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* PersonaNonGrata: Lois is banned from the Airbnb app due to a bad review claiming she stole a bottle of shampoo.

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* PersonaNonGrata: Lois is banned from the Airbnb app due to a bad review claiming she stole a bottle of shampoo. She goes above and beyond trying to take revenge.
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* NeverMyFault: Instead of admitting to stealing the shampoo bottle from Dottie and simply apologizing & returning it, Lois continuously acts as if she was entitled to it simply because she paid to stay the night at the Airbnb (which she absolutely wasn't). Even when called out on it, she only returns the bottle to get the bad review on her changed back to normal, and when this doesn't happen, she decides to threaten Dottie with giving ''her'' a bad Doordash review to overturn the bad review on herself, never apologizing authentically or taking responsibility for her actions ''once'' throughout the entire episode.

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* NeverMyFault: Instead of admitting to stealing the shampoo bottle from Dottie and simply apologizing & and returning it, Lois continuously acts as if she was entitled to it simply because she paid to stay the night at the Airbnb (which she absolutely wasn't). Even when called out on it, she only returns the bottle to get the bad review on her changed back to normal, and when this doesn't happen, she decides to threaten Dottie with giving ''her'' a bad Doordash review to overturn the bad review on herself, never apologizing authentically or taking responsibility for her actions ''once'' throughout the entire episode.
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* NeverMyFault: Instead of admitting to stealing the shampoo bottle from Dottie and simply apologizing & returning it, Lois continuously acts as if she was entitled to it simply because she paid to stay the night at the Airbnb (which she absolutely wasn't). Even when called out on it, she only returns the bottle to get the bad review on her changed back to normal, and when this doesn't happen, she decides to threaten Dottie with giving ''her'' a bad Doordash review to overturn the bad review on herself, never apologizing authentically or taking responsibility for her actions ''once'' throughout the entire episode.
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* SexySilhouette: Lois gets one when she showers.

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* SexySilhouette: When Lois gets one when she showers.showers, her body is framed this way behind a shower curtain.
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* SexySilhouette: Lois gets one when she showers.
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* ArtisticLicense: [=DoorDash=] does not work as depicted in this episode. To sign up to be a driver, one only needs to go through the app. Lois is shown going to a [=DoorDash=] office to apply. Secondly, Lois can see the customer's name before she takes Dottie's order. Although Lois may be able to tell what house it's going to before accepting an order, [=DoorDash=] does not release a customer's info until after the order is accepted. Dashers also don't get to rate customers, so Lois's entire plan makes no sense.

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* ArtisticLicense: [=DoorDash=] does not work as depicted in this episode. To sign up to be a driver, one only needs to go through the app. Lois is shown going to a [=DoorDash=] office to apply. Secondly, Lois can see the customer's name before she takes Dottie's order. Although Lois may be able to tell what house it's going to before accepting an order, order by reading the in-app map, [=DoorDash=] does not release a customer's info until after the order is accepted. Dashers also don't get to rate customers, so Lois's entire plan makes no sense.wouldn’t make sense in real life.

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Ultimately, the whole example contradicts itself.


* KarmaHoudini:
** Lois manages to get away with harassing and blackmailing Dottie into changing the bad review and receives no punishment for it. Thankfully, James Taylor makes it something of a hollow victory since he refuses to listen to her gloat about it since Lois acted very rude to him earlier in the episode at the coffee shop.
** It's also heavily implied that neither her family nor Bonnie will care or approve of her actions if and when she tells them about it, which would make it even more of a hollow victory for her.
** There's also the fact that Lois had to get a heavily taxing job in order to claim victory, and is visibly dishevelled when leaving. Whilst she doesn't seem to care, it's clearly taken a toll.



* SanitySlippage: Just like in "Customer of The Week", Lois loses what little grip she has left after Dottie leaves her a bad review on Airbnb and goes to insane lengths to get it changed.

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* SanitySlippage: Just like in "Customer of The Week", Lois loses what little grip she has left after Dottie leaves her a bad review on Airbnb and goes to insane lengths to get it changed. By the end, she refers to herself as "a secret little psycho with very little to lose", and she's not exactly wrong.


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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Lois points out that it would be a shame if she gave Dottie a bad Door Dash review, since she would get banned from the app and have no choice but to leave the house during winter for food.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Dottie refuses to change the review, even after Lois returns the shampoo, since the review was based on her behavior during her stay and Lois barely hid the fact that she returned the bottle just to get the review changed. The fact that Lois only returned the bottle after getting caught and called out by everyone makes Dottie's accusation more accurate.
** Also, near the end, Lois randomly talks about her exploits to James Taylor, who happens to be sitting next to her on the ferry ride back home. James Taylor obviously has no clue about what she is talking about and has no interest in talking to her. When Lois explains that she just wanted to chat to pass the time away, he points out that earlier in the episode, she yelled at him in the coffee shop. Obviously, he would have no interest in talking to some random stranger who previously acted rude to him.
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** There's also the fact that Lois had to get a heavily taxing job in order to claim victory, and is visibly dishevelled when leaving. Whilst she doesn't seem to care, it's clearly taken a toll.
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* BigShutUp: Lois in response to James Taylor disagreeing with her in the Bell-Above-The-Doorway Cafe.


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** In response to Lois yelling at him, James Taylor replies, "You can't scare me. I used to be married to Music/CarlySimon."

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