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* BullyingADragon: Al constantly bullies Miss de Groot with petty insults, especially regarding how fat she is.
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* BullyingADragon: Al constantly bullies and Miss de Groot constantly bully each other with petty insults, especially regarding how fat insults. He attacks her for being fat, and she is.attacks him for being a failure. Miss de Groot exposes Al on the national news for sliding the ladder she was on...and Al fulfills the promise he made 30 years ago to pour her entire cup of sugar down her car's gas tank.
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* KickTheDog: During the news report where Al is busted, as if the video wasn't bad enough, the reporter covering the story calls him a piece of garbage.
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* KickTheDog: During the news report where Al is busted, as if the video wasn't bad enough, the reporter covering the story calls him a piece of human garbage.
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* PersonAsVerb: "Hey! Don't Bundy that book!"
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* PersonAsVerb: "Hey! "Hey, man! Don't Bundy that book!"
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While cleaning out Al's attic, Steve finds a copy of the children's book, ''The Little Engine That Could'' that Al borrowed from the library back when he was a child (in 1957) and never returned (mostly because he lived in fear of a fat, redheaded librarian named Miss de Groot, who always insulted him and told him he'd never amount to anything). When Al tries to return the book, he gets out of paying the fine by planting the book on the shelf...and ends up in the news where his good name (to use the term loosely) is run through the mud.
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* ExtremelyOverdueLibraryBook: ''Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould''.
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* ExtremelyOverdueLibraryBook: ''Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould''.''Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould'', which Al had since ''1957''.
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* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: After Al ends up busted at the library and the shamed family wears paper bags, Buck is seem sporting his own bag.
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* KickTheDog: During the news report where Al is busted, as if the video wasn't bad enough, the reporter covering the story calls him a piece of garbage.
* PersonAsVerb: "Hey! Don't Bundy that book!"
* PersonAsVerb: "Hey! Don't Bundy that book!"
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* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming, lower-class bully vs. Miss de Groot, a FatBastard classist who [[KillThePoor condemns the poor]] to eternal suffering.
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* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming, lower-class bully vs. Miss de Groot, a FatBastard classist who [[KillThePoor condemns the poor]] (or at least Al) to eternal suffering.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Steve entices Al to return the book anyways assuring him that Miss de Groot should've been dead by now because of all the sugar she ate, without even confirming she's dead. Later on, Al gets caught, becomes a wanted felon in the state and Steve gets angry at ''Al'' blaming him for the incident that's caused their neighborhood to lose property value.
** Miss de Groot works in a library, despite feeling that the people who use it don't deserve to. She also calls Al a loser when her life isn't much to look at.
** Miss de Groot works in a library, despite feeling that the people who use it don't deserve to. She also calls Al a loser when her life isn't much to look at.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Steve entices Al to return the book anyways assuring him that Miss de Groot should've been is probably dead by now because of all the because, "No one can eat that much sugar she ate, without even confirming she's dead. and live"[[note]]which, considering that diabetes exists, is true in real life, but not on this show[[/note]]. Later on, when Al gets caught, becomes a wanted felon in the state caught and humiliated for what he's done, Steve gets angry at ''Al'' blaming him for the incident that's caused their neighborhood to lose tells Al, "Weren't my property value.
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** Miss de Groot works in a library, despitefeeling that the people being discriminatory against anyone who use it don't deserve to. is poor and wants to read. She also calls Al a loser when she bullied a little kid and wasted most of her life isn't much to look at.working at the library just so she can get revenge on Al for not returning the book.
** Miss de Groot works in a library, despite
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Simply for failing to return a library book in time, Al is treated as a felon which is odd since library books are public non-rival goods and the book Al borrowed was in no danger of going out of print.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Simply for failing to return a library book in time, Al is treated as a felon which is odd since library books are public non-rival goods and the book Al borrowed was in no danger of going out of print. He's also accused of trying to kill a librarian when all he did was slide a ladder she had one foot on.
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* YouAreFat: Al hurls these at Miss de Groot, who in turn hurls "You are poor" insults at him.
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* YouAreFat: Al hurls these at Miss de Groot, who in turn hurls "You are poor" insults at him.him.
* YouLookFamiliar: The little boy who played Al as a child (Edan Gross, according to the end credits) was also one of the neighborhood kids who wanted to know if Santa was okay on season two's "You Better Watch Out".
* YouLookFamiliar: The little boy who played Al as a child (Edan Gross, according to the end credits) was also one of the neighborhood kids who wanted to know if Santa was okay on season two's "You Better Watch Out".
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** Miss de Groot works in a library, despite feeling that the people who use it don't deserve to. She also calls Al a loser when her life isn't much to look at.
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* ComicallySmallBribe: Al tried bribing Miss de Groot into forgiving his library dues with a donut.
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* ComicallySmallBribe: Al tried bribing Miss de Groot into forgiving his library dues with a donut. It doubles as a bonus for Al since it's another jab at Groot for her obesity.
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* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming, lower-class bully vs. Miss de Groot, a FatBastard classist who mocks and [[KillThePoor condemns the poor]].
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* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming, lower-class bully vs. Miss de Groot, a FatBastard classist who mocks and [[KillThePoor condemns the poor]].poor]] to eternal suffering.
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* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming, lower-class bully vs. Miss de Groot, a FatBastard classist.
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* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming, lower-class bully vs. Miss de Groot, a FatBastard classist.classist who mocks and [[KillThePoor condemns the poor]].
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* ComicallySmallBribe: Al tried bribing Miss de Groot into forgiving his library dues with a donut. Justified as (a) Al doesn't have the money for the overdue book, and (b) it's yet another insult about Miss de Groot's weight.
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* ComicallySmallBribe: Al tried bribing Miss de Groot into forgiving his library dues with a donut. Justified as (a) Al doesn't have the money for the overdue book, and (b) it's yet another insult about Miss de Groot's weight.
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* BrickJoe: As payback on Miss de Groot for all the grief and pain she's caused him over a span of many decades, Al steals her sugar bowl and goes to pour it in the gas tank of her car, which he promised to do in the flashback of his childhood dealing with Miss de Groot.
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* BrickJoe: BrickJoke: As payback on Miss de Groot for all the grief and pain she's caused him over a span of many decades, Al steals her sugar bowl and goes to pour it in the gas tank of her car, which he promised to do in the flashback of his childhood dealing with Miss de Groot.
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* BrickJoe: As payback on Miss de Groot for all the grief and pain she's caused him over a span of many decades, Al steals her sugar bowl and goes to pour it in the gas tank of her car, which he promised to do in the flashback of his childhood dealing with Miss de Groot.
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* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming bully vs. Miss de Groot the FatBastard classist.
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* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming weight-shaming, lower-class bully vs. Miss de Groot the Groot, a FatBastard classist.
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* HereWeGoAgain: As payback on Miss de Groot for all the grief and pain she's caused him over a span of many decades, Al steals her sugar bowl.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Steve entices Al to return the book anyways assuring him that Miss de Groot should've been dead by now, without even confirming she's dead. Later on, Al gets caught, becomes a wanted felon in the state and Steve gets angry at ''Al'' blaming him for the incident that's caused their neighborhood to lose property value.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Steve entices Al to return the book anyways assuring him that Miss de Groot should've been dead by now, without even confirming she's dead. Later on, Al gets caught, becomes a wanted felon in the state and Steve gets angry at ''Al'' blaming him for the incident that's caused their neighborhood to lose property value.
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While cleaning out Al's attic, Steve finds a copy of the children's book, ''The Little Engine That Could'' that Al borrowed from the library back when he was a child (in 1957) and never returned (mostly because he lived in fear of a fat, redheaded librarian named Miss de Groot, who always insulted him and told him he'd never amount to anything). When Al tries to return the book, he gets out of paying the fine by planting the book on the shelf...and ends up in the news where his good name (to use the term loosely) is run through the mud.
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* ComicallySmallBribe: Al tried bribing Miss de Groot into forgiving his library dues with a donut. Justified as (a) Al doesn't have the money for the overdue book, and (b) it's yet another insult about Miss de Groot's weight.
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* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming bully vs. Miss de Groot the FatBastard classist.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Steve entices Al to return the book anyways assuring him that Miss de Groot should've been dead by now, without even confirming she's dead. Later on, Al gets caught, becomes a wanted felon in the state and Steve gets angry at ''Al'' blaming him for the incident that's caused their neighborhood to lose property value.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Simply for failing to return a library book in time, Al is treated as a felon which is odd since library books are public non-rival goods and the book Al borrowed was not going out of print.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Simply for failing to return a library book in time, Al is treated as a felon which is odd since library books are public non-rival goods and the book Al borrowed was not in no danger of going out of print.
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* SocialDarwinism: Miss de Groot has harsh prejudice against the students at her school who don't have any money to pay for books and so have to borrow them from a library. She thinks poor people don't deserve material goods.
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'''He Thought He Could''' is an episode from Season 3 of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.
!!Tropes
* BullyingADragon: Al constantly bullies Miss de Groot with petty insults, especially regarding how fat she is.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Simply for failing to return a library book in time, Al is treated as a felon which is odd since library books are public non-rival goods and the book Al borrowed was not going out of print.
* ExtremelyOverdueLibraryBook: ''Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould''.
* HereWeGoAgain: As payback on Miss de Groot for all the grief and pain she's caused him over a span of many decades, Al steals her sugar bowl.
* ScaryLibrarian: Miss de Groot.
* SweetTooth: It appears that Miss de Groot has a sugar addiction.
* YouAreFat: Al hurls these at Miss de Groot, who in turn hurls "You are poor" insults at him.
!!Tropes
* BullyingADragon: Al constantly bullies Miss de Groot with petty insults, especially regarding how fat she is.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Simply for failing to return a library book in time, Al is treated as a felon which is odd since library books are public non-rival goods and the book Al borrowed was not going out of print.
* ExtremelyOverdueLibraryBook: ''Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould''.
* HereWeGoAgain: As payback on Miss de Groot for all the grief and pain she's caused him over a span of many decades, Al steals her sugar bowl.
* ScaryLibrarian: Miss de Groot.
* SweetTooth: It appears that Miss de Groot has a sugar addiction.
* YouAreFat: Al hurls these at Miss de Groot, who in turn hurls "You are poor" insults at him.