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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: After Davis returns from sensitivity training, he goes overboard, including ridiculous things like insisting black coffee should be called "African American" coffee.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: PoliticalOvercorrectness: After Davis returns from sensitivity training, he goes overboard, including ridiculous things like insisting black coffee should be called "African American" coffee.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Parodied. Hank claims (with a corresponding CutawayGag) that his seven years of bad luck started when he was driving a mirror truck which collided with a rock truck. He even adds that things would have been worse if the marshmallow truck hadn't shown up. Ultimately subverted when Brent reveals Hank completely made that up.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Parodied. Hank claims (with a corresponding CutawayGag) that his seven years of bad luck started when he was driving a mirror truck which collided with a rock truck. He even adds that things would have been worse if the marshmallow truck hadn't shown up. Ultimately It's then immediately subverted when Brent reveals Hank completely made that up.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Hank panics when he hears that the guy coming to refill Corner Gas's gas tanks will be arriving on Friday the 13th. Lacey immediately tells him it'll actually be Friday the ''14th'', but Hank thinks that's still too close.
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* TheDitz: The ''real'' reason Hank supposedly ended up with seven years bad luck: Hank was helping Brent fix a book case when he saw a fly land on a mirror and decided to kill it with the hammer he was holding.
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* TheDitz: TheDitz:
** The ''real'' reason Hank supposedly ended up with seven years bad luck: Hank was helping Brent fix a book case when he saw a fly land on a mirror and decided to kill it with the hammer he washolding.holding.
** Emma also shows some idiocy at the end of the C Plot, going to the gym (for the first time in five years) after they've already taken pictures of Wanda and Oscar winning the TV, and immediately revealing to the staff that she had transferred her pass.
** The ''real'' reason Hank supposedly ended up with seven years bad luck: Hank was helping Brent fix a book case when he saw a fly land on a mirror and decided to kill it with the hammer he was
** Emma also shows some idiocy at the end of the C Plot, going to the gym (for the first time in five years) after they've already taken pictures of Wanda and Oscar winning the TV, and immediately revealing to the staff that she had transferred her pass.
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-->''"How do you keep a blonde busy for hours? Turn over." (turns page over) "...How do you keep a blonde busy for hours? Turn over." (turns page back to front) "How do you keep a...I don't get it."''\\
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-->''"How do you keep a blonde busy for hours? Turn over." (turns page over) "...How do you keep a blonde busy for hours? Turn over." (turns page back to front) "How do you keep a...a blonde bus...hey, I don't get it.this."''\\
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* TheDitz: The ''real'' reason Hank supposedly ended up with seven years bad luck: Hank was helping Brent fix a book case when he saw a fly land on a mirror and decided to kill it with the hammer he was holding.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The B Plot ends with Hank breaking another mirror and his bad fortune returning.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The B Plot ends with Hank breaking another mirror and his bad fortune returning. The C Plot ends with Emma deciding to go to the gym for the first time in five years, exposing the deception and requiring the Leroys to return the new television.
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'''Oscar:''' I love the Rec Plex. Glad I signed you up.
* WhatAnIdiot: The ''real'' reason Hank supposedly ended up with seven years bad luck: Hank was helping Brent fix a book case when he saw a fly land on a mirror and decided to kill it with the hammer he was holding.
* WhatAnIdiot: The ''real'' reason Hank supposedly ended up with seven years bad luck: Hank was helping Brent fix a book case when he saw a fly land on a mirror and decided to kill it with the hammer he was holding.
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'''Oscar:''' I love the Rec Plex. Glad I signed you up.
* WhatAnIdiot: The ''real'' reason Hank supposedly ended up with seven years bad luck: Hank was helping Brent fix a book case when he saw a fly land on a mirror and decided to kill it with the hammer he was holding.up.
* WhatAnIdiot: The ''real'' reason Hank supposedly ended up with seven years bad luck: Hank was helping Brent fix a book case when he saw a fly land on a mirror and decided to kill it with the hammer he was holding.
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-->''"How do you keep a blonde busy for hours? Turn over." (turns page over) "...How do you keep a blonde busy for hours? Turn over." (turns page back to front) "How do you keep a...I'm sorry, are we missing a page or something?"''
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-->''"How do you keep a blonde busy for hours? Turn over." (turns page over) "...How do you keep a blonde busy for hours? Turn over." (turns page back to front) "How do you keep a...I'm sorry, I don't get it."''\\
(another joke later) ''"I still don't get the "turn over" joke; are we missing apage or something?"''page?"''
(another joke later) ''"I still don't get the "turn over" joke; are we missing a
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* ShowSomeLeg: Lacey tries to flirt with the gas truck guy to prevent him from loading the tanks, but Brent stops her.
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* AmusingInjuries: Lacey and Hank bump heads while reaching for the same penny on the floor.
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* MaintainTheLie: Wanda having to pretend she's Emma so she can use the gym membership and win the flat-screen TV.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: After Davis returns from sensitivity training, he goes overboard, including ridiculous things like insisting black coffee should be called "African American" coffee.
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* LastSecondWordSwap: After Brent slams his finger in the ladder:
-->'''Brent:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Ffffffffffff....]] ...fine.
-->'''Brent:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Ffffffffffff....]] ...fine.
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* VerbalBackspace:
-->'''Oscar:''' ''[seeing Emma on the phone]'' Who is it?\\
'''Emma:''' It's the Rec Plex.\\
'''Oscar:''' Oh, Wanda blew it. Are they suing us? I told you you should have never joined that stupid Rec Plex!\\
'''Emma:''' They say I've won a flat-screen TV.\\
'''Oscar:''' I love the Rec Plex. Glad I signed you up.
-->'''Oscar:''' ''[seeing Emma on the phone]'' Who is it?\\
'''Emma:''' It's the Rec Plex.\\
'''Oscar:''' Oh, Wanda blew it. Are they suing us? I told you you should have never joined that stupid Rec Plex!\\
'''Emma:''' They say I've won a flat-screen TV.\\
'''Oscar:''' I love the Rec Plex. Glad I signed you up.
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* TrainingMontage: Davis's sensitivity training gets one.
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* ParrotExposition: After Brent opens an umbrella and spills his soup:
-->'''Hank:''' See? You're cursed now, cursed! What did I just tell you?!\\
'''Brent:''' That I was cursed?
-->'''Hank:''' See? You're cursed now, cursed! What did I just tell you?!\\
'''Brent:''' That I was cursed?
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* SensitivityTrainingSensitivityTraining: Davis and Karen's plot.
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* SuperstitionEpisode: Brent, Hank and Lacey's plot. Various superstitions are explored, such as breaking a mirror, walking under a ladder, opening an umbrella indoors, etc.
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* ShoutOut: When explaining that there's no such thing as bad luck, Brent mentions ''Literature/TheJoyLuckClub'', though he apparently doesn't realize there was a book first and thinks it was just a movie.
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* DistinctionWithoutADifference:
-->'''Emma:''' ''[reading her gym card]'' I don't know. It says "non-transferable".\\
'''Wanda:''' Yeah, that's just a fancy way of saying you can't transfer it. This would just be lending. It doesn't say "non-lend-to-a-friend-able".
-->'''Emma:''' ''[reading her gym card]'' I don't know. It says "non-transferable".\\
'''Wanda:''' Yeah, that's just a fancy way of saying you can't transfer it. This would just be lending. It doesn't say "non-lend-to-a-friend-able".
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: After Emma says she never uses her gym membership card:
-->'''Wanda:''' If you're not gonna use it, I'll use it.\\
'''Oscar:''' You'd like that, wouldn't ya?\\
'''Wanda:''' [[FlatYes Yeah]], that's why I asked.
-->'''Wanda:''' If you're not gonna use it, I'll use it.\\
'''Oscar:''' You'd like that, wouldn't ya?\\
'''Wanda:''' [[FlatYes Yeah]], that's why I asked.
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* LiteralMinded: PlayedForLaughs by Brent after Hank brags about his streak of bad luck being over:
-->'''Brent:''' Nothing has changed, the only thing that's changed is your attitude!\\
'''Hank:''' Oh yeah? Tell that to this penny I found.\\
'''Brent:''' All right. ''(to the penny)'' Nothing has changed, the only thing that's changed is Hank's attitude! ''(to Hank)'' See, he gets it.
-->'''Brent:''' Nothing has changed, the only thing that's changed is your attitude!\\
'''Hank:''' Oh yeah? Tell that to this penny I found.\\
'''Brent:''' All right. ''(to the penny)'' Nothing has changed, the only thing that's changed is Hank's attitude! ''(to Hank)'' See, he gets it.
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* BlahBlahBlah: Davis complains that he shouldn't have to attend sensitivity training just for telling some blonde jokes:
-->'''Fitzy:''' I know, but once someone registers a formal complaint, then I have to blah blah blah blah blah.\\
'''Karen:''' [[SarcasmMode Thanks for your support, Fitzy!]]\\
'''Fitzy:''' [[SarcasmBlind You bet.]]
-->'''Fitzy:''' I know, but once someone registers a formal complaint, then I have to blah blah blah blah blah.\\
'''Karen:''' [[SarcasmMode Thanks for your support, Fitzy!]]\\
'''Fitzy:''' [[SarcasmBlind You bet.]]
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* Fingore: Brent gets his thumb caught in the hinge of a ladder and when he removes it, it's bent back into a rather unnatural position.
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* Fingore: {{Fingore}}: Brent gets his thumb caught in the hinge of a ladder and when he removes it, it's bent back into a rather unnatural position.
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* Fingore: Brent gets his thumb caught in the hinge of a ladder and when he removes it, it's bent back into a rather unnatural position.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Parodied. Hank claims (with a corresponding CutawayGag) that his seven years of bad luck started when he was driving a mirror truck which collided with a rock truck. He even adds that things would have been worse if the marshmallow truck hadn't shown up. Ultimately subverted when Brent reveals Hank completely made that up.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The B Plot ends with Hank breaking another mirror and his bad fortune returning.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The B Plot ends with Hank breaking another mirror and his bad fortune returning.returning.
* WhatAnIdiot: The ''real'' reason Hank supposedly ended up with seven years bad luck: Hank was helping Brent fix a book case when he saw a fly land on a mirror and decided to kill it with the hammer he was holding.
* WhatAnIdiot: The ''real'' reason Hank supposedly ended up with seven years bad luck: Hank was helping Brent fix a book case when he saw a fly land on a mirror and decided to kill it with the hammer he was holding.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"There is nothing I love more than a man talking about diesel!"]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"There is nothing I love more than a man talking about diesel!"]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: The episode ends with Karen getting sent to the sensitivity course herself, after telling a joke about a pygmy, a monk, and a cannibal.
-->''"I don't know why I'm here; all I did was tell a joke!"''
-->''"I don't know why I'm here; all I did was tell a joke!"''
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* RuleOfThree: Hank believes that bad things come in threes, and after Brent spills his soup and injures his thumb, he tries to prevent the third thing from hurting his friend too badly.
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* RuleOfThree: Hank believes that bad things come in threes, and after Brent spills his soup and injures his thumb, he tries and Lacey try to prevent the third thing from hurting his friend too badly.badly. Their intervention has the third thing be "Brent paying for the broken rear-view mirror".
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-->''"How do you keep a blonde busy for hours? Turn over." (turns page over) "...How do you keep a blonde busy for hours? Turn over." (turns page back to front) "How do you keep a...I'm sorry, are we missing a page or something?"''
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'''A Plot:''' Karen is tired of Davis making dumb blonde jokes at her expense, and has him take a sensitivity training course.
'''B Plot:''' Hank is celebrating because it's been seven years since he broke a mirror, meaning his bad luck's run out. Brent tries to convince Hank that superstition means nothing, making his own day worse in the process.
'''C Plot:''' Emma has a gym pass that she never uses, so Wanda asks for it, even though it's labeled "non-transferable". But when she visits, Wanda wins a members-only raffle for a new television, and she has to pretend to be Oscar's wife to keep it.
'''B Plot:''' Hank is celebrating because it's been seven years since he broke a mirror, meaning his bad luck's run out. Brent tries to convince Hank that superstition means nothing, making his own day worse in the process.
'''C Plot:''' Emma has a gym pass that she never uses, so Wanda asks for it, even though it's labeled "non-transferable". But when she visits, Wanda wins a members-only raffle for a new television, and she has to pretend to be Oscar's wife to keep it.
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'''A Plot:''' Karen is tired of Davis making dumb blonde jokes at her expense, and has him take a sensitivity training course.
course. However, Davis's new politically-correct mindset annoys Karen and Oscar.
'''B Plot:''' Hank is celebrating because it's been seven years since he broke a mirror, meaning his bad luck's run out. Brent tries to convince Hank and Lacey that superstition means nothing, making his own day worse in the process.
'''C Plot:''' Emma has a gym pass that she never uses, so Wanda asks for it, even though it's labeled "non-transferable".But when When she visits, Wanda wins a members-only raffle for a new television, and she has to pretend to be Oscar's wife to keep it.
'''B Plot:''' Hank is celebrating because it's been seven years since he broke a mirror, meaning his bad luck's run out. Brent tries to convince Hank and Lacey that superstition means nothing, making his own day worse in the process.
'''C Plot:''' Emma has a gym pass that she never uses, so Wanda asks for it, even though it's labeled "non-transferable".
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* RuleOfThree: Hank believes that bad things come in threes, and after Brent spills his soup and injures his thumb, he tries to prevent the third thing from hurting his friend too badly.
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'''A Plot:''' Karen is tired of Davis making blonde jokes at her expense, and has him take a sensitivity training course.
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'''A Plot:''' Karen is tired of Davis making dumb blonde jokes at her expense, and has him take a sensitivity training course.
course.
'''B Plot:''' Hank is celebrating because it's been seven years since he broke a mirror, meaning his bad luck's run out. Brent tries to convince Hank that superstition means nothing, making his own day worse in the process.
'''C Plot:''' Emma has a gym pass that she never uses, so Wanda asks for it, even though it's labeled "non-transferable". But when she visits, Wanda wins a members-only raffle for a new television, and she has to pretend to be Oscar's wife to keep it.
'''B Plot:''' Hank is celebrating because it's been seven years since he broke a mirror, meaning his bad luck's run out. Brent tries to convince Hank that superstition means nothing, making his own day worse in the process.
'''C Plot:''' Emma has a gym pass that she never uses, so Wanda asks for it, even though it's labeled "non-transferable". But when she visits, Wanda wins a members-only raffle for a new television, and she has to pretend to be Oscar's wife to keep it.
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* IResembleThatRemark: When Oscar tries to revive Davis's sense of humor, he gives Karen a series of dumb blonde jokes that she can't figure out.
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* IResembleThatRemark: When Oscar tries to revive Davis's sense of humor, he gives Karen a series of dumb blonde jokes that she can't figure out.out.
* StatusQuoIsGod: The B Plot ends with Hank breaking another mirror and his bad fortune returning.
* StatusQuoIsGod: The B Plot ends with Hank breaking another mirror and his bad fortune returning.
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'''A Plot:''' Karen is tired of Davis making blonde jokes at her expense, and has him take a sensitivity training course.
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* IResembleThatRemark: When Oscar tries to revive Davis's sense of humor, he gives Karen a series of dumb blonde jokes that she can't figure out.
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* IResembleThatRemark: When Oscar tries to revive Davis's sense of humor, he gives Karen a series of dumb blonde jokes that she can't figure out.
