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* HypocriticalHumor: The four of them chip in for a fancy TV to give to the Drake and his wife, who as it turns out are divorced. They expect to get the TV back, but they find out it was donated to charity instead.
--> '''George''': How could anybody be so selfish and inconsiderate?
--> '''George''': How could anybody be so selfish and inconsiderate?
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* [[{{Ambiguous Disorder}} Ambiguous Disorder]]: When unmedicated, "Crazy" Joe Davola speaks with a flat affect, pedantically takes statements as literal, exhibits extreme paranoia, responds to perceived transgressions with calculated violence, and confuses reality and fiction.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Jerry's parents fit this trope...and a few seasons later we're introduced to George's parents, who are even worse.
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** In "The Pen", Jerry tries to do stand-up to distract from Jack and Morty's fight, but nobody's interested.
--> '''Jerry''': Hey, how you folks doing tonight?\\
'''Man''': Who are you?\\
'''Jerry''': Have you ever noticed how they always give you the peanuts on the planes?\\
'''Woman''': Not my Harry! He flies first class!\\
'''Jerry''': Who ever thought the first thing somebody wants on a plane is a peanut?\\
'''Man''': I'd rather have a bottle of scotch!
--> '''Jerry''': Hey, how you folks doing tonight?\\
'''Man''': Who are you?\\
'''Jerry''': Have you ever noticed how they always give you the peanuts on the planes?\\
'''Woman''': Not my Harry! He flies first class!\\
'''Jerry''': Who ever thought the first thing somebody wants on a plane is a peanut?\\
'''Man''': I'd rather have a bottle of scotch!
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** In "The Limo", Kramer was convinced that Jerry was working for the CIA, and thought Jerry probably knew who killed [[JohnFKennedy Kennedy.]]
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** In "The Limo", Kramer was convinced that Jerry was working for the CIA, and thought Jerry probably knew who killed [[JohnFKennedy [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Kennedy.]]
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* DoubleStandard: As proven in "The Sniffing Accountant", it's okay for women to touch men's material, but do it in reverse, and you're accused of being a pervert and are fired from a job you haven't even started yet.
** Then again, the whole thing was started by a man doing it to Elaine and getting a date with her because of it. Maybe it's just not okay if you're [[BeautyEqualsGoodness unattractive]] (eg. George and Newman), or it's ''only'' okay if you do it to [[OneOfTheBoys Elaine]].
*** Elaine [[AllWomenAreLustful is always looking to nab a guy]], and usually goes for [[GuyOfTheWeek the first guy who grabs her attention, or vice-versa each week]]; plus, in Newman's case, the woman whose material he felt had a boyfriend.
** Then again, the whole thing was started by a man doing it to Elaine and getting a date with her because of it. Maybe it's just not okay if you're [[BeautyEqualsGoodness unattractive]] (eg. George and Newman), or it's ''only'' okay if you do it to [[OneOfTheBoys Elaine]].
*** Elaine [[AllWomenAreLustful is always looking to nab a guy]], and usually goes for [[GuyOfTheWeek the first guy who grabs her attention, or vice-versa each week]]; plus, in Newman's case, the woman whose material he felt had a boyfriend.
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* DoubleStandard: As proven DoubleStandard:
* DoubleStandard:
** Present in the episode "The SniffingAccountant", Accountant" in regards to "feeling someone's material" (that is, rubbing a part of someone's shirt between the thumb and index finger). When a man does it with a woman's shirt, it's okay for [[DisproportionateRetribution treated as the nonverbal equivalent of a death threat]] (though Elaine's boyfriend Jake Jarmel was somehow exempted from it), but when a woman does it with a man's shirt, nobody so much as raises an eyebrow. On the other hand, Jarmel is good-looking. George and Newman are NOT, hence the women to touch men's material, but do it in reverse, and you're accused question reacting like it's practically an AttemptedRape. It's more of a DoubleStandard based on looks rather than gender. That might also explain why Jerry took a beautiful woman feeling his material as a pick-up line.
** Another Double Standard shows up in a later episode, combined with a continuity error. In the episode "The Shower Head," when J. Peterman merely suspects Elaine of being apervert and are fired from a job you haven't even started yet.
** Then again, the whole thing was started by a man doing it to Elaine and getting a datedrug addict, [[WindmillCrusader he immediately becomes angry with her because of it. Maybe it's just not okay if you're [[BeautyEqualsGoodness unattractive]] (eg. George and Newman), or it's ''only'' okay if you do it to [[OneOfTheBoys Elaine]].
***fires her on the spot]]. In the later episode "The Bookstore," when one of Peterman's employees actually ''is'' a drug addict, he assigns Elaine [[AllWomenAreLustful is always looking to nab a guy]], and usually goes for [[GuyOfTheWeek the first guy who grabs her attention, or vice-versa each week]]; plus, in Newman's case, the woman whose material be his nurse while he felt had a boyfriend.gets it out of his system.
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** Present in the episode "The Sniffing
** Another Double Standard shows up in a later episode, combined with a continuity error. In the episode "The Shower Head," when J. Peterman merely suspects Elaine of being a
** Then again, the whole thing was started by a man doing it to Elaine and getting a date
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* {{Defictionalization}}: For a while during TheTurnOfTheMillennium, Eggo had toaster muffin tops. In fact, their advertising gimmick to get people to "Leggo" your Eggo muffin tops was to pretend you were having muffin ''stumps''.
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* HonestJohnsDealership: George considers all car salesmen to be this, to the point where he threatens to walk out simply if a car salesman says hi.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Donald O'Brian, the neo-Nazi leader George was mistaken for in "The Limo", was even denounced by David Duke (then president of the Ku Klux Klan) as a "violent extremist."
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* FreedomFromChoice: Jerry's big problem with his assistant, Katie, in "The Diplomat's Club"; she has multiple choice options for every single thing, finally causing Jerry to snap:
--> '''Jerry''': I don't have a preference, okay! ''Just make a decision yourself''! Stop bothering me with every minor little detail, please?
--> '''Jerry''': I don't have a preference, okay! ''Just make a decision yourself''! Stop bothering me with every minor little detail, please?
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-->'''Jerry:''' Like a creature out of GreekMythology! Part woman, part horrible beast!
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-->'''Jerry:''' Like a creature out of GreekMythology! Myth/GreekMythology! Part woman, part horrible beast!
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** A minor one, but definitely an instance of both ContinuityNod and FridgeBrilliance: In "The Millennium", George Steinbrenner asks Wilhelm, "You got the crazies again?" In the previous season's "The Bottle Deposit", it's revealed that Wilhelm was acting strangely [[note]](specifically, thinking George had completed an assignment when he really hadn't)[[/note]] because he forgot to take his medication.
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** George unwittingly offends Mr. Morgan at work by saying he looks like Sugar Ray Leonard, to which Morgan remarks, "I suppose we all look alike to you, right Costanza?" George spends the rest of the episode trying to buddy up to another black person to prove he's not racist.
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*** A similar example, a doorman assumes everything Jerry says to him is some kind of prejudiced jab against his job and/or social class. Of course, he's a pretty big {{Jerkass}}, so he may have just been doing it to mess with Jerry.
---->'''Jerry:''' How about those Knicks?\\
'''Doorman:''' Oh, I see, on the ''sports'' page.\\
'''Jerry:''' Yeah.\\
'''Doorman:''' What makes you think I wasn't reading the ''Wall Street'' page? Oh, I know, because I'm the uneducated doorman!
** George unwittingly offends Mr. Morgan at work by saying he looks like Sugar Ray Leonard, to which Morgan remarks, "I suppose we all look alike to you, right Costanza?" George spends the rest of the episode trying to buddy up to another black person to prove he's not racist. At the end of the episode, a black guy mistakes Morgan for Sugar Ray. Of course, Morgan had just left mere seconds ago, much to George's frustration.
---->'''Jerry:''' How about those Knicks?\\
'''Doorman:''' Oh, I see, on the ''sports'' page.\\
'''Jerry:''' Yeah.\\
'''Doorman:''' What makes you think I wasn't reading the ''Wall Street'' page? Oh, I know, because I'm the uneducated doorman!
** George unwittingly offends Mr. Morgan at work by saying he looks like Sugar Ray Leonard, to which Morgan remarks, "I suppose we all look alike to you, right Costanza?" George spends the rest of the episode trying to buddy up to another black person to prove he's not racist. At the end of the episode, a black guy mistakes Morgan for Sugar Ray. Of course, Morgan had just left mere seconds ago, much to George's frustration.
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*** Speaking of that: In the earliest episodes, Jason Alexander patterned George after Creator/WoodyAllen. During season 2, however, he began to find his groove with the character.
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*** Speaking of that: In the earliest episodes, Jason Alexander patterned George after Creator/WoodyAllen. During season 2, however, he began to find his groove with the character. This can be attributed to the filming of "The Revenge", when Jason found out that Larry David actually based George off of himself.[[note]]Specifically, learning that the plot involving George quitting and then returning the next day as if nothing happened was based on when David did the same thing on Series/SaturdayNightLive... except, unlike George, he got away with it.[/note]]
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* {{Defictionalization}}: For a while during TheTurnOfTheMillennium, Eggo had toaster muffin tops. In fact, their advertising gimmick to get people to "Leggo" your Eggo muffin tops was to pretend you were having muffin ''stumps''.
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** Jerry keeps having relationships where the woman is very interested in having sex but withholds something else which he then tries to obtain. One relationship was with a massage therapist and ended when Jerry tried to force her hands onto his back for a massage and the other was with a woman with an impressive toy collection which ended when Kramer revealed he had been "drugging" her and playing with her toys.
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** In ''The Money'', Morty and Helen claim to never use the Northstar System in their Cadillac Fleetwood. The Northstar System is another name for the Northstar V8 engine, which was never available on any Fleetwood; the Fleetwood was only offered with a Chevy [=L05=] 350 in 1993 and the Chevy [=LT1=] 350 in 1994-96. Earlier in ''The Cadillac'', they are seen driving without a license plate or a temporary registration, required by Florida law.
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** Perhaps the most famous example is from "The Marine Biologist" in which early in the episode, Kramer is striking golf balls into the ocean as a means of recreation; towards the end, when George is telling the story of how he helped the beached whale, revealing that he found Kramer's golf ball in its blowhole.
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* DenserAndWackier: The post-Larry David seasons were especially like this.
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* DescriptionCut: In "The Gum", Kramer wants to wear a jester outfit to promote a movie at the vintage theater, but is told by the preservationist that only a short, stocky man of generous girth could fit into it. Cut to George wearing the outfit.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In "The Secretary", this definitely applies to Kramer.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In "The Secretary", this definitely applies to Kramer.
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* DescriptionCut: In "The Gum", Kramer wants to wear a jester King Henry VIII outfit to promote a movie at the vintage theater, but is told by the preservationist that only a short, stocky man of generous girth could fit into it. Cut to George wearing the outfit.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:In "The Secretary", this definitely This often applies to Kramer.Kramer.
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**In "The Van Buren Boys":
--> '''Kramer''': Well, I'm on the phone with Bob, and I realize right then and there that I need to return this pair of pants. So, I'm off to the store. (...) ...I slipped, and fell in the mud. Ruining the very pants I was about to return.\\
'''Elaine''': I don't understand.. you were wearing the pants you were returning?\\
'''Kramer''': I guess I ''was''.\\
'''Elaine''': What were you gonna wear on the way back?\\
'''Kramer''': Elaine, are you listening?! I didn't even ''get'' there!
--> '''Kramer''': Well, I'm on the phone with Bob, and I realize right then and there that I need to return this pair of pants. So, I'm off to the store. (...) ...I slipped, and fell in the mud. Ruining the very pants I was about to return.\\
'''Elaine''': I don't understand.. you were wearing the pants you were returning?\\
'''Kramer''': I guess I ''was''.\\
'''Elaine''': What were you gonna wear on the way back?\\
'''Kramer''': Elaine, are you listening?! I didn't even ''get'' there!
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** Newman's first appearance off-camera appearance was a voice-over performed by Larry David, later dubbed in by Wayne Knight in syndication. That's not the weird part: the weird part is that this "Newman" (or "Nueman" in the script) threatened suicide, and was said to be unemployed. In later episodes, it's clear that Newman has been a postal worker as far back as the late '70s when he knew Sam Berkowitz.
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** Newman's first appearance off-camera appearance was a voice-over performed by Larry David, later dubbed in by Wayne Knight in syndication. That's not the weird part: the weird part is that this "Newman" (or "Nueman" in the script) threatened suicide, and was said to be unemployed. In later episodes, it's clear that Newman has been a postal worker as far back as the late '70s when he knew Sam David Berkowitz.
** In "The Library", George recalls how his High School gym teacher always called him "Cantstandya".
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--> '''Jerry''': I'll tell you Lisi, I never expected that movie to-
--> '''Lisi''': ...End underwater?
--> '''Lisi''': ...End underwater?
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--> '''Jerry''': I'll tell you Lisi, I never expected that movie to-
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-->'''Lisi''': ...End '''Lisi''': --End underwater?
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--> '''Jerry''': I mean, most action movies are--
--> '''Lisi''': So much more violent.
--> '''Jerry''': ({{Beat}})--not as long.
--> '''Lisi''': So much more violent.
--> '''Jerry''': ({{Beat}})--not as long.
--> '''Guest''' (to Kramer): You made this salad?
--> '''Kramer:''' Yes, I prepared it ''[[{{Squick}} as I bathed]]!''
--> '''Kramer:''' Yes, I prepared it ''[[{{Squick}} as I bathed]]!''
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* FunWithForeignLanguagesFunWithForeignLanguages: Elaine thinks the Korean women at the Nail Salon are making fun of her, which of course they are. She brings George's father, who secretly speaks Korean, to eavesdrop on their chatter, but his short temper leads him to blow his cover quickly.
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* {{Gayngster}}: Cedric and Bob, the Puerto Rican thugs who steal Elaine's armoire, harass Kramer for not wearing an AIDS ribbon and then chase him for accidentally burning a Puerto Rican flag.
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* {{Gayngster}}: Cedric and Bob, the Puerto Rican thugs pair of street toughs who steal Elaine's armoire, harass Kramer relentlessly for not wearing an AIDS ribbon and then ultaimately chase him down the street for accidentally burning a Puerto Rican flag.
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* GetOut: Mrs. Sweedler threw George out of her office in "The Bris" when he requested to be compensated for the mental patient committing suicide by falling onto his car.
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* GetOut: GetOut:
** This is Elaine's catch phrase.
** Mrs. Sweedler threw George out of her office in "The Bris" when he requested to be compensated for the mental patient committing suicide by falling onto his car.
** This is Elaine's catch phrase.
** Mrs. Sweedler threw George out of her office in "The Bris" when he requested to be compensated for the mental patient committing suicide by falling onto his car.
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** In "The Puerto Rican Day Parade", Jerry got his own alias, Kel Varnson.
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* DenserAndWackier: The post-Larry David seasons were especially like this.
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** "The Wink". After a promise to a sick child that Paul O'Neill will hit two home runs doesn't work out as planned, Kramer pacifies the child by promising that in the next game, O'Neill will catch a fly ball in his hat. This would be an incredibly stupid thing for O'Neill to do; intentionally touching the ball with a piece of equipment other than his glove is illegal for a fielder to do and would result in the batter automatically being given ''three'' bases.
** Another ''Seinfeld'' example comes from the episode where Jerry dates an Olympic gymnast expecting acrobatic sex and being disappointed when the sex turns out to be extremely ordinary. After the encounter, Jerry describes his disappointment to Elaine saying that he expected her to use him as the apparatus. Elaine asks, "You mean like the uneven parallel bars? Or the balance beam? Not... the pommel horse?" This might explain why Jerry found the sex disappointing; his girlfriend would have no experience using a pommel horse since that particular apparatus only appears in men's gymnastics.
** "The Wink". After a promise to a sick child that Paul O'Neill will hit two home runs doesn't work out as planned, Kramer pacifies the child by promising that in the next game, O'Neill will catch a fly ball in his hat. This would be an incredibly stupid thing for O'Neill to do; intentionally touching the ball with a piece of equipment other than his glove is illegal for a fielder to do and would result in the batter automatically being given ''three'' bases.
** Another ''Seinfeld'' example comes from the episode where Jerry dates an Olympic gymnast expecting acrobatic sex and being disappointed when the sex turns out to be extremely ordinary. After the encounter, Jerry describes his disappointment to Elaine saying that he expected her to use him as the apparatus. Elaine asks, "You mean like the uneven parallel bars? Or the balance beam? Not... the pommel horse?" This might explain why Jerry found the sex disappointing; his girlfriend would have no experience using a pommel horse since that particular apparatus only appears in men's gymnastics.
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* BrutalHonesty: Kramer on more than one occasion. In "The Nose Job", for example, Kramer openly tells George's latest girlfriend that she needs a nose job.
** Subverted in "The Kiss Hello". Jerry and Elaine scheme to get Kramer to meet Wendy, because they know he'll criticize her old-fashioned hairdo. It backfires when Kramer finds Wendy's hairdo appealing.
** Subverted in "The Kiss Hello". Jerry and Elaine scheme to get Kramer to meet Wendy, because they know he'll criticize her old-fashioned hairdo. It backfires when Kramer finds Wendy's hairdo appealing.
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* EightiesHair: Probably one of the first 90's sitcoms to almost entirely avert this (even in The Pilot, which technically aired in the late-80's).
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** The episodes also generally followed a single plot until about midway through season four, when the show took on an A-Plot, B-Plot, C-Plot format (with each character, naturally, getting his/her own plot).
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* ActingForTwo: Jerry Stiller in the tag of "The Doll".
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* CompressedVice: George takes his shirt off in the bathroom and doesn't put it on properly again only in "The Gymnast".
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** George takes his shirt off in the bathroom and doesn't put it on properly again only in "TheGymnast".Gymnast".
** In "The Note," George turns gay after experiencing an erection while a male masseuse gives him a massage; after that episode, he's back to his old self, and it's never mentioned again.
** George takes his shirt off in the bathroom and doesn't put it on properly again only in "The
** In "The Note," George turns gay after experiencing an erection while a male masseuse gives him a massage; after that episode, he's back to his old self, and it's never mentioned again.
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***Also in the episode with John Randolph, "The Handicap Spot," Estelle Costanza says that Kramer is "a real troublemaker" and "altogether crazy." In later episodes, she seems quite fond of him, even to the point of flirting with him.
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** George unwittingly offends Mr. Morgan at work by saying he looks like Sugar Ray Leonard, to which Morgan remarks, "I suppose we all look alike to you, right Costanza?" George spends the rest of the episode trying to buddy up to another black person to prove he's not racist.
** Parodied in "The Yada-Yada-Yada," on two different levels: for one thing, Jerry finds Tim Whatley's conversion to Judaism for the jokes offensive... as a comedian, not as a Jew. However, Jerry makes remarks about dentists, and the next thing he knows, he's labeled an Anti-Dentite, and is all be ostricized for it.
** Parodied in "The Yada-Yada-Yada," on two different levels: for one thing, Jerry finds Tim Whatley's conversion to Judaism for the jokes offensive... as a comedian, not as a Jew. However, Jerry makes remarks about dentists, and the next thing he knows, he's labeled an Anti-Dentite, and is all be ostricized for it.
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* {{Corpsing}}: All but Michael Richards were prone to this... so much so, in fact, that Richards would try to ''not'' lose his cool whenever his costars would start to break up. HilariousOuttakes aside, it's not uncommon to see either Seinfeld or Alexander stifle a smile; in fact, Alexander has acknowledged his breaking up at the end of "The Parking Garage," when [[ThrowItIn Kramer's car actually stalled for real when he tries to get it started]].
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* GenreDeconstruction: To the {{Sitcom}} genre, the premise being "a series about nothing". The title character is a RealLife character, and the situations are extremely mundane.
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