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* FakeMemories: Jerry attempts to clear his good name by seeing his old high school sweetheart Sherry Becker, who he remembers to have a slimmer figure, wore an orange dress, chewed Black Jack gum, and he read to her from ''The Tropic of Cancer'' before returning it to the library on time. When he meets her, she is broader than he remembers, and she says she was wearing a purple dress, chewed Dentyne (and in fact hated Black Jack), and that Jerry was reading from ''The Tropic of Capricorn''.

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* FakeMemories: A realistic, self-inflicted version. Jerry attempts to clear his good name by seeing his old high school sweetheart Sherry Becker, who he remembers to have a slimmer figure, wore an orange dress, chewed Black Jack gum, and he read to her from ''The Tropic of Cancer'' before returning it to the library on time. When he meets her, she is broader than he remembers, and she says she was wearing a purple dress, chewed Dentyne (and in fact hated Black Jack), and that Jerry was reading from ''The Tropic of Capricorn''.
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* {{Expy)): Lt. Bookman is basically [[Series/{{Dragnet}} Joe Friday]] if he worked for a library.

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* {{Expy)): {{Expy}}: Lt. Bookman is basically [[Series/{{Dragnet}} [[Franchise/{{Dragnet}} Joe Friday]] if he worked for a library.
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* {{Expy)): Lt. Bookman is basically [[Series/{{Dragnet}} Joe Friday]] if he worked for a library.
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* TheStoolPigeon: George when he reveals he complains about his old gym coach harassing him.
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Jerry owes the library a book that's 20 years overdue and has to deal with Lt. Bookman (Phillip Baker Hall), a library cop who takes his job very seriously. George wonders if a homeless man is his former gym teacher who used to bully him. Kramer starts a relationship with the librarian.

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Jerry owes the library a book that's 20 years overdue and has to deal with Lt. Bookman (Phillip Baker Hall), (Creator/PhilipBakerHall), a library cop who takes his job very seriously. George wonders if a homeless man is his former gym teacher who used to bully him. Kramer starts a relationship with the librarian.
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* FakeMemories: Jerry attempts to clear his good name by seeing his old high school sweetheart Sherry Becker, who he remembers to have a slimmer figure, wore an orange dress, chewed Black Jack gum and they read ''The Tropic of Cancer''. When he meets her, she is broader than he remembers, and said she instead wore a purple dress, chewed Dentyne and instead read ''The Tropic of Capricorn''.
* NobodyLikesATattletale: Kramer is not sympathetic at all to George getting Mr. Heyman fired. Kramer gives him crap over being a squealer.
* SadistTeacher: Mr. Heyman, who loved to bully George and called him the unflattering [[MaliciousMisnaming "Can't-Stand-Ya"]].
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: The library cop is named Lt. Bookman. This is lampshaded by Kramer:
-->That's like having an ice cream man named Cone.

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* FakeMemories: Jerry attempts to clear his good name by seeing his old high school sweetheart Sherry Becker, who he remembers to have a slimmer figure, wore an orange dress, chewed Black Jack gum gum, and they he read to her from ''The Tropic of Cancer''. Cancer'' before returning it to the library on time. When he meets her, she is broader than he remembers, and said she instead wore says she was wearing a purple dress, chewed Dentyne (and in fact hated Black Jack), and instead read that Jerry was reading from ''The Tropic of Capricorn''.
Capricorn''.
* NobodyLikesATattletale: Kramer is not sympathetic at all to George getting Mr. Heyman fired. Kramer gives him crap over being a squealer.
squealer.
* PropheticNames: The library cop is named Bookman. Lampshaded by Kramer:
-->'''Kramer:''' Bookman? The library investigator's name is actually ''Bookman''? That's amazing! That's like an ice cream man named Cone.
* SadistTeacher: Mr. Heyman, who loved to bully George and called him the unflattering [[MaliciousMisnaming "Can't-Stand-Ya"]].
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: The library cop is named Lt. Bookman. This is lampshaded by Kramer:
-->That's like having an ice cream man named Cone.
"[[MaliciousMisnaming Can't-Stand-Ya]]".
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* NobodyLikesATattletale: Kramer is not sympathetic at all to George getting Mr. Heyman fired. Kramer gives him crap over being a squealer.
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* StaticCharacter: Even after losing his job and being homeless, Mr. Heyman is still the same old {{Jerkass}} he was 20 years ago.
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* StevenUlyssesPerhero: The library cop is named Lt. Bookman. This is lampshaded by Kramer:
-->That's like having an ice cream man named Cone.
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* AssholeVictim: A non-fatal example. Mr. Heyman, who after lost his teaching job, ends up homeless. Though considering how he treated George, it feels well-deserved, especially considering he still hasn't changed in those 20 years.
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* {{Wedgie}}: Mr. Heyman, who gives George one in high school and in present day, give him an atomic wedgie, which breaks off the waistband of his underwear.

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* {{Wedgie}}: Mr. Heyman, who gives George one in high school and in present day, give him an atomic wedgie, which breaks off the waistband of his underwear.underwear.
* WhamShot: The copy of ''The Tropic of Cancer'' that Jerry owes the library is among Mr. Heyman's possessions.
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Jerry owes the library a book that's 20 years overdue and has to deal with Lt. Bookman (Phillip Baker Hall), a library cop who takes his job very seriously. George wonders if a homeless man is his former gym teacher who used to bully him. Kramer starts a relationship with the librarian.

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* ByTheBookCop: Lt. Bookman, who [[SeriousBusiness takes the rules and regulations of the library very seriously]] and at one point asks Jerry if he's killed anyone.
* ExtremelyOverdueLibraryBook: ''The Tropic of Cancer'', which Jerry has owed the library for 20 years.
* FakeMemories: Jerry attempts to clear his good name by seeing his old high school sweetheart Sherry Becker, who he remembers to have a slimmer figure, wore an orange dress, chewed Black Jack gum and they read ''The Tropic of Cancer''. When he meets her, she is broader than he remembers, and said she instead wore a purple dress, chewed Dentyne and instead read ''The Tropic of Capricorn''.
* SadistTeacher: Mr. Heyman, who loved to bully George and called him the unflattering [[MaliciousMisnaming "Can't-Stand-Ya"]].
* StaticCharacter: Even after losing his job and being homeless, Mr. Heyman is still the same old {{Jerkass}} he was 20 years ago.
* {{Wedgie}}: Mr. Heyman, who gives George one in high school and in present day, give him an atomic wedgie, which breaks off the waistband of his underwear.

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