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* AwesomeButImpractical: Wanda's ability to instantly re-arrange the letters in a sentence to form a new sentence.

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* AwesomeButImpractical: Wanda's ability to instantly re-arrange the letters in a sentence to form a new sentence.sentence, which Brent comments on:
-->'''Brent:''' You know, I don't even know why you work here. With your ability to instantly rearrange letters, you could... {{Beat}} ...oh, yeah, there is no practical application for that knowledge.
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* GagEcho: Early on, Wanda demonstrates her letter re-arranging ability by quickly throwing out "My thighs are hot for goat felons" as an anagram for Brent's current slogan. Later, when Brent and Lacey are working together to create wacky slogans, Brent suggests "My thighs are hot for goat felons". Lacey is flabbergasted.
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--->'''Brent:''' I pride my self on my speedy service.\\

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--->'''Brent:''' -->'''Brent:''' I pride my self on my speedy service.\\
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* InstantTurnOff: Hank [[BaitAndSwitch starts off]] having a similar reaction to Karen as she has had to him when she starts talking about her gun, but then she starts stammering and using BuffySpeak and Hank switches to this trope.
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* IResembleThatRemark: As Brent tries to come up with a new insulting slogan for the sign, Lacey tells Brent they should stop this childish fight. Brent replies, "It's not childish. Hey, is 'poopface' hyphenated?"

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* IResembleThatRemark: As Brent tries to come up with a new insulting slogan for the sign, Lacey tells Brent him they should stop this childish fight. Brent replies, "It's not childish. Hey, is 'poopface' hyphenated?"

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* IResembleThatRemark: As Brent tries to come up with a new insulting slogan for the sign, Lacey tells Brent they should stop this childish fight. Brent replies, "It's not childish. Hey, is 'poopface' hyphenated?

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* IResembleThatRemark: As Brent tries to come up with a new insulting slogan for the sign, Lacey tells Brent they should stop this childish fight. Brent replies, "It's not childish. Hey, is 'poopface' hyphenated? hyphenated?"



* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Karen's constant insistence that she "didn't sleep with Hank".

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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Karen's constant insistence that she "didn't sleep with Hank".Hank".
* WhosWatchingTheStore: While Brent is at The Ruby working on slogans with Lacey, Wanda goes downtown to talk to Karen, leaving the gas station unattended. She assumes that any customers who come in will just leave money on the counter.
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* IResembleThatRemark: As Brent tries to come up with a new insulting slogan for the sign, Lacey tells Brent they should stop this childish fight. Brent replies, "It's not childish. Hey, is 'poopface' hyphenated?
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[[caption-width-right:350:"You call ''that'' pithy?"]]
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A Plot: Brent and Lacey have the bright idea to put a changeable sign by the road to advertise Corner Gas and The Ruby. However, they get into an all-out battle over the sign messages, which each subsequent message getting more and more disparaging toward each other.

B Plot: Davis tricks Karen into going on a fishing trip with Hank, but she is surprised and aroused by Hank's "sexy fish talk". After returning, she spends her time trying to convince people that she didn't sleep with Hank.

C Plot: Brent, Emma, and eventually the whole town are in on a ploy to get Oscar to think he's losing his memory. Eventually Emma feels they've gone too far and puts a stop to it.

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A Plot: '''A Plot:''' Brent and Lacey have the bright idea to put a changeable sign by the road to advertise Corner Gas and The Ruby. However, they get into an all-out battle over the sign messages, which each subsequent message getting more and more disparaging toward each other.

B Plot: '''B Plot:''' Davis tricks Karen into going on a fishing trip with Hank, but she is surprised and aroused by Hank's "sexy fish talk". After returning, she spends her time trying to convince people that she didn't sleep with Hank.

C Plot: '''C Plot:''' Brent, Emma, and eventually the whole town are in on a ploy to get Oscar to think he's losing his memory.memory in his old age. Eventually Emma feels they've gone too far and puts a stop to it.

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''(car at the gas pumps honks horn)''\\
'''Brent:''' ''(angrily)'' Hold on!
* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Brent and Lacey find out that their increasingly childish jabs at each other on the sign are actually drumming up business. This backfires when they start doing it intentionally and try too hard.

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''(car ''[car at the gas pumps honks horn)''\\
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'''Brent:''' ''(angrily)'' ''[angrily]'' Hold on!
* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Brent [[invoked]]Brent and Lacey find out that their increasingly childish jabs at each other on the sign are actually drumming up business. This backfires when they start doing it intentionally and try too hard.



* ScatterbrainedSenior: Everyone attempts to convince Oscar that he is one.

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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Everyone attempts to convince Oscar that he is one. [[spoiler:When Brent comes clean about the prank, Oscar has forgotten the whole thing.]]


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--->'''Brent:''' ''[singing]'' It would never rain in Dog River... if I could squeegee... the skyyyy...
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* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Brent and Lacey find out that they're increasingly childish jabs at each other on the sign are actually drumming up business. This backfires when they start doing it intentionally and try too hard.

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* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Brent and Lacey find out that they're their increasingly childish jabs at each other on the sign are actually drumming up business. This backfires when they start doing it intentionally and try too hard.

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* ShoutOut: Brent has an ImagineSpot of being on ''Series/CanadianIdol''.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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Brent has an ImagineSpot of being on ''Series/CanadianIdol''.
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* SafetyInIndifference: Hank and Karen mutually decide to forget their fishing trip, as it could ruin a "perfectly good non-friendship" that was "not special at all".
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** Karen calls Hank [[Film/TheHorseWhisperer the fish whisperer]].
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* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Brent and Lacey find out that they're increasingly childish jabs at each other on the sign are actually drumming up business. This backfires when they start doing it intentionally and try too hard.
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* ShoutOut: Brent has an ImagineSpot of being on ''Series/CanadianIdol''.

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* ShoutOut: Brent has an ImagineSpot of being on ''Series/CanadianIdol''.''Series/CanadianIdol''.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Karen's constant insistence that she "didn't sleep with Hank".
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* HypocriticalHumor: This quote:
--->'''Brent:''' I pride my self on my speedy service.\\
''(car at the gas pumps honks horn)''\\
'''Brent:''' ''(angrily)'' Hold on!
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* PurpleProse: How Hank talks when he's fishing
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Everyone attempts to convince Oscar that he is one.

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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Everyone attempts to convince Oscar that he is one.one.
* ShoutOut: Brent has an ImagineSpot of being on ''Series/CanadianIdol''.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Wanda's ability to instantly re-arrange the letters in a sentence to form a new sentence.
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Davis avoids going fishing with Hank because Hank's fish talk gives him "tingly feelings".

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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Davis avoids going fishing with Hank because Hank's fish talk gives him "tingly feelings".feelings".
* ScatterbrainedSenior: Everyone attempts to convince Oscar that he is one.
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Davis avoids going fishing with Hank because Hank's fish talk gives him "tingly feelings".
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A Plot: Brent and Lacey have the bright idea to put a changeable sign by the road to advertise Corner Gas and The Ruby. However, they get into an all-out battle over the sign messages, which each subsequent message getting more and more disparaging toward each other.

B Plot: Davis tricks Karen into going on a fishing trip with Hank, but she is surprised and aroused by Hank's "sexy fish talk". After returning, she spends her time trying to convince people that she didn't sleep with Hank.

C Plot: Brent, Emma, and eventually the whole town are in on a ploy to get Oscar to think he's losing his memory. Eventually Emma feels they've gone too far and puts a stop to it.

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