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* BigBadEnsemble: There are many villains, all of whom pose a serious threat.
** Twisty is a violent SerialKiller who has set his sights on the Freak Show.
** Dell Toledo seemingly seeks to gain control of the Freak Show and has so far [[spoiler:gotten Meep killed.]]
** Stanley the ConMan seeks to 'collect' the freaks for sinister purposes.
** Dandy is a budding psychopath who now has a serious grudge against the Freak Show.
** Twisty is a violent SerialKiller who has set his sights on the Freak Show.
** Dell Toledo seemingly seeks to gain control of the Freak Show and has so far [[spoiler:gotten Meep killed.]]
** Stanley the ConMan seeks to 'collect' the freaks for sinister purposes.
** Dandy is a budding psychopath who now has a serious grudge against the Freak Show.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Twisty the clown gets this not once but twice, the first time when he approaches the girl having a picnic with her boyfriend and she assumes he's a clown hired by her boyfriend, and the second time when Gloria picks him up on the street and gives him to Dandy.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In episode one, the surgeon taking care of Dot and Bettie say that they have two sets of lungs (4 lungs total). However, later when Bettie take a drag of Elsa's cigarette, Dot blows out smoke. This should not be possible if they do not share the same set of lungs, as indicated by the doctor earlier.
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* ShoutOut: The scene where the freaks chant "Kill the copper!" and throw back alcohol is remarkably similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0 the most famous scene]] from the 1932 film Film/{{Freaks}}.
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* ShoutOut: The scene where the freaks chant "Kill the copper!" and throw back alcohol is remarkably similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0 the most famous scene]] from the 1932 film Film/{{Freaks}}.''Film/{{Freaks}}''.
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* ShoutOut: The scene where the freaks chant "Kill the copper!" and throw back alcohol is remarkably similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0 the most famous scene]] from the 1932 film Film/Freaks.Film/{{Freaks}}.
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* RoleReprisal: Naomi Grossman returning as Pepper marks the first time on the show that an actor has played the same character in multiple seasons.
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* RoleReprisal: Naomi Grossman returning as Pepper marks the first time on the show that an actor has played the same character in multiple seasons. seasons.
* ShoutOut: The scene where the freaks chant "Kill the copper!" and throw back alcohol is remarkably similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0 the most famous scene]] from the 1932 film Film/Freaks.
* ShoutOut: The scene where the freaks chant "Kill the copper!" and throw back alcohol is remarkably similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0 the most famous scene]] from the 1932 film Film/Freaks.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When police come looking for the murdered sheriff, [[spoiler: Jimmy decides to kill two birds with one stone and frame his hateful father by hiding the sheriff's badge in his tent. Unfortunately, Dell catches on and plants the badge in the unfortunate Meep's belongings instead, meaning poor Meep is arrested and ends up being brutally murdered by the other prisoners in the cell he's shoved into.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When police come looking for the murdered sheriff, Detective Bunch, [[spoiler: Jimmy decides to kill two birds with one stone and frame his hateful father by hiding the sheriff's Bunch's badge in his tent. Unfortunately, Dell catches on and plants the badge in the unfortunate Meep's belongings instead, meaning poor Meep is arrested and ends up being brutally murdered by the other prisoners in the cell he's shoved into.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Jimmy left distraught by the knowledge that [[spoiler: his trying to frame Dell ended up in Meep being arrested, and then murdered.]]
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* EndOfAnAge: It's one of the few remaining freak shows and not doing well.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Dell may be an asshole, but his idea about the matinées turns out to completely right.
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* AndStarring: In-universe. When Elsa sees the new posters Dell had printed she is rather angry that he printed her name on the bottom of the poster as a "with" lumped together with the Geek.
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* DamselOutOfDistress: [[spoiler:Bonnie]] successfully escapes Twisty all by herself. [[spoiler:Too bad she gets recaptured by Dandy shortly after.]]
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* AntiHero: Pretty much the entire Freak Show.
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* AnachronismStew: Elsa singing "Life On Mars" by David Bowie. Who was ''five'' in 1952.
** Bette and Dot sing Fiona Apple's "Criminal" in the second episode... 45 years before that song came out, and 27 years before Fiona Apple was even born. Turns out it was deliberate.
** Bette and Dot sing Fiona Apple's "Criminal" in the second episode... 45 years before that song came out, and 27 years before Fiona Apple was even born. Turns out it was deliberate.
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* AnachronismStew: Elsa singing "Life On Mars" by David Bowie. Who was ''five'' in 1952.
**1952. Bette and Dot sing Fiona Apple's "Criminal" in the second episode... 45 years before that song came out, and 27 years before Fiona Apple was even born. Turns out it was deliberate.
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* NiceHat: This being the 50s, many characters have a requisite NiceHat.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Freak Show'' cast.[[note]]From the top, left to right: [[ConjoinedTwins Bettie & Dot Tattler]], [[ConMan Stanley]], Ethel Darling, Desiree Dupree, Gloria Mott, Dell Toredo, Elsa Mars, Jimmy Darling[[/note]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Freak Show'' cast.[[note]]From the top, left to right: [[ConjoinedTwins Bettie & Dot Tattler]], [[ConMan Stanley]], [[GirlsWithMoustaches Ethel Darling, Darling]], [[MultiBoobage Desiree Dupree, Dupree]], [[MyBelovedSmother Gloria Mott, Mott]], [[WorldsStrongestMan Dell Toredo, Toredo]], Elsa Mars, [[TheCharmer Jimmy Darling[[/note]]]]
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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Bonnie cracks Twisty with a 2x4 and successfully escapes confinement. Only to be recaptured by Twisty fanboy, Dandy.]]
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Twisty's first victim is wearing a RedShirt.
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** Bette and Dot sing Fiona Apple's "Criminal" in the second episode... 45 years before that song came out, and 27 years before Fiona Apple was even born. Turns out it was deliberate.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Twisty's first victim is wearing a RedShirt.
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Per ATT, red links are allowed for works, people, and suchlike.
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[[ProductionPosse Returning cast members include]] Creator/JessicaLange, Creator/SarahPaulson, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Creator/DenisOHare, Jamie Brewer, Emma Roberts, Creator/AngelaBassett, Creator/KathyBates, and Creator/GaboureySidibe. New cast members are Creator/MichaelChiklis and Creator/JohnCarrollLynch, with Patti [=LaBelle=], Matt Bomer, and Wes Bentley as guest stars that would appear throughout the season.
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[[ProductionPosse Returning cast members include]] Creator/JessicaLange, Creator/SarahPaulson, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Creator/DenisOHare, Jamie Brewer, Emma Roberts, Creator/AngelaBassett, Creator/KathyBates, and Creator/GaboureySidibe. New cast members are Creator/MichaelChiklis and Creator/JohnCarrollLynch, with Patti [=LaBelle=], Music/{{Patti LaBelle}}, Matt Bomer, and Wes Bentley as guest stars that would appear throughout the season.
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* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Angela Bassett.
* RoleReprisal: Naomi Grossman returning as Pepper marks the first time on the show that an actor has played the same character in multiple seasons.
* RoleReprisal: Naomi Grossman returning as Pepper marks the first time on the show that an actor has played the same character in multiple seasons.
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* AbusiveParents: Eudora Tatler, who kept her daughters locked up out of shame and subjected them to years of verbal (and seemingly physical) abuse.
* AllWomenAreLustful: In the suburbs, there's a very strange sexy party in which bored housewives allow themselves to be fingered by Jimmy the Lobster Boy. It's as bizarre as it sounds.
* AllWomenAreLustful: In the suburbs, there's a very strange sexy party in which bored housewives allow themselves to be fingered by Jimmy the Lobster Boy. It's as bizarre as it sounds.
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* DaylightHorror: Twisty attacks his victims both at night and in broad daylight.
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* DamselInDistress: Bonnie, the girl being kept in a cage by Twisty the SerialKiller MonsterClown. It doesn’t get more distressing than that.
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* DamselInDistress: Bonnie, [[spoiler:Bonnie]], the girl being kept in a cage by Twisty the SerialKiller MonsterClown. It doesn’t get more distressing than that.that.
* DeathBySex: Twisty’s first on-screen victim is a young man who is about to have sex with his girlfriend. [[spoiler: Said girlfriend is then taken prisoner by Twisty.]]
* DeathBySex: Twisty’s first on-screen victim is a young man who is about to have sex with his girlfriend. [[spoiler: Said girlfriend is then taken prisoner by Twisty.]]
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* DamselInDistress: Bonnie, the girl being kept in a cage by Twisty the SerialKiller MonsterClown. It doesn’t get more distressing than that.
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First off, she\'d be listed as Music, not Creator. Secondly, she doesn\'t HAVE a page. You\'re just making a red link.
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[[ProductionPosse Returning cast members include]] Creator/JessicaLange, Creator/SarahPaulson, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Creator/DenisOHare, Jamie Brewer, Emma Roberts, Creator/AngelaBassett, Creator/KathyBates, and Creator/GaboureySidibe. New cast members are Creator/MichaelChiklis and Creator/JohnCarrollLynch, with Creator/{{Patti LaBelle}}, Patti [=LaBelle=], Matt Bomer, and Wes Bentley as guest stars that would appear throughout the season.
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* OnlyInFlorida: The freak show has set up business in a small town on the Floridian coast.
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* OnlyInFlorida: The freak show has set up business in a small town on the Floridian coast.in Florida.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: After [[HospitalHottie Penny the candy striper]] threatens to tell the police that she was kidnapped by the carnival how for days, Elsa blackmails her using an 8mm film of her in a hedonistic, opium-fueled orgy with the rest of the "freaks."
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* DisproportionateRetribution: After [[HospitalHottie Penny the candy striper]] threatens to tell the police that she was kidnapped and held captive by the carnival how for days, Elsa blackmails her using an 8mm film of her in a hedonistic, opium-fueled orgy with the rest of the "freaks."
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* ForegoneConclusion: Pepper will survive the events of this season, since she's already appeared in Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum, set twelve years later.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Pepper will survive the events of this season, since she's already appeared in Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum, set twelve years later.later in 1964.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Pepper will survive the events of this season, since she's already appeared in Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum, set twelve years later.
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* PlotArmor: Pepper will survive the events of this season, since she's already appeared in Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum, set twelve years later.
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\"lives\" implies they\'ve been there for a while, when they\'re stated to have been there a couple months at most.
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* OnlyInFlorida: The freak show lives in a small town on the Floridian coast.
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* OnlyInFlorida: The freak show lives has set up business in a small town on the Floridian coast.
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Why do you think she does not deserve a page?
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[[ProductionPosse Returning cast members include]] Creator/JessicaLange, Creator/SarahPaulson, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Creator/DenisOHare, Jamie Brewer, Emma Roberts, Creator/AngelaBassett, Creator/KathyBates, and Creator/GaboureySidibe. New cast members are Creator/MichaelChiklis and Creator/JohnCarrollLynch, with Patti [=LaBelle=], Creator/{{Patti LaBelle}}, Matt Bomer, and Wes Bentley as guest stars that would appear throughout the season.
