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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Adam has absolutely no recollection of kissing another girl while drunk on jello shots until he sees himself on tape.
* YourCheatingHeart: Adam is aghast that someone filmed him kissing a girl other than Brea while he was at a party, and decides to keep it a secret from everyone (except for Erica and Geoff, who watched the tape with him). A week later, Brea kisses someone and immediately confesses to Adam, so Adam decides to come clean...but Brea's more upset that he kept a secret from her than the actual cheating.

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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Adam has absolutely no recollection of kissing another girl while drunk on jello shots until he sees himself on tape.
* YourCheatingHeart: Adam is aghast that someone filmed him kissing a girl other than Brea while he was at a party, and decides to keep it a secret from everyone (except for Erica and Geoff, who watched the tape with him). A week later, Brea kisses someone and immediately confesses to Adam, so Adam decides to come clean...but Brea's more upset that he kept a secret from her than the actual cheating.
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* TitleDrop: Geoff brings up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXA0C7nnLac Morganna Roberts, The Kissing Bandit]], when trying to help Adam deal with the fallout of having lied to Brea. Becomes a BrickJoke in TheTag, when Erica finds Geoff's secret videotapes of her and makes him choose between Morganna or herself.

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* TitleDrop: Geoff brings up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXA0C7nnLac Morganna Roberts, The Kissing Bandit]], when trying to help Adam deal with the fallout of having lied to Brea. Becomes a BrickJoke ChekhovsGag in TheTag, when Erica finds Geoff's secret videotapes of her and makes him choose between Morganna or herself.

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* BookEnds: TheTag is identical to the B-Plot's opening, in that Erica finds tapes involving something Geoff secretly loves, but then switches to mirroring the A-Plot's start when they decide to hammer a tape into pieces.

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* BookEnds: TheTag is identical to the B-Plot's opening, in that Erica finds tapes involving something Geoff secretly loves, but then switches to mirroring the A-Plot's start when they decide to [[DestroyTheEvidence she makes him hammer a tape into pieces.pieces]].



* DestroyTheEvidence: After Erica convinces Adam to keep his unfaithfulness a secret from Brea, she gives him a hammer and has him destroy the tape that recorded it. And then in TheTag, Erica finds out that Geoff is a huge fan of The Kissing Bandit and forces him to prove his faithfulness by destroying his own tape of Morganna.



* TitleDrop: Geoff brings up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXA0C7nnLac Morganna Roberts, The Kissing Bandit]], when trying to help Adam deal with the fallout of having lied to Brea. Becomes a ChekhovsGag in TheTag, when Erica finds Geoff's secret videotapes of her and makes him choose between Morganna or herself.
* UnmanlySecret: Barry's love of ice-dancing, which Joanne encourages him isn't embarrassing and should be embraced. Later, when Beverly gets too clingy and Barry wants to only watch the event with Joanne, it turns out the ''really'' unmanly part is he enjoyed spending time with his mom.

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* TitleDrop: Geoff brings up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXA0C7nnLac Morganna Roberts, The Kissing Bandit]], when trying to help Adam deal with the fallout of having lied to Brea. Becomes a ChekhovsGag BrickJoke in TheTag, when Erica finds Geoff's secret videotapes of her and makes him choose between Morganna or herself.
* UnmanlySecret: Barry's love of ice-dancing, which Joanne encourages him isn't embarrassing and should be embraced. Later, when Beverly gets too clingy and Barry wants to only watch the event with Joanne, it turns out the ''really'' unmanly part is that he enjoyed spending time with his mom.

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* UnmanlySecret: Barry's love of ice-dancing, which Joanne encourages him isn't embarrassing and should be embraced. Later, when Beverly gets too clingy and Barry wants to only watch the event with Joanne, it turns out the ''really'' unmanly part is he enjoyed spending time with his mom.



* UnmanlySecret: Barry's love of ice-dancing, which Joanne encourages him isn't embarrassing and should be embraced. Later, when Beverly gets too clingy and Barry wants to only watch the event with Joanne, it turns out the ''really'' unmanly part is he enjoyed spending time with his mom.
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* UnsuspectinglySoused: Adam gets drunk on jello shots, mistaking them for regular Jell-O cups.
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* TitleDrop: Geoff brings up Morganna Roberts, The (historical) Kissing Bandit, when trying to help Adam deal with the fallout of having lied to Brea. Becomes a ChekhovsGag in TheTag, when Erica finds Geoff's secret videotapes of her and makes him choose between Morganna or herself.

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* TitleDrop: Geoff brings up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXA0C7nnLac Morganna Roberts, The (historical) Kissing Bandit, Bandit]], when trying to help Adam deal with the fallout of having lied to Brea. Becomes a ChekhovsGag in TheTag, when Erica finds Geoff's secret videotapes of her and makes him choose between Morganna or herself.
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* HiddenDepths: After Barry initially confesses his love of ice dancing, Vic reveals he used to be a professional at it, only quitting because his dancing partner passed away...a fact he's already mentioned numerous times to Bill in the past, who ignored it because he only really knew Vic through Murray.

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* BlatantLies: In the opening, Barry sneaks off to watch ice-dancing with Beverly by saying they're about to head in totally separate directions and nobody should question it.

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* BlatantLies: In the opening, Barry sneaks off to watch live Winter Olympic ice-dancing with Beverly by saying they're about to head in totally separate directions and nobody should question it.



* DressedInLayers: When Beverly decides to join Barry's ice-dancing, it turns out she's been wearing a sequined blue dress underneath her regular outfit since the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, two weeks ago.



* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Adam has absolutely no recollection of kissing another girl while drunk on jello shots until he sees himself on tape

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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Adam has absolutely no recollection of kissing another girl while drunk on jello shots until he sees himself on tapetape.

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* TitleDrop: Geoff brings up Morganna Roberts, The (historical) Kissing Bandit, when trying to help Adam deal with the fallout of having lied to Brea. Becomes a ChekhovsGag in TheTag, when Erica finds Geoff's secret videotapes of her.

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* TitleDrop: Geoff brings up Morganna Roberts, The (historical) Kissing Bandit, when trying to help Adam deal with the fallout of having lied to Brea. Becomes a ChekhovsGag in TheTag, when Erica finds Geoff's secret videotapes of her.her and makes him choose between Morganna or herself.



* YourCheatingHeart: Adam is aghast that someone filmed him kissing a girl other than Brea while he was at a party, and decides to keep it a secret from everyone (except for Erica and Geoff, who watched the tape with him and argue over whether or not he should keep it a secret, with Erica being in favor). A week later, Brea kisses someone and immediately confesses to Adam, so Adam decides to come clean...but Brea's more upset that he kept a secret from her than the actual cheating.

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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Adam has absolutely no recollection of kissing another girl while drunk on jello shots until he sees himself on tape
* YourCheatingHeart: Adam is aghast that someone filmed him kissing a girl other than Brea while he was at a party, and decides to keep it a secret from everyone (except for Erica and Geoff, who watched the tape with him and argue over whether or not he should keep it a secret, with Erica being in favor).him). A week later, Brea kisses someone and immediately confesses to Adam, so Adam decides to come clean...but Brea's more upset that he kept a secret from her than the actual cheating.
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* NoTrueScotsman: When Barry tries watching ice-dancing with both Beverly and Joanne, Beverly's unwillingness to share the private time has her repeatedly mock Joanne for not immediately understanding something she's just been introduced to.
* TitleDrop: Geoff brings up Morganna Roberts, The (historical) Kissing Bandit, when trying to help Adam deal with the fallout of having lied to Brea. Becomes a ChekhovsGag in TheTag, when Erica finds Geoff's secret videotapes of her.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The day after Adam decides to keep his kissing another girl a secret, his English class is going over ''Literature/TheTellTaleHeart'' and his father is watching a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' marathon.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: The day after Adam decides to keep his kissing another girl a secret, his English class is going over ''Literature/TheTellTaleHeart'' and his father is watching a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' marathon.''Series/{{Columbo}}''.

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'''A Plot:''' Adam lets himself be filmed at a party, and is aghast to see he kissed someone other than his girlfriend while drunk ([[DrunkOnMilk on jello]]). Geoff advises him to confess immediately, while Erica suggests he keep it a secret; Adam follows the latter's advice, to disastrous consequences.

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'''A Plot:''' Adam lets himself be filmed at a party, and is aghast to see he kissed someone other than his girlfriend while drunk ([[DrunkOnMilk on jello]]).jello shots (assuming it was just plain jello). Geoff advises him to confess immediately, while Erica suggests he keep it a secret; Adam follows the latter's advice, to disastrous consequences.



* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Adam, aside from performing some corny impressions, ends up kissing another girl while drunk...[[DrunkOnMilk on jello]].

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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Adam, aside from performing some corny impressions, ends up kissing another girl while drunk...[[DrunkOnMilk drunk on jello]].jello shots.



* BlatantLies: In the opening, Barry sneaks off to watch ice-dancing with Beverly by saying they're about to head in totally separate directions and nobody should question it.



* ContrivedCoincidence: The day after Adam decides to keep his kissing another girl a secret, his English class is going over ''Literature/TheTellTaleHeart''.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: The day after Adam decides to keep his kissing another girl a secret, his English class is going over ''Literature/TheTellTaleHeart''.''Literature/TheTellTaleHeart'' and his father is watching a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' marathon.



* DrunkOnMilk: Adam ended up drunk because of jello. Not jello ''shots''; just jello.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Adam is aghast that someone filmed him kissing a girl other than Brea while he was drinking at a party, and decides to keep it a secret from everyone (except for Erica and Geoff, who watched the tape with him and argue over whether or not he should keep it a secret, with Erica being in favor). A week later, Brea kisses someone and immediately confesses to Adam, so Adam decides to come clean...but Brea's more upset that he kept a secret from her than the actual cheating.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Adam is aghast that someone filmed him kissing a girl other than Brea while he was drinking at a party, and decides to keep it a secret from everyone (except for Erica and Geoff, who watched the tape with him and argue over whether or not he should keep it a secret, with Erica being in favor). A week later, Brea kisses someone and immediately confesses to Adam, so Adam decides to come clean...but Brea's more upset that he kept a secret from her than the actual cheating.

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'''A Plot:''' Adam lets himself be filmed getting drunk at a party, and is aghast to see he kissed someone other than his girlfriend while drunk.

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'''A Plot:''' Adam lets himself be filmed getting drunk at a party, and is aghast to see he kissed someone other than his girlfriend while drunk.
drunk ([[DrunkOnMilk on jello]]). Geoff advises him to confess immediately, while Erica suggests he keep it a secret; Adam follows the latter's advice, to disastrous consequences.



* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Adam, aside from performing some corny impressions, ends up kissing another girl while drunk...on jello.

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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Adam, aside from performing some corny impressions, ends up kissing another girl while drunk...[[DrunkOnMilk on jello.jello]].
* BigSisterInstinct: After [[ItsNotYouItsMe Brea breaks up with Adam]], Geoff asks if Erica really thought keeping secrets was a good idea; she didn't, but she had expected complete honestly to go even ''worse'', and was only trying to look out for her little brother.


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* DrunkOnMilk: Adam ended up drunk because of jello. Not jello ''shots''; just jello.

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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In order to prove to Brea how sorry he is when she learns he kissed another girl and didn't tell her for a whole week, he invites the other girl to her house to help him apologize...and it turns out the other girl immediately called ''her'' boyfriend and confessed after the kiss.

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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In order to prove to Brea how sorry he is when she learns he kissed another girl and didn't tell her for a whole week, he invites the other girl to her house to help him apologize...and it turns out the other girl immediately called ''her'' her boyfriend and confessed after the kiss.



* ItsNotYouItsMe: At the end of the episode, Adam tries one last plea to get Brea to forgive him...but Brea realizes that, if their relationship was in this much danger after a mere two weeks apart, the years spent in different colleges will be even more stressful. So, despite Adam begging her not to say it, she breaks up with him.


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* ItsNotYouItsMe: At the end of the episode, Adam tries one last plea to get Brea to forgive him...but Brea realizes that, if their relationship was in this much danger after a mere two weeks apart, the years spent in different colleges trying to manage a long-distance relationship will be even more stressful. So, despite Adam begging her not to say it, she breaks up with him.

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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Adam, aside from performing some corny impressions, ends up kissing another girl while drunk.

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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Adam, aside from performing some corny impressions, ends up kissing another girl while drunk.drunk...on jello.
* BookEnds: TheTag is identical to the B-Plot's opening, in that Erica finds tapes involving something Geoff secretly loves, but then switches to mirroring the A-Plot's start when they decide to hammer a tape into pieces.


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* HeartfeltApology: To apologize to Beverly after realizing he genuinely enjoyed watching ice-dancing with her, Barry learns how to ice-dance from Murray's coworker Vic to give her a private performance...and when he falls flat on his ass because he's only had a day of practice, Beverly decides to join him, and they end up dancing perfectly in sync.
* ItsNotYouItsMe: At the end of the episode, Adam tries one last plea to get Brea to forgive him...but Brea realizes that, if their relationship was in this much danger after a mere two weeks apart, the years spent in different colleges will be even more stressful. So, despite Adam begging her not to say it, she breaks up with him.
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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In order to prove to Brea how sorry he is when she learns he kissed another girl and didn't tell her for a whole week, he invites the other girl to her house to help him apologize...and it turns out the other girl immediately called ''her'' boyfriend and confessed after the kiss.
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* ImmediatelyProvenWrong: Immediately after Adam sees himself drunkenly kissing another girl and asks if maybe it was just for a scene, filmed-Adam states "That just happened, and it wasn't just for a scene!"
* UnmanlySecret: Barry's love of ice-dancing, which Joanne encourages him isn't embarrassing and should be embraced.

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* ImmediatelyProvenWrong: InstantlyProvenWrong: Immediately after Adam sees himself drunkenly kissing another girl and asks if maybe it was just for a scene, filmed-Adam states "That just happened, and it wasn't just for a scene!"
* UnmanlySecret: Barry's love of ice-dancing, which Joanne encourages him isn't embarrassing and should be embraced. Later, when Beverly gets too clingy and Barry wants to only watch the event with Joanne, it turns out the ''really'' unmanly part is he enjoyed spending time with his mom.
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'''A Plot:''' Adam lets himself be filmed getting drunk at a party, and is aghast to see he kissed someone other than his girlfriend while drunk.

'''B Plot:''' Joanne finds out that Barry's fascinated by ice-dancing, and encourages him to embrace it...to Beverly's dismay, as she had enjoyed Barry secretly watching tapes of it with just her.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Adam, aside from performing some corny impressions, ends up kissing another girl while drunk.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The day after Adam decides to keep his kissing another girl a secret, his English class is going over ''Literature/TheTellTaleHeart''.
* ImmediatelyProvenWrong: Immediately after Adam sees himself drunkenly kissing another girl and asks if maybe it was just for a scene, filmed-Adam states "That just happened, and it wasn't just for a scene!"
* UnmanlySecret: Barry's love of ice-dancing, which Joanne encourages him isn't embarrassing and should be embraced.
* YourCheatingHeart: Adam is aghast that someone filmed him kissing a girl other than Brea while he was drinking at a party, and decides to keep it a secret from everyone (except for Erica and Geoff, who watched the tape with him and argue over whether or not he should keep it a secret, with Erica being in favor). A week later, Brea kisses someone and immediately confesses to Adam, so Adam decides to come clean...but Brea's more upset that he kept a secret from her than the actual cheating.

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