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The study group is helping Annie put on a play to educate about drugs. Pierce has some ideas on how to ‘improve' the performance, and follows Annie home to discuss these changes. After assisting Annie with a financial problem, he uses this leverage to get his changes to the play. When Pierce's scene-stealing antics threaten to ruin the message, only Chang is able to right this wrong.
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The study group is helping Annie put on a play to educate about drugs. Pierce Pierce, who has some ideas on how to ‘improve' "improve" the performance, and follows Annie home to discuss these changes. After assisting Annie with a financial problem, he uses this leverage to get his changes to the play. When Pierce's scene-stealing antics threaten to ruin the message, only Chang is able to can right this wrong.
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* AccidentalAesop: [[invoked]] [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in-universe. After Chang takes over Pierce's role, the play ends up with the accidental message ''"Drug use can be fun at first, but usually becomes dangerous and scary when it spirals out of control"''. Ironically, this message ends up being much more effective (and [[TruthInTelevision accurate]]) than the generic DrugsAreBad message that the play was originally intended to teach.
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* AccidentalAesop: [[invoked]] [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] An InvokedTrope in-universe. After Chang takes over Pierce's role, the play ends up with the accidental message ''"Drug use can be fun at first, but usually becomes dangerous and scary when it spirals out of control"''. Ironically, this message ends up being much more effective (and [[TruthInTelevision accurate]]) than the generic DrugsAreBad message that the play was originally intended to teach.
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* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Chang's description of what "Drugs" will do to you. His [[ThrowItIn ad libs]] actually [[EnforcedMethodActing scared the child actors]].
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* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Chang's description of what "Drugs" will do to you. His [[ThrowItIn ad libs]] [[invoked]][[ThrowItIn ad-libs]] actually [[EnforcedMethodActing scared the child actors]].
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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: InUniverse. The study group put on an anti-drug show for a group of elementary school children, but the kids love Pierce's performance as "Drugs" so much it backfires. The situation is ultimately remedied by forcing Pierce to leave and replacing him with Chang.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Britta says that anti-drug shows are more likely to get kids to try drugs. She is appalled, however, when Pierce manages to make drugs look cool.
** Jeff will claim that he has no principles due to being a slimy lawyer. It turns out that he and the study group agreed to do the play since its message is personal to Annie; they all get furious on learning she compromised the message thanks to a bribe from Pierce.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Britta says that anti-drug shows are more likely to get kids to try drugs. She is appalled, however, when Pierce manages to make drugs look cool.
** Jeff will claim that he has no principles due to being a slimy lawyer. It turns out that he and the study group agreed to do the play since its message is personal to Annie; they all get furious on learning she compromised the message thanks to a bribe from Pierce.
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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: InUniverse. The study group put on an anti-drug show for a group of elementary school children, but the kids love Pierce's performance as "Drugs" so much it backfires. The In the end they fix the situation is ultimately remedied by forcing Pierce to leave and replacing him with Chang.
*EveryoneHasStandards:
EveryoneHasStandards:
** Britta says that anti-drug shows are more likely to get kids to try drugs. She is appalled, however, when Pierce manages to make drugs lookcool.
cool.
** Jeff will claim that he has no principles due to beinga slimy lawyer.an AmoralAttorney. It turns out that he and the study group agreed to do the play since its message is personal to Annie; they all get furious on learning she compromised the message thanks to a bribe from Pierce.
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** Britta says that anti-drug shows are more likely to get kids to try drugs. She is appalled, however, when Pierce manages to make drugs look
** Jeff will claim that he has no principles due to being
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* IfIWantedYouDead: A variation, regarding Annie's landlord
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-->'''Shirley''': That's a suicide mission!\\
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-->'''Shirley''': That's a suicide mission!\\SuicideMission!\\
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'''Shirley''': You're Chinese.\\
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'''Shirley''': You're I thought you were Chinese.\\
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** Also LampshadeHanging. Chang's actor, Ken Jeong, is Korean-American.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Pierce grew up to be as manipulative and controlling as his father, using money and words to get his way.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Pierce grew up to be as manipulative and controlling as his father, using money and words to get his way.
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** Also LampshadeHanging. Chang's actor, Ken Jeong, Creator/KenJeong, is Korean-American.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Pierce grew up to be as manipulative and controlling as his father, using money and words to get his way.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Pierce grew up to be as manipulative and controlling as his father, using money and words to get his way.
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: Pierce claims that he and Annie are similar in how they want to be independent but need each other. Annie calls him out over this contradiction and how he used her to be an AttentionWhore. Ironically, they both had AbusiveParents and that would have been a better common ground.
* PetTheDog: Chang lets himself get beaten up by the kids by replacing Pierce as Drugs in Act Two. He did this so that Shirley would consider letting him into their child's life and he really likes her. Shirley genuinely thanks him and apologizes for calling him crazy.
* PlayingATree: Pierce was assigned to play Drugs, who had no lines initially. This ends up being a bad idea since Pierce bribes his way into becoming a bigger part of the show. It's highly likely that if he had played a bee, crayon, or cool cat then his stealing the show would be better for the message.
* PlayingCyrano: Jeff tries to do this for Britta. [[HilarityEnsues It does not go well.]]
* RelativeError: PlayedForLaughs. Britta tells Jeff that a creepy guy is texting her, named Marcus. He finds her phone and starts sexting the guy to mess with him. It turns out that Marcus is Britta's underage nephew who is a CreepyChild. Jeff goes to clear up the situation and gives Marcus his aunt's bra to buy his silence.
* PetTheDog: Chang lets himself get beaten up by the kids by replacing Pierce as Drugs in Act Two. He did this so that Shirley would consider letting him into their child's life and he really likes her. Shirley genuinely thanks him and apologizes for calling him crazy.
* PlayingATree: Pierce was assigned to play Drugs, who had no lines initially. This ends up being a bad idea since Pierce bribes his way into becoming a bigger part of the show. It's highly likely that if he had played a bee, crayon, or cool cat then his stealing the show would be better for the message.
* PlayingCyrano: Jeff tries to do this for Britta. [[HilarityEnsues It does not go well.]]
* RelativeError: PlayedForLaughs. Britta tells Jeff that a creepy guy is texting her, named Marcus. He finds her phone and starts sexting the guy to mess with him. It turns out that Marcus is Britta's underage nephew who is a CreepyChild. Jeff goes to clear up the situation and gives Marcus his aunt's bra to buy his silence.
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: Pierce claims that he and Annie are similar in how they want to be independent but need each other. Annie calls him out over this contradiction and how he used her to be an AttentionWhore. Ironically, they both had AbusiveParents and AbusiveParents; that would have been a better patch of common ground.
ground on which to build.
* PetTheDog: Chang letshimself get beaten up by the kids beat him up by replacing Pierce as Drugs in Act Two. He did this so that Shirley would consider letting him into their child's life and he really likes her. Shirley genuinely thanks him and apologizes for calling him crazy.
* PlayingATree: Pierce was assigned to play Drugs, who had no lines initially. This ends up being a bad idea since Pierce bribes his way into becoming a bigger part of the show.It's highly likely that if Had he had played a bee, crayon, or cool cat cat, then his stealing the show almost certainly would be have been better for the message.
message.
* PlayingCyrano: Jeff tries to do this for Britta. [[HilarityEnsues Itdoes not go well.goes very poorly indeed.]]
* RelativeError: PlayedForLaughs. Britta tells Jeff that a creepy guy is texting her, named Marcus. He finds her phone and starts sexting the guy to mess with him. It turns out that Marcus is Britta's underage nephew who is a CreepyChild. Jeff goes to clear up the situation and gives Marcus his aunt's bra to buy his silence.
* PetTheDog: Chang lets
* PlayingATree: Pierce was assigned to play Drugs, who had no lines initially. This ends up being a bad idea since Pierce bribes his way into becoming a bigger part of the show.
* PlayingCyrano: Jeff tries to do this for Britta. [[HilarityEnsues It
* RelativeError: PlayedForLaughs. Britta tells Jeff that a creepy guy is texting her, named Marcus. He finds her phone and starts sexting the guy to mess with him. It turns out that Marcus is Britta's underage nephew who is a CreepyChild. Jeff goes to clear up the situation and gives Marcus his aunt's bra to buy his silence.
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* SleepMask: Annie wears one in the tag.
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* SleepMask: Annie wears one in the tag.TheTag.
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* WakeupMakeup: Annie looks just as fresh and cute when woken up in the night as in day time.
* WhatTheHellHero: Jeff of all people leads this in the cast against Annie when they find out Pierce used bribe money to compromise her message in the play. He says he thought Annie was better than that.
* WhatTheHellHero: Jeff of all people leads this in the cast against Annie when they find out Pierce used bribe money to compromise her message in the play. He says he thought Annie was better than that.
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* WakeupMakeup: Annie looks just as fresh and cute when woken up in the middle of the night as in day time.
daytime.
* WhatTheHellHero:Jeff Jeff, of all people people, leads this in the cast against Annie when they find out Pierce used bribe money bribed her to compromise her message in the play. He says he thought Annie was better than that.
* WhatTheHellHero:
