They call it a "flame war."

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* Gordon telling Donna that he got milk [[spoiler:after he stole the Giant prototype]].



* Joe's new job at his girlfriend Sarah Wheeler's father's oil company in data entry. His new boss explains that it's a special privilege to use the microfiche machine.

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* Joe's new job at his girlfriend Sarah Sara Wheeler's father's oil company in data entry. His new boss explains that it's a special privilege to use the microfiche machine.
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** On the terminal's screen: "IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THE BITCH FELL OFF."
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* A frazzled Donna tells Cameron Yo-Yo sent three [=XT=]s flying when he tripped over a power cord and the sheer mound of pizza boxes nearby broke their fall.
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* Gordon's online handle: "Sexybeard".
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* Joe's new job at his girlfriend Sarah Wheeler's father's oil company in data entry. His new boss explains that it's a special privilege to use the microfiche machine.

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* The [[StylisticSuck intentionally bad]] commercial for the Giant Pro looks like it could be a Creator/TimAndEric sketch.

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* The [[StylisticSuck intentionally bad]] commercial for the Giant Pro looks like it could be a Creator/TimAndEric sketch.sketch.
* Bosworth walking into Mutiny like an old prison lag and trolling the employees.
-->'''Bosworth:''' ''(stands up)'' God dang, are you guys buying any of that?!
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* The [[StylisticSuck intentionally bad]] commercial for the Giant looks like it could be a Creator/TimAndEric sketch.

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* The [[StylisticSuck intentionally bad]] commercial for the Giant Pro looks like it could be a Creator/TimAndEric sketch.
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* The [[StylisticSuck intentionally bad]] commercial for the Giant looks like it could be a Creator/TimAndEricSketch.

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* The [[StylisticSuck intentionally bad]] commercial for the Giant looks like it could be a Creator/TimAndEricSketch.Creator/TimAndEric sketch.
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-->'''Donna:''' [[{{Understatement}} Isn't that a little bit evil?]]

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-->'''Donna:''' [[{{Understatement}} Isn't that a little bit evil?]]evil?]]
* The [[StylisticSuck intentionally bad]] commercial for the Giant looks like it could be a Creator/TimAndEricSketch.

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* Gordon's wife and daughter decide to stop in and visit him at work. While using the bathroom, they run into Cameron, whose upper torso is clad only in a sports bra, and who happens to be applying deodorant. When she starts brushing her teeth in the bathroom sink, the daughter cheerfully reminds her to brush the back teeth.

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* Gordon's wife After a dentist's appointment, Donna and daughter Joanie decide to stop in and visit him Gordon at work. While using the bathroom, they run into Cameron, whose upper torso is clad only in a sports bra, and who happens to be applying deodorant. When she Cameron starts brushing her teeth in the bathroom sink, the daughter Joanie cheerfully reminds her to brush the back teeth.



* Cameron is pissed off at Gordon and Donna so she breaks into their house to vandalize it with spray paint. She is interrupted by their neighbor who shows up with a shotgun to fend off the burglar (this is Texas after all). The neighbor is the engineer that Gordon previously fired and he recognizes Cameron. He assumes that Cameron is there because Gordon fired her as well so he puts away his shotgun and tells her to go nuts with the spray can. [[spoiler:She becomes sufficiently weirded out to decide not to go through with her vandalism, which leads to a MomentOfHeartwarming as Donna praises her work on the new BIOS.]]
* All the programmers are playing an adventure game on their work computers and John Bosworth calls them into his office. He demands that they tell him how to get his character out of that cave.

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* Cameron is pissed off at Gordon and Donna so she breaks into their house to vandalize it with spray paint. She is interrupted by their neighbor who shows up with a shotgun to fend off the burglar (this is Texas after all). The neighbor neighbor, Brian, is the engineer that Gordon previously fired and he recognizes Cameron. He assumes that Cameron is there because Gordon fired her as well so he puts away his shotgun and tells her to go nuts with the spray can. [[spoiler:She becomes sufficiently weirded out to decide not to go through with her vandalism, which leads to a MomentOfHeartwarming CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming as Donna praises her work on the new BIOS.]]
* All the programmers are playing an adventure game ''VideoGame/ColossalCave'' on their work computers and John Bosworth calls them into his office. He demands that they tell him how to get his character out of that cave.


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* When Joe comes over the Clark household, Haley crawls up to his leg and hugs it. Joe just stands there and grins.
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-->'''Donna:''' I think it's about the gaudiest exorbitance that I've ever seen. ''[beat]'' And everyone's gonna be looking at us when we drive in it.

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-->'''Donna:''' I think it's about the gaudiest exorbitance that I've ever seen. ''[beat]'' And everyone's gonna be looking at us when we drive in it.it.
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-->'''Gordon:''' I'm gonna turn [Cameron] in to the feds for hacking with Bosworth unless Joe leaves Cardiff.
-->'''Donna:''' [[{{Understatement}} Isn't that a little bit evil?]]
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-->'''Cameron:''' Maybe it was ringing too much.

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-->'''Cameron:''' Maybe it was ringing too much.much.
* Gordon and Donna, apparently having made up, discuss the Porsche he has obtained in light of his newfound income and wealth:
-->'''Gordon:''' I financed it. They were practically giving them away. What do you think?
-->'''Donna:''' I think it's about the gaudiest exorbitance that I've ever seen. ''[beat]'' And everyone's gonna be looking at us when we drive in it.
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-->'''Donna:''' Oh, I haven't done ''that'' since college.

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-->'''Donna:''' Oh, I haven't done ''that'' since college.college.
* Back from COMDEX, Donna can't keep a straight face around Gordon's antics. NOT helped by the fact that he acts exactly like a petulant kid when she has him go into their bedroom.
* Cameron and the phone repair guy:
-->'''Phone guy:''' ''(examines wrecked phone)'' Wow. Sheesh, what happened here?
-->'''Cameron:''' [[BlatantLies I don't know. Maybe it fell?]]
-->'''Phone guy:''' ''(skeptical)'' Across the room?
-->'''Cameron:''' Maybe it was ringing too much.
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* After finding out that Gordon's been telling her programmers that she only got her job by sleeping with Joe, Cameron gets back at him by kissing him full on the lips in front of their coworkers and loudly announcing that "last night was fantastic", much to the amusement of their coworkers.

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* After finding out that Gordon's been telling her programmers that she only got her job by sleeping with Joe, Cameron gets back at him by kissing him full on the lips in front of their coworkers and loudly announcing that "last night was fantastic", much to the amusement of their coworkers.coworkers.
* At COMDEX, after getting the Giant up and running, Gordon and Donna type a series of increasingly risque messages to one another over it.
-->'''Gordon:''' Haven't done that since our honeymoon.
-->'''Donna:''' Oh, I haven't done ''that'' since college.
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* All the programmers are playing an adventure game on their work computers and John Bosworth calls them into his office. He demands that they tell him how to get his character out of that cave.

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* All the programmers are playing an adventure game on their work computers and John Bosworth calls them into his office. He demands that they tell him how to get his character out of that cave.cave.
* After finding out that Gordon's been telling her programmers that she only got her job by sleeping with Joe, Cameron gets back at him by kissing him full on the lips in front of their coworkers and loudly announcing that "last night was fantastic", much to the amusement of their coworkers.
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* Cameron is pissed off at Gordon and Donna so she breaks into their house to vandalize it with spray paint. She is interrupted by their neighbor who shows up with a shotgun to fend off the burglar (this is Texas after all). The neighbor is the engineer that Gordon previously fired and he recognizes Cameron. He assumes that Cameron is there because Gordon fired her as well so he puts away his shotgun and tells her to go nuts with the spray can. [[spoiler:She becomes sufficiently weirded out to decide not to go through with her vandalism, which leads to a MomentOfHeartwarming as Donna praises her work on the new BIOS.]]

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* Cameron is pissed off at Gordon and Donna so she breaks into their house to vandalize it with spray paint. She is interrupted by their neighbor who shows up with a shotgun to fend off the burglar (this is Texas after all). The neighbor is the engineer that Gordon previously fired and he recognizes Cameron. He assumes that Cameron is there because Gordon fired her as well so he puts away his shotgun and tells her to go nuts with the spray can. [[spoiler:She becomes sufficiently weirded out to decide not to go through with her vandalism, which leads to a MomentOfHeartwarming as Donna praises her work on the new BIOS.]]]]
* All the programmers are playing an adventure game on their work computers and John Bosworth calls them into his office. He demands that they tell him how to get his character out of that cave.
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* Cameron is pissed off at Gordon and Donna so she breaks into their house to vandalize it with spray paint. She is interrupted by their neighbor who shows up with a shotgun to fend off the burglar (this is Texas after all). The neighbor is the engineer that Gordon previously fired and he recognizes Cameron. He assumes that Cameron is there because Gordon fired her as well so he puts away his shotgun and tells her to go nuts with the spray can.

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* Cameron is pissed off at Gordon and Donna so she breaks into their house to vandalize it with spray paint. She is interrupted by their neighbor who shows up with a shotgun to fend off the burglar (this is Texas after all). The neighbor is the engineer that Gordon previously fired and he recognizes Cameron. He assumes that Cameron is there because Gordon fired her as well so he puts away his shotgun and tells her to go nuts with the spray can. [[spoiler:She becomes sufficiently weirded out to decide not to go through with her vandalism, which leads to a MomentOfHeartwarming as Donna praises her work on the new BIOS.]]
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* At the end of the second episode, Cameron and Gordon are arguing in the parking lot when Joe suddenly drives up and announces that the PC clone should have a handle, as though it's a revelation from God. Gordon looks at him as if he's lost his damned mind.

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* At the end of the second episode, Cameron and Gordon are arguing in the parking lot when Joe suddenly drives up and announces that the PC clone should have a handle, as though it's a revelation from God. Gordon looks at him as if he's lost his damned mind.mind.
* Cameron is pissed off at Gordon and Donna so she breaks into their house to vandalize it with spray paint. She is interrupted by their neighbor who shows up with a shotgun to fend off the burglar (this is Texas after all). The neighbor is the engineer that Gordon previously fired and he recognizes Cameron. He assumes that Cameron is there because Gordon fired her as well so he puts away his shotgun and tells her to go nuts with the spray can.
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* Gordon's wife and daughter decide to stop in and visit him at work. While using the bathroom, they run into Cameron, whose upper torso is clad only in a sports bra, and who happens to be applying deodorant. When she starts brushing her teeth in the bathroom sink, the daughter cheerfully reminds her to brush the back teeth.

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* Gordon's wife and daughter decide to stop in and visit him at work. While using the bathroom, they run into Cameron, whose upper torso is clad only in a sports bra, and who happens to be applying deodorant. When she starts brushing her teeth in the bathroom sink, the daughter cheerfully reminds her to brush the back teeth.teeth.
* At the end of the second episode, Cameron and Gordon are arguing in the parking lot when Joe suddenly drives up and announces that the PC clone should have a handle, as though it's a revelation from God. Gordon looks at him as if he's lost his damned mind.
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* Forced to put up with Cardiff's in-house lawyer watching over her shoulder, Cameron waits until he falls asleep, then draws a penis on his face.
* Gordon's wife and daughter decide to stop in and visit him at work. While using the bathroom, they run into Cameron, whose upper torso is clad only in a sports bra, and who happens to be applying deodorant. When she starts brushing her teeth in the bathroom sink, the daughter cheerfully reminds her to brush the back teeth.

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