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* EveryoneHasStandards: Jimmy is an abusive jerk who had no qualms about stealing Sam's prescription pad and sell it to janitor at the high school for a quick buck, but he is genuinely shocked to learn the janitor then used the pad to get drugs to sell to children. When informed about this fact, he comes clean and points the sherriff and deputy to the janitor.

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* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Sheriff Mike ordered a ''hamburger'' with buns and toppings for his dog Cletus. Need any elaboration?
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%% * ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Sheriff Mike ordered a ''hamburger'' with buns and toppings for his dog Cletus. Need any elaboration?
** Yes, please.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Harry retrieves his DoomsdayDevice from the glacier, only for him, Darcy, and Asta to fall into a crevice that opens underneath them.

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Harry retrieves his DoomsdayDevice from the glacier, only for him, Darcy, D'arcy, and Asta to fall into a crevice that opens underneath them.



* CueTheBilliardShot: A scene with Darcy and Asta at the pub opens with a billiard shot.
* DoWrongRight: Harry being distraught over Isabelle leaving (because he hurt her feelings first) starts binge-playing ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day and taking pills. Asta and Darcy take notice and ask him to quit pills and Galaga and join them on a night of smoking pot instead.

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* CueTheBilliardShot: A scene with Darcy D'arcy and Asta at the pub opens with a billiard shot.
* DoWrongRight: Harry being distraught over Isabelle leaving (because he hurt her feelings first) starts binge-playing ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day and taking pills. Asta and Darcy D'arcy take notice and ask him to quit pills and Galaga and join them on a night of smoking pot instead.



* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Isabelle's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair. When drugs and alcohol don't work, he just binge-plays ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day gleefully killing aliens in the town's local bowling alley. Asta and Darcy take notice and pull Harry out (and get him to smoke pot instead).

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* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Isabelle's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair. When drugs and alcohol don't work, he just binge-plays ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day gleefully killing aliens in the town's local bowling alley. Asta and Darcy D'arcy take notice and pull Harry out (and get him to smoke pot instead).



* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Harry after figuring out that the US Government must have captured his ship and put it in a facility just praying he'll wander into the facility so they can capture ''him'' next, Harry gives up his search for his device, downs some alcohol and goes to the diner looking for jobs deciding he's stuck on Earth in human form until the day he dies. One of those jobs he dreadfully imagines is him being a coffee barista serving [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder over-complicated coffee orders]]. He seems to pass on that in favor of becoming a tattoo artist - [[PursueTheDreamJob which he gets so excited about]] (especially with the prospect of winning over Darcy's affection) that he gets lost in the moment right until Max pulls him back to the real world.

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* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Harry after figuring out that the US Government must have captured his ship and put it in a facility just praying he'll wander into the facility so they can capture ''him'' next, Harry gives up his search for his device, downs some alcohol and goes to the diner looking for jobs deciding he's stuck on Earth in human form until the day he dies. One of those jobs he dreadfully imagines is him being a coffee barista serving [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder over-complicated coffee orders]]. He seems to pass on that in favor of becoming a tattoo artist - [[PursueTheDreamJob which he gets so excited about]] (especially with the prospect of winning over Darcy's D'arcy's affection) that he gets lost in the moment right until Max pulls him back to the real world.

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* CliffhangerCopout: It turns out rather than the government agents, the car pulling up to Harry is Izabella angry about his lying to her.

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* CliffhangerCopout: It turns out rather than the government agents, the car pulling up to Harry is Izabella Isabelle angry about his lying to her.



* DoWrongRight: Harry being distraught over Izabella leaving (because he hurt her feelings first) starts binge-playing ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day and taking pills. Asta and Darcy take notice and ask him to quit pills and Galaga and join them on a night of smoking pot instead.

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* DoWrongRight: Harry being distraught over Izabella Isabelle leaving (because he hurt her feelings first) starts binge-playing ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day and taking pills. Asta and Darcy take notice and ask him to quit pills and Galaga and join them on a night of smoking pot instead.



* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Izabella's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair. When drugs and alcohol don't work, he just binge-plays ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day gleefully killing aliens in the town's local bowling alley. Asta and Darcy take notice and pull Harry out (and get him to smoke pot instead).

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* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Izabella's Isabelle's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair. When drugs and alcohol don't work, he just binge-plays ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day gleefully killing aliens in the town's local bowling alley. Asta and Darcy take notice and pull Harry out (and get him to smoke pot instead). instead).
* EmbarrassingDampSheets: Harry drunkenly pees in Max's bed. Max is grossed out and demands Harry leave.
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* MarijuanaIsLSD: After smoking pot together, the girls think that Harry is "so fried" because he's trying to communicate with the octopus in the fishtank. Subverted in that he wasn't actually hallucinating, as he really could talk to his octopus relation.
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* ACrackInTheIce: Harry, Asta, and D'arcy fall down a crevasse in the glacier.
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* CaughtOnTape: Max learns that [[TheMenInBlack Lisa]] stole his piece of Harry's spaceship because he had set up a security camera in his room.

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* TheDogBitesBack: Deputy Baker gets fed up with Sheriff Thompson's {{jerkass}}ery and RageQuit[=s=] the police force altogether.

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* TheDogBitesBack: Deputy Baker gets fed up CueTheBilliardShot: A scene with Sheriff Thompson's {{jerkass}}ery Darcy and RageQuit[=s=] Asta at the police force altogether.pub opens with a billiard shot.



* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Izabella's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair. When drugs and alcohol doesn't work, he just binge-plays ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day gleefully killing aliens in the town's local bowling alley. Asta and Darcy take notice and pull Harry out (and get him to smoke pot instead).

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* DreamWithinADream: Harry has a nightmare about the real Harry coming back from the dead. He wakes up relieved only to find that zombie Harry is still in the room with him. Then he wakes up again.
* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Izabella's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair. When drugs and alcohol doesn't don't work, he just binge-plays ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day gleefully killing aliens in the town's local bowling alley. Asta and Darcy take notice and pull Harry out (and get him to smoke pot instead).
* EnemyMine: Harry and Max work together when their truce didn't work out too well and Harry enlists Max's help in tracking down his ship and device using the green glow. Harry is also flat broke and can't afford groceries, so he [[ComicallySmallDemand asks Max to tell his mother to buy popcorn for him]].



* EnemyMine: Harry and Max work together when their truce didn't work out too well and Harry enlists Max's help in tracking down his ship and device using the green glow. Harry is also flat broke and can't afford groceries, so he [[ComicallySmallDemand asks Max to tell his mother to buy popcorn for him]].



* MistakenForPedophile: Harry refuses to grow a mustache for this particular reason. But later on, he dons a fake one anyways only for Max to tell him to take it off because of this reason claiming he's known an innocent guy who got locked away just for looking like that.

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* MistakenForPedophile: Harry refuses to grow a mustache for this particular reason. But later on, he [[WigDressAccent dons a fake one one]] anyways only for Max to tell him to take it off because of this reason claiming he's known an innocent guy who got locked away just for looking like that.



* PerpSweating: The sheriff shines his desk lamp into Jimmy's face when interrogating him about the murder at the hospital.



* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Harry after figuring out that the US Government must have captured his ship and put it in a facility just praying he'll wander into the facility so they can capture ''him'' next, Harry gives up his search for his device, downs some alcohol and goes to the diner looking for jobs deciding he's stuck on Earth in human form until the day he dies. One of those jobs he dreadfully imagines is him being a coffee barista serving [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder over-complicated coffee orders]]. He seems to pass on that in favor of becoming a tattoo artist - [[PursueTheDreamJob which he gets so excited about]] (especially with the prospect of winning over Darcy's affection) that he gets lost in the moment right until Max pulls him back to the real world.

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* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Harry after figuring out that the US Government must have captured his ship and put it in a facility just praying he'll wander into the facility so they can capture ''him'' next, Harry gives up his search for his device, downs some alcohol and goes to the diner looking for jobs deciding he's stuck on Earth in human form until the day he dies. One of those jobs he dreadfully imagines is him being a coffee barista serving [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder over-complicated coffee orders]]. He seems to pass on that in favor of becoming a tattoo artist - [[PursueTheDreamJob which he gets so excited about]] (especially with the prospect of winning over Darcy's affection) that he gets lost in the moment right until Max pulls him back to the real world.world.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Deputy Baker gets fed up with Sheriff Thompson's {{jerkass}}ery and RageQuit[=s=] the police force altogether.
* TrespassingToTalk: Harry uninvitedly sneaks into Max's bedroom (again) to talk about a collaboration.
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* EpicFail: Harry applying for jobs goes like this.

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* EpicFail: Harry applying for jobs goes like this. He tried to get a job at a bowling alley, but according to Judy her boss said Harry was overqualified for mentioning on his resume he served as a doctor in medicine who has a "PTSD from Stamford".
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* EpicFail: Harry applying for jobs goes like this.



* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Harry after figuring out that the US Government must have captured his ship and put it in a facility just praying he'll wander into the facility so they can capture ''him'' next, Harry gives up his search for a ship, downs some alcohol and then goes to the diner looking for jobs deciding he's stuck on Earth in human form until the day he dies. One of those jobs he dreadfully imagines is him being a coffee barista serving [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder over-complicated coffee orders]]. He seems to pass on that in favor of becoming a tattoo artist - [[PursueTheDreamJob which he gets so excited about]] (especially with the prospect of winning over Darcy's affection) that he gets lost in the moment right until Max pulls him back to the real world.

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* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Harry after figuring out that the US Government must have captured his ship and put it in a facility just praying he'll wander into the facility so they can capture ''him'' next, Harry gives up his search for a ship, his device, downs some alcohol and then goes to the diner looking for jobs deciding he's stuck on Earth in human form until the day he dies. One of those jobs he dreadfully imagines is him being a coffee barista serving [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder over-complicated coffee orders]]. He seems to pass on that in favor of becoming a tattoo artist - [[PursueTheDreamJob which he gets so excited about]] (especially with the prospect of winning over Darcy's affection) that he gets lost in the moment right until Max pulls him back to the real world.
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* EnemyMine: Harry and Max work together when their truce didn't work out too well and Harry enlists Max's help in tracking down his ship and device using the green glow. Harry is also flat broke and can't afford groceries, so he [[ComicallySmallDemand asks Max to tell his mother to buy popcorn]] from the store in exchange for pulling Max out of Georgia.

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* EnemyMine: Harry and Max work together when their truce didn't work out too well and Harry enlists Max's help in tracking down his ship and device using the green glow. Harry is also flat broke and can't afford groceries, so he [[ComicallySmallDemand asks Max to tell his mother to buy popcorn]] from the store in exchange popcorn for pulling Max out of Georgia.him]].
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* FalseFriend: Harry starts using Max on the pretense that Max is helping him find his "radio" (actually a green glowing orb that will disintegrate all of humanity). Max however genuinely started to treat Harry as a friend.

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* RageQuit:

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* RageQuit: So much so it could be a Drinking Game.
** Isabelle has enough of Harry's lies and mistreatment of her and even calling her a burden on his personal space so she quits the relationship and goes back to New York.

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* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Sheriff Mike ordered a ''hamburger'' with buns and toppings for his dog Cletus. Need any elaboration?
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Max keeps playing with a chemistry set scale, making Harry tell him to stop and return to their mission of finding his DoomsdayDevice.



* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: After an octopus chats a bit with Harry, he realizes he forgot to ask Harry for help to break him and all the other octopuses in the Sushi bar out. As Harry leaves, the octopus regretfully mourns "Crap! Shoulda opened with that!"



* MistakenForPedophile: Harry refuses to grow a mustache for this particular reason. But later on, he dons a fake one anyways only for Max to tell him to take it off because of this reason.

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* MistakenForPedophile: Harry refuses to grow a mustache for this particular reason. But later on, he dons a fake one anyways only for Max to tell him to take it off because of this reason.reason claiming he's known an innocent guy who got locked away just for looking like that.


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* RageQuit:
** Harry upon knowing since the end of the previous episode that his spaceship got stolen from where he had parked it under a snowy mountain and right into a guarded military base (Area51) gives up and loses hope on finding his DoomsdayDevice which he needs to kill off the armed men guarding his own ship from him. He pounds his fists on the snow a few times and goes to the diner to look for jobs.
** Deputy Liv also quits her job after she has had enough of Sheriff Mike's {{jerkass}}ery being such an asshole to her all the time especially by considering her even less important than of his dog Cletus who is out sick. Liv squishes (but still takes) the burger Mike ordered for Cletus as she reaches her RageBreakingPoint when Mike argues with her about who gets to read Miranda rights to the drug dealer they just arrested.
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* PrecisionFStrike: The octopus tells off Harry, "I'm stuck in a ''fucking'' aquarium!" when Harry asks him to keep a secret.
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* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Harry after figuring out that the US Government must have captured his ship and put it in a facility just praying he'll wander into the facility so they can capture ''him'' next, Harry gives up his search for a ship, downs some alcohol and then goes to the diner looking for jobs deciding he's stuck on Earth in human form until the day he dies. One of those jobs he dreadfully imagines is him being a coffee barista serving [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder over-complicated coffee orders]]. He seems to pass on that in favor of becoming a tattoo artist.

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* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Harry after figuring out that the US Government must have captured his ship and put it in a facility just praying he'll wander into the facility so they can capture ''him'' next, Harry gives up his search for a ship, downs some alcohol and then goes to the diner looking for jobs deciding he's stuck on Earth in human form until the day he dies. One of those jobs he dreadfully imagines is him being a coffee barista serving [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder over-complicated coffee orders]]. He seems to pass on that in favor of becoming a tattoo artist.artist - [[PursueTheDreamJob which he gets so excited about]] (especially with the prospect of winning over Darcy's affection) that he gets lost in the moment right until Max pulls him back to the real world.

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* MistakenForPedophile: Harry refuses to grow a mustache for this particular reason. But later on, he dons a fake one anyways only for Max to tell him to take it off because of this reason.
* OctopoidAliens: Harry talks telepathically with an octopus giving him a summary of his time on Earth. It turns out octopuses ''are'' aliens, but landed on Earth because a meteor shower threw the ancestors of octopuses off-course and land right into the oceans of Precambrian Earth.

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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: The octopus is voiced by Creator/NathanFillion, who worked with Creator/AlanTudyk on ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
* MistakenForPedophile: Harry refuses to grow a mustache for this particular reason. But later on, he dons a fake one anyways only for Max to tell him to take it off because of this reason.
reason.
* OctopoidAliens: Harry talks telepathically with an octopus giving him a summary of his time on Earth. It turns out octopuses ''are'' aliens, but landed on Earth because a meteor shower threw the ancestors of octopuses off-course and land right into the oceans of Precambrian Earth.
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* DoWrongRight: Harry being distraught over Izabella leaving (because he hurt her feelings first) starts binge-playing ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day. Asta and Darcy take notice and ask him to quit the game and join them on a night of smoking pot instead.

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* DoWrongRight: Harry being distraught over Izabella leaving (because he hurt her feelings first) starts binge-playing ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day. day and taking pills. Asta and Darcy take notice and ask him to quit the game pills and Galaga and join them on a night of smoking pot instead.

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* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Izabella's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair. When drugs and alcohol doesn't work, he just binge-plays ''Space Invaders'' all day gleefully killing aliens in the town's local bowling alley. Asta and Darcy take notice and pull Harry out (and get him to smoke pot instead).

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* DoWrongRight: Harry being distraught over Izabella leaving (because he hurt her feelings first) starts binge-playing ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day. Asta and Darcy take notice and ask him to quit the game and join them on a night of smoking pot instead.
* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Izabella's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair. When drugs and alcohol doesn't work, he just binge-plays ''Space Invaders'' ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' all day gleefully killing aliens in the town's local bowling alley. Asta and Darcy take notice and pull Harry out (and get him to smoke pot instead).
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* EnemyMine: Harry and Max work together when their truce didn't work out too well and Harry enlists Max's help in tracking down his ship and device using the green glow.

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* EnemyMine: Harry and Max work together when their truce didn't work out too well and Harry enlists Max's help in tracking down his ship and device using the green glow. Harry is also flat broke and can't afford groceries, so he [[ComicallySmallDemand asks Max to tell his mother to buy popcorn]] from the store in exchange for pulling Max out of Georgia.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Deputy Baker gets fed up with Sheriff Thompson's {{jerkass}}ery and RageQuit[=s=] the police force altogether.


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* OctopoidAliens: Harry talks telepathically with an octopus giving him a summary of his time on Earth. It turns out octopuses ''are'' aliens, but landed on Earth because a meteor shower threw the ancestors of octopuses off-course and land right into the oceans of Precambrian Earth.
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* CliffhangerCopout: It turns out rather than the government agents, the car pulling up to Harry is Izabella angry about his lying to her.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Apparently each episode of this show will end with one from now on.
* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Izabella's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair. When drugs and alcohol doesn't work, he just binge-plays ''Space Invaders'' all day gleefully killing aliens in the town's local bowling alley. Asta and Darcy take notice and pull Harry out.

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Apparently each episode of this show will end with one Harry retrieves his DoomsdayDevice from now on.
the glacier, only for him, Darcy, and Asta to fall into a crevice that opens underneath them.
* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Izabella's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair. When drugs and alcohol doesn't work, he just binge-plays ''Space Invaders'' all day gleefully killing aliens in the town's local bowling alley. Asta and Darcy take notice and pull Harry out. out (and get him to smoke pot instead).

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* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Izabella's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair.

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Apparently each episode of this show will end with one from now on.
* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Izabella's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair. When drugs and alcohol doesn't work, he just binge-plays ''Space Invaders'' all day gleefully killing aliens in the town's local bowling alley. Asta and Darcy take notice and pull Harry out.
* EnemyMine: Harry and Max work together when their truce didn't work out too well and Harry enlists Max's help in tracking down his ship and device using the green glow.
* ILied: Harry revealed he never kept on keeping his end of the truce with Max, he was going to throw the boy in Georgia and told his parents he can rot in there. And the truce can't be enforced because there's nothing Max can do to retaliate against Harry if he's locked up in a guarded institution.



* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Harry after figuring out that the US Government must have captured his ship and put it in a facility just praying he'll wander into the facility so they can capture ''him'' next, Harry gives up his search for a ship, downs some alcohol and then goes to the diner looking for jobs.

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* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Harry after figuring out that the US Government must have captured his ship and put it in a facility just praying he'll wander into the facility so they can capture ''him'' next, Harry gives up his search for a ship, downs some alcohol and then goes to the diner looking for jobs.jobs deciding he's stuck on Earth in human form until the day he dies. One of those jobs he dreadfully imagines is him being a coffee barista serving [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder over-complicated coffee orders]]. He seems to pass on that in favor of becoming a tattoo artist.
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Harry enlists Max's help to find his ship and device after realizing Max is the only one in town (that includes Harry) who can see green glowing around extraterrestrial material.

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* DrowningMySorrows: Harry after he crushes Izabella's feelings and damages their marriage beyond repair.
* MistakenForPedophile: Harry refuses to grow a mustache for this particular reason. But later on, he dons a fake one anyways only for Max to tell him to take it off because of this reason.
* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Harry after figuring out that the US Government must have captured his ship and put it in a facility just praying he'll wander into the facility so they can capture ''him'' next, Harry gives up his search for a ship, downs some alcohol and then goes to the diner looking for jobs.

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