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* '''Played For Laughs''': Spencer pretends to be a critic for a well-known periodical and threatens [[NoIndoorVoice in an extremely loud voice for maximum embarrassment]] a fire-and-brimstone review in which he will accuse Mary's Eatery of everything from uncomfortable chairs to racism as a BavarianFireDrill[[note]]well, [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop it worked for Axel Foley]][[/note]].

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Spencer pretends to be a critic for a well-known periodical and threatens [[NoIndoorVoice in an extremely loud voice for maximum embarrassment]] a fire-and-brimstone review in which he will accuse Mary's Eatery of everything from uncomfortable chairs to racism as a BavarianFireDrill[[note]]well, [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop it worked for Axel Foley]][[/note]].Foley]][[/note]].
** Spencer's lone one-star review makes an angry mob armed with TorchesAndPitchforks besiege the diner [[DisproportionateRetribution within a second of it being posted]].
** Spencer threatens to leave a bad review, so the Eatery deploys [[DisproportionateRetribution the special anti-bad-review bouncers, man-mountain]] {{Torture Technician}}s who drag Spencer [[Room101 to the little room at the back of the Eatery]] while Spencer screams he was not really going to do it and to have mercy.
** Spencer's threat to leave a bad review is [[StronglyWordedLetter a disproportionately feeble attempt at a threat]] that he yells while [[BullyingADragon all sorts of life-threatening insanity is happening within the Eatery]].
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** "If our performance was not the best and the food we delivered was not up to our standards, then okay, go ahead and make it a one-star review. But if you do it just because you wanna be an asshole… [[ImpliedDeathThreat I would begin]] to [[ExternalCombustion ask other people to turn on my cars]], if I were you."

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%%* * '''Invoked''': ???Spencer becomes one of the greatest food critics on the planet so he can make these threats hold quite a lot of weight.



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%%* ** "If our performance was not the best and the food we delivered was not up to our standards, then okay, go ahead and make it a one-star review. But if you do it just because you wanna be an asshole… [[ImpliedDeathThreat I would begin]] to [[ExternalCombustion ask other people to turn on my cars]], if I were you."
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'''Discussed''': ???"Look, I understand that the concept of 'review-bombing' can be a pretty nasty little weapon of harassment nowadays, but that guy Spencer is just one [[LonersAreFreaks extremely kooky]] dude. We are willing to give our best for our customers, but we are not obliged to be anybody's slaves, either. Especially not for a Yelp review."
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Spencer pretends to be a critic for a well-known periodical and threatens [[NoIndoorVoice in an extremely loud voice for maximum embarrassment]] a fire-and-brimstone review in which he will accuse Mary's Eatery of everything from uncomfortable chairs to racism as a BavarianFireDrill[[note]]well, [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop it worked for Axel Foley[[/note]].

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Spencer pretends to be a critic for a well-known periodical and threatens [[NoIndoorVoice in an extremely loud voice for maximum embarrassment]] a fire-and-brimstone review in which he will accuse Mary's Eatery of everything from uncomfortable chairs to racism as a BavarianFireDrill[[note]]well, [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop it worked for Axel Foley[[/note]].Foley]][[/note]].
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Spencer pretends to be a critic for a well-known periodical and threatens [[NoIndoorVoice in an extremely loud voice for maximum embarrassment]] a fire-and-brimstone review in which he will accuse Mary's Eatery of everything from uncomfortable chairs to racism as a BavarianFireDrill[[note]]well, [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop it worked for Axel Foley[[/note]].

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* '''Played for Drama''': Mary kills Spencer so he won't be able to leave his review.
* '''Played for Horror''': A Mary's Eatery waiter is a SerialKiller who targets customers who threaten bad reviews.

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* '''Played for Drama''': Drama''':
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Mary kills Spencer so he won't be able to leave his review.
** Because ReviewsAreTheGospel, Spencer attracts a bunch of equally-minded jerks who review-bomb the Eatery for equally petty motives and annihilate its reputation.
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A Mary's Eatery waiter is a SerialKiller who targets customers who threaten bad reviews.reviews.
** Or worse, Mary's Eatery is targeted by a SerialKiller who believes locations that are not flawlessly reviewed on Yelp are better off being human slaughterhouses.
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** "[[ThreatBackfire Go ahead. Give us one star]]. And [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube we'll post a link right next to the review]] for the security video of you threatening to kill the waiters. [[MutuallyAsuuredDestruction We'll burn together]]."

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** "[[ThreatBackfire Go ahead. Give us one star]]. And [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube we'll post a link right next to the review]] for the security video of you threatening to kill the waiters. [[MutuallyAsuuredDestruction [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction We'll burn together]]."

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* '''Defied''': Spencer would rather avoid giving bad reviews and tell the restaurant directly to improve their services.

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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
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Spencer would rather avoid giving bad reviews and tell the restaurant directly to improve their services.services.
** "[[ThreatBackfire Go ahead. Give us one star]]. And [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube we'll post a link right next to the review]] for the security video of you threatening to kill the waiters. [[MutuallyAsuuredDestruction We'll burn together]]."
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'''Basic Trope''': An unsatisfied customer threatens to leave a bad review.

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'''Basic Trope''': An unsatisfied customer threatens to leave a bad review.{{review}}.

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%%* '''Defied''': ???

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%%* * '''Defied''': ???Spencer would rather avoid giving bad reviews and tell the restaurant directly to improve their services.



* '''Deconstructed''': Spencer gives a bad review to the restaurant just because of a fly in his soup. The restaurant eventually refuses to serve him should he come back.
* '''Reconstructed''': Spencer still gives the restaurant a 1-star rating anyway for denying him their services.



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* '''Inverted''': Spencer says that he'll leave a good review if something extra is added to his meal.

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* '''Inverted''': Spencer says Spencer, while being kicked out, pleads that he'll leave a good glowing review if something extra is added to his meal.they let him stay.
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** The service at Mary's Eatery really was mind

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** The service at Mary's Eatery really was mindbad.

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* '''Justified''': Spencer knows that Mary is a SlaveToPR, and a bad review will ruin her credibility.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
** The service at Mary's Eatery really was mind
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Spencer knows that Mary is a SlaveToPR, and a bad review will ruin her credibility.


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* '''Played for Drama''': Mary kills Spencer so he won't be able to leave his review.
* '''Played for Horror''': A Mary's Eatery waiter is a SerialKiller who targets customers who threaten bad reviews.
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'''Basic Trope''': An unsatisfied customer threatens to leave a bad review.
* '''Straight''': Spencer the UnsatisfiableCustomer visits Mary's Eatery. He complains that there's a fly in his soup, and he'll give the restaurant a 1-star review on [[BlandNameProduct Yilp]] unless he gets a refund.
* '''Exaggerated''': Spencer threatens to not only give the restaurant a 1-star review, but tell all his friends not to visit it and give his server a negative review on [[BlandNameProduct Grassdoor]].
* '''Downplayed''': Spencer says that he won't consider going back to Mary's Eatery unless the problem is fixed.
* '''Justified''': Spencer knows that Mary is a SlaveToPR, and a bad review will ruin her credibility.
* '''Inverted''': Spencer says that he'll leave a good review if something extra is added to his meal.
* '''Subverted''': Spencer tells Mary, "If you don't give me a refund, I'll..." and then logs into Yilp. He's actually rating a car dealership and not Mary's Eatery.
* '''Double Subverted''': "...I'll give ''you'' a bad review too!"
* '''Parodied''': Mary's Eatery's website contains a section listing various "glowing reviews": all of which are pathetic insults by customers threatening to leave bad ratings.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Spencer alternates between praising the restaurant and threatening to give it a bad rating as he goes through his meal.
* '''Averted''': Spencer doesn't use review sites.
* '''Enforced''': "We want to make Spencer look like an obnoxious person, so let's have him threaten the wait staff with a bad review."
* '''Lampshaded''': "I'm going to leave a 1-star review unless you give me a refund!"
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* '''Exploited''': Mary complies to Spencer's request, and he begins using this at other restaurants.
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%%* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "This guy says he's going to leave a bad review. Nobody actually goes through with that in real life."
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Unless you go back to BadReviewThreat, good sir, I shall leave you a 1-star rating.
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