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* LikeBrotherAndSister: Discussed. When Spencer talks to Chris about Olivia and Chris dating, Spencer tries to invoked this trope about himself and Liv, but Chris is not buying it and tells Spencer that Liv still has feelings for him. Spencer tries to deny that, saying that he thinks she liked him when he first moved to Beverly Hills, but lost interest.
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* LockedInARoom: Billy accidentally locks himself and Grace in his office, and they face some of their shared past. Grace asks Billy why he married outside of the culture.

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* LockedInARoom: Billy accidentally locks himself and Grace in his office, and they face some of their shared past. Grace asks Billy why he married outside of the culture. He tells her he loves Laura, and that, for him, Grace was his last tether to Crenshaw.
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* LockedInARoom: Billy accidentally locks himself and Grace in his office, and they face some of their shared past. Grace asks Billy why he married outside of the culture.


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* TheReveal: Billy, Grace and Corey were in a LoveTriangle in high school and Grace chose Corey.
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* KissDiss: Spencer turns away when Layla leans in to kiss him at the overlook. He explains that a lot is going on for her and they should be friends.
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* ThePromposal: At the café; where Spencer works, he serves two customers a pizza. It turns out to be shaped like a heart asking a girl to the homecoming dance. Spencer looks on bemused at the scene playing out as the girl says yes to her date.

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* ThePromposal: At the café; café where Spencer works, he serves two customers a pizza. It turns out to be shaped like a heart asking a girl to the homecoming dance. Spencer looks on bemused at the scene playing out as the girl says yes to her date.
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* ThePromposal: At the café where Spencer works, he serves two customers a pizza. It turns out to be shaped like a heart asking a girl to the homecoming dance. Spencer looks on bemused at the scene playing out as the girl says yes to her date.

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* ThePromposal: At the café café; where Spencer works, he serves two customers a pizza. It turns out to be shaped like a heart asking a girl to the homecoming dance. Spencer looks on bemused at the scene playing out as the girl says yes to her date.
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* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Olivia gets a moment like this as she comes down the stairs at the Baker home where all the friends and their dates are waiting. Spencer is mesmerised, as is Olivia's date, Spencer's friend Chris.

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* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Olivia gets a moment like this as she comes down the stairs in her dress at the Baker home where all the friends and their dates are waiting. Spencer is mesmerised, as is Olivia's date, Spencer's friend Chris.
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* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Olivia gets a moment like this as she comes down the stairs at the Baker home where all the friends and their dates are waiting. Spencer is mesmerised, as is Olivia's date, Spencer's friend Chris.
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* ThePromposal: At the café where Spencer works, he serves a pizza shaped like a heart asking a girl to the homecoming dance. Spencer looks on bemused at the scene playing out as the girl says yes to her date.

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* ThePromposal: At the café where Spencer works, he serves two customers a pizza pizza. It turns out to be shaped like a heart asking a girl to the homecoming dance. Spencer looks on bemused at the scene playing out as the girl says yes to her date.
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* ThePromposal: At the café where Spencer works, he serves a pizza shaped like a heart asking a girl to the homecoming dance. Spencer looks on bemused at the scene playing out as the girl says yes to her date.
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* ShoutOut: To Literature/{{Carrie}}, as Coop expects the ritzy Beverly Hills to go haywire.

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* ShoutOut: To Literature/{{Carrie}}, ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', as Coop expects the ritzy Beverly Hills to go haywire.
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* ShoutOut: To Literature/Carrie, as Coop expects the ritzy Beverly Hills to go haywire.

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* ShoutOut: To Literature/Carrie, Literature/{{Carrie}}, as Coop expects the ritzy Beverly Hills to go haywire.
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* QuirkyGirlQuirkyTux: Coop, a recently came out lesbian, wears a tux for the homecoming dance.

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* QuirkyGirlQuirkyTux: Coop, a recently came out lesbian, wears a tux for the homecoming dance.dance.
* ShoutOut: To Literature/Carrie, as Coop expects the ritzy Beverly Hills to go haywire.
-->'''Coop:''' Hey, listen, if a white girl end up onstage getting doused in pig blood, I'm out.

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* BitingTheHandHumor: Coop at one point comments that the melodrama and tension surrounding Spencer and co.'s romance story "is just like ''Series/{{Dynasty|1981}}''". At the time the episode aired, The CW concurrently aired [[Series/Dynasty2017 a reboot of that soap opera]].



* InVinoVeritas: Asher, hurt by his breakup with Layla, drinks and rants about the cheating between him, Layla, and Olivia in front of the entire school.
* LoveDodecahedron: Chris has feelings for Olivia, who has feelings for Spencer but once cheated on Asher, who loves Layla, who has just cheated on him with Spencer, who loves her back.
* QuirkyGirlQuirkyTux: Coop, a recently came out lesbian, wears a tux for the homecoming dance.
* SelfDeprecation: Coop at one point comments that melodrama and tension surrounding Spencer and co.'s romance story "is just like ''Series/{{Dynasty|1981}}''" (is she talking about the original or [[Series/{{Dynasty|2017}} the reboot]] that concurrently aired on The CW?).

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* InVinoVeritas: Asher, hurt by his breakup with Layla, drinks and rants about the cheating between him, Spencer, Layla, and Olivia in front of the entire school.
* LoveDodecahedron: Chris has feelings for Olivia, who has feelings for Spencer but once cheated on with Asher, who loves Layla, who has just cheated on him with Spencer, who loves her back.
* QuirkyGirlQuirkyTux: Coop, a recently came out lesbian, wears a tux for the homecoming dance.
* SelfDeprecation: Coop at one point comments that melodrama and tension surrounding Spencer and co.'s romance story "is just like ''Series/{{Dynasty|1981}}''" (is she talking about the original or [[Series/{{Dynasty|2017}} the reboot]] that concurrently aired on The CW?).
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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Shawn bitterly muses that the trouble he and Layla have just gotten into means that he will never settle down into a legal life.

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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Shawn bitterly muses that the trouble he and Layla Coop have just gotten into means that he will never settle down into a legal life.
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Beverly High is holding a homecoming right before an important game against Malibu High. Spencer asks Coop for the prom as he tries to control his feelings for Layla, still guilty of cheating on Asher with him. Meanwhile, Coop is given the task to pick up drugs for gang leader Tyrone, standing up for Shawn, who is taking an honest job with J.P. Keating.

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Beverly High is holding a homecoming dance right before an important game against Malibu High. Spencer asks Coop out for the prom dance as he tries to control his feelings for Layla, who is still guilty of cheating on Asher with him. Meanwhile, Coop is given the task to pick up drugs for gang leader Tyrone, standing up for Shawn, who is taking an honest job with J.P. Keating.



* AFriendInNeed: Olivia comforts Asher, who severely intoxicates himself after Coach Baker benched him for two games.

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* AFriendInNeed: Olivia comforts Asher, who severely intoxicates himself after Coach Baker benched him for two games.him.



* InVinoVeritas: Asher, hurt by his breakup with Layla, drinks and starts ranting about the cheating between him, Layla, and Olivia in front of the entire school.

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* InVinoVeritas: Asher, hurt by his breakup with Layla, drinks and starts ranting rants about the cheating between him, Layla, and Olivia in front of the entire school.



* QuirkyGirlQuirkyTux: Coop, a recently came out lesbian, wears a tux for the homecoming.

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* QuirkyGirlQuirkyTux: Coop, a recently came out lesbian, wears a tux for the homecoming.homecoming dance.
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Beverly High is holding a homecoming right before an important game against Malibu High. Spencer asks Coop for the prom as he tries to control his feelings for Layla, still guilty of cheating on Asher with him. Meanwhile, Coop is given the task to pick up drugs for gang leader Tyrone, standing up for Shawn, who is taking an honest job with J.P. Keating.
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!!Tropes featured in this episode:
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Shawn bitterly muses that the trouble he and Layla have just gotten into means that he will never settle down into a legal life.
* DanceOfRomance: Layla invites Spencer for a dance after she breaks up with Asher. It is interrupted by Asher's rambling, but they eventually finish the dance in a private place.
* DelayedReaction: It takes Shawn a while before he registers that Tyrone taking drugs himself means that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck he and Coop are in deep trouble]].
* AFriendInNeed: Olivia comforts Asher, who severely intoxicates himself after Coach Baker benched him for two games.
* HighSchoolDance: The focus of this episode.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Asher starts drinking the moment Layla dumps him.
* InVinoVeritas: Asher, hurt by his breakup with Layla, drinks and starts ranting about the cheating between him, Layla, and Olivia in front of the entire school.
* LoveDodecahedron: Chris has feelings for Olivia, who has feelings for Spencer but once cheated on Asher, who loves Layla, who has just cheated on him with Spencer, who loves her back.
* QuirkyGirlQuirkyTux: Coop, a recently came out lesbian, wears a tux for the homecoming.
* SelfDeprecation: Coop at one point comments that melodrama and tension surrounding Spencer and co.'s romance story "is just like ''Series/{{Dynasty|1981}}''" (is she talking about the original or [[Series/{{Dynasty|2017}} the reboot]] that concurrently aired on The CW?).

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