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** Cryin' Brian Dern is pretty harmless, if loud-mouthed, during most of the show, a prime example of a family-friendly ShockJock...until "The Forgotten Deed" (which is also his last appearance) where he nearly jeopardizes the future of Whit's End with the sole intention of boosting his ratings. And relishes every second of it with zero remorse.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Bart Rathbone meeting the love of his life at a funeral? Funny already. Meeting the love of his life at a funeral for a person he doesn't even know, specifically to sell ''life insurance?'' Let's just say you may end up feeling bad for laughing so much.
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* ContinuityLockOut: Egad. Considering it's a show that not only has complex continuity, but also a whopping 900 episodes and counting, it's very easy to feel this way depending on where you start. This would occur a lot more strongly if you accidentally joined the show in the middle of one of the 10+ episode story arcs like "Darkness Before Dawn," the Novacom saga, or "The Ties That Bind." You could also end up extremely confused if you joined the show in the middle of the "Wish You Were Here" arc and had no clue who the heck Whit was.
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* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler: Mitch doesn't actually die; he is alive and well in the Witness Protection Program until the end of the Novacom saga.]] This is no longer that big of a reveal; most of the fandom consists of teenagers and young adults, who grew up with AIO and particularly that storyline.
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** [[spoiler: Mitch doesn't actually die; he is alive and well in the Witness Protection Program until the end of the Novacom saga.]] This is no longer that big of a reveal; most of the fandom consists of teenagers and young adults, who grew up with AIO and particularly thatstoryline.storyline.
** Whit is PutOnABus and takes an expedition to the Middle East in the mid-90s episodes. Originally meant to be a massive shock to listeners when the episodes first aired, virtually everyone knows about this arc now. The first episode to put a spotlight on Whit's departure, "Gone...", even tries to increase the shock by leaving it out of the PreCap, but few contemporary listeners fall for it.
** [[spoiler: Mitch doesn't actually die; he is alive and well in the Witness Protection Program until the end of the Novacom saga.]] This is no longer that big of a reveal; most of the fandom consists of teenagers and young adults, who grew up with AIO and particularly that
** Whit is PutOnABus and takes an expedition to the Middle East in the mid-90s episodes. Originally meant to be a massive shock to listeners when the episodes first aired, virtually everyone knows about this arc now. The first episode to put a spotlight on Whit's departure, "Gone...", even tries to increase the shock by leaving it out of the PreCap, but few contemporary listeners fall for it.
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* ValuesDissonance: Whit ''spanking'' his grandson Monty in "A Member of the Family" comes across as this, now that it is much more of a hot button issue in the years since its first airing in 1987. To be fair, his daughter (mother to Monty) Jana does raise quite a stink about it, but it's only one of a few reasons she is upset rather than the main one. Whatever it was trying to portray it as, it's far from something considered acceptable to depict on a kids' show nowadays.
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* CompleteMonster: Dr. Regis Blackgaard is a ruthlessly corrupt villain who puts many villains in other kids' shows to shame. He regularly manipulates and takes advantage of children to do his dirty work, and also takes advantage of a man with a criminal past via blackmail. For the simple purpose of keeping Tom Riley and Whit out of a board meeting, he resorts to arson that almost gets Tom's livestock killed. He also directly carries out actions that nearly get a young girl killed and [[WouldHurtAChild completely shrugs it off when called out about it.]] While spending time away from Odyssey, he spearheads the development of a bio-terrorism weapon (the Ruku virus) that he intends to use for his own personal gain. And finally, in the "Darkness Before Dawn" arc, he resorts to more and more drastic measures to get Whit's End closed down simply for the purpose of [[spoiler:getting the final ingredient for said weapon out of the Underground Railroad.]] And when Jack Allen spends one last hope, ANY possibility that there is still just the slightest ounce of good left in him when he attempts to bring Blackgaard to Christ, [[spoiler:he turns it down and decides to set off his bomb, nearly killing Jack and actually killing himself, deciding he has nothing to lose and spending one last attempt to rid Odyssey of Whit's End.]]
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*** The icing on the cake for this episode has to be the scene where Whit decides to see for himself exactly what alteration Novacom made to the Imagination Station's operation and implements the changes onto it. He has Connie and Eugene stand by just in case anything goes wrong...which things happen to go horribly wrong ''mere seconds'' after starting the Station. He then crawls out practically clawing for his dear life talking about how [[spoiler:he was portrayed as all of the worst monsters in history, like Cain, Pharaoh, Stalin, and Hitler. No, not witnessing them, ''being filled in their roles.'']] You know, for kids!
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* MoralEventHorizon: Nicky in "The Power" is already a character who has almost no redeeming qualities, given that he's effectively the child equivalent of a corrupt power-hungry dictator who ruthlessly abuses his computer hacking prowess to get what he wants and make things problematic for those who aren't on his side, but he undoubtedly crosses the line when he goes from simply changing students' school records to nearly altering ''the financial record of someone's family.'' [[spoiler:Is it any wonder this is the point in the story where his LaserGuidedKarma kicks in?]]
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** Dr. Regis Blackgaard already is a combination of a MagnificentBastard and a CompleteMonster, and certainly has more than his share of misdeeds, but any doubts you may have about how far gone he is will almost completely vanish towards halfway through "The Battle". Specifically, he hacks into the Imagination Station and sends a massive power surge through it, with Lucy rushing to the scene to stop him and getting hospitalized in the process, the [[WouldHurtAChild exact fate Richard Maxwell was trying to stop Blackgaard from causing]]. The MEH in question is crossed when Richard Maxwell, [[EvenEvilHasStandards thoroughly disgusted by Blackgaard's escapades]], gives him a talking to...who proceeds to [[NoSympathy completely shrug him off.]] [[spoiler:It shouldn't shock anyone that Richard Maxwell's contempt is what leads to his HeelFaceTurn, deciding that releasing his criminal past is worth more than sticking with Blackgaard.]] All of this and only on the ''first album'' of the Blackgaard saga!
** Nicky in "The Power" is already a character who has almost no redeeming qualities, given that he's effectively the child equivalent of a corrupt power-hungry dictator who ruthlessly abuses his computer hacking prowess to get what he wants and make things problematic for those who aren't on his side, but he undoubtedly crosses the line when he goes from simply changing students' school records to nearly altering ''the financial record of someone's family.'' [[spoiler:Is it any wonder this is the point in the story where his LaserGuidedKarma kicks in?]]
** Dr. Regis Blackgaard already is a combination of a MagnificentBastard and a CompleteMonster, and certainly has more than his share of misdeeds, but any doubts you may have about how far gone he is will almost completely vanish towards halfway through "The Battle". Specifically, he hacks into the Imagination Station and sends a massive power surge through it, with Lucy rushing to the scene to stop him and getting hospitalized in the process, the [[WouldHurtAChild exact fate Richard Maxwell was trying to stop Blackgaard from causing]]. The MEH in question is crossed when Richard Maxwell, [[EvenEvilHasStandards thoroughly disgusted by Blackgaard's escapades]], gives him a talking to...who proceeds to [[NoSympathy completely shrug him off.]] [[spoiler:It shouldn't shock anyone that Richard Maxwell's contempt is what leads to his HeelFaceTurn, deciding that releasing his criminal past is worth more than sticking with Blackgaard.]] All of this and only on the ''first album'' of the Blackgaard saga!
** Nicky in "The Power" is already a character who has almost no redeeming qualities, given that he's effectively the child equivalent of a corrupt power-hungry dictator who ruthlessly abuses his computer hacking prowess to get what he wants and make things problematic for those who aren't on his side, but he undoubtedly crosses the line when he goes from simply changing students' school records to nearly altering ''the financial record of someone's family.'' [[spoiler:Is it any wonder this is the point in the story where his LaserGuidedKarma kicks in?]]
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More of an example of God Never Said That. Plus, the "this likely doesn't sit well" makes this very speculative and a rather flimsy claim to make. It's not something that would really catch a lot of people by surprise either, as Whit is very civil when it comes to political disagreements in the show.
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** Also in-universe, "Front Page News," where Curt mentions his father spanking him for his antics during the episode. Later, in "Home Is Where the Hurt Is," we learn Curt's father is an alcoholic, and though Curt denies any physical abuse, it's not hard to imagine now that any physical punishment in his household goes well beyond spanking.
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*** Interestingly, at least one former cast member has [[ComingOutStory come out as LGBTQ]] since her time on the show. Amber Cantorna (nee Arnold), daughter of an ''AIO'' executive producer and Focus on the Family exec, played Brooke Myers and a few other minor characters. She's now married to a woman and is estranged from her blood family, though she continues to identify as Christian and says she has fond memories of working on ''AIO''.
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Pamela has a Problem actually aired more than once, just not as often as most episodes.
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*** In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Focus on the Family offered four-week free trial memberships for new members, allowing users almost completely unfettered access to the entire radio series' back catalog.
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*** On the other hand, Focus on the Family has claimed that, despite his conservative political/social leanings, Whit is apparently ''not'' a UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump supporter - or at least not the type who would participate in rallies while wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. This likely also does not sit well with some members of the ''AIO'' fanbase.
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'''You'd Expect:''' That he would just keep his quiet and move right along. Even if Dylan caught footage of the burglar, his footage has ''zero evidence'' of anyone he taped being the burglar, especially considering the culprit wasn't even wearing his disguise. Even if Dylan showed all his footage to the police, nothing in it could have been considered anything remotely suspicious.\\
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* MemeticMutation: "Just send your card or letter to Odyssey, Colorado Springs CO, 80995. In Canada write to Box 9800, Vancouver BC, [=V6B4G3=]." [[labelnote:Explanation]]At the end of the radio version of every episode, Chris will ''always'' provide the address for fan mail (though this is cut from album versions). If you grew up listening to the show over the radio, chances are extremely high you still have both of these addresses ingrained in your mind to this day because of how often you heard this spelled out for you. Almost every fan of this show will jokingly point out the fact they have the address memorized at some point or another, and sometimes will even run it as a test to see just how big a fan of the show they really were.[[/labelnote]]
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* Whit's DisneyDeath at the end of "Blackgaard's Revenge": Sending him away is one thing (and understandable given the [[CharacterOutlivesActor circumstances]]), but actually killing him; one of the most prominent characters on the show? Yeah, right.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: "[[WhamEpisode A Bite of Applesauce]]", which ends with Connie and Eugene getting fired from Whit's End. They're two out of the show's three leads, so none of the audience was really expecting them to be fired for very long. It was even lampshaded by Chris in the closing bumper for "The Nemesis", after Connie and Eugene have both been hired back.
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** "[[WhamEpisode A Bite of Applesauce]]", which ends with Connie and Eugene getting fired from Whit's End. They're two out of the show's three leads, so none of the audience was really expecting them to be fired for very long. It was even lampshaded by Chris in the closing bumper for "The Nemesis", after Connie and Eugene have both been hiredback.back.
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* Whit's DisneyDeath at the end of "Blackgaard's Revenge": Sending him away is one thing (and understandable given the [[CharacterOutlivesActor circumstances]]), but actually killing him; one of the most prominent characters on the show? Yeah, right.
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* IdiotPlot: The episode "Buried Sin". It's understandable that a kid would think he'd committed murder when a gun he was holding went off and killed someone, and that the descendant of said victim (who is currently a child) would think that, but ''Whit?'' Pretty much ''everyone else?'' No...that's not ''murder''. No court in the US would charge him with murder for accidentally killing someone. I mean, considering his age, he probably wouldn't even have gotten a manslaughter charge. His ''father'' would have been charged with negligence for leaving the gun where his son could get to it and for not teaching his son proper gun safety, but the child would not have been held responsible.
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** The episode "Buried Sin". It's understandable that a kid would think he'd committed murder when a gun he was holding went off and killed someone, and that the descendant of said victim (who is currently a child) would think that, but ''Whit?'' Pretty much ''everyone else?'' No...that's not ''murder''. No court in the US would charge him with murder for accidentally killing someone. I mean, considering his age, he probably wouldn't even have gotten a manslaughter charge. His ''father'' would have been charged with negligence for leaving the gun where his son could get to it and for not teaching his son proper gun safety, but the child would not have been heldresponsible.responsible.
** The first Blackgaard arc is started entirely because of Whit's complete lack of planning ahead with the Applesauce program. So, this is a highly secret and classified computer program that both works [[spoiler:as an emergency shutdown mechanism for Whit's End and for purposes for the government never disclosed to the viewer.]] You would think such a program would be locked behind several levels of security and buried deep within the computer it's stored on so that it wouldn't be possible for any old idiot to just bring it up willy-nilly, but he leaves it ''out in the open'' on the computer's main menu and only locks the ''second level'' security behind a password, with the first level merely requiring the ''program to be launched.'' True, getting to the computer it's stored on at all requires access to a room that is highly secret to begin with, but he didn't even consider the fact that if someone broke into the room, the computer would be all theirs to tamper with. If he had simply put forward the simplest of common sense with locking down the program, the entire arc with Blackgaard could have been completely avoided.
** The episode "Buried Sin". It's understandable that a kid would think he'd committed murder when a gun he was holding went off and killed someone, and that the descendant of said victim (who is currently a child) would think that, but ''Whit?'' Pretty much ''everyone else?'' No...that's not ''murder''. No court in the US would charge him with murder for accidentally killing someone. I mean, considering his age, he probably wouldn't even have gotten a manslaughter charge. His ''father'' would have been charged with negligence for leaving the gun where his son could get to it and for not teaching his son proper gun safety, but the child would not have been held
** The first Blackgaard arc is started entirely because of Whit's complete lack of planning ahead with the Applesauce program. So, this is a highly secret and classified computer program that both works [[spoiler:as an emergency shutdown mechanism for Whit's End and for purposes for the government never disclosed to the viewer.]] You would think such a program would be locked behind several levels of security and buried deep within the computer it's stored on so that it wouldn't be possible for any old idiot to just bring it up willy-nilly, but he leaves it ''out in the open'' on the computer's main menu and only locks the ''second level'' security behind a password, with the first level merely requiring the ''program to be launched.'' True, getting to the computer it's stored on at all requires access to a room that is highly secret to begin with, but he didn't even consider the fact that if someone broke into the room, the computer would be all theirs to tamper with. If he had simply put forward the simplest of common sense with locking down the program, the entire arc with Blackgaard could have been completely avoided.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Listening to any of the Officer Harley episodes can be this if you know the character's controversy. While a fairly light example as it mostly only affected the impressionable youth, it still can be a little uncomfortable knowing that he was quite disliked among parents, and the fact he was intended to be a humorous character puts him in this territory as a result.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The writers goofed and gave Lucy's last name as Cunningham in one episode and Schultz in another. The explanation became that her father died and Shultz was her stepfather's last name, and from then on she was Lucy Cunningham-Schultz.
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** The writers goofed and gave Lucy's last name as Cunningham in one episode and Schultz in another. The explanation became that her father died and Shultz was her stepfather's last name, and from then on she was LucyCunningham-Schultz.Cunningham-Schultz.
** In an early episode that explains the backstory for how Whit's End came to be, Whit claims that he's buying the building and its adjoining land. However, later on it's said that he only owns the building, not the land, which may not have been so problematic if not for the fact that this becomes a pivotal driving force during the Blackgaard saga's finale arc. This conflict is finally put to rest in "The Forgotten Deed" where Whit claims he ''thought'' he was getting both the building and the land at first, but later found out he only owned the building.
** The writers goofed and gave Lucy's last name as Cunningham in one episode and Schultz in another. The explanation became that her father died and Shultz was her stepfather's last name, and from then on she was Lucy
** In an early episode that explains the backstory for how Whit's End came to be, Whit claims that he's buying the building and its adjoining land. However, later on it's said that he only owns the building, not the land, which may not have been so problematic if not for the fact that this becomes a pivotal driving force during the Blackgaard saga's finale arc. This conflict is finally put to rest in "The Forgotten Deed" where Whit claims he ''thought'' he was getting both the building and the land at first, but later found out he only owned the building.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: "The Ties That Bind" as a whole is already a point of contention among the fanbase, but one pretty indisputable case would be when Whit claims at the end of Part 6 that he's set up a Room of Consequences adventure for Olivia on what would happen if more people decided to try their way instead of God's way when it came to LGBT issues. You would think this would create an interesting subplot, but it completely takes place offscreen and is only mentioned one time afterwards offhandedly.
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** [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane While it's ambiguous to how the Imagination Station actually works]], it's implied that it engages all five senses, even simulating pain in some instances. Come the ''Novacom Saga'', the eponymous broadcasting company develops a virtual reality headset called the "NovaBox" Whit discovers that it was developed using research to convert radio waves to brainwaves ''and'' his Imagination Station technology, so it can be reasonably assumed that the device engages all 5 senses as well. A VR headset that can do all that? [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline That sounds awfully familiar.]]
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** "The Black Veil", a dark chapter in the Novacom Saga where a new satellite system is causing an inexplicable HatePlague with several characters becoming strangely irritable and violent. Oh, and this is just an opening stage of the villain's EvilScheme, and things get worse.
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*** Similarly, Creator/MarcEvanJackson voiced David Parker until 2017 (including the aforementioned "Ties That Bind" arc); one of his best-known roles is Kevin Cozner, Raymond Holt's husband on Series/BrooklynNineNine.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In "Family Values", Bart gets away with slyly mentioning having [[PornStash a secret stash]] of "stuff [he] wouldn't want the wife to see".
** While commenting on the filthy lyrics of songs written by his son Rodney in "You Gotta Be Wise", Bart shrugs the complaints off with "Okay, so the kid has a lot to learn about anatomy!"—exacerbated by the fact that Dale Jacobs calls it "pornographic".
** In "Sixties-Something", Bart declares that "everybody tuned in and dropped out" in the sixties—a reference to the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out", coined by Timothy Leary in a speech advocating for psychedelic drug experimentation.
** In "The Y.A.K Problem", Sarah explains to Mandy that they've got [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin "candy hangovers".]]
** In "Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips", Bart Rathbone shouts that Novacom cannot bring their "smut" to Odyssey's TV programming.
** In "The Buck Starts Here", Jared accuses Whit of telling the mayor of Odyssey to pass a new ''puberty'' tax. (It was actually a ''property'' tax.)
** While commenting on the filthy lyrics of songs written by his son Rodney in "You Gotta Be Wise", Bart shrugs the complaints off with "Okay, so the kid has a lot to learn about anatomy!"—exacerbated by the fact that Dale Jacobs calls it "pornographic".
** In "Sixties-Something", Bart declares that "everybody tuned in and dropped out" in the sixties—a reference to the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out", coined by Timothy Leary in a speech advocating for psychedelic drug experimentation.
** In "The Y.A.K Problem", Sarah explains to Mandy that they've got [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin "candy hangovers".]]
** In "Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips", Bart Rathbone shouts that Novacom cannot bring their "smut" to Odyssey's TV programming.
** In "The Buck Starts Here", Jared accuses Whit of telling the mayor of Odyssey to pass a new ''puberty'' tax. (It was actually a ''property'' tax.)
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** The infamous episode "[[AprilFoolsDay I Slap Floor]]", where everyone in Odyssey goes completely bonkers. When asked by Mandy and David Straussberg where an absent Whit is, Bernard explains that he is at home recovering from the events of last week. What happened? Apparently, everyone in town suddenly just seemed to have lost their minds. Whit started giving bizarre (if not outright dangerous) advice and ideas, Connie and Eugene fell madly in love with each other, Tom Riley sold his farm to [[SnakeOilSalesman Bart Rathbone]] (who planned to make it into a ''free space camp'') so Tom could become a rodeo star, [[TheDitz Harlow Doyle]] began solving crimes flawlessly, and other weird and silly things. In the end, it turns out that [[BigBad Dr. Regis Blackgaard]] came back to town disguised as his former lackey Richard Maxwell, wearing a strange cologne that for all intents and purposes [[GRatedDrug made everyone get high]]. Thus, he could take advantage of the confusion and take over the town. [[spoiler: In the end, it turns out that the whole incident didn't actually happen; Bernard was just playing a joke on the kids. It ''was'' April Fools Day[[note]] [[DontExplainTheJoke "I Slap Floor" is an anagram for "April Fools"]] [[/note]] after all.]] TropesAreNotBad, as "I Slap Floor" is widely considered one of the [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funniest episodes of the series]], unlike...
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** The infamous episode "[[AprilFoolsDay I Slap Floor]]", where everyone in Odyssey goes completely bonkers. When asked by Mandy and David Straussberg where an absent Whit is, Bernard explains that he is at home recovering from the events of last week. What happened? Apparently, everyone in town suddenly just seemed to have lost their minds. Whit started giving bizarre (if not outright dangerous) advice and ideas, Connie and Eugene fell madly in love with each other, Tom Riley sold his farm to [[SnakeOilSalesman Bart Rathbone]] (who planned to make it into a ''free space camp'') so Tom could become a rodeo star, [[TheDitz Harlow Doyle]] began solving crimes flawlessly, and other weird and silly things. In the end, it turns out that [[BigBad Dr. Regis Blackgaard]] came back to town disguised as his former lackey Richard Maxwell, wearing a strange cologne that for all intents and purposes [[GRatedDrug made everyone get high]]. Thus, he could take advantage of the confusion and take over the town. [[spoiler: In the end, it turns out that the whole incident didn't actually happen; Bernard was just playing a joke on the kids. It ''was'' April Fools Day[[note]] [[DontExplainTheJoke "I Slap Floor" is an anagram for "April Fools"]] [[/note]] after all.]] TropesAreNotBad, Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, as "I Slap Floor" is widely considered one of the [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funniest episodes of the series]], unlike...
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* MoralEventHorizon: Doug is already established as a JerkAss from the very beginning of "In Harm's Way", and already did quite a few things that were uncalled for on his part early in the episode (a particular point of note, shoving Dylan out of the way off a cliff during a bike race), but he easily crosses it when he threatens to ''kill Elliot,'' in the name of revenge no less! [[note]]Elliot is the main focus of the episode; he's a deaf kid that originally ruins Dylan's chances of winning the bike race at the beginning which causes him to hold a grudge against him, and his prejudice over the way that he "looks weird" to him doesn't help. Later on at Whit's End he ends up accidentally embarrassing Doug, which is what leads him to plot revenge.[[/note]] Making matters worse is that Doug deceives Elliot about halfway through the episode as well, saying that he just "[[BlatantLies wants to be his friend]]" and of course says he has a way to get people to like him...which involves making him take a bike ride off of Suicide Hill. ''Then'' after Dyllan manages to save Elliot, Doug has the ''nerve'' to call it hilarious, and make the claim that [[ExactWords Elliot wanted to do it.]] [[LaserGuidedKarma Mr. Whitaker notifies Doug of the phone call to his parents that he is due to make as a result,]] which almost seems tame considering he doesn't even raise his voice.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Doug is already established as a JerkAss from the very beginning of "In Harm's Way", and already did quite a few things that were uncalled for on his part early in the episode (a particular point of note, shoving Dylan out of the way off a cliff during a bike race), but he easily crosses it when he threatens to ''kill Elliot,'' in the name of revenge no less! [[note]]Elliot is the main focus of the episode; he's a deaf kid that originally ruins Dylan's chances of winning the bike race at the beginning which causes him to hold a grudge against him, and his prejudice over the way that he "looks weird" to him doesn't help. Later on at Whit's End he ends up accidentally embarrassing Doug, which is what leads him to plot revenge.[[/note]] Making matters worse is that Doug deceives Elliot about halfway through the episode as well, saying that he just "[[BlatantLies wants to be his friend]]" and of course says he has a way to get people to like him...which involves making him take a bike ride off of Suicide Hill. ''Then'' after Dyllan Dylan manages to save Elliot, Doug has the ''nerve'' to call it hilarious, and make the claim that [[ExactWords Elliot wanted to do it.]] [[LaserGuidedKarma Mr. Whitaker notifies Doug of the phone call to his parents that he is due to make as a result,]] which almost seems tame considering he doesn't even raise his voice.
