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** Mirroring the end of ''The Wizard of Oz'', Peter gives encouraging talks to the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, but instead of the Cowardly Lion, he compliments out-of-the-spotlight actress Kristy McNichol.

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** Mirroring the end of ''The Wizard of Oz'', Peter gives encouraging talks to the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, but instead of the Cowardly Lion, he compliments out-of-the-spotlight actress Kristy McNichol.[=McNichol=].

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** When imagining himself in Hell, Peter meets Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, John Wilkes Booth, and Superman, who killed a hooker for making a joke about his premature ejaculation being "faster than a speeding bullet."

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** When imagining himself in Hell, Peter meets Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, John Wilkes Booth, and Superman, who killed a hooker for making a joke about his [[SpeedSex premature ejaculation ejaculation]] being "faster than a speeding bullet."



** After a hooker made a wise-crack about him "being faster than a speeding bullet" (due to his premature ejaculation), Superman [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe ripped the hooker in half like a phone book]].

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** After a hooker made a wise-crack about him "being faster than a speeding bullet" (due to his [[SpeedSex premature ejaculation), ejaculation]]), Superman [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe ripped the hooker in half like a phone book]].


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* LousyLoversAreLosers: Peter's shocked when he finds Franchise/{{Superman}} in hell. Superman replies after a hooker after she made the well-worn "[[SpeedSex faster than a speeding bullet]]" crack about his performance, he [[DisproportionateRetribution got so mad about it he tore her in half]].

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* BrotherSisterIncest: Implied with this exchange from Cindy about Bobby on The Brady Bunch.
--> '''Cindy''': I don't want to tattle, but is Bobby really a doctor?



* IncestIsRelative: Implied with this exchange from Cindy about Bobby on The Brady Bunch.
--> '''Cindy''': I don't want to tattle, but is Bobby really a doctor?
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* NotHyperbole: After Francis disappears, Brian exclaims he hopes he never comes back. Then for good measure clarifies he's serious.
-->'''Brian''': I wasn't being cute, I really hope he's dead.
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* ThrowTheBookAtThem: Francis threatens Brian with violence when he questions getting Stewie baptised, and when Brian sarcastically replies how Christian it is to threaten to hurt others into believing Francis follows through with his threat by hitting the dog with a bible.

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Parodied. Francis thinks Chris spends all his time in the bathroom masturbating, when he's really just... going to the bathroom.



* ADateWithRosiePalms: Parodied. Francis thinks Chris spends all his time in the bathroom masturbating, when he's really just... going to the bathroom.



* UrineTrouble: The sign outside of the Quahog Mariners Banquet Hall reads "Now Free of that Urine Smell".



* UrineTrouble: The sign outside of the Quahog Mariners Banquet Hall reads "Now Free of that Urine Smell".

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* UrineTrouble: The sign outside ZanyScheme: Peter is trying to think of a way to get Francis to express love for him. Francis is highly religious, and the Quahog Mariners Banquet Hall reads "Now Free of that Urine Smell".Pope just so happens] to be traveling in Rhode Island around the same time. When Peter sees the Pope on TV, he announces "I just got a crazy idea!"--and promptly sticks his hand in a working waffle iron. Once the pain fades, he realizes he can kidnap the Pope and get him to help with Francis.
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* HardTruthAesop: The episode ends up with both Peter and Francis concluding that it may be impossible for them to respect each other's way of life, but they can still love each other as family. The Pope even references the Commandment of "honoring thy mother and father", adding that nowhere does it says about ''loving'' them.

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* HardTruthAesop: The episode ends up with both Peter and Francis concluding that it may be impossible for them to respect each other's way of life, but they can still love each other as family. The Pope even references the Commandment of "honoring thy mother and father", adding that nowhere does it says about ''loving'' ''liking'' them.

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Fixing indentation, removing natter, and putting the first Bowdlerization entry under a more fitting trope.


* {{Bowdlerisation}}: On Channel 4's website in the UK, the title of the episode becomes "Holy Cr*p"
** When that same channel broadcasts the episode, they digitally erased the word "Whore" from the sign that Francis tacks on below the "Just Married" sign, so Francis' sign becomes "to a Protestant" (which doesn't really tone down the animosity he has towards Peter marrying someone who isn't Catholic).

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* {{Bowdlerisation}}: On When Channel 4's website in the UK, the title of the episode becomes "Holy Cr*p"
** When that same channel
4 broadcasts the episode, episode in the UK, they digitally erased the word "Whore" from the sign that Francis tacks on below the "Just Married" sign, so Francis' sign becomes "to a Protestant" (which doesn't really tone down the animosity he has towards Peter marrying someone who isn't Catholic).Protestant".



---> '''Peter''': Lois, lunch is a sin. Taking a break is a sin. [[Main/BestialityIsDepraved Bestiality is a sin.]] I don't know how that one came up, exactly.

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---> '''Peter''': Lois, lunch is a sin. Taking a break is a sin. [[Main/BestialityIsDepraved [[BestialityIsDepraved Bestiality is a sin.]] I don't know how that one came up, exactly.



* CensoredTitle: On Channel 4's website in the UK, the title of the episode becomes "Holy Cr*p".



* HardTruthAesop: The episode ends up with both Peter and Francis concluding that it may be impossible for them to respect each other's way of life, but they can still love each other as family.
** The Pope even references the Commandment of "honoring thy mother and father", adding that nowhere does it says about ''loving'' them.

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* HardTruthAesop: The episode ends up with both Peter and Francis concluding that it may be impossible for them to respect each other's way of life, but they can still love each other as family. \n** The Pope even references the Commandment of "honoring thy mother and father", adding that nowhere does it says about ''loving'' them.



* [[RacistGrandma Racist Grandpa]]: Not that Francis voiced anything against different races and ethnicities, but he has a low opinion of other religions and ways of life, like Peter's non-religious lifestyle and Lois's Protestantism.

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* [[RacistGrandma Racist Grandpa]]: RacistGrandma: Not that Francis voiced anything against different races and ethnicities, but he has a low opinion of other religions and ways of life, like Peter's non-religious lifestyle and Lois's Protestantism.
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-->'''Francis''': You've gone soft on me, Holy Father! Even a tambourine-shaking Baptist could tell this boy's no good!\\
'''The Pope''': ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes (irritated)]]'' [[TranquilFury Are you calling me a liar?]]

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-->'''Francis''': I was wrong about YOU! You've gone soft on me, Holy Father! Even a tambourine-shaking Baptist could tell this boy's no good!\\
'''The Pope''': ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes (irritated)]]'' [[TranquilFury Are you calling me a liar?]]liar? Because I'll excommunicate your sorry...]]

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* HardTruthAesop: The episode ends up with both Peter and Francis concluding that it may be impossible for them to respect each other's way of life, but they can still love each other as family. The Pope approves.

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* HardTruthAesop: The episode ends up with both Peter and Francis concluding that it may be impossible for them to respect each other's way of life, but they can still love each other as family.
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The Pope approves.even references the Commandment of "honoring thy mother and father", adding that nowhere does it says about ''loving'' them.
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I feel like "Actor Allusion" doesn't really apply if the allusion is to an actor that wasn't part of the show's cast yet and to an episode that hadn't aired at the time...


* ActorAllusion: "Holy Crap" was also the title of an episode of That '70s Show, starring Mila Kunis, that aired on Fox on May 1, 2000. Kunis however, would not become Meg's voice until the next season.
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* TwoDecadesBehind: The Pope is depicted as an Italian, even though John Paul II, the real-life Pope at the time of this episode, was Polish. His ''predecessor'' was Italian... but said predecessor died in 1978.
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Read more at: https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=430&t=21138

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* HolierThanThou: In what is possibly his most audacious act in the episode, Francis has the temerity to challenge ''UsefulNotes/ThePope'' for thinking that Peter -- his son -- is a decent man worthy of God's love.
-->'''Francis''': You've gone soft on me, Holy Father! Even a tambourine-shaking Baptist could tell this boy's no good!\\
'''The Pope''': ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes (irritated)]]'' [[TranquilFury Are you calling me a liar?]]
Read more at: https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=430&t=21138



* NoodleIncident: "Lois, lunch is a sin. Taking a break is a sin. [[Main/BestialityIsDepraved Bestiality is a sin.]] [[Main/LampshadeHanging I don't know how that one came up, exactly."]]

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* NoodleIncident: "Lois, lunch is a sin. Taking a break is a sin. [[Main/BestialityIsDepraved Bestiality is a sin.]] [[Main/LampshadeHanging [[LampshadeHanging I don't know how that one came up, exactly."]]


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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Granted, Peter had to ''kidnap'' him just to get his attention, but UsefulNotes/ThePope ends up providing sincere, valuable reassurance to Peter that he is neither a failure of a Christian or a father, and also that [[EveryoneHasStandards Francis really is too much]].

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--> '''Peter''': Lois, lunch is a sin. Taking a break is a sin. [[Main/BestialityIsDepraved Bestiality is a sin.]] I don't know how that one came up, exactly.

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--> ---> '''Peter''': Lois, lunch is a sin. Taking a break is a sin. [[Main/BestialityIsDepraved Bestiality is a sin.]] I don't know how that one came up, exactly.






* GoldenMoment:
** Parodied [[RunningGag throughout the episode]], where Peter envisions having "one of those father-son moments [[ShapedLikeItself like on TV]] where we hug and the music goes 'La la laaaa'", complete with [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn his own accompanying orchestra.]]
** The end of the episode provides [[DownplayedTrope a quasi-sincere instance of this]] as he confronts Francis for the last time, only for Francis to admit that despite him loving Peter, [[MomentKiller he still doesn't]] ''[[MomentKiller like]]'' [[MomentKiller him]]. After a brief moment of hesitation, [[CallBack Peter asks the band to keep playing anyway]], [[BittersweetEnding because that's as good as they're gonna get.]]
* HardTruthAesop: The episode ends up with both Peter and Francis concluding that it may be impossible for them to respect each other's way of life, but they can still love each other as family. The Pope approves.



* SlutShaming: At Lois and Peters' wedding, Francis tacked a sign reading "to a Protestant Whore" under the traditional "Just Married" sign.

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At Lois and Peters' wedding, Francis tacked a sign reading "to a Protestant Whore" under the traditional "Just Married" sign.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Even the Pope cannot believe how horrible Francis is and assures Peter it's perfectly okay to love his dad without liking him.



* ObnoxiousInLaws: Francis to Lois.

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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Francis to Lois.Lois simply because Lois isn't Catholic. His idea of a compliment to her is suggesting Lois will go to Purgatory with "all the unbaptized babies" instead of burning in Hell.
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* BadassGrandpa: Francis becomes a bodyguard for the Pope, even punching hard a FOX camera man.
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** When that same channel broadcasts the episode, they digitally erase the word "Whore" from the sign that Francis tacks on below the "Just Married" sign, so Francis' sign becomes "to a Protestant"

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** When that same channel broadcasts the episode, they digitally erase erased the word "Whore" from the sign that Francis tacks on below the "Just Married" sign, so Francis' sign becomes "to a Protestant"Protestant" (which doesn't really tone down the animosity he has towards Peter marrying someone who isn't Catholic).

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** On the TV show The Brady Bunch where the Brady children come running down the stairs, Cindy asks if Bobby is really a doctor, referencing the old joke of children taking off their clothes to "play doctor".

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** On the TV show The ''The Brady Bunch Bunch'' where the Brady children come running down the stairs, Cindy asks if Bobby is really a doctor, referencing the old joke of children taking off their clothes to "play doctor".doctor".
** The lyrics to the unofficial Major League Baseball anthem "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" make their way into Brian and Peter's conversation.
** The back of the jacket of one of the Pope's road managers reads "Pope-a-Palooza," a reference to the Alternative rock festival Lollapalooza.
** Peter drives the Pope past the chain gang from the film ''Cool Hand Luke''.
** The sequence in which Peter exclaims "To the Popemobile!" parodies sequences in which Batman and Robin rush to the Batmobile in the 1960s Batman television series, which starred Family Guy cast member Adam West.
** The escape pod refers to the similar pod used in ''Star Wars''.
** When Francis asks Peter which is his favorite book of the bible, he responds with, "the one where Jesus swallows the puzzle piece and the man in the big yellow hat has to take him to the hospital." This a reference to the children's book, ''Curious George Goes to the Hospital'' by Margret and H.A. Rey.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: After being called out on his being a bad father, Francis fires Peter on the spot and slaps him in front of his coworkers.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: DisproportionateRetribution:
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After being called out on his being a bad father, Francis fires Peter on the spot and slaps him in front of his coworkers.
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* IncestIsRelative: Implied with this exchange from Cindy about Bobby on The Brady Bunch.
--> '''Cindy''': I don't want to tattle, but is Bobby really a doctor?


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** On the TV show The Brady Bunch where the Brady children come running down the stairs, Cindy asks if Bobby is really a doctor, referencing the old joke of children taking off their clothes to "play doctor".

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* BlackComedyBurst: A commercial parodies the Got milk? ad campaign, only a doctor is shown telling a woman she has a (possible breast cancer) tumor that's malignant and she only has six months to live.



* BreadEggsMilkSquick:
** When imagining himself in Hell, Peter meets Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, John Wilkes Booth, and Superman, who killed a hooker for making a joke about his premature ejaculation being "faster than a speeding bullet."
** When Lois asks Peter where will he and his coworkers eat lunch under the strain of working for Francis Griffin, Peter retorts the following.
--> '''Peter''': Lois, lunch is a sin. Taking a break is a sin. [[Main/BestialityIsDepraved Bestiality is a sin.]] I don't know how that one came up, exactly.



* CrossesTheLineTwice: A commercial parodies the Got milk? ad campaign, only a doctor is shown telling a woman she has a (possible breast cancer) tumor that's malignant and she only has six months to live.
** When imagining himself in Hell, Peter meets Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, John Wilkes Booth, and Superman, who killed a hooker for making a joke about his premature ejaculation being "faster than a speeding bullet."

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: A commercial parodies the Got milk? ad campaign, only DisproportionateRetribution: After being called out on his being a doctor is shown telling a woman she has a (possible breast cancer) tumor that's malignant and she only has six months to live.
** When imagining himself in Hell,
bad father, Francis fires Peter meets Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, John Wilkes Booth, on the spot and Superman, who killed slaps him in front of his coworkers.
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a hooker for making made a joke wise-crack about his premature ejaculation being "faster him "being faster than a speeding bullet."bullet" (due to his premature ejaculation), Superman [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe ripped the hooker in half like a phone book]].



* EarlyBirdCameo: Vern, the vaudeville performer who would appear often early in the revival. He does his routine without his piano-playing partner Johnny.
His piano-playing partner, Johnny, does not appear until "Blind Ambition".

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* EarlyBirdCameo: Vern, the vaudeville performer who would appear often early in the revival. He does his routine without his piano-playing partner Johnny.
Johnny. His piano-playing partner, Johnny, does not appear until "Blind Ambition".
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* ActorAllusion: "Holy Crap" was also the title of an episode of That '70s Show, starring Mila Kunis, that aired on Fox on May 1, 2000. Kunis however, would not become Meg's voice until the next season.


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** When imagining himself in Hell, Peter meets Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, John Wilkes Booth, and Superman, who killed a hooker for making a joke about his premature ejaculation being "faster than a speeding bullet."


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His piano-playing partner, Johnny, does not appear until "Blind Ambition".


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** After Brian mentions the Old Testament story in which "God told Abraham to kill Isaac," a cutaway shows President Abraham Lincoln shooting bartender Isaac from ''The Love Boat''.
** Peter imagines his father-son business with himself as Lamont Sanford and his father as Fred G. Sanford of ''Sanford and Son''.
** Peter says that baseball worked as a means of male bonding that worked for Rosie O'Donnell and his dad in ''A League of Their Own'', a 1992 film depicting the founding of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
** The Pope comments that he doesn't think that he is in Boston, and Peter supposedly points out Harvard, but instead points to a barn. When the Pope says "That's just a barn," Peter replies "Ohh, someone went to Yale!", a nod to the fierce rivalry between Yale and Harvard.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: A commercial parodies the Got milk? ad campaign, only a doctor is shown telling a woman she has a (possible breast cancer) tumor that's malignant and she only has six months to live.


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* ShoutOut:
** Mirroring the end of ''The Wizard of Oz'', Peter gives encouraging talks to the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, but instead of the Cowardly Lion, he compliments out-of-the-spotlight actress Kristy McNichol.
** A commercial parodies the Got milk? ad campaign.
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* CallBack: The scene where Peter's at church was also in the original pilot episode.



* WritingAroundTrademarks: In the "Superman in Hell" gag, not only is he not called by name, his cards [[SceneryCensor conveniently]] cover up his S-symbol.

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* WritingAroundTrademarks: In the "Superman in Hell" gag, not only is he not called by name, his cards [[SceneryCensor conveniently]] cover up his S-symbol.S-symbol.
* UrineTrouble: The sign outside of the Quahog Mariners Banquet Hall reads "Now Free of that Urine Smell".
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Francis delivers two of them to Peter; first for taking the Lord's name in vain, the other for Peter calling him out on what a truly horrible father he is right to his face.
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* HateSink: The episode makes no bones that, even with his few and fleeting moments of kindness, Francis was [[AbusiveParents an absolutely terrible parent]] to Peter and is an all-around awful human being, being extraordinarily selfish, arrogant, and self-righteous HolierThanThou personality to everybody around him. He's so cruel, that he even has the nerve to insult '''The Pope''' right to his face when he defends Peter, almost provoking him into a fight before Peter breaks it up.

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* HateSink: The episode makes no bones that, even with his few and fleeting moments of kindness, Francis was [[AbusiveParents an absolutely terrible parent]] to Peter and is an all-around awful human being, being an extraordinarily selfish, arrogant, and self-righteous HolierThanThou personality to everybody around him. He's so cruel, that he even has the nerve to insult '''The Pope''' right to his face when he defends Peter, almost provoking him into a fight before Peter breaks it up.
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* HateSink: The episode makes no bones that, even with his few and fleeting moments of kindness, Francis was [[AbusiveParents an absolutely terrible parent]] to Peter and is an all-around awful human being, being extraordinarily selfish, arrogant, and self-righteous HolierThanThou personality to everybody around him. He's so cruel, that he even has the nerve to insult '''The Pope''' right to his face when he defends Peter, almost provoking him into a fight before Peter breaks it up.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: When Francis berates him at work, Peter stands up to him in a civil manner. [[DisproportionateRetribution His response is fire Peter]].

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* CallingTheOldManOut: When Francis berates him at work, Peter stands up to him in a civil manner. [[DisproportionateRetribution His response is to fire Peter]].

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