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* MeaningfulName: "Knob" is British slang for "penis." Bob Knob ReallyGetsAround.
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** Derek interfered with Lab 27's artificial sunlight in order to disrupt his LoveRival, causing not just him but the whole population of the lab to start mutating.

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** Derek interfered with Lab 27's artificial sunlight in order to disrupt his LoveRival, love rival, causing not just him but the whole population of the lab to start mutating.

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* CentralTheme: Tampering with the balance of nature has unforeseen and deadly consequences.
** Derek interfered with Lab 27's artificial sunlight in order to disrupt his LoveRival, causing not just him but the whole population of the lab to start mutating.
** Eva Thorne is warned that she's disrupting Eureka's systems with her extreme costcutting measures. Thankfully, she listens.



-->'''Carter:''' Not the way I'd ever pictured us winding up naked.\\
'''Allison:''' You pictured us winding up naked?\\
'''Carter:''' [[BlatantLies No.]]

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-->'''Carter:''' -->'''Allison:''' Not the way I'd ever pictured us winding up naked.\\
'''Carter:''' You pictured us winding up naked?\\
'''Allison:''' You pictured us winding up naked?\\
'''Carter:'''
[[BlatantLies No.]]


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* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: Between Carter and Allison as they travel to Lab 27, the first time they've been alone together since Allison got engaged to Stark. [[BlatantLies Which Carter is totally fine with.]]

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-->'''Zane''': [''Busting into the Sheriff's office''] Jo? I need a gun. A big, powerful gun.\\

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-->'''Zane''': [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wab.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:This. This about Bob.]]

->'''Zane''':
[''Busting into the Sheriff's office''] Jo? I need a gun. A big, powerful gun.\\



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* ChekhovsGun: The Eureka Museum, which Jo has never heard of and which Eva Thorne wants to shut down. At the end, Thorne is seen surrounded by boxes marked as the museum's property, watching old footage of nuclear explosions.

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* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGun:
** The projection system which allows Henry to appear hologramatically to help Carter and Allison in Lab 27. The same technology is used when Carter uses Teri as bait to lure Bob without putting her in harm's way.
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The Eureka Museum, which Jo has never heard of and which Eva Thorne wants to shut down. At the end, Thorne is seen surrounded by boxes marked as the museum's property, watching old footage of nuclear explosions.


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* FanDisservice: {{Lampshaded}} as Carter and Allison strip off for decontamination.
-->'''Carter:''' Not the way I'd ever pictured us winding up naked.\\
'''Allison:''' You pictured us winding up naked?\\
'''Carter:''' [[BlatantLies No.]]


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* ShoutOut:
** The title is from a film, ''Film/WhatAboutBob''.
** Watching the case unfold on the Café Diem TV, Zoe comments on "my dad hunting for the ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''."
* WaterSourceTampering: An unintentional example. Derek, who was in love with Teri, altered the artificial sunlight in Lab 27 to make Bob sick and prevent him hitting on her. Unfortunately, the tampering infected the water supply and caused everyone to mutate, but Bob most of all.
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-->'''Zane''': (busting into the Sheriff's office) Jo? I need a gun. A big, powerful gun.\\
'''Jo''': (standing up and grinning like a lunatic) I've been waiting for someone to say that to me my whole life.

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-->'''Zane''': (busting [''Busting into the Sheriff's office) office''] Jo? I need a gun. A big, powerful gun.\\
'''Jo''': (standing [''Standing up and grinning like a lunatic) lunatic''] I've been waiting for someone to say that to me my whole life.
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* ChekhovsGun: The Eureka Museum, which Jo has never heard of and which Eva Thorne wants to shut down. At the end, Thorne is seen surrounded by boxes marked as the museum's property, watching old footage of nuclear explosions.

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-->'''Zane''': (busting into the Sheriff's office) Jo? I need a gun. A big, powerful gun.\\
'''Jo''': (standing up and grinning like a lunatic) I've been waiting for someone to say that to me my whole life.



* TheCasanova: Bob Knob, who has worked his way through the entire female population of Lab 27 and is lured away from Allison with the one, much younger holdout.



* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Jack and Allison have an extremely embarrassing moment, standing nakedly back to back.

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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Jack and Allison have an extremely embarrassing moment, standing nakedly back to back.back as they're decontaminated prior to entering Lab 27.
* PetTheDog: After Jo tells her she's disrupting the "ecosystem" of Eureka with her aggressive downsizing measures, Eva Thorne undoes some of the more extreme measures and has Henry pardoned.
* WhatTheHellHero: Carter is ''not'' happy that Allison came to Lab 27 to keep an eye on him, in case of an incident that puts him in the crosshairs of Thorne's downsizing.
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!Synopsis
Carter and Allison search for a missing man in a bio-dome while Eva Thorne makes changes in town in the name of balance and efficiency.
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* DamselInDistress: Allison is abducted by Bob.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: While Jack and Allison explore Lab 27, the citizens of Eureka watch as if it were a reality show. Some of their comments seem to be talking about the show itself.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Jack and Allison have an extremely embarrassing moment, standing nakedly back to back.

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