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* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite being a teacher supposed to step in when two teammates fight and almost kill each other, Whitney's anger at Dalton for interfering in her problem with Jena and almost making it look like he was giving his top student a "special treatment" was a 100 percent reasonable. The fact that Dalton only made it worse because Jena thinks that Whitney got on the team due to her mother's highest position as a senator further proves her point.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite being As a teacher supposed to step in when two teammates fight and almost kill each other, Whitney's anger at Dalton for interfering in her problem with Jena and almost making it look like he was giving his top student a "special treatment" was a 100 percent reasonable. The fact that Dalton only made it worse because Jena thinks that Whitney got on the team due to her mother's highest position as a senator further proves her point.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite being a teacher supposed to step in when two teammates fight and almost kill each other, Whitney's anger at Dalton for interfering in her problem with Jena and almost making it look like he was giving his top student a "special treatment" was a 100 percent reasonable. The fact that Dalton only made it worse because Jena thinks that Whitney got on the team due to her mother's highest position as a senator further proves her point.
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* RaceFetish: Whitney thinks her white secret lover Dalton has a fetish for black women due to him complimenting the color of her skin. He admits he's attracted to black women more than other races.

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* RaceFetish: Whitney thinks her white secret lover Dalton has a fetish for black Black women due to him complimenting the color of her skin. He admits he's attracted to black Black women more than other races.



* {{Troll}}: Canaan makes up a sob story about his sad black life to Kimberly, who believes it without a second thought.

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* {{Troll}}: Canaan makes up a sob story about his sad black Black life to Kimberly, who believes it without a second thought.
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* RaceFetish: Whitney thinks her white secret lover Dalton has a fetish for black women due to him complimenting the color of her skin. He admits he's attracted to black women more than other races.
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Four very different girls end up sharing the same dorm room at Essex College, Vermont. Naive Kimberly Finkle, who came from a conservative town in Arizona, works part-time to pay her tuition and tries to break out of her small-minded self. Aspiring comedian Bela Malhotra wants to get in the prestigious comedy club, only to face the harsh reality of the comedy scene. Privileged Whitney Chase, daughter of a senator from Washington, strikes an affair with the assistant coach of the soccer club but struggles to define herself not as the daughter of a politician. Aloof Leighton Murray, a city girl from New York, originally does not want to share room with the other three, but ends up being roped into joining their social circle while secretly hiding her sexuality.

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Four very different girls end up sharing the same dorm room at Essex College, Vermont. Naive Kimberly Finkle, who came from a conservative town in Arizona, works part-time to pay her tuition and tries to break out of her small-minded self. Aspiring comedian Bela Malhotra wants to get in into the prestigious comedy club, only to face the harsh reality of the comedy scene. Privileged Whitney Chase, daughter of a senator from Washington, strikes starts an affair with the married assistant coach of the soccer club but struggles to define herself not as the daughter of a politician. Aloof Leighton Murray, a city girl from New York, originally does not want to share a room with the other three, but ends up being roped into joining their social circle while secretly hiding her sexuality.



* CastingCouch: Bela gives handjobs to the writers of ''The Catullan'' so she can earn her place. In response, she gets slutshamed by one of the writers' girlfriends at the Theta Pi Delta frat party.

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* CastingCouch: Bela gives handjobs to the writers of ''The Catullan'' so she can earn her place. In response, she gets slutshamed slut-shamed by one of the writers' girlfriends at the Theta Pi Delta frat party.



* TeacherStudentRomance: Whitney has a fling with the assistant soccer coach, Dalton, not knowing that he is married until she bumps into his wife, who doesn't know about the affair, either.
* TheirFirstTime: Kimberly's sex with Max's is their respective first times. She doesn't take it well when he decides to break up the morning after.

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* TeacherStudentRomance: Whitney has a fling with the assistant soccer coach, Dalton, not knowing that he is married until she bumps into his wife, who doesn't know about the affair, affair either.
* TheirFirstTime: Kimberly's sex with Max's Max is their respective first times. She doesn't take it well when he decides to break up the morning after.
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* CastingCouch: Bela gives handjobs to the writers of ''The Catullan'' so she can earn her place. In response, she gets slutshamed by one of the writers' girlfriends at the Theta Pi Delta stag party.

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* CastingCouch: Bela gives handjobs to the writers of ''The Catullan'' so she can earn her place. In response, she gets slutshamed by one of the writers' girlfriends at the Theta Pi Delta stag frat party.
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Four very different girls end up sharing the same dorm room at Essex College, Vermont. Naive Kimberly Finkle, who came from a conservative town in Arizona, works part-time to pay her tuition and tries to break out of her small-minded self. Aspiring comedian Bela Malhotra wants to get in the prestigious comedy club, only to face the harsh reality of the comedy scene. Privileged Whitney Chase, daughter of a senator from Washington, strikes an affair with the assistant coach of the soccer club but struggles to define herself not as the daughter of a politician. Aloof Leighton Murray, a city girl from New York, originally does not want to share room with the other three, but ends up being roped into joining their social circle while secretly hiding her sexuality.
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!!Tropes featured in this episode:
* CastingCouch: Bela gives handjobs to the writers of ''The Catullan'' so she can earn her place. In response, she gets slutshamed by one of the writers' girlfriends at the Theta Pi Delta stag party.
* CelebrityResemblance: PlayedForLaughs. Kimberly says that her boyfriend Max looks like Music/ShawnMendes. Bela, Whitney, and Leighton find out, to their dismay, that he does ''[[GeekPhysique not]]'' look remotely like Shawn Mendes.
* ClosetGay: Leighton. Apparently, even her brother doesn't know, as he still unwittingly ships her with Cory.
* EatingTheEyeCandy:
** Kimberly gets distracted watching a shirtless guy passing by her on the first day of college. That guy ends up being Leighton's brother, Nico.
** Bela dares Cory to bare his abs, and is happy when he complies.
* DiggingHerselfDeeper: Kimberly's attempts to be politically correct towards Canaan.
* FalseFriend: Leighton's "friends" Esme and Francesca dump her because they thought she is bitchy and unapproachable, which, [[HeelRealization as she realizes in hindsight]], is a correct assessment.
* FishOutOfWater: While the other girls either grew up privileged or urban, Kimberly is from a working class, white family from suburban Arizona. She is clueless about race, prudish about a lot of things, and hasn't had sex with her boyfriend of several years. Needless to say, she has the most struggle fitting in at Essex.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Despite savoring the sight of his shirtless body, Kimberly doesn't recall Nico when she meets him again a few days later.
* {{Nepotism}}: Whitney is disparaged by some fellow soccer players because they thought she got in as a senator's daughter.
* RageBreakingPoint: Kimberly vents out her frustration of being broken up by Max by lashing out at a customer who deliberately throws trash at Canaan's direction.
* RelativeError: Bela initially thinks that Nico is Leighton's boyfriend and not her brother.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Whitney has a fling with the assistant soccer coach, Dalton, not knowing that he is married until she bumps into his wife, who doesn't know about the affair, either.
* TheirFirstTime: Kimberly's sex with Max's is their respective first times. She doesn't take it well when he decides to break up the morning after.
* {{Troll}}: Canaan makes up a sob story about his sad black life to Kimberly, who believes it without a second thought.

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