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* ApatheticTeacher: Principal Ball is clearly biased towards the school's athletes over every other student. He not only says so outright to Beverly, but he also loans his car to an athlete and tells him to return it whenever, and apologizes when Beverly's meddling interferes with how often they can give wedgies to the nerds.

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* ApatheticTeacher: Principal Ball is clearly biased towards the school's athletes over every other student. He not only says so outright to Beverly, but he also loans his car to an athlete that wants to skip class and tells him to return it whenever, and apologizes when Beverly's meddling interferes with how often they can give wedgies to the nerds.



* CoordinatedClothes: Right before Adam reveals his LoopholeAbuse plan to her, Beverly shows him matching tuxedos she's gotten for herself and Adam to wear at the non-athlete senior night.



* DudeWheresMyRespect: According to Murray, the reason Beverly is going to such extreme lengths in order to gain public recognition from Adam is because, now that he's getting older, Adam's been taking the things she does for him for granted.

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* DudeWheresMyRespect: According to Murray, the reason Beverly is going to such extreme lengths in order to gain public recognition from Adam is because, now that he's getting older, because Adam's been taking the things she does for him for granted.



* ItsAllAboutMe: The A Plot kicks off with Beverly and Adam attending a ceremony to honor athletes at the school, and Beverly sees that the mothers of the winners are given roses and a kiss, so she hijacks the show so her non-athletic son can honor her in public before making an additional fuss to Ball.

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* HypocriticalHumor: When the non-athlete senior night starts, and Beverly (the reason it's being held) thinks that Adam's not going to show up, she initially refers to the other students the event honors as dorks that couldn't get off their butts to play a sport.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: When Beverly convinces Ball to implement changes to honor the school's non-academics, Adam immediately convinces Ball to set things back to normal, preferring to stay out of the spotlight even if it means all of his fellow nerds go back to getting wedgies.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The A Plot kicks off with Beverly and Adam attending a ceremony to honor athletes at the school, and Beverly sees that the mothers of the winners are given roses and a kiss, so she hijacks the show so her non-athletic son can honor her in public before making an additional fuss to Ball. Later, the athletes are outraged at nerds getting the special privileges usually reserved for them, claiming that receiving constant praise and cupcakes baked by the cheerleaders isn't special unless they're the ''only'' ones receiving them.


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* LonersAreFreaks: The staff of the wedding dress store are utterly baffled when Erica shows up to try dresses on by herself, and end up completely ignoring her in favor of another customer, which is the final straw that leads to Erica asking Joanne to help manage events.
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* LoopholeAbuse: When Adam is embarrassed by everything Beverly's done to set up the non-athlete senior night, he tries to get Barry to help him learn a sport, so he'd no longer be a non-athlete. However, after [[DudeWheresMyRespect Murray tells him why she's doing it]], he relents and attends.

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* ApatheticTeacher: Principal Ball is clearly biased towards the school's athletes over every other student, not only saying so outright to Beverly, but also loaning his car to an athlete and telling him to return it whenever and apologizing when Beverly's meddling interferes with how often they can give wedgies to the nerds.

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* ApatheticTeacher: Principal Ball is clearly biased towards the school's athletes over every other student, student. He not only saying says so outright to Beverly, but he also loaning loans his car to an athlete and telling tells him to return it whenever whenever, and apologizing apologizes when Beverly's meddling interferes with how often they can give wedgies to the nerds.



* TheBusCameBack: Lainey, Ren and Valley Erica reunite with Erica at the end, after only appearing during phone calls earlier in the episode.

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* TheBusCameBack: Lainey, Ren Ren, and Valley Erica reunite with Erica at the end, after only appearing during phone calls earlier in the episode.



* HiddenDepths: According to Narrator!Adam during the non-athlete senior night, it was the first time that many people realized that the school's non-athletes were legitimately talented and interesting.



* JumpingOutOfACake: Joanne brings out a giant cake at Erica's bachelorette party, inside of which is a scantily clad Johnny Atkins. Erica is grossed out, not just because of Johnny's [[FanDisservice doughy boy]], but also because he left the cake all sweaty.

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* JumpingOutOfACake: Joanne brings out a giant cake at Erica's bachelorette party, inside of which is a scantily clad Johnny Atkins. Erica is grossed out, not just because of Johnny's [[FanDisservice doughy boy]], body]], but also because he left the cake all sweaty.sweaty. Geoff later admits he would've been in the cake instead, but he had claustrophobia.
* ShoddyShindig: Because of how little Joanne knows Erica, her initial plans all go askew, such as the JumpingOutOfACake incident. In the end, she does learn enough to convince Erica's old friends to drop their other obligations and be there for her.
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* TheBusCameBack: Lainey, Ren and Valley Erica reunite with Erica at the end, after only appearing during phone calls earlier in the episode.
* CostumeTestMontage: Erica trying out wedding dresses on her own, which is {{Lampshaded}} when she notes that there is no need for her to pose outside the dressing room, since it has a mirror and there's no one to show off to.



* ItsAllAboutMe: The A Plot kicks off with Beverly and Adam attending a ceremony to honor athletes at the school, and Beverly sees that the mothers of the winners are given roses and a kiss, so she hijacks the show so her non-athletic son can honor her in public before making an additional fuss to Ball.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: The A Plot kicks off with Beverly and Adam attending a ceremony to honor athletes at the school, and Beverly sees that the mothers of the winners are given roses and a kiss, so she hijacks the show so her non-athletic son can honor her in public before making an additional fuss to Ball.Ball.
* JumpingOutOfACake: Joanne brings out a giant cake at Erica's bachelorette party, inside of which is a scantily clad Johnny Atkins. Erica is grossed out, not just because of Johnny's [[FanDisservice doughy boy]], but also because he left the cake all sweaty.

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* ApatheticTeacher: Principal Ball is clearly biased towards the school's athletes over every other student, not only saying so outright to Beverly, but also loaning his car to an athlete and telling him to return it whenever.

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* ApatheticTeacher: Principal Ball is clearly biased towards the school's athletes over every other student, not only saying so outright to Beverly, but also loaning his car to an athlete and telling him to return it whenever.whenever and apologizing when Beverly's meddling interferes with how often they can give wedgies to the nerds.


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* DudeWheresMyRespect: According to Murray, the reason Beverly is going to such extreme lengths in order to gain public recognition from Adam is because, now that he's getting older, Adam's been taking the things she does for him for granted.
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* ApatheticTeacher: Principal Ball is clearly biased towards the school's athletes over every other student, not only saying so outright to Beverly, but also loaning his car to an athlete and telling him to return it whenever.
* BuffySpeak: The TitleDrop comes from Beverly trying to describe the ceremony in which honored students give a rose and a kiss to their mothers.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The A Plot kicks off with Beverly and Adam attending a ceremony to honor athletes at the school, and Beverly sees that the mothers of the winners are given roses and a kiss, so she hijacks the show so her non-athletic son can honor her in public before making an additional fuss to Ball.
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'''A Plot:''' Beverly encourages Principal Ball to establish a non-athlete senior night.

'''B Plot:''' Erica finds herself lacking any interested friends to appoint pre-wedding fun captain and ends up asking Geoff's sister.
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