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  • Catharsis Factor:
    • After suffering Clint's Jerkass antics (from making Chad a humiliated Butt-Monkey, taking his job, and bossing around the staff, to being a bad boyfriend to Clarissa, and finally culminating in him kicking Jeremy's helmet while gloating about it), and the Trauma Conga Line Chad himself suffered throughout Season One, it's very satisfying when Chad manages to turn the tables on Clint using his telekinesis and make the bully cry like the Dirty Coward he is — and get his old job back in the process!
    • After all antics she pulls throughout Seasons 2 and 3 — tearing Chad and Jeremy's relationship apart, turning Jeremy to the Dark Soul Half (which culminated in Weird Jimmy's Accidental Murder), ruining Chad's love life by deporting Libby, and inadvertently causing Randy's Sanity Slippage (which almost destroyed Empire Market) — it's very satisfying to see Maggie being stripped of her position and power. And undergoing a Villainous Breakdown on top of it.
    • After three seasons of enduring suffering, losses and a major Trauma Conga Line, Chad Vader finally becomes the General Manager of Empire Market.
  • Diagnosed by the Audience: After Jimmy was demoted to night shift manager, he "developed some problems". Now, his voice has an odd, lurching quality to it, he giggles at random moments, he converses with his mop, believes that he consults with elves, and generally behaves as if he were an expository character in a horror movie.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Jerkass Woobie: Lloyd is a womanizing, idiotic employee who abuses his position to steal items from the store, but he's also a major Butt-Monkey who is, more often than not, suffering abuse from his supervisor whether he deserves it — he's used as a guinea pig for Chad's experiments, being brainwashed, or being humiliated for just being there.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • In the Season 1 finale, Jeremy makes a broom float into his hand, revealing that he has Force powers. The exact same thing would later happen to a slave boy in the final scene of The Last Jedi.
    • During his stay in the basement with strong Dark Side influences, Jeremy sees a vision of Maggie suddenly sprouting a fanged mouth. In 2019, Rey in The Rise of Skywalker while in the ruins of the 2nd Death Star (which also has strong ties to The Dark Side), sees a vision of herself under the influence of the Dark Side, suddenly sprouting fangs.
  • Moral Event Horizon:
  • Seasonal Rot: Season 4 is not as well-received as its predecessors, due to the shorter episodes, its use of sensational (at the time) one-shot guests who contribute little to the plot (unlike previous side characters) outside of showing up, Chad becoming corrupt and unlikable after finally getting the job he wanted and becoming a puppet for Maggie's manipulations (basically repeating Jeremy's subplot of Season 2), Jeremy getting to be General Manager after barely doing anything on-screen to earn the promotion, and the entirety of Chad Vader being revealed to be a series directed by George Lucas, when this wasn't hinted before in the slightest.
  • Unintentional Period Piece:
  • The Woobie:
    • Jeremy, especially after he kills Weird Jimmy by accident, and later when Damien dies to save the store (rather than allow Jeremy to make the sacrifice). The non-episodic videos also show that Chad routinely forces him into annoying unpleasant activities (such as trying his Super Bowl hot dogs...which Chad knows he's allergic to).
    • Chad Vader, especially in Season One where he undergoes a Trauma Conga Line that almost sees him Driven to Suicide. It gets slightly better in Season Two, but his laser check-out system expires, his growing romance with Libby abruptly ends with Maggie deporting her (through corrupt use of power), and his apprentice Jeremy turns on him under Maggie's influence.
    • Randy after being demoted to Nightshift Manager, going insane, making him easily manipulated by the Evil Doll Baby Cookie into murder — all because he was in charge of Chad during the failed laser-check out system (during which Maggie was in the line of fire).
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot
    • Jeremy's managerial skills shining through and doing all he can to help the store in the face of Chad's tyranny in Season 4 would've been an excellent story arc, but it didn't happen, making his promotion to general manager at the end feel hollow.

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