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Would Hit a Girl
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Love at First Sight
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Room Full of Crazy
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Ax-Crazy
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Real Life Writes the Plot
In the Back
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Would Hurt a Child
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She Cleans Up Nicely
The Sociopath
I Have Your Wife
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Scary Black Man
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Woman Scorned
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From Bad to Worse
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Every Car Is a Pinto
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Due to the Dead
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Villain Song
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All Men Are Perverts
Refuge in Audacity
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Police are Useless
Hell Is That Noise
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit
No-Sell
War Is Hell
Missing Mom
Bi the Way
My God, What Have I Done?
Mr. Exposition
A Father to His Men
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Happily Married
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Silence Is Golden
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You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
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Manly Tears
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Revenge
Only Known by Their Nickname
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
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Not Quite Dead
Reality Has No Subtitles
Loophole Abuse
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Laughing Mad
Bare Your Midriff
Sealed Evil in a Can
Everyone Has Standards
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Arranged Marriage
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Camera Abuse
Badass Grandpa
Bald of Evil
Not So Stoic
Cool Shades
All Just a Dream
Stuff Blowing Up
Nice Guy
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Fanservice
Jump Scare
Visual Pun
Curb-Stomp Battle
Daylight Horror
Hypocrite
Agony of the Feet
Nothing Is Scarier
Eureka Moment
The Faceless
Kick the Dog
Diabolus ex Machina
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
He Knows Too Much
Determinator
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Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
And the Adventure Continues
Not So Different
Did Not Get the Girl
Fate Worse than Death
Award-Bait Song
Gold Digger