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Hell Is That Noise Would Hurt a Child Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Disappeared Dad Adapted Out Take That! 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Is Serious Business Not Even Bothering with the Accent Running Gag Friend to All Children Only One Name An Aesop Covers Always Lie Beauty Is Never Tarnished All Just a Dream Meaningful Echo Death by Sex Jerk Jock A Minor Kidroduction Department of Redundancy Department Fanservice Extra Credits Gag The Stoner An Axe to Grind Bavarian Fire Drill Mundane Made Awesome Artistic License – Physics Eureka Moment Arch-Enemy Throwing Your Sword Always Works The '70s "Well Done, Son!" Guy Pretty Little Headshots Meaningful Name Badass Bookworm Sequel Escalation Large Ham Bolivian Army Ending You Killed My Father One-Man Army Developing Doomed Characters The Smurfette Principle Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Crazy-Prepared Hero of Another Story Male Frontal Nudity Adaptational Attractiveness Adaptational Heroism Chekhov's Skill Bilingual Bonus Chase Scene Pyrrhic Victory Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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