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* EvilIsPetty: Dan films a compromising video of Mayor Mullins tied to a bed with two attractive women in lingerie to blackmail him into stepping down as mayor of Tree Hill and endorsing Dan as a candidate, purely because Mullins undermined Dan’s attempt to get Whitey fired.
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* HalloweenEpisode: Zig-zagged. The initial air date was appropriate for a themed episode and the characters all don costumes for a party at Tric, but at no point is the word "Halloween" ever spoken aloud and the episode notably lacks any set dressing that dates the episode as taking place over late October.
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It's party time in Tree Hill. A masquerade ball at the club Tric provides the perfect opportunity for Haley to win back Nathan's heart and for Brooke to seduce Lucas. Punk-pop sensation Music/FallOutBoy perform amidst the costumed madness, while Peyton tries to accept her recently revealed birth mother. Meanwhile, Dan gives Deb an ultimatum, but he soon discovers she's a much more worthy opponent than he thought.
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'''"An Attempt to Tip the Scales"''' is the fourth episode of Season 3 of ''Series/OneTreeHill'' and originally aired October 26th, 2005. The episode was written by Creator/StacyRukeyser and directed by Creator/JaniceCooke.
It's party time in TreeHill. A Hill as a masquerade ball at the club Tric provides the perfect opportunity for Haley to attempt to win back Nathan's heart and for Brooke to seduce Lucas. Punk-pop sensation Music/FallOutBoy perform amidst the costumed madness, while Peyton tries struggles to accept comes to reconcile her recently revealed birth mother.relationship with Ellie with the influence of her adoptive parents. Meanwhile, Dan gives Deb an ultimatum, but he soon discovers she's a much more worthy opponent than he thought.
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* WhamShot: A double whammy - we see Nathan meeting with Chris Keller, asking him to work with Haley on her music again; and then we see a worn Batman costume on his motel bed, and it’s revealed that he was the Batman who swooped in to save Haley wasn’t Nathan.
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* WhamShot: A double whammy - we see Nathan meeting with Chris Keller, asking him to work with Haley on her music again; and then we see a worn Batman costume on his motel bed, and it’s revealed that he was the Batman who swooped in to save Haley wasn’t instead of Nathan.
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It's party time in Tree Hill. A masquerade ball at the club Tric provides the perfect opportunity for Haley to win back Nathan's heart and for Brooke to seduce Lucas. Punk-pop sensation Music/FallOutBoy perform amidst the costumed madness, while Peyton tries to accept her recently revealed birth mother. Meanwhile, Dan gives Deb an ultimatum, but he soon discovers she's a much more worthy opponent than he thought.
! Contains examples of the following tropes:
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Karen tries to look like a cool mom as she introduces Music/FallOutBoy. It doesn’t go well.
* TheCameo: Music/FallOutBoy perform at Tric.
* CostumeCopyCat: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Chris Keller, who dresses up in the same Batman costume as Nathan.
* FanService: The masquerade ball gives us a tattooed Lucas wearing tight leather and a vest that shows off his muscles, a gothic Peyton in fishnets and combat boots, and Brooke dressed as a sexy devil.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Brooke wanted invoke this imagery with her and Peyton’s costumes; she just didn’t account for Peyton to put a darker twist on the angel concept by reimagining it as the Angel of Death.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Brooke gets Haley to tell Lucas to dress like Tommy Lee in an attempt to humiliate him as she thinks they’re the least sexy band of all time; she doesn’t account for other people not sharing the opinion and winds up watching him spend the night dancing with a curvy fake blonde in a very tight dress.
* InternalReveal: Haley finds out Lucas has been lying about his HCM.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Lucas arrives at Tric in his Tommy Lee costume as Music/MotleyCrue’s "Girls, Girls, Girls" plays in the background.
* ShoutOut:
** Lucas tries on a variety of costumes at the start of the episode, including Music/ElvisPresley and [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]], before settling on Tommy Lee from Music/MotleyCrue.
** Nathan dresses as Franchise/{{Batman}}, specifically in the costume from ''Film/BatmanBegins''.
** Haley dresses up as bad girl Sandy from the climax of ''Film/{{Grease}}''.
** Mouth dresses as Tony Manero from ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''.
** Lucas is approached by a girl wearing a blonde wig & red leather dress, claiming to dressed as Creator/PamelaAnderson.
* TitledAfterTheSong: The episode title is taken from the song "An Attempt to Tip the Scales" by Music/BrightEyes.
* WhamShot: A double whammy - we see Nathan meeting with Chris Keller, asking him to work with Haley on her music again; and then we see a worn Batman costume on his motel bed, and it’s revealed that he was the Batman who swooped in to save Haley wasn’t Nathan.
! Contains examples of the following tropes:
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Karen tries to look like a cool mom as she introduces Music/FallOutBoy. It doesn’t go well.
* TheCameo: Music/FallOutBoy perform at Tric.
* CostumeCopyCat: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Chris Keller, who dresses up in the same Batman costume as Nathan.
* FanService: The masquerade ball gives us a tattooed Lucas wearing tight leather and a vest that shows off his muscles, a gothic Peyton in fishnets and combat boots, and Brooke dressed as a sexy devil.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Brooke wanted invoke this imagery with her and Peyton’s costumes; she just didn’t account for Peyton to put a darker twist on the angel concept by reimagining it as the Angel of Death.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Brooke gets Haley to tell Lucas to dress like Tommy Lee in an attempt to humiliate him as she thinks they’re the least sexy band of all time; she doesn’t account for other people not sharing the opinion and winds up watching him spend the night dancing with a curvy fake blonde in a very tight dress.
* InternalReveal: Haley finds out Lucas has been lying about his HCM.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Lucas arrives at Tric in his Tommy Lee costume as Music/MotleyCrue’s "Girls, Girls, Girls" plays in the background.
* ShoutOut:
** Lucas tries on a variety of costumes at the start of the episode, including Music/ElvisPresley and [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]], before settling on Tommy Lee from Music/MotleyCrue.
** Nathan dresses as Franchise/{{Batman}}, specifically in the costume from ''Film/BatmanBegins''.
** Haley dresses up as bad girl Sandy from the climax of ''Film/{{Grease}}''.
** Mouth dresses as Tony Manero from ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''.
** Lucas is approached by a girl wearing a blonde wig & red leather dress, claiming to dressed as Creator/PamelaAnderson.
* TitledAfterTheSong: The episode title is taken from the song "An Attempt to Tip the Scales" by Music/BrightEyes.
* WhamShot: A double whammy - we see Nathan meeting with Chris Keller, asking him to work with Haley on her music again; and then we see a worn Batman costume on his motel bed, and it’s revealed that he was the Batman who swooped in to save Haley wasn’t Nathan.
