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* LampshadeHanging: Liv remarks on how weird it is that it took this long for Major - who she was getting pretty serious with for several episodes and is a [[MeaningfulName major]] person in her life regardless - to meet her roommate "Gilda" - who she's been living with since the start of the series. The audience has been awaiting this event ever since Gilda was revealed as the roommate, and especially since Major started hooking up with her.

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* LampshadeHanging: Liv remarks on how weird it is that it took this long for Major - who she was getting pretty serious with for several episodes and is a [[MeaningfulName major]] person in her life regardless - to meet her roommate "Gilda" - who she's been living with since the start of the series.season. The audience has been awaiting this event ever since Gilda was revealed as the roommate, and especially since Major started hooking up with her.
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* EurekaMoment: Mr. Boss has one when he realizes Blaine is the informant who's been giving information to Peyton.

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* EurekaMoment: Mr. Boss has one when he realizes Blaine is the informant who's been giving information working with Peyton to Peyton.bring him down.
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*EurekaMoment: Mr. Boss has one when he realizes Blaine is the informant who's been giving information to Peyton.

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Reverse Mole has been merged with The Mole per TRS


* TheMole: Drake is revealed to be an undercover cop.



* ReverseMole: Drake is revealed to be an undercover cop.
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* LampshadeHanging: Liv remarks on how weird it is that it took this long for Major - who she was getting pretty serious with for several episodes and is a [[MeaningfulName major]] person in her life regardless - to meet her roommate "Gilda" - who she's been living with since the start of the series. The audience has been awaiting this event ever since Gilda was revealed as the roommate, and especially since Major started hooking up with her.
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based on the distinction from the Call Back article, this is just a Continuity Nod because Liv knowing Pam had no relevance to the plot


* CallBack: Liv remembers the events of when she met Pam when she was under stalker brain effect in ''[[Recap/IZombieS2E8TheHurtStalker The Hurt Stalker]]''

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* CallBack: ContinuityNod: Liv remembers the events of when she met Pam when she was under stalker brain effect in ''[[Recap/IZombieS2E8TheHurtStalker The Hurt Stalker]]''
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attacking someone because you're mad at them isn't really this trope


* CatharsisFactor: Liv when she learns that Rita, Major's ex-fling, is her roommate Gilda.
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Ravi loses interest in the barista he's been flirting with when she reveals that she's never seen ''Film/StarWars''.

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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Ravi loses interest in the barista he's been flirting with when she reveals that she's never seen ''Film/StarWars''.''Franchise/StarWars''.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Ravi recognizes a (reasonably famous) Gandhi quote. Not because he's Indian, but because he's British, and "that manky old git cost us the crown jewel of our empire."

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* BaitAndSwitch: Ravi recognizes a (reasonably famous) Gandhi quote. Not because he's Indian, he jokes, but because he's British, and "that manky old git cost us the crown jewel of our empire."
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* ProperlyParanoid: Based on the timing of her arrival at the police station to stop Gilbert from giving her up, Cher must have already been assuming he would do that from the moment he got arrested, despite having no concrete reason to do so. She was right.

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* ProperlyParanoid: Based on the timing of her arrival at the police station to stop Gilbert from giving her up, Cher must have already been assuming he would do that from the moment he got arrested, despite having no concrete reason to do so.arrested. She was right.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Based on the timing of her arrival at the police station to stop Gilbert from giving her up, Cher must have already been assuming he would do that from the moment he got arrested, despite having no concrete reason to do so. She was right.
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* CallBack: Liv remembers the events of when she met Pam when she was under stalker brain effect in ''[[Recap/IZombieS2E8TheHurtStalker The Hurt Stalker]]''


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* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight[=/=]ProperlyParanoid: Pam acts like a crazy woman and is high when she met Clark and Liv, nonetheless, she is the sole coffee shop employee that believed that Leslie was murdered, and the only one that knew that Cher did it.
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* GretzkyHasTheBall: Ravi says that Major might have heard of Jonas Salk (who invented the polio vaccine) "if he scored a touchback for the Huskers."
-->'''Major''': Or a touch''down'' for the Huskies.
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don't use spoiler markup in recaps for plot points that get revealed in the episode being recapped


* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Leslie's daughter Cher is the villain, and convinces her boyfriend Gilbert to take the fall so she can sell the coffee shop to Stan and go to Paris with the money she made from it.]]

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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Leslie's Leslie's daughter Cher is the villain, and convinces her boyfriend Gilbert to take the fall so she can sell the coffee shop to Stan and go to Paris with the money she made from it.]]



* ItsAllAboutMe: Cher is up to [[spoiler:steal money, manipulate and get her boyfriend arrested, kill her mom, screw over the employees of the coffee and sell the shop to Stan]], just to get her trip.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Lampshaded by Cher, as she [[spoiler:convinced her boyfriend to take the blame for the victim's murder]].
* ThePollyanna: Leslie, and by extension Liv after she eats Leslie's brain. It's why she's hesitant to [[spoiler:buy Cher as the villain even after her visions show a strained relationship between Cher and her mother Leslie, allowing Cher to get away with it]].

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Cher is up to [[spoiler:steal steal money, manipulate and get her boyfriend arrested, kill her mom, screw over the employees of the coffee and sell the shop to Stan]], Stan, just to get her trip.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Lampshaded by Cher, as she [[spoiler:convinced convinced her boyfriend to take the blame for the victim's murder]].
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* ThePollyanna: Leslie, and by extension Liv after she eats Leslie's brain. It's why she's hesitant to [[spoiler:buy buy Cher as the villain even after her visions show a strained relationship between Cher and her mother Leslie, allowing Cher to get away with it]].it.



* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Cher, who killed her mother.]]

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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Cher, Cher, who killed her mother.]]



* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Cher]].

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* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Cher]].Cher.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Blaine loses his taste for wine at the beginning of the episode, and is revealed to be a zombie again at the end.


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* RiseFromYourGrave: Blaine does this at the very end of the episode, after Mr. Boss slits his throat and buries him in the middle of the woods.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Ravi recognizes a (reasonably famous) Gandhi quote. Not because he's Indian, but because he's British, and "that manky old git cost us the crown jewel of our empire."


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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Ravi loses interest in the barista he's been flirting with when she reveals that she's never seen ''Film/StarWars''.


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** Liv references ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' while talking about how wonderful rain is.

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* ShoutOut: The title is a reference to the movie ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind''.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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The title is a reference to the movie ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind''.''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind''.
** The subplot involving Blaine and Mr. Boss has several ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' references.
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* LoveMakesYouDumb: Lampshaded by Cher, as she [[spoiler:convinced her boyfriend to take the blame for the victim's murder]].


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* ShoutOut: The title is a reference to the movie ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind''.
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* InternalReveal: Liv finds out that Gilda is Rita, but does not finds out that she works for Max Rager.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Cher is up to [[spoiler:steal money, manipulate and get her boyfriend arrested, kill her mom, screw over the employees of the coffee and sell the shop to Stan]], just to get her trip.


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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Cher, who killed her mother.]]


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* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Cher]].

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When a sunny coffee shop owner is murdered, Liv eats her brain and becomes positive and optimistic. Blaine comes face to face with Mr. Boss.

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When Leslie Morgan, a sunny coffee shop owner owner, is murdered, Liv eats her brain and becomes positive and optimistic. Blaine comes face to face with Mr. Boss.



* TheBadGuyWins: The coffee shop owner's daughter is the villain, and convinces her boyfriend to take the fall so she can go to Paris.

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* TheBadGuyWins: The coffee shop owner's [[spoiler:Leslie's daughter Cher is the villain, and convinces her boyfriend Gilbert to take the fall so she can sell the coffee shop to Stan and go to Paris.Paris with the money she made from it.]]



* ReverseMole: Drake is an undercover cop.
* ShipperOnDeck: Having imbibed the incredibly upbeat brain of the coffee shop owner, Liv turns into one. Of course, she's absolutely indiscriminate and basically ships everyone with everyone and assumes it will work out regardless.

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* ThePollyanna: Leslie, and by extension Liv after she eats Leslie's brain. It's why she's hesitant to [[spoiler:buy Cher as the villain even after her visions show a strained relationship between Cher and her mother Leslie, allowing Cher to get away with it]].
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Gilbert, Cher's hipster boyfriend, is obsessed with French culture, speaking with a faux-French accent and plenty of GratuitousFrench and pronouncing his name as "jil-BEHR" rather than "GILL-burt", despite being the son of a realtor from Bellevue.
* ReverseMole: Drake is revealed to be an undercover cop.
* ShipperOnDeck: Having imbibed the Leslie's incredibly upbeat brain of the coffee shop owner, brain, Liv turns into one. Of course, she's absolutely indiscriminate and basically ships everyone with everyone and assumes it will work out regardless.



* TheUnreveal: Once again, Liv comes close to the truth about Rita, only to fall short. She learns Rita had slept with Major, but concludes that she was a sick bitch, and doesn't learn she's a Max Rager employee.

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* TheUnreveal: Once again, Liv comes close to the truth about Rita, only to fall short. She learns Rita had slept with Major, but concludes that she was a sick bitch, and doesn't learn she's a Max Rager employee.employee.
* YourHeadASplode: Leslie's head gets splattered by an AC unit. Liv winds up having to pick pieces of the sidewalk out of her brain.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Blaine reverts back into a zombie.

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* StatusQuoIsGod: Blaine reverts back into a zombie.zombie.
* TheUnreveal: Once again, Liv comes close to the truth about Rita, only to fall short. She learns Rita had slept with Major, but concludes that she was a sick bitch, and doesn't learn she's a Max Rager employee.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Having imbibed the incredibly upbeat brain of the coffee shop owner, Liv turns into one. Of course, she's absolutely indiscriminate and basically ships everyone with everyone and assumes it will work out regardless.
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* FalseFlagOperation: Blaine arranged one in the backstory to cause a police crackdown on a rival gang.
* ReverseMole: Drake is an undercover cop.
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* StatusQuoisGod: Blaine reverts back into a zombie.

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* StatusQuoisGod: StatusQuoIsGod: Blaine reverts back into a zombie.
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* BadGuyWins: The coffee shop owner's daughter is the villain, and convinces her boyfriend to take the fall so she can go to Paris.

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* BadGuyWins: TheBadGuyWins: The coffee shop owner's daughter is the villain, and convinces her boyfriend to take the fall so she can go to Paris.
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When a sunny coffee shop owner is murdered, Liv eats her brain and becomes positive and optimistic. Blaine comes face to face with Mr. Boss.\

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When a sunny coffee shop owner is murdered, Liv eats her brain and becomes positive and optimistic. Blaine comes face to face with Mr. Boss.\

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When a sunny coffee shop owner is murdered, Liv eats her brain and becomes positive and optimistic. Blaine comes face to face with Mr. Boss.
[[StatusQuoisGod]]: Blaine reverts back into a zombie.

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When a sunny coffee shop owner is murdered, Liv eats her brain and becomes positive and optimistic. Blaine comes face to face with Mr. Boss.
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*BadGuyWins: The coffee shop owner's daughter is the villain, and convinces her boyfriend to take the fall so she can go to Paris.
*CatharsisFactor: Liv when she learns that Rita, Major's ex-fling, is her roommate Gilda.
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Blaine reverts back into a zombie.
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When a sunny coffee shop owner is murdered, Liv eats her brain and becomes positive and optimistic. Blaine comes face to face with Mr. Boss.
[[StatusQuoisGod]]: Blaine reverts back into a zombie.

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