Tropescilloscope: Have a Gay Old Time

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Is a Crapshoot Domestic Abuse Mercy Kill Fire-Forged Friends No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Adaptational Attractiveness The Dreaded Boom, Headshot! '80s Hair Dull Surprise Combat Pragmatist Adaptational Villainy Self-Deprecation Artistic License – Biology The Mole Scary Black Man Heel Realization Leitmotif Apocalypse How Nothing Is Scarier My Greatest Failure Irony The Dragon Villain with Good Publicity Skewed Priorities Not What It Looks Like Jerkass Has a Point Beauty Is Never Tarnished Damsel in Distress Disney Villain Death Five-Man Band Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Book-Ends Distracted by the Sexy Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Hate Sink Race Lift Rule of Funny Smoking Is Cool Break the Cutie Shout-Out Ax-Crazy Blackmail Pet the Dog Take That! Dutch Angle Leaning on the Fourth Wall Humiliation Conga Cowboy Cop Fat Bastard Took a Level in Jerkass Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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