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trope reworked; see Flawless Token
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* PositiveDiscrimination:
** After Ernie turns out to be a terrible cello player, Mr. Goodchild admits that he'd never actually heard any musical performance from him before offering him the scholarship. He offered it to him solely because he was the only Inuit cello player the conservatory could locate. Felix demands what he intends to do with Ernie once he graduates, given that he has no job prospects based on musical talent.
** When Felix and Oscar break the news to Ernie, he says that this isn't the first time someone wanted him as the "token Eskimo". He got into a fraternity and even got to be its president because of it.
** After Ernie turns out to be a terrible cello player, Mr. Goodchild admits that he'd never actually heard any musical performance from him before offering him the scholarship. He offered it to him solely because he was the only Inuit cello player the conservatory could locate. Felix demands what he intends to do with Ernie once he graduates, given that he has no job prospects based on musical talent.
** When Felix and Oscar break the news to Ernie, he says that this isn't the first time someone wanted him as the "token Eskimo". He got into a fraternity and even got to be its president because of it.
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* AnAesop: A person should be judged by his talents, personality, and desires, not his ethnicity.
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* AnAesop: A person should be judged by allowed to succeed based on his talents, personality, and desires, not his ethnicity.
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* CatharticChores: Felix apparently cleans when he's upset. According to Oscar, during his breakup with Gloria, he changed the shelf paper so often it flummoxed the insects.
* CrossingTheBurntBridge: After Felix convinces Oscar that Ernie wants to be a cello player and that he has talent, Oscar tells Slim Daniels, the sports coordinator he contacted, that the deal is off, insulting him in the process. Then Felix finds out Ernie has no musical talent and was scouted for his ancestry. Luckily, Slim Daniels wants Ernie regardless and guesses that he doesn't actually play the cello.
* CrossingTheBurntBridge: After Felix convinces Oscar that Ernie wants to be a cello player and that he has talent, Oscar tells Slim Daniels, the sports coordinator he contacted, that the deal is off, insulting him in the process. Then Felix finds out Ernie has no musical talent and was scouted for his ancestry. Luckily, Slim Daniels wants Ernie regardless and guesses that he doesn't actually play the cello.
Changed line(s) 8 (click to see context) from:
* PositiveDiscrimination: After Ernie turns out to be a terrible cello player, Mr. Goodchild admits that he'd never actually heard any musical performance from him before offering him the scholarship. He offered it to him solely because he was the only Inuit cello player the conservatory could locate. Felix demands what he intends to do with Ernie once he graduates, given that he has no job prospects based on musical talent.
to:
* PositiveDiscrimination: NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Ernie has heard a lot of jokes about his coming from a cold area. However, he's very patient with Felix, who can't stop making remarks of the sort (despite constant apologies).
* PositiveDiscrimination:
** After Ernie turns out to be a terrible cello player, Mr. Goodchild admits that he'd never actually heard any musical performance from him before offering him the scholarship. He offered it to him solely because he was the only Inuit cello player the conservatory could locate. Felix demands what he intends to do with Ernie once he graduates, given that he has no job prospects based on musical talent.
** When Felix and Oscar break the news to Ernie, he says that this isn't the first time someone wanted him as the "token Eskimo". He got into a fraternity and even got to be its president because of it.
* PositiveDiscrimination:
** After Ernie turns out to be a terrible cello player, Mr. Goodchild admits that he'd never actually heard any musical performance from him before offering him the scholarship. He offered it to him solely because he was the only Inuit cello player the conservatory could locate. Felix demands what he intends to do with Ernie once he graduates, given that he has no job prospects based on musical talent.
** When Felix and Oscar break the news to Ernie, he says that this isn't the first time someone wanted him as the "token Eskimo". He got into a fraternity and even got to be its president because of it.
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Oscar smuggles Ernie Wilson, a young Inuit athlete he discovered, into the apartment, hoping to hide him from the league drafters until he has a chance to make a worthwhile deal. While Ernie and Felix are alone in the apartment, a visitor, Efram Goodchild from the Eastern Conservatory of Music, arrives to offer Ernie a full scholarship.
!!This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
* AnAesop: A person should be judged by his talents, personality, and desires, not his ethnicity.
* BrickJoke:
** While cancelling the deal he made with Slim Daniels, Oscar yells that he doesn't care if they hired a polar bear for a halftime stunt. At the end, after trying again to get Ernie into a contract, Slim walks off, telling his entourage that they need to hire a polar bear again, just in case.
** Two people comment on how cold the apartment is (Felix turned down the thermostat to make Ernie comfortable). At the end, Ernie asks them to turn up the heat, because ''he's'' freezing.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Ernie hates eating fish of any variety, given how much he ate when he was a baby.
* PositiveDiscrimination: After Ernie turns out to be a terrible cello player, Mr. Goodchild admits that he'd never actually heard any musical performance from him before offering him the scholarship. He offered it to him solely because he was the only Inuit cello player the conservatory could locate. Felix demands what he intends to do with Ernie once he graduates, given that he has no job prospects based on musical talent.
* SuddenlyBilingual: Oscar turns out to speak Inuit, apparently something he learned from Ernie.
!!This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
* AnAesop: A person should be judged by his talents, personality, and desires, not his ethnicity.
* BrickJoke:
** While cancelling the deal he made with Slim Daniels, Oscar yells that he doesn't care if they hired a polar bear for a halftime stunt. At the end, after trying again to get Ernie into a contract, Slim walks off, telling his entourage that they need to hire a polar bear again, just in case.
** Two people comment on how cold the apartment is (Felix turned down the thermostat to make Ernie comfortable). At the end, Ernie asks them to turn up the heat, because ''he's'' freezing.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Ernie hates eating fish of any variety, given how much he ate when he was a baby.
* PositiveDiscrimination: After Ernie turns out to be a terrible cello player, Mr. Goodchild admits that he'd never actually heard any musical performance from him before offering him the scholarship. He offered it to him solely because he was the only Inuit cello player the conservatory could locate. Felix demands what he intends to do with Ernie once he graduates, given that he has no job prospects based on musical talent.
* SuddenlyBilingual: Oscar turns out to speak Inuit, apparently something he learned from Ernie.
