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8	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/payday.png]]
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10	''Pay Day'' is a 1922 short film written by, directed by, and starring Creator/CharlieChaplin. It is the last two-reel (approx. 20 minutes) short comedy Chaplin ever made.
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12	Charlie is a worker at a construction site who shows a remarkable talent both for catching bricks and for irritating his short-tempered supervisor. Charlie occasionally casts admiring glances at the supervisor's pretty daughter, but at the end of the day he has to go home to his horrible screaming battleaxe of a wife. It's pay day, though, so after managing to conceal some money from the wife Charlie goes out for a night of drinking.
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14	Known for a remarkable sequence in which Chaplin uses a reversed film trick to show the Tramp catching a dizzying incoming blizzard of thrown bricks.
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19	* AlcoholHic: Charlie is doing this by the time he gets home.
20	* AwfulWeddedLife: If your wife sleeps at night with a rolling pin in her arms, things are not good.
21	* ConstructionZoneCalamity: Charlie works at a construction site. He shows a talent for catching bricks and a talent for dropping them on the foreman's head. He also manages to sit on a welding torch.
22	* HenpeckedHusband: Charlie is stuck in a marriage with a woman who is bigger than he is, is very mean, and apparently confiscates all of his pay, given how he has to hide it.
23	* LongingLook: Charlie casts one of these at the foreman's daughter, played by his regular leading lady, Edna Purviance. Since he's married in this film, a Longing Look is all he gets.
24	* ObliviousToLove: The foreman's daughter is barely aware that Charlie exists.
25	* TheTramp: Averted. Although he wears his usual outfit, Charlie has a wife (a horrible one, but still), an apartment, and a job. If the glimpse of a child's toy on the floor is any indication he's also a father.

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