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* BrokeTheRatingScale: WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead once flipped to one of Milli Vanilli's videos, to which they had the rare response of staring in horror, [[SarcasmFailure unable to make any of their trademark wisecracks]], and then changed the channel.

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* BrokeTheRatingScale: WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead once flipped to one of Milli Vanilli's videos, to which they had the rare response of staring in horror, [[SarcasmFailure unable to make any of their trademark wisecracks]], and then changed the channel. Oddly enough, however, in another episode, they came across the music video for "Girl You Know It's True" and actually did riff on it.

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Downer Ending and There Are No Good Execuives are also NRLEP tropes. Removing.


* DownerEnding: The Milli Vanilli story didn't end well for anyone (with the exception of Fab Morvan), especially Rob Pilatus who died of a drug overdose at the age of 32.



* GoingColdTurkey: Rob & Fab were no strangers to drugs before the scandal blew up, and it only got worse once it did. When the time came to record their self-titled album, Fab had managed to go cold turkey, but Rob would never recover, and [[DownerEnding eventually died from a drug overdose]].

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* GoingColdTurkey: Rob & Fab were no strangers to drugs before the scandal blew up, and it only got worse once it did. When the time came to record their self-titled album, Fab had managed to go cold turkey, but Rob would never recover, and [[DownerEnding eventually died from a drug overdose]].overdose.



* ThereAreNoGoodExecutives: Frank Farian and Clive Davis. While he avoids outright saying negative about Davis, Fab [[https://youtu.be/lqmO9VE0PuY?t=2021 mentioned in an interview]] that Davis was fully aware of the lip-syncing, but went along with it.
-->'''Fab Morvan:''' If a ''pen'' dropped in the building, he ''knew''. [...] I don't know the details behind that, you see. That's one of the things that's been kept really, really, ''really'' secret. [...] But they had to disclose that to him.

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Cutting down NRLEP tropes and chained sinkholes.


* OhCrap: The duo fled the stage when the record started skipping and they realized their cover was blown.



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** The duo ended up fleeing the stage after they were caught lip-syncing to "Girl You Know It's True" while in Bristol, Connecticut. Rob later admitted that the whole disaster almost caused him to quit on the spot.
** According to Fab, he and Rob attempted to pull this on Frank Farian twice. The first time, they simply refused to lip-sync the songs, but caved when Farian said they had to pay him back the advances he gave them. The second time, they tried to break away from Farian's control and do their own thing, prompting Farian to expose them as frauds.



->''Girl, you know it's- [[WhamLine Girl, you know it's-]] [[BrokenRecord Girl, you know it's-]] [[TheReveal Girl, you know it's-]]''

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->''Girl, you know it's- [[WhamLine it's-- Girl, you know it's-]] [[BrokenRecord it's-- Girl, you know it's-]] [[TheReveal it's-- Girl, you know it's-]]''it's--''
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Their death was only metaphorical.


* DeathByIrony: The incident that made them notorious and marked the beginning of the end for them saw the backing track glitch out on the word ''"true"''. As though that very word was recoiling from the lie that they were built on.

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