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'''Season Two''': [[Recap/CentralParkS2E01CentralDark 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E02MothersDaze 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E03FistaPuffsMetsOutJustice 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E04OfCourseYouRealizeThisMeansWard 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E05DownToTheUnderwire 5]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E06TheShadow 6]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E07ADecentProposal 7]] -]]]]]

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'''Season Two''': [[Recap/CentralParkS2E01CentralDark 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E02MothersDaze 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E03FistaPuffsMetsOutJustice 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E04OfCourseYouRealizeThisMeansWard 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E05DownToTheUnderwire 5]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E06TheShadow 6]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E07ADecentProposal 7]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E08SirBricksALot 8]] -]]]]]
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'''Season Two''': [[Recap/CentralParkS2E01CentralDark 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E02MothersDaze 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E03FistaPuffsMetsOutJustice 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E04OfCourseYouRealizeThisMeansWard 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E05DownToTheUnderwire 5]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E06TheShadow 6]] -]]]]]

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'''Season Two''': [[Recap/CentralParkS2E01CentralDark 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E02MothersDaze 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E03FistaPuffsMetsOutJustice 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E04OfCourseYouRealizeThisMeansWard 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E05DownToTheUnderwire 5]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E06TheShadow 6]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E07ADecentProposal 7]] -]]]]]
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* ShoutOut: "I'm the Worst" features explicit references to ''Film/SpiderMan2'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', [[{{ComicBook/TheMightyThor}} Thor]], ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', and ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''.

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* ShoutOut: "I'm the Worst" features explicit references to ''Film/SpiderMan2'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', [[{{ComicBook/TheMightyThor}} Thor]], ''[[{{ComicBook/TheMightyThor}} Thor]]'', ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', and ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''.
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'''Season Two''': [[Recap/CentralParkS2E01CentralDark 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E02MothersDaze 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E03FistaPuffsMetsOutJustice 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E04OfCourseYouRealizeThisMeansWard 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E05DownToTheUnderwire 5]] -]]]]]

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'''Season Two''': [[Recap/CentralParkS2E01CentralDark 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E02MothersDaze 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E03FistaPuffsMetsOutJustice 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E04OfCourseYouRealizeThisMeansWard 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E05DownToTheUnderwire 5]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E06TheShadow 6]] -]]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"There is a place / Where the garbage goes when the world forsakes it"]]

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'''Season Two''': [[Recap/CentralParkS2E01CentralDark 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E02MothersDaze 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E03FistaPuffsMetsOutJustice 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E04OfCourseYouRealizeThisMeansWard 4]] -]]]]]

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'''Season Two''': [[Recap/CentralParkS2E01CentralDark 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E02MothersDaze 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E03FistaPuffsMetsOutJustice 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E04OfCourseYouRealizeThisMeansWard 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E05DownToTheUnderwire 5]] -]]]]]
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* BackingAwaySlowly: Owen tries to comfort Molly after her disastrous first kiss with Brendan, but Molly is too frustrated with what happened. Owen backs away from Molly, but he assures it's not her it's him.

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* AgeAppropriateAngst: Due to the fact that she is a teenager and she just had a disastrous kiss with her crush that invoked his allergies, Molly goes delusional over this, and imagines in her fantasies as some sort of monster who is cursed and rots mouths.
* BackingAwaySlowly: Owen tries to comfort Molly after her disastrous first kiss with Brendan, but Molly is too frustrated with what happened. Owen backs away from Molly, but he assures it's not her her, it's him.



* ConfirmBeforeReveal: With the garbage trucks for the park being rerouted to a further location and Owen and his park staff can't keep up with the all trash with all the dumpsters quickly filling up, people are starting to take pictures of the trash littered all over the park.

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* ConfirmBeforeReveal: With the garbage trucks for the park being rerouted to a further location and Owen and his park staff can't keep up with the all trash with all the and dumpsters quickly filling up, people are starting to take pictures of the trash littered all over the park.



* EekAMouse: Paige hates rats and the garbage crisis at the park increased her fear due to the increased rat in the park. Paige spends their sick time setting traps if any rats enter her home while Cole stays home to stop her.

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* EekAMouse: Paige hates rats and the garbage crisis at the park increased her fear due to the increased rat attracted rats in the park. Paige spends their her sick time setting traps if any rats enter her home while Cole stays home to stop her.



* FlashbackCut: Because of the increased trash at the park, Paige believes that the increased trash means more rats in the park. Owen tries to reassure her there aren't more rats in the park than usual, until a quick flashback shows Owen staring in horror at the sight of rats all over the trash.

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* FlashbackCut: Because of the increased trash extra garbage at the park, Paige believes that the increased trash means more rats in the park. Owen tries to reassure her there aren't more rats in the park than usual, until a quick flashback shows Owen staring in horror at the sight of rats all over the trash.



* FromBadToWorse: Because Central Park's trash has been rerouted to a location that's further out, Owen and his staff can't keep up with the trash and all the dumpsters are quickly filling up. It gets worse when lunch time arrives and people are leaving more trash, and it gets even worse when tourists come by to take pictures of the trash, which hurts the park's reputation.

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* FromBadToWorse: Because Central Park's trash has been rerouted to a location that's further out, Owen and his staff can't keep up with the trash and all the dumpsters are quickly filling up. It gets worse when lunch time arrives and people are leaving more trash, and it gets even worse when tourists come by to take pictures of the trash, which hurts the park's reputation.



* HypocriticalHumor: Cole spends the entire day trying to stop Paige from killing any rats in her home and tells them they don't deserve to die. But when Paige and Cole sees a swarm of rats in their basement and they run out in terror, Cole doesn't care about the rats anymore and wants them all dead.

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* HypocriticalHumor: {{Hypocrite}}: Cole spends the entire day trying to stop Paige from killing any rats in her home and tells them they don't deserve to die. But when Paige and Cole sees a swarm of rats in their basement and they run out in terror, Cole doesn't care about the rats anymore and wants them all dead.



* MundaneMadeAwesome: Owen has a system to help keep Central Park trash-free, Birdie describes Owen's system as a "Garbage Ballet", which leads to the titular song where the park workers and garbagemen do ballet dancing while transporting the garbage.

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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Owen has a system to help keep Central Park trash-free, which Birdie describes Owen's system as a "Garbage Ballet", which leads to the titular song where the park workers and garbagemen do ballet dancing while transporting the garbage.



* NoYou: When one of the groundskeepers tells Owen the dumpsters at the Bandshell is full and people are closing it the "Bandsmell", Owen snaps at him and say ''he's'' a "Bandsmell" and then apologizes.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Bitsy spends the entire Episode trying to convince the cleaning staff that the seventh floor is not haunted. She agrees to spend the night on said floor in order to convince them. While she openly mocks them for thinking the floor was haunted, as soon as Bitsy is alone she openly expresses that she can feel (and smell) her Father haunting the floor.
* PlayingSick: When a sick Paige plans on killing any rats they might be inside their home, Cole pretends to be sick so he can stop her from killing any. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome He eventually catches his mom's cold and is sick for real]].

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* NoYou: When one of the groundskeepers tells Owen the dumpsters at the Bandshell is are full and people are closing it the "Bandsmell", Owen snaps at him and say ''he's'' a "Bandsmell" and then apologizes.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Bitsy spends the entire Episode episode trying to convince the cleaning staff that the seventh floor is not haunted. She agrees to spend the night on said floor in order to convince them. While she openly mocks them for thinking the floor was haunted, as soon as Bitsy is alone she openly expresses that she can feel (and smell) her Father haunting the floor.
* PlayingSick: When a sick Paige plans on killing any rats they that might be inside their home, Cole pretends to be sick so he can stop her from killing any. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome He eventually catches his mom's cold and is sick for real]].



* SpecialGuest: Music/CyndiLauper doesn't appear in the episode, but she did co-wrote the songs "Garbage Ballet", "Rats" and "Rats Calypso Reprise".



* SwarmOfRats: When Cole tries to stop Paige from killing the rat in the basement, Paige drops her flashlight and the light reveals a swarm of rats eating their food and Paige and Cole run out of the basement in terror. By it turns out that they both hallucinated the rats as Owen tells them he and the exterminator didn't find anything in the basement.

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* SwarmOfRats: When Cole tries to stop Paige from killing the rat in the basement, Paige drops her flashlight and the light reveals a swarm of rats eating their food and food, causing Paige and Cole to run out of the basement in terror. By But it turns out that they both hallucinated the rats as Owen tells them he and the exterminator didn't find anything in the basement.



* YourHeadASplode: Because of her disastrous kiss with Brendan, Molly drew in her comic Fista-Puffs kissing Kite Boy and his face melting, she rewind time to wipe her lips and kiss him again only for his face to melt again, and she rewind time again to blow him a kiss, only for his head to explode as she scream in terror.

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* YourHeadASplode: Because of her disastrous kiss with Brendan, Molly drew twice in her comic Fista-Puffs kissing Kite Boy and his face melting, she rewind time to wipe her lips and kiss him again only for his face to melt again, and she rewind time again to blow him a kiss, only for his head to explode as she scream screams in terror.
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'''Season One''': [[Recap/CentralParkS1E1EpisodeOne 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E2SkatersCircle 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E3HatLuncheon 3]] | '''4''' | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E5DogSprayAfternoon 5]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E6RivalBusker 6]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E7SquirrelInterrupted 7]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E8HotOven 8]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E9LiveItUpTonight 9]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E10AFishCalledSnakehead 10]] -]]]]]

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'''Season One''': [[Recap/CentralParkS1E1EpisodeOne 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E2SkatersCircle 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E3HatLuncheon 3]] | '''4''' | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E5DogSprayAfternoon 5]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E6RivalBusker 6]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E7SquirrelInterrupted 7]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E8HotOven 8]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E9LiveItUpTonight 9]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E10AFishCalledSnakehead 10]] 10]]\\
'''Season Two''': [[Recap/CentralParkS2E01CentralDark 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E02MothersDaze 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E03FistaPuffsMetsOutJustice 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS2E04OfCourseYouRealizeThisMeansWard 4]]
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'''Season One''': [[Recap/CentralParkS1E1EpisodeOne 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E2SkatersCircle 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E3HatLuncheon 3]] | '''4''' | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E5DogSprayAfternoon 5]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E6RivalBusker 6]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E7SquirrelInterrupted 7]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E8HotOven 8]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E9LiveItUpTonight 9]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS1E10AFishCalledSnakehead 10]] -]]]]]
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** Paige quotes from ''Film/{{Rambo}}'' twice. Cole is unfamiliar with the film.

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** Paige quotes from ''Film/{{Rambo}}'' ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' twice. Cole is unfamiliar with the film.
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* TwoWordsICantCount: Birdie thinks that "My best friend" is one word, and "Bitsy" is two words.
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* ConfirmBeforeReveal: With the garbage trucks for the park being rerouted to a further location and Owen and his park staff can't keep up with the all trash with all the dumpsters quickly filling up, people are starting to take pictures of the trash littered all over the park.
-->'''Park Worker:''' ''(on the radio)'' Owen. Is it bad if a busload of tourists just pulled up and start taking pictures of the trash?\\
'''Owen:''' Yes.\\
'''Park Worker:''' So it's worse if ''three'' busloads just pulled up.\\
'''Owen:''' [[OhCrap Gah!]]
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* PlayingSick: When a sick Paige plans on killing any rats they might be inside their home, Cole pretends to be sick so he can stop her from killing any. [[RealityEnsues He eventually catches his mom's cold and is sick for real]].

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* PlayingSick: When a sick Paige plans on killing any rats they might be inside their home, Cole pretends to be sick so he can stop her from killing any. [[RealityEnsues [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome He eventually catches his mom's cold and is sick for real]].

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* RealityEnsues: Cole pretends to be sick so he can stay home and stop his mom from killing any rats. But because Paige is actually sick, his exposure around her causes him to catch her cold and get sick for real since he didn't taking any precautionary steps to keep himself healthy.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Cole pretends to be sick so he can stay home and stop his mom from killing any rats. But because Paige is actually sick, his exposure around her causes him to catch her cold and get sick for real since he didn't taking any precautionary steps to keep himself healthy.
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->'''Written by:''' Monica Padrick

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* IncrediblyLameFun: Owen brings his family to a tree to show them the Natural History Museum will be live streaming an owl nest. Paige and Molly aren't impressed, but Cole likes it due to being an AnimalLover.
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* IncrediblyLameFun: Owen brings his family to a tree to show them the Natural History Museum will be live streaming an owl nest. Paige and Molly aren't impressed, but Cole likes it due to being an AnimalLover.
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* TheVillainSucksSong: "Rats" has Paige singing how awful rats are and wants them dead if they're in her home. Cole, on the other hand, tries to stop her from killing any rats and sings how they're not bad.

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* BackingAwaySlowly: Owen tries to comfort Molly after her disastrous first kiss with Brendan, but Molly is to frustrated with what happened. Owen backs away from Molly, but he assures it's not her it's him.



* FacialHorror: In Molly's comic, after Fista-Puffs' kiss damages Kite Boy's face, he reveals that the skin around his mouth has been melted off revealing his teeth and bone.



* SwarmOfRats: When Cole tries to stop Paige from killing the rat in the basement, Paige drops her flashlight and the light reveals a swarm of rats eating their food and Paige and Cole run out of the basement in fear. By it turns out that they both hallucinated the rats as Owen tells them he and the exterminator didn't find anything in the basement.

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* SwarmOfRats: When Cole tries to stop Paige from killing the rat in the basement, Paige drops her flashlight and the light reveals a swarm of rats eating their food and Paige and Cole run out of the basement in fear.terror. By it turns out that they both hallucinated the rats as Owen tells them he and the exterminator didn't find anything in the basement.


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* YourHeadASplode: Because of her disastrous kiss with Brendan, Molly drew in her comic Fista-Puffs kissing Kite Boy and his face melting, she rewind time to wipe her lips and kiss him again only for his face to melt again, and she rewind time again to blow him a kiss, only for his head to explode as she scream in terror.
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* BSODSong: "I'm the Worst", where Molly draws Fista-Puffs saying how she's horrible for ruining Kite Boys' face.

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[[folder:Songs]]
* Garbage Ballet - Park Staff
* Rats - Paige and Cole
* I'm The Worst - Molly
* Manager to Manager - Owen and Esposito
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* FreezeFrameBonus: After Molly and Hazel discovers Brendan's phone in her room and Hazel plugs the phone in a charger, the phone is turned on and Molly's unread text messages pop up and they get cringey and desperate as more of her texts appears.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Cole spends the entire day trying to stop Paige from killing any rats in her home and tells them they don't deserve to die. But when Paige and Cole sees a swarm of rats in their basement and they run out in terror, Cole doesn't care about the rats anymore and wants them all die.
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* CounterpointDuet: "Rats" has Paige singing how she hates rats and wants to kill them, while Cole sings how rats don't deserve to be killed and they're good.


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* EekAMouse: Paige hates rats and the garbage crisis at the park increased her fear due to the increased rat in the park. Paige spends their sick time setting traps if any rats enter her home while Cole stays home to stop her.


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* TheVillainSucksSong: "Rats" has Paige singing how awful rats are and wants them dead if they're in her home. Cole, on the other hand, tries to stop her from killing any rats and sings how they're not bad.
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* FlashbackCut: Because of the increased trash at the park, Paige believes that the increased trash means more rats in the park. Owen tries to reassure her there aren't more rats in the park than usual, until a quick flashback shows Owen staring in horror at the sight of rats all over the trash.


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* SwarmOfRats: When Cole tries to stop Paige from killing the rat in the basement, Paige drops her flashlight and the light reveals a swarm of rats eating their food and Paige and Cole run out of the basement in fear. By it turns out that they both hallucinated the rats as Owen tells them he and the exterminator didn't find anything in the basement.
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* FromBadToWorse: Because Central Park's trash has been rerouted to a location that's further out, Owen and his staff can't keep up with the trash and all the dumpsters are quickly filling up. It gets worse when lunch time arrives and people are leaving more trash, and it gets even worse when a tourists come by to take pictures of the trash, which hurts the park's reputation.

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* FromBadToWorse: Because Central Park's trash has been rerouted to a location that's further out, Owen and his staff can't keep up with the trash and all the dumpsters are quickly filling up. It gets worse when lunch time arrives and people are leaving more trash, and it gets even worse when a tourists come by to take pictures of the trash, which hurts the park's reputation.
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* FromBadToWorse: Because Central Park's trash has been rerouted to a location that's further out, Owen and his staff can't keep up with the trash and all the dumpsters are quickly filling up. It gets worse when lunch time arrives and people are leaving more trash, and it gets even worse when a tourists come by to take pictures of the trash, which hurts the park's reputation.


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* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: Molly has been texting Brendan apologizing for her kiss and seeing if he's okay, but she assumes he's not responding back because he's ignoring her and he doesn't forgive her. Then Molly and Hazel discovers Molly had Brendan's phone this whole time under her laundry and the phone battery died. Brendan gave Molly his phone so she could put her number in it, but he had to leave because of his peanut allergy and he forgot to take it back.


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* NoYou: When one of the groundskeepers tells Owen the dumpsters at the Band Shell is full and the people are closing it the Band Smell, Owen snaps at him and say he's a Band Smell and then apologizes.

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