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* BrickJoke: In the cold opening, Cleveland throws Rallo's phone out of the car on the side of the road, in the following scene Lester pulls out said iPhone and says that he found it on the side of the road.
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* AlternateHistory: Stoolbend's history involved a [[CivilWar civil war]], where the south won.

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* AlternateHistory: Stoolbend's history involved a The Battle of Stoolbend in the [[CivilWar civil war]], American Civil War]], a battle where the south won.



* ProtestByObstruction: Cleveland chains himself to a statue to protect it from getting torn down.

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* ProtestByObstruction: Cleveland chains himself to a statue to protect it from getting torn down. He later regrets it when he finds out that the statue is of a slave owner and general in the Confederate States of America.
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* TheAmericanCivilWar: The Battle of Stoolbend was one of the most embarrassing losses for the Union and one of the greatest victories for the Confederacy. This is an important part of Stoolbend's history.

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* TheAmericanCivilWar: UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar: The Battle of Stoolbend was one of the most embarrassing losses for the Union and one of the greatest victories for the Confederacy. This is an important part of Stoolbend's history.

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* TheAmericanCivilWar: The Battle of Stoolbend was one of the most embarrassing losses for the Union and one of the greatest victories for the Confederacy. This is an important part of Stoolbend's history.
->'''Cleveland''': I can't believe my small southern town has a dark history of racial injustice!



* CivilWar: The Battle of Stoolbend was a battle in the American Civil War in which the Confederacy won. This is an important part of Stoolbend's history.
->'''Cleveland''': I can't believe my small southern town has a dark history of racial injustice!
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* CivilWar: The Battle of Stoolbend was a localized civil war between the north and south, which the south won. This is an important part of Stoolbend's history.

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* CivilWar: The Battle of Stoolbend was a localized civil war between battle in the north and south, American Civil War in which the south Confederacy won. This is an important part of Stoolbend's history.
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* CrowdSong:
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* WarReenactors: The reenactors of The Battle of Stoolbend.
* YourCheatingHeart: Cleveland wants to sleep with B. Emerson Plunkett's wife.

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* WarReenactors: The reenactors of The Battle of Stoolbend.
* YourCheatingHeart: Cleveland wants to sleep with B. Emerson Plunkett's wife.
Stoolbend.
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** Double subverted as [[spoiler:Cleveland threw a monkey wrench into the civil was [[WarReenactors reenactment]] to make the north win.]]

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** Double subverted as [[spoiler:Cleveland threw a monkey wrench into the civil was war [[WarReenactors reenactment]] to make the north win.]]



* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Lester was originally fighting for the south but then changed his ways and saved the life of hus Union friend, Cleveland.]]

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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Lester was originally fighting for the south but then changed his ways and saved the life of hus his Union friend, Cleveland.]]
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When the Stoolbend drive-in is planned to shut down, Cleveland protests to preserve it.
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* AlternateHistory: Stoolbend's history involved a [[CivilWar civil war]], where the south won.
** Double subverted as [[spoiler:Cleveland threw a monkey wrench into the civil was [[WarReenactors reenactment]] to make the north win.]]
* BoomerangBigot: Cleveland is tricked into preserving the statue of slave-owning Confederate soldier Colonel Plunkett.
* CivilWar: The Battle of Stoolbend was a localized civil war between the north and south, which the south won. This is an important part of Stoolbend's history.
->'''Cleveland''': I can't believe my small southern town has a dark history of racial injustice!
* DaddyIssues: Holt clearly has some of these, as he repeated "Die Daddy! Die Daddy! Die Daddy!" as he cried and pretend shot a Confederate soldier to death.
->'''Holt''': Die Daddy! Die Daddy! Die Daddy! ''[cries]'' Die Daddy! Die Daddy! Die Daddy!
->'''Tim''': Eh, good job Holt. Not eh-Not creeping me out at all.
* DearJohnLetter: The Guys all write letters home to their spouses, when they go to war. Except for Holt, who writes a letter to Penthouse magazine.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Cleveland cries while driving and wets his eyes so he can't see and wrecks everything.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Lester was originally fighting for the south but then changed his ways and saved the life of hus Union friend, Cleveland.]]
* InsistentTerminology: Lester refers to Cleveland as "poor" but Cleveland corrects him, insisting that he's "comfortably middle class."
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Aaron from work.
* NobleConfederateSoldier: Lester Krinklesac and [[spoiler:B. Emerson Plunkett V]].
* OverlyLongGag: Tim sending a letter to Jay Leno.
** Cleveland looking up The Battle of Stoolbend on Wikipedia.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler:B. Emerson Plunkett V and of course his great-great-grandfather.]]
* ProtestByObstruction: Cleveland chains himself to a statue to protect it from getting torn down.
* RacistGrandma: The rich old white people of Stoolbend.
* SmallTowns: The smallness of Stoolbend is explored through Cleveland's musical number "Small Ass Town, Big Ass Heart".
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Lester takes a fake bullet for Cleveland.]]
->[[spoiler:'''Cleveland''': Lester! You took a pretend bullet for me!]]
->[[spoiler:'''Lester''': Yes, the blood I'm not shedding is in the name of loyalty and friendship, which are more important to me than any fake war!]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: Lester is the only member of The Guys who fights for the south.
* ToppledStatue: The Statue of Colonel Plunkett is planned to be torn down due to its racist history but Cleveland is tricked into protecting it, not knowing it's implications. [[spoiler:In the end, Cleveland tears down the statue himself and gets in trouble with the mayor for desecrating town property and is forced to pay a thousand dollar fine and reassemble the statue, which still stands to this day.]]
* WarReenactors: The reenactors of The Battle of Stoolbend.
* YourCheatingHeart: Cleveland wants to sleep with B. Emerson Plunkett's wife.

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