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  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The brief scene in "Twittering from the Circus of the Dead" where Blake "psychically wills" Eric to find a reason for Dad to stop the van. Whether Blake actually is psychic or this is just part of her snarky narration, it serves very little purpose besides Blake getting grossed out at the perverted thoughts in her brother's mind.
  • Jerkass Woobie: The protagonists of both segments in this animated special:
    • Richard from "Survivor Type" is an unscrupulous surgeon with heavy ties to New York's criminal underworld, using his connections to get his old college bully killed, selling prescription blanks and doctors' writing samples to dealers on the street, and carrying heroin across international borders for drug runners. Despite this, he grew up in the slums with an abusive, alcoholic father who cared more about getting drunk on wine than his family and died young. Richard also ends up stranded on a desert island and slowly goes insane from hunger and isolation, being forced to start eating his legs to stay alive.
    • Blake from "Twittering from the Circus of the Dead" is a snarky and bratty phone addict who doesn't have a lot of nice things to say about her family, but when the titular circus ends up erupting into chaos at the end, she's reduced to tearfully pleading her followers to send help, as well as clarifying that she never meant any of the bad things she said about her mother.
  • Nausea Fuel: "Survivor Type" goes into horrifically grueling imagery and detail as Richard cuts off his legs and eats them, piece by piece.

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