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* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Over the course of the episode, Maeby finds herself fired from (or at least losing) all three of the jobs she has - she's fired from Imagine Entertainment when Kitty exposes that she never graduated from high school, George Michael fires her from his Fakeblock business when she hypes the product up far too quickly, and her final source of income, pimping her mother out to Herbert Love, stops flowing when Herbert Love disassociates himself from Lindsay to avoid a scandal.
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* WackyStartupWorkplace: Spoofed when Michael is introduced to his (made-up) startup "Fakeblock" office, which is an empty hangar with employees riding around in golf carts and on bicycles.
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* SueDonym: The alias George Maharis is the start of George Michael's real name followed by Maeby's mispronunciation of the word "heiress".

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* SueDonym: The alias George Maharis is the start of George Michael's real name followed by Maeby's mispronunciation of the word "heiress"."heiress".
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are hints to the fact that [[spoiler:Fakeblock isn't real]], including: [[spoiler:George Michael's constant nervousness about the company expanding (which ''should'' be a good thing), Jim Cramer saying "I never do this, hell, it's not even a stock yet. For all I know, ''it's not even real!''" when he gives Fakeblock his first ever "Hypothetical Buy", and most notably, George Michael going to say "my software isn't even real" and changing it at the last minute to "isn't even ready".]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are hints to the fact that [[spoiler:Fakeblock Fakeblock isn't real]], real, including: [[spoiler:George George Michael's constant nervousness about the company expanding (which ''should'' be a good thing), Jim Cramer saying "I never do this, hell, it's not even a stock yet. For all I know, ''it's not even real!''" when he gives Fakeblock his first ever "Hypothetical Buy", and most notably, George Michael going to say "my software isn't even real" and changing it at the last minute to "isn't even ready".]]



** Spoilers for future episodes - [[spoiler:George Michael almost reveals to Maeby that his software "isn't real", but changes it at the last second to "isn't ready".]]

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** Spoilers for future episodes - [[spoiler:George George Michael almost reveals to Maeby that his software "isn't real", but changes it at the last second to "isn't ready".]]
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Maeby, having repeated her high school senior year for the past five years, tries to find an undercover cop at her school, only to discover that the cop is Lucille 2's Hispanic foster child and Maeby's boyfriend, Perfecto Telles.
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* LastSecondWordSwap: Spoilers for future episodes - [[spoiler:George Michael almost reveals to Maeby that his software "isn't real", but changes it at the last second to "isn't ready".]]

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* LastSecondWordSwap: LastSecondWordSwap:
** George Ma-haris - see SueDonym below.
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Spoilers for future episodes - [[spoiler:George Michael almost reveals to Maeby that his software "isn't real", but changes it at the last second to "isn't ready".]]]]
* SueDonym: The alias George Maharis is the start of George Michael's real name followed by Maeby's mispronunciation of the word "heiress".
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: On both "Senior" (as Maeby has repeated her senior year five times) and "Seńor" (as Maeby has a Mexican boyfriend).

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* DoubleMeaningTitle: On both "Senior" "senioritis" (as Maeby has repeated her senior year five times) and "Seńor" (as Maeby has a Mexican boyfriend).
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* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Over the course of the episode, Maeby finds herself fired from (or at least losing) all three of the jobs she has - she's fired from Imagine Entertainment when Kitty exposes that she never graduated from high school, George Michael fires her from his Fakeblock business when she hypes the product up far too quickly, and her final source of income, pimping her mother out to Herbert Love, stops flowing when Herbert Love disassociates himself from Lindsay to avoid a scandal.
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* AttackBackfire: Maeby plans to gather incriminating evidence on the undercover cop (whom she believes to be Perfecto) so that he won't be able to get her kicked out of her fifth year of high school. To do so, she sleeps with Perfecto, only to learn that he isn't the undercover cop, and isn't even of legal age. This gets ''her'' thrown in jail by the real cop, Rocky Richter.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: On both "Senior" (as Maeby has repeated her senior year five times) and "Seńor" (as Maeby has a Mexican boyfriend).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are hints to the fact that [[spoiler:Fakeblock isn't real]], including: [[spoiler:George Michael's constant nervousness about the company expanding (which ''should'' be a good thing), Jim Cramer saying "I never do this, hell, it's not even a stock yet. For all I know, ''it's not even real!''" when he gives Fakeblock his first ever "Hypothetical Buy", and most notably, George Michael going to say "my software isn't even real" and changing it at the last minute to "isn't even ready".]]
* GenerationXerox: Much like her father, Maeby finds herself arrested for being a sex offender. Unlike Tobias, though, she actually committed the crime she was charged with.
* LastSecondWordSwap: Spoilers for future episodes - [[spoiler:George Michael almost reveals to Maeby that his software "isn't real", but changes it at the last second to "isn't ready".]]

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