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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This episode comes off as a ripoff of the Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers franchise because the original Creator/PhilipKDick story it's based on was written two years before the original ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' film and helped inspire it.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: OlderThanTheyThink: This episode comes off as a ripoff of the Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers franchise because the original Creator/PhilipKDick story it's based on was written two years before the original ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' film and helped inspire it.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: Charlie has killed the Father-Thing and destroyed the pods being prepared for himself and his mother. However, he's also destroyed any proof of his story by doing so, he's revealed his identity and his actions to the aliens by posting his story online, and he has no actual plan (other than "#Resist") for fighting aliens who've already apparently taken over the local government and police force.
** Moreover, it's ambiguous whether he's even told his mother why his father is dead, or, if he has, whether she believes it or thinks something [[FridgeHorror much more mundane yet much more disturbing]] happened.
** Moreover, it's ambiguous whether he's even told his mother why his father is dead, or, if he has, whether she believes it or thinks something [[FridgeHorror much more mundane yet much more disturbing]] happened.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: Charlie has killed the Father-Thing and destroyed the pods being prepared for himself and his mother. However, he's also destroyed any proof of his story by doing so, he's revealed his identity and his actions to the aliens by posting his story online, and he has no actual plan (other than "#Resist") for fighting aliens who've already apparently taken over the local government and police force.
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* SignatureScent: How Charlie knows for sure that his mother hasn't also been replaced. (That and she's [[RuleOfFunny still a jerk to him]] about picking up his stuff.)
* SignatureScent: How Charlie knows for sure that his mother hasn't also been replaced. (That and she's [[RuleOfFunny still a jerk to him]] about picking up his stuff.)
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This episode comes off as a ripoff of the Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers franchise because the original Creator/PhilipKDick story it's based on was written two years before the original Invasion ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers Snatchers'' film and helped inspire it.
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* {{Squick}}: The pod people's true forms are InsectoidAliens who apparently wriggle around freely under the skin of their MeatPuppets when they think people aren't looking.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Charlie's mother thinks he's upset because he just found out about the pending divorce, only for him to angrily reveal he's known about the divorce for a long time now and come to accept it despite all his parents' tiptoeing.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Pretty much every critic instantly pegged this episode as Series/StrangerThings meets Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Charlie's mother thinks he's upset because he just found out about the pending divorce, only for him to angrily reveal he's known about the divorce for a long time now and come to accept it despite all his parents' tiptoeing.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Pretty much every critic instantly pegged this episode as Series/StrangerThings meets Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers.
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* {{Squick}}: The pod people's true forms are InsectoidAliens who apparently wriggle around freely under the skin of their MeatPuppets Meat Puppets when they think people aren't looking.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Charlie's mother thinks he's upset because he just found out about the pending divorce, only for him to angrily reveal he's known about the divorce for a long time now and come to accept it despite all his parents'tiptoeing.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Pretty much every critic instantly pegged this episode as Series/StrangerThings meets Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers.tiptoeing.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Charlie's mother thinks he's upset because he just found out about the pending divorce, only for him to angrily reveal he's known about the divorce for a long time now and come to accept it despite all his parents'
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* CreatorCameo: Charlie's history teacher is named Mr. Dick, as in PhilipKDick. He also vaguely physically resembles Philip K. Dick and, like the author, is haunted by feelings of unreality that drive him into suicidal depression.
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* CreatorCameo: Charlie's history teacher is named Mr. Dick, as in PhilipKDick.Creator/PhilipKDick. He also vaguely physically resembles Philip K. Dick and, like the author, is haunted by feelings of unreality that drive him into suicidal depression.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This episode comes off as a ripoff of the Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers franchise because the original PhilipKDick Creator/PhilipKDick story it's based on was written two years before the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers film and helped inspire it.
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* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: Road trip, camping, playing baseball -- it's every Americana cliche of "quality time" with Dad in one. (Perhaps intentional: Charlie's dad is about to divorce his mom and move out, and is feeling highly insecure about how this will affect Charlie.)
* BigBrotherBully: Henry, the brother of Charlie's best friend Dylan. Turns into the AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther version of this trope when he finds out about the alien invasion.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: The news story on the radio about the freak meteor shower blanketing the Midwest as Charlie and his dad drive home from their camping trip.
* TheConspiracy: The pod people have infiltrated the police force, child protective services, the school administration, and probably most of the rest of the local government.
* CreatorCameo: Charlie's history teacher is named Mr. Dick, as in PhilipKDick. He also vaguely physically resembles Philip K. Dick and, like the author, is haunted by feelings of unreality that drive him into suicidal depression.
* DrivenToSuicide: Charlie's teacher, Mr. Dick, after the constant {{Gaslighting}} about his wife being killed and replaced by a duplicate.
* EsotericHappyEnding: Charlie has killed the Father-Thing and destroyed the pods being prepared for himself and his mother. However, he's also destroyed any proof of his story by doing so, he's revealed his identity and his actions to the aliens by posting his story online, and he has no actual plan (other than "#Resist") for fighting aliens who've already apparently taken over the local government and police force.
** Moreover, it's ambiguous whether he's even told his mother why his father is dead, or, if he has, whether she believes it or thinks something [[FridgeHorror much more mundane yet much more disturbing]] happened.
* GameOfNerds: Charlie and his dad both come off this way, obsessed with baseball trivia and asking each other "stumpers".
* HarsherInHindsight: If you see [[Recap/PhilipKDicksElectricDreamsS1E6HumanIs "Human Is"]] after this episode. In that episode, Vera decides to accept the BodySnatcher replacing Silas as her husband because he's so much kinder than the real Silas was. This time, the Father-thing tries to pull the same thing on Charlie's mother only for Charlie to kill him anyway. Of course, in this episode [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Charlie is the better judge of character]].
* INeverToldYouMyName: How Charlie picks up on Detective Fernandez being one of Them.
* KillAndReplace: The nature of this invasion, making it far more sinister than the "merging" depicted in [[Recap/PhilipKDicksElectricDreamsS1E6HumanIs "Human Is"]].
* MilkmanConspiracy: The pod people initially target ''garbagemen'' for replacement, which [[FridgeBrilliance initially seems]] [[FridgeHorror like an odd choice]] until the reveal that the garbagemen are [[DisposingOfABody taking all the replacees' bodies to the dump]] to avoid discovery.
* MythologyGag: The idea of all garbagemen being inhuman monsters who are part of some inhuman conspiracy was the idea behind Dick's classic story [[{{Xenofiction}} from the point of view of a frantically barking dog]], "Roog".
* NakedOnArrival: The pod people, as is traditional. May double as FanDisservice in the case of the Mother-thing in her pod.
* {{Narm}}: Charlie typing the hashtag "#Resist" in the caption of his video post describing the alien invasion.
* NotHimself: Charlie is convinced this is true of his father, although actually [[BrainBleach seeing his dad's soul being horrifically consumed by his duplicate]] might be influencing his perceptions.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This episode comes off as a ripoff of the Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers franchise because the original PhilipKDick story it's based on was written two years before the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers film and helped inspire it.
* SignatureScent: How Charlie knows for sure that his mother hasn't also been replaced. (That and she's [[RuleOfFunny still a jerk to him]] about picking up his stuff.)
* SpockSpeak: When the Father-thing drops the act he begins seemingly intentionally using stilted words like "other" for "wife" and "progeny" for "child" to highlight his alien-ness.
* {{Squick}}: The pod people's true forms are InsectoidAliens who apparently wriggle around freely under the skin of their MeatPuppets when they think people aren't looking.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Charlie's mother thinks he's upset because he just found out about the pending divorce, only for him to angrily reveal he's known about the divorce for a long time now and come to accept it despite all his parents' tiptoeing.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Pretty much every critic instantly pegged this episode as Series/StrangerThings meets Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers.
* BigBrotherBully: Henry, the brother of Charlie's best friend Dylan. Turns into the AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther version of this trope when he finds out about the alien invasion.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: The news story on the radio about the freak meteor shower blanketing the Midwest as Charlie and his dad drive home from their camping trip.
* TheConspiracy: The pod people have infiltrated the police force, child protective services, the school administration, and probably most of the rest of the local government.
* CreatorCameo: Charlie's history teacher is named Mr. Dick, as in PhilipKDick. He also vaguely physically resembles Philip K. Dick and, like the author, is haunted by feelings of unreality that drive him into suicidal depression.
* DrivenToSuicide: Charlie's teacher, Mr. Dick, after the constant {{Gaslighting}} about his wife being killed and replaced by a duplicate.
* EsotericHappyEnding: Charlie has killed the Father-Thing and destroyed the pods being prepared for himself and his mother. However, he's also destroyed any proof of his story by doing so, he's revealed his identity and his actions to the aliens by posting his story online, and he has no actual plan (other than "#Resist") for fighting aliens who've already apparently taken over the local government and police force.
** Moreover, it's ambiguous whether he's even told his mother why his father is dead, or, if he has, whether she believes it or thinks something [[FridgeHorror much more mundane yet much more disturbing]] happened.
* GameOfNerds: Charlie and his dad both come off this way, obsessed with baseball trivia and asking each other "stumpers".
* HarsherInHindsight: If you see [[Recap/PhilipKDicksElectricDreamsS1E6HumanIs "Human Is"]] after this episode. In that episode, Vera decides to accept the BodySnatcher replacing Silas as her husband because he's so much kinder than the real Silas was. This time, the Father-thing tries to pull the same thing on Charlie's mother only for Charlie to kill him anyway. Of course, in this episode [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Charlie is the better judge of character]].
* INeverToldYouMyName: How Charlie picks up on Detective Fernandez being one of Them.
* KillAndReplace: The nature of this invasion, making it far more sinister than the "merging" depicted in [[Recap/PhilipKDicksElectricDreamsS1E6HumanIs "Human Is"]].
* MilkmanConspiracy: The pod people initially target ''garbagemen'' for replacement, which [[FridgeBrilliance initially seems]] [[FridgeHorror like an odd choice]] until the reveal that the garbagemen are [[DisposingOfABody taking all the replacees' bodies to the dump]] to avoid discovery.
* MythologyGag: The idea of all garbagemen being inhuman monsters who are part of some inhuman conspiracy was the idea behind Dick's classic story [[{{Xenofiction}} from the point of view of a frantically barking dog]], "Roog".
* NakedOnArrival: The pod people, as is traditional. May double as FanDisservice in the case of the Mother-thing in her pod.
* {{Narm}}: Charlie typing the hashtag "#Resist" in the caption of his video post describing the alien invasion.
* NotHimself: Charlie is convinced this is true of his father, although actually [[BrainBleach seeing his dad's soul being horrifically consumed by his duplicate]] might be influencing his perceptions.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This episode comes off as a ripoff of the Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers franchise because the original PhilipKDick story it's based on was written two years before the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers film and helped inspire it.
* SignatureScent: How Charlie knows for sure that his mother hasn't also been replaced. (That and she's [[RuleOfFunny still a jerk to him]] about picking up his stuff.)
* SpockSpeak: When the Father-thing drops the act he begins seemingly intentionally using stilted words like "other" for "wife" and "progeny" for "child" to highlight his alien-ness.
* {{Squick}}: The pod people's true forms are InsectoidAliens who apparently wriggle around freely under the skin of their MeatPuppets when they think people aren't looking.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Charlie's mother thinks he's upset because he just found out about the pending divorce, only for him to angrily reveal he's known about the divorce for a long time now and come to accept it despite all his parents' tiptoeing.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Pretty much every critic instantly pegged this episode as Series/StrangerThings meets Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers.
