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* NoIndoorVoice: Lonesome Rhodes frequently shouts at the top of his lungs (his laugh is particularly loud), especially when he's had a few drinks, much to the annoyance of people nearby who are trying to hold their own conversations.

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* NoIndoorVoice: Lonesome Rhodes frequently shouts at the top of his lungs (his laugh is particularly loud), especially when he's had a few drinks, much to the annoyance of people nearby who are trying to hold their own conversations. And as Marcia ditches him at the end, he screams at her to come back and not leave him.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: After Lonesome's opinions are leaked, footage of people reacting is interposed with the buttons on an elevator lighting up, going down. This directly contrasts his earlier rising popularity, which was represented by a chart of Vitajex's sales; in both cases, a diagetic showing of numbers rising or falling with Lonesome's popularity.

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* HypocriticalHumor: The sudden re-appearance of the former Mrs. Rhodes and the confirmation of Lonesome's serial philandering coincides with the broadcast of an episode of ''A Face in the Crowd'' in which Lonesome, backed by a trio reminiscent of the Lennon Sisters, sings of the virtues of "An Old-Fashioned Marriage".

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The sudden re-appearance of the former Mrs. Rhodes and the confirmation of Lonesome's serial philandering coincides with the broadcast of an episode of ''A Face in the Crowd'' in which Lonesome, backed by a trio reminiscent of the Lennon Sisters, sings of the virtues of "An Old-Fashioned Marriage".Marriage".
** "Mama Guitar" sings about how the titular instrument beats a woman every time, sang by a pre-recorded Rhodes as the current Rhodes sets his sights on his next romantic fling.
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* OopsIForgotIWasMarried: Lonesome has already proposed to Marcia when his estranged wife shows up with {{Blackmail}} on her mind. Lonesome explains to a sceptical Marcia that the judge who oversaw their divorce was later jailed for fraud, and the one-time Mrs. Rhodes got the idea that this meant their divorce was invalidated, but that he is planning to re-finalise their divorce by darting across the border to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

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* OopsIForgotIWasMarried: Lonesome has already proposed to Marcia when his estranged wife shows up with {{Blackmail}} on her mind. Lonesome explains to a sceptical skeptical Marcia that the judge who oversaw their divorce was later jailed for fraud, and the one-time Mrs. Rhodes got the idea that this meant their divorce was invalidated, but that he is planning to re-finalise their divorce by darting across the border to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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* CountryMouse: Rhodes' foray into the city to be on television comes with streaks of this. Once he's on the air he almost immediately breaks script to complain about the camera, and then broadens it to the attitude of the city and the people who live within.

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