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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Zee is in detention for getting distracted by her phone during class. She gets distracted by her phone as she's explaining this.
* TheBreakfastPlot: Lampshaded when Mr. Chapin states he was inspired to have a Saturday detention by the film, to which Kara groans she wishes that old people would stop shoving '80s stuff down kids' throats.

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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Zee is in detention for getting distracted by her phone during class. She gets distracted by her phone as she's explaining this.
* TheBreakfastPlot: Lampshaded when with Mr. Chapin states saying he was inspired to have a Saturday detention by the film, film.
* BrickJoke: While searching for her plant, Hal asks Pamela how she learned to use her vines like ropes and she says her father taught her. He then asks her if her dad was a cowboy,
to which Kara groans she wishes that old people would stop shoving '80s stuff down kids' throats.sarcastically replies yes. Later when she’s telling the rest of the group the name of her plant which was named after her father, Hal exclaims “The cowboy!”.



* TheCaper: The ragtag group of delinquents works together to get Pamela’s plant back from Principal Chapin’s office.
-->'''Hal:''' You know what I’m really in the mood for? A good old fashioned plant heist!
* DetentionEpisode: Of course, in honor of the source material.



* FoodFight: The reason Kara got detention is because she started a food fight…well, one of the reasons at least.
* FreudianSlip: When Garth hands in the group’s essays that he wrote by himself, he nearly blows their cover.
-->'''Garth:''' Phew! I just finished the last essay - Er, finished ''collecting'' the last essay…from everyone…who each wrote one.
* IResembleThatRemark: Zee is in detention for getting distracted by her phone during class. She gets distracted by her phone as she's explaining this.



* PetTheDog: While she was sneaking her plant out of the principal’s office, Pam used her powers to destroy Chapin’s laptop with the report cards for the whole school on it, ensuring that no one else would find out that Hal got an F in gym class.
* ShipTease: Hal & Pam are shown to have a bit of a soft spot for each other in this episode.



* TongueOutInsult: Pam does this to Office Montoya after she yells at her at the end of the episode.



* VerbalBackspace: Garth at first said he just finished the last essay, before correcting himself that he just finished ''collecting'' the last essay.



* YeahShot: Pam does one at the end, which is interrupted by Officer Montoya.

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* YeahShot: Pam does one at the end, which is interrupted by Officer Montoya.Montoya.
-->'''Montoya:''' Hey, Isley! Quit standing there with your fist raised in triumph and go home!
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* TakeThat: Kara groans how she wishes that "old people" would stop shoving '80s stuff down kids' throats.
-->'''Kara:''' Aahh! I ''hate'' the '80s!

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* TheBreakfastPlot: Lampshaded when Mr. Chapin states he was inspired to have a Saturday detention by the film, to which Kara groans she wishes that old people would stop shoving '80s stuff down kids' throats.



* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''. Lampshaded when Mr. Chapin states he was inspired to have a Saturday detention by the film, to which Kara groans she wishes that old people would stop shoving '80s stuff down kids' throats.
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* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.

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* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''. Lampshaded when Mr. Chapin states he was inspired to have a Saturday detention by the film, to which Kara groans she wishes that old people would stop shoving '80s stuff down kids' throats.
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* WeNeedADistraction: Hal distracts Mr. Chapin as Green Lantern while Pam gets her plant back from his desk. Zee and Kara similarly distract Officer Montoya into a closet so she's away from the principle's office.

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* WeNeedADistraction: Hal distracts Mr. Chapin as Green Lantern while Pam gets her plant back from his desk. Zee and Kara similarly distract Officer Montoya into a closet so she's away from the principle's principal's office.
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* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''. The episode is even a PopCultureTitleReference to it.

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* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''. The episode is even a PopCultureTitleReference to it.

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*ImprobableAimingSkills: Hal does a trick shot with a golf ball, able to hit it from the janitor's closet window down the hall and knocks open the hamster cage, who escapes and distracts the school security guard from trying to get in.



* WeNeedADistraction: Hal distracts Mr. Chapin as Green Lantern while Pam gets her plant back from his desk.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.

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*VerbalBackspace: Garth at first said he just finished the last essay, before correcting himself that he just finished ''collecting'' the last essay.
* WeNeedADistraction: Hal distracts Mr. Chapin as Green Lantern while Pam gets her plant back from his desk.
desk. Zee and Kara similarly distract Officer Montoya into a closet so she's away from the principle's office.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''. The episode is even a PopCultureTitleReference to it.

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*FMinusMinus: It's not so much that Hal got an F, but he somehow got an F in gym class.



* TragicKeepsake: The plant Pam is after is the only reminder of her father.

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* TragicKeepsake: The plant Pam is after is the only reminder of her father. It only blooms once in 10 years, and the episode takes place when it would next bloom.
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* ObliviosToHisOwnDescription: After Mr. Chapin lists the stereotypes the detained students represent, Garth thinks that Chapin called ''Hal'' a nerd.

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* ObliviosToHisOwnDescription: ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: After Mr. Chapin lists the stereotypes the detained students represent, Garth thinks that Chapin called ''Hal'' a nerd.
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* ObliviosToHisOwnDescription: After Mr. Chapin lists the stereotypes the detained students represent, Garth thinks that Chapin called ''Hal'' a nerd.

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* TheUnReveal: We never learn why Garth is in detention.

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* TheUnReveal: We never learn why Garth is in detention. He's interrupted both times he tries to explain, as no one else is interested.
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* TragicKeepsake: The plant Pam is after is the only reminder of her father.
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* MisaimedFandom: InUniverse, Mr. Chapin thinks ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' is about a heroic principal trying to stop the evil delinquents.


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* WeNeedADistraction: Hal distracts Mr. Chapin as Green Lantern while Pam gets her plant back from his desk.

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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Zee is in detention for getting distracted by her phone during class. She gets distracted by her phone as she's explaining this.



* LovesMyAlterEgo: Mr. Chapin views Hal as a DumbJock, but he LOVES Green Lantern (Hal's alter-ego).

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* LovesMyAlterEgo: Mr. Chapin views Hal as a DumbJock, but he LOVES he's huge fan of Green Lantern (Hal's alter-ego).



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never learn why Garth is in detention.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: TheUnReveal: We never learn why Garth is in detention.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.
* YeahShot: Pam does one at the end, which is interrupted by Officer Montoya.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never learn why Garth is in detention.
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Five socially disparate teens, Hal, Pam, Kara, Zee, and Garth, find they have more in common than they thought after spending a Saturday in detention.

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Five socially disparate teens, Hal, Pam, Kara, Zee, and Garth, find they have more in common than they thought after spending a Saturday in detention.detention.

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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Kara gets in trouble so often that she doesn't remember what she did that landed her in Saturday detention.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: Mr. Chapin views Hal as a DumbJock, but he LOVES Green Lantern (Hal's alter-ego).
* SureLetsGoWithThat: After Pam pulls Hal through the overhead window with her vines, Hal assumes her father was a cowboy. Pam just agrees with him.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.
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Five socially disparate teens, Hal, Pam, Kara, Zee, and Garth, find they have more in common than they thought after spending a Saturday in detention.

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