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* EnemiesList: Once he realizes he can wipe people out of existence by using them in his routine, Samir makes one to exact revenge on people who've wronged him over the years or otherwise deserve to be erased in his eyes.
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* EnemiesList: Once he realizes [[MuseAbuse he can wipe people out of existence by using them in his routine, routine,]] Samir makes one to exact revenge on people who've wronged him over the years or otherwise deserve to be erased in his eyes.
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* RetGone: What Samir does to people with his routines.
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* RetGone: What Samir does to people with his routines. All photos disappear of the vanished person whether digital or physical, other characters say they don't know who Samir is talking about, and [[ButterflyOfDoom whatever actions that have effected the other characters have a ripple effect in the world.]]
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* ShoutOut: Samir appearing on the painting of an audience at the end of the episode echoes the end of Film/TheShining.
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* HowDoIShotWeb: Samir slowly has to learn his power and how it works.
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* ButterflyOfDoom: Removing people from the past causes Samir's present to change. By removing an drunkard comedian that killed a mother and child in a car accident, the accident never happened. By removing the mentor of his girlfriend, she ends with a different career and results in the two never having traveled to Paris.
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* ButterflyOfDoom: Removing people from the past existence causes Samir's present to change. By removing an drunkard comedian that killed a mother and child in a car accident, the accident never happened. By removing the mentor of his girlfriend, she ends with a different career and results in the two never having traveled to Paris.
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* ButterflyOfDoom: Removing people from the past causes Samir's present to change. By removing an drunkard comedian that killed a mother and child in a car accident, the accident never happened. By removing the mentor of his girlfriend, she ends with a different career and results in the two never having traveled to Paris.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Samir realizes the trickle down effect of erasing someone important involving his girlfriend.
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Samir (Kumail Nanjiani) is a political comedian who never gets a laugh. His fellow comedians chide him for not being "funny" and trying to infuse meaning into his work. Things change when he encounters the comedian J.C. Wheeler (Tracy Morgan) and gives him advice in how to gain the fame and attention he desires, which has an unforeseen price.
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Samir (Kumail Nanjiani) is a political comedian who never gets a laugh. His fellow comedians chide him for not being "funny" and trying to infuse meaning into his work. Things change when he encounters the comedian J.C. Wheeler (Tracy Morgan) and gives him advice in how to gain the fame and attention he desires, which has an unforeseen price.
comes with a dangerous effect.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Implied after Samir encounters the enigmatic talks to J.C. Wheeler.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Implied after Samir encounters talks to the enigmatic talks to J.C. Wheeler.
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Samir (Kumail Nanjiani) is a political comedian who never gets a laugh. His fellow comedians chide him for not being "funny" and trying to infuse meaning into his work. Things change when he makes a DealWithTheDevil to pay the bills with his comedy routine.
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Samir (Kumail Nanjiani) is a political comedian who never gets a laugh. His fellow comedians chide him for not being "funny" and trying to infuse meaning into his work. Things change when he makes a DealWithTheDevil to pay encounters the bills with his comedy routine.
comedian J.C. Wheeler (Tracy Morgan) and gives him advice in how to gain the fame and attention he desires, which has an unforeseen price.
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Samir is a political comedian who never gets a laugh. His fellow comedians chide him for not being "funny" and trying to infuse meaning into his work. Things change when he makes a DealWithTheDevil to pay the bills with his comedy routine.
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Samir (Kumail Nanjiani) is a political comedian who never gets a laugh. His fellow comedians chide him for not being "funny" and trying to infuse meaning into his work. Things change when he makes a DealWithTheDevil to pay the bills with his comedy routine.
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* MythologyGag: The name "James Embry" is seen on the wall of the green room which the is name of the main character in ''King Nine Will Not Return''. It's also one of the names on Samir's contact list in his phone; other names include Al Denton (the main character of ''Mr. Denton on Doomsday''), Cadwallader (''Escape Clause''), and James Corry (''The Lonely'').
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* MagicAIsMagicA: The person Samir uses in his routine only gets him a warm reception (and subsequently erased from ever being) if they have a ''personal'' relation to him. He tries using the president as a setup for one of his acts, but he gets the same blasé reaction from the audience as his political humor.
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* EnemiesList: Once he realizes he can wipe people out of existence by using them in his routine, Samir makes one to exact revenge on people who've wronged him over the years or otherwise deserve to be erased in his eyes.
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* ToughRoom: Samir's jokes about the Second Amendment fall flat, even though his actor has done similar routines to a much more appreciative audience in real life.
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* ToughRoom: Samir's jokes about the Second Amendment fall flat, even though his actor has done similar routines to a much more appreciative audience in real life.
life. The fact he always uses the same "well regulated" joke in each of his acts may have something to do with it.
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* NotInFrontOfTheKid: Samir tries to get Didi to stop swearing in front of his girlfriend's nephew. It doesn't work.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: While Samir is checking his phone for any sign of Devan after his act, his contacts list [[MythologyGag includes characters from the original series]], such as [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E37KingNineWillNotReturn James Embry]] and [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E3MrDentonOnDoomsday Al Denton]].
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* FreezeFrameBonus: While Samir is checking his phone for any sign of Devan Deven after his act, his contacts list [[MythologyGag includes characters from the original series]], such as [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E37KingNineWillNotReturn James Embry]] and [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E3MrDentonOnDoomsday Al Denton]].
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* FreezeFrameBonus: While Samir is checking his phone for any sign of Devan after his act, his contacts list [[MythologyGag includes characters from the original series]], such as [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E37KingNineWillNotReturn James Embry]] and [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E3MrDentonOnDoomsday Al Denton]].
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* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Samir initially has this attitude; he believes in infusing humor with meaning is what makes the humor matter.
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* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Samir initially has this attitude; he believes in infusing humor with meaning is what makes the humor matter.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Samir's ultimate solution is to erase himself. Since he never existed, he never erased any of the other people.
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* BookEnds: The episode opens on a mural of figures decorated on a wall in the nightclub. It ends focusing on the same mural, only with Samir added to it.
* HereWeGoAgain: After Samir wipes himself from existence, Didi stumbles upon J.C. and asks him for pointers, suggesting the whole ordeal will befall her this time.
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* ToughRoom: Samir's jokes about the Second Amendment fall flat, even though his actor has done similar routines to a much more appreciative audience in real life.
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->'''Jordan Peele:''' Samir Wassan learned the hard way that sometimes getting everything you want means losing everything you loved, and after finally finding himself on the verge of becoming somebody, he chose instead to once again be a nobody. In the end, Samir's final encore is a show one can only buy a ticket to in the Twilight Zone.
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->'''Jordan Peele:''' Samir Wassan learned the hard way that sometimes getting everything you want means losing everything you loved, and after finally finding himself on the verge of becoming somebody, he chose instead to once again be a nobody. In the end, Samir's final encore is a show one can only buy a ticket to in the Twilight Zone.
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->'''Jordan Peele''': Samir Wasan is an artist of great principle, a man who refuses to compromise his beliefs for a cheap joke. But tonight, he felt the rush of the limelight for the first time. Now, he'll have to decide what really matters to him when the laughter stops. And how much he's willing to give... to the Twilight Zone.
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->'''Jordan Peele''': Samir Wasan Wassan is an artist of great principle, a man who refuses to compromise his beliefs for a cheap joke. But tonight, he felt the rush of the limelight for the first time. Now, he'll have to decide what really matters to him when the laughter stops. And how much he's willing to give... to the Twilight Zone.
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* AssholeVictim: Once Samir realizes what's happening, he focuses on people who "deserve" to be gone. Of course, he screws it up.
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* EquivalentExchange: Samir can get a laugh when he relates a story about someone he knows, but after the set they're RetGone.
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->'''Jordan Peele''': Samir Wasan is an artist of great principle, a man who refuses to compromise his beliefs for a cheap joke. But tonight, he felt the rush of the limelight for the first time. Now, he'll have to decide what really matters to him when the laughter stops. And how much he's willing to give... to the Twilight Zone.
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* ToughRoom: Samir's jokes about the Second Amendment fall flat.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Samir failed to consider how erasing someone critically important to Rena's career would impact her life and their relationship.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Samir towards Rena's mentor. In true Twilight Zone fashion, it bites him in the ass.
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* RetGone: What Samir does to people with his routines.
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* DownerEnding: Samir on realizing he has erased actual people and lives erases himself onstage, with no one the wiser.
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Samir is a political comedian who never gets a laugh. His fellow comedians chide him for not being "funny" and trying to infuse meaning into his work.
!! Tropes for this episode include:
* HumorDissonance: Invoked and lampshaded; Samir doesn't understand why a fellow humorist accused of murder is popular with the crowd, but his relevant stuff gets ''no'' laughs.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Samir initially has this attitude; he believes in infusing humor with meaning is what makes the humor matter.
* ToughRoom: Samir's jokes about the Second Amendment fall flat.
!! Tropes for this episode include:
* HumorDissonance: Invoked and lampshaded; Samir doesn't understand why a fellow humorist accused of murder is popular with the crowd, but his relevant stuff gets ''no'' laughs.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Samir initially has this attitude; he believes in infusing humor with meaning is what makes the humor matter.
* ToughRoom: Samir's jokes about the Second Amendment fall flat.
