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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: TJ was sick for a few days and thus wasn't aware there's now a currency on the playground.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Even more so than usual in this episode, as none of the teachers step in when the Safety Rangers charge kids a toll to *enter the building* and even get a drink of water. Having to fork over stickers to participate in activities at recess is one thing, but Miss Finster or Principal Prickly should have stepped in the minute that kids started to demand payment for basic school needs.
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* NiceHat: TJ is forced to give up his red baseball cap to Menlo for startup stickers. He wears a flat cap for the rest of the episode.
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* JerkassRealization: After he loses his sticker fortune, TJ mopes on the seesaw, the one place that a person won't get charged for sing it. When his friends come and ask if he needs a lift, TJ says that he doesn't deserve a lift, having forgotten that he was earning stickers so that he could play with them. They forgive him, but Gretchen makes him sign an agreement that he can only own ten percent of the stickers or stamps on the playground.

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* JerkassRealization: After he loses his sticker fortune, TJ mopes on the seesaw, the one place that a person won't get charged for sing using it. When his friends come and ask if he needs a lift, TJ says that he doesn't deserve a lift, having forgotten that he was earning stickers so that he could play with them. They forgive him, but Gretchen makes him sign an agreement that he can only own ten percent of the stickers or stamps on the playground.



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Randall becomes TJ's financial aide, and later runs off with TJ's candy stash when he sees how crazy his boss has become.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Randall becomes TJ's financial aide, advisor, and later runs off with TJ's candy stash when he sees how crazy his boss has become.
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* HereWeGoAgain: TJ leaves to earn back his fortune at the end since with no stickers, he can't play with his freinds. This time, however, he signed an agreement that he can only own about ten percent of the currency used on the playground.

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* HereWeGoAgain: TJ leaves to earn back his fortune at the end since with no stickers, he can't play with his freinds.friends. This time, however, he signed an agreement that he can only own about ten percent of the currency used on the playground.
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* HereWeGoAgain: TJ leaves to earn back his fortune at the end since with nothing. This time, however, he signed an agreement that he can only own about ten percent of the currency used on the playground.

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* HereWeGoAgain: TJ leaves to earn back his fortune at the end since with nothing.no stickers, he can't play with his freinds. This time, however, he signed an agreement that he can only own about ten percent of the currency used on the playground.

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* HereWeGoAgain: TJ leaves to earn back his fortune at the end.

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* HereWeGoAgain: TJ leaves to earn back his fortune at the end.end since with nothing. This time, however, he signed an agreement that he can only own about ten percent of the currency used on the playground.
* JerkassRealization: After he loses his sticker fortune, TJ mopes on the seesaw, the one place that a person won't get charged for sing it. When his friends come and ask if he needs a lift, TJ says that he doesn't deserve a lift, having forgotten that he was earning stickers so that he could play with them. They forgive him, but Gretchen makes him sign an agreement that he can only own ten percent of the stickers or stamps on the playground.



* NoSympathy: Most of the kids don't have any for TJ when he's confused about having to pay stickers for items as simple as getting a drink of water. His friends are the exception, covering TJ's initial "payments". As turnabout goes, TJ behaves the same way towards them when he gets his fortune.



* WhammyBid: Randall takes control of all the playground balls and auctions them off every day. During one such auction, TJ bids 300 stickers for all the balls.

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* WhammyBid: Randall takes control of all the playground balls and auctions them off every day. During one such auction, TJ bids 300 stickers for all the balls.balls.


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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Randall becomes TJ's financial aide, and runs off with his candy stash when he sees how crazy his boss has become.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Randall becomes TJ's financial aide, and later runs off with his TJ's candy stash when he sees how crazy his boss has become.
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* CallBack: The window in Kelso's has an advertisement for Ajimbo.



* EveryManHasHisPrice: TJ pays the Ashleys four stickers to get them to stop saying "scandalous."



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Randall becomes TJ's financial aide, and runs off with his candy stash when he sees how crazy his boss has become.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Randall becomes TJ's financial aide, and runs off with his candy stash when he sees how crazy his boss has become.become.
* WhammyBid: Randall takes control of all the playground balls and auctions them off every day. During one such auction, TJ bids 300 stickers for all the balls.
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* MotiveDecay: Initially, TJ just wanted to earn enough stickers so he could participate in the same activities as his friends. However, he becomes so focused on hustling and earning as many as he can he forgets why he wanted them in the first place.
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* ChekhovsGun: The lick-and-stick alien stamps (“They come all the way from Japan!”) that Mr. Kelso offers when he's sold out of stickers are what the gang uses to flood the playground and ruin TJ's fortune.

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* ChekhovsGun: The lick-and-stick alien stamps (“They ("They come all the way from Japan!”) Japan!") that Mr. Kelso offers when he's sold out of stickers are what the gang uses to flood the playground and ruin TJ's fortune.



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Randall becomes TJ's financial aide, and runs off with his candy stash when he sees how crazy he's become.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Randall becomes TJ's financial aide, and runs off with his candy stash when he sees how crazy he's his boss has become.
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*{{Orphaned Punchline}}: In one scene, Menlo tells a joke that ends with "And so I tell Miss Lemon, you don't file it under MC; you file it under MAC!"
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: After being told that he possesses four out of every five stickers, TJ declares that he must obtain the rest. Gretchen tries to make him see reason by pointing out that everyone either works for him or stands around and does nothing, to which he decides to start charging people for doing nothing.
* HereWeGoAgain: TJ leaves to earn back his fortune at the end.
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* ChehkovsGun: The lick-and-stick alien stamps (“They come all the way from Japan!”) that Mr. Kelso offers when he's sold out of stickers are what the gang uses to flood the playground and ruin TJ's fortune.

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* ChehkovsGun: ChekhovsGun: The lick-and-stick alien stamps (“They come all the way from Japan!”) that Mr. Kelso offers when he's sold out of stickers are what the gang uses to flood the playground and ruin TJ's fortune.
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After being sick for a few days, TJ returns to find that the playground is now utilizing monster stickers as a form of currency. He tries to get in on the action, only to become focused on acquiring wealth over his friends.
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!! Tropes for this episode include:
* ChehkovsGun: The lick-and-stick alien stamps (“They come all the way from Japan!”) that Mr. Kelso offers when he's sold out of stickers are what the gang uses to flood the playground and ruin TJ's fortune.
* NiceHat: TJ is forced to give up his red baseball cap to Menlo for startup stickers. He wears a flat cap for the rest of the episode.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Randall becomes TJ's financial aide, and runs off with his candy stash when he sees how crazy he's become.

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