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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Stan wanted Hayley to be an obdient daughter who followed his every word, and by activating her programming, he got it. Then it spectacularly backfires.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Stan wanted Hayley to be an obdient obedient daughter who followed his every word, and by activating her programming, he got it. Then it spectacularly backfires.
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-->'''Klaus:''' I think you only talk to me when there's no one else to turn to. I think you really don't care what I think, and you just need to hear yourself talk. I think you're a selfish bastard and I think you can go to hell!
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Following her brief killing of Stan whilst brainwashed, and after the vicious beatdown she gives him, Haley states that she feels like she got her unfulfilled instincts sorted out; this implies that the defective brainwashing which leads to sleeper agents turning on their handlers is in fact repressed and then magnified/honed rage due to the fact they were subjected to Project Daycare in the first place.

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* AbstractScale: Stan is able to control how aroused Hayley smiles down to the percentage.



* LudicrousPrecision: Stan is able to control how aroused Hayley smiles down to the percentage.
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* BrainwashedBride: Stan activates long-dormant brainwashing in Hayley, in order to get her "on the road to happiness" by marrying a friend's son. Unfortunately for Stan, the brainwashing procedure had been discontinued due to the victims turning on their handlers after a couple of days, and Hayley quickly shifts from mindlessly obedient to relentlessly homicidal immediately after the wedding.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Steve and Roger place an ad for their quirky receptionist. After watching them bicker about who gets to be Wheels, the applicant asks if this is even a real job.

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* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Stan asks why Project Daycare was discontinued, remarking he heard it was because the subjects lost their free will permanently after seven days, to which Bullock responds, "Yes, something like that." It's only when he finds out that Stan activated her and missed the deadline that he tells Stan the ''real'' reason (the subjects turning against their handlers and killing them after seven days of activation)

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* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Stan asks why Project Daycare was discontinued, remarking he heard it was because the subjects lost their free will permanently after seven days, to which Bullock responds, "Yes, something like that." It's only when he finds out that Stan activated her and missed the deadline that he tells Stan the ''real'' reason (the subjects turning against their handlers and killing them after seven days of activation) activation).



* TooDumbToLive: Stan doesn't deactivate Hayley in time, resulting in him being shot in the head and temporarily put in suspended animation.



* WhamLine: After Stan notices that Hayley is starting to act hostile towards him, he worriedly asks Bullock about the real reason for Project Daycare's discontination. Bullock explains that it was discontinued because the subjects who were not deactivated in seven days turned against their handlers and killed them.

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* WhamLine: After Stan notices that Hayley is starting to act hostile towards him, he worriedly asks Bullock about the real reason for Project Daycare's discontination.discontinuation. Bullock explains that it was discontinued because the subjects who were not deactivated in seven days turned against their handlers and killed them.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Roger eventually admits defeat and concedes the role of "Wheels" to Steve.

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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: GracefulLoser: Roger eventually admits defeat and concedes the role of "Wheels" to Steve.
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** Which makes it all the funnier that despite all but having a sign saying declaring he's gay, Stan seems to think he's straight. Though Hayley tells Stan that he's gay while explaining that they had their marriage annulled.

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** Which makes it all the funnier that despite all but having a sign saying declaring he's gay, Stan seems to think he's straight. Though Hayley tells Stan that he's gay while explaining that they had their marriage annulled.
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* EasilyForgiven: Invoked. With neither Hayley nor Francine any wiser about why any of this happened, Stan says he can forgive Hayley for shooting him in the head.

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* EasilyForgiven: Invoked. With neither Hayley nor Francine any wiser about why any of this happened, happened (with Francine being more concerned about the kitchen being trashed), Stan says he can forgive Hayley for shooting him in the head.



* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to control Hayley and the path she takes in life, essentially overwriting her free will in the process, Stan gets a ''brutal'' dose of karma, as missing the deadline causes Hayley to attempt to kill him due to Project Daycare's defective mental programming, and she unleashes a vicious beating on Stan that even temporarily kills him.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to control Hayley and the path she takes in life, essentially overwriting her free will in the process, Stan gets a ''brutal'' dose of karma, as missing the deactivation deadline causes Hayley to attempt to kill him due to Project Daycare's defective mental programming, and she unleashes a vicious beating on Stan that even temporarily kills him.



* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Stan asks why Project Daycare was discontinued, remarking he heard it was because the subjects lost their free will permanently after seven days, to which Bullock responds, "Yes, something like that." It's only when he finds out that Stan activated her and missed the deadline that he tells Stan the ''real'' reason.

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* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Stan asks why Project Daycare was discontinued, remarking he heard it was because the subjects lost their free will permanently after seven days, to which Bullock responds, "Yes, something like that." It's only when he finds out that Stan activated her and missed the deadline that he tells Stan the ''real'' reason. reason (the subjects turning against their handlers and killing them after seven days of activation)



* WhamLine: After Stan notices that Hayley is starting to act hostile towards him, he worriedly asks Bullock about the real reason for Project Daycare's cancellation. Bullock explains this because of the many deaths caused by it.

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* WhamLine: After Stan notices that Hayley is starting to act hostile towards him, he worriedly asks Bullock about the real reason for Project Daycare's cancellation. discontination. Bullock explains this that it was discontinued because of the many deaths caused by it.subjects who were not deactivated in seven days turned against their handlers and killed them.
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* TitleOnlyOpening: This is the first of a handful of episodes in which the opening sequence is cut and just features the title.
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* FreudianExcuse: It's implied that the brainwashing Stan put Hayley through as a child may also explain her rage issues and hypocritical tendencies.
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* CallBack: The limo driver when Stan is fighting Hayley appeared in the season 2 episode "Roger 'n' Me". He gets his payback for how they kept interrupting him by raising the partition.

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