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* TheBadGuyWins: Despite Timmy's best efforts to save his father's childhood town, Doug Dimmadome ultimately manages to get it bulldozed by bribing Mr. Turner with merely eight dollars.
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* BigBadEnsemble: Both Vicky the Kid and Doug Dimmadome are the antagonists in this episode.
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* BigNo: Timmy's dad does this when he, his son Timmy and the other Squirrely Scouts see bulldozers outside of his childhood town.
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* EveryManHasHisPrice: Even after Timmy gets the deed for his dad, so his childhood town is preserved, Doug Dimmadome easily buys it off him for ''$8''. Downplayed as, despite selling it for cheap, he remembered how terrible his childhood actually was aster being mauled by coyotes and locked in jail while Timmy was away.

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* EveryManHasHisPrice: Even after Timmy gets the deed for his dad, so his childhood town is preserved, Doug Dimmadome easily buys it off him for ''$8''. Downplayed as, despite selling it for cheap, he remembered how terrible his childhood actually was aster after being mauled by coyotes and locked in jail while Timmy was away.



* {{Irony}}: After defeating Vicky the Kid in the past, Timmy hides the deed in the one place no one at that time would think of finding it: an old computer manual that no one bothered to read.

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* {{Irony}}: After defeating Vicky the Kid in the past, Timmy hides the deed in the one place no one at that time would think of finding it: an old computer manual that no one bothered to read. He remembered how everyone says there that "no one reads the manuals".



* RunningGag: ''Nobody reads the manual.'' Timmy managed to exploit this in the end by hiding the old town deed in a book in the past. Since people were more ignorant back then, the deed would be preserved in the present.

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* RunningGag: ''Nobody "''Nobody reads the manual.'' ''" Remembering most people around him saying this, Timmy managed to exploit this in the end by hiding the old town deed in a book in the past. Since people were more ignorant back then, the deed would be left alone and preserved in the present.
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* EveryManHasHisPrice: Even after Timmy gets the deed for his dad, so his childhood town is preserved, Doug Dimmadome easily buys it off him for ''$8''. Downplayed as, despite selling it for cheap, he remembered how terrible his childhood actually was aster being mauled by coyotes and locked in jail while Timmy was away.


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* {{Irony}}: After defeating Vicky the Kid in the past, Timmy hides the deed in the one place no one at that time would think of finding it: an old computer manual that no one bothered to read.


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* RunningGag: ''Nobody reads the manual.'' Timmy managed to exploit this in the end by hiding the old town deed in a book in the past. Since people were more ignorant back then, the deed would be preserved in the present.
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* SimpleSolutionWontWork: Timmy tries to wish for the town's deed, only for Wanda to explain that they need to know where it is to find, and "We're fairies, not pyschics".
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* ProchronicProduct: Timmy travels back to the Old West and meets AJ's ancestor, who has built a computer. The invention never catches on because nobody can be bothered to read the operating manual.
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'''Original air date:''' 11/8/2002

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'''Original air date:''' 11/8/2002
11/30/2002
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'''Original air date:''' 11/8/2002

'''Episode number:''' 22b
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A place from Timmy's dad's childhood is getting torn down for a new mall, and to save it, Timmy tries to find the deed to the land, eventually having to return to the old west days and duel Vicky's ancestor for it.

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* IdenticalGrandson: Vicky the Kid looks exactly like the Vicky of today.
* StableTimeLoop: The Masked Stranger turned out to be an alter ego created by Timmy when he went back in time.

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