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* RushmoreRefacement: In addition to carving his name on the Alumni Desk, will puts his picture up on the wall along with those of the academy's inaugural students.

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* RushmoreRefacement: In addition to carving his name on the Alumni Desk, will puts Will daydreams about his picture up on the wall along with those of the academy's inaugural students.
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* TitleDrop: Phil angrily declares "Day damn one, Vivian. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Day. Damn. ONE]]", upon hearing about Will getting into trouble in his first day in his new school.

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* TitleDrop: Phil angrily declares "Day damn one, Vivian. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Day. Damn. ONE]]", upon hearing about Will getting into trouble in on his first day in his new school.
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* TitleDrop: Phil angrily declares "Day damn one, Vivian. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Day. Damn. ONE]]", upon hearing about Will getting into trouble in his first day in his new school.
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* ChafingAgainstTheDressCode: Will is adjusting to prep school and the uniform of navy blazer, button-down shirt, and tie. He first tries to wear the neck tie as a headband, claiming the [[LoopholeAbuse rule book doesn't say HOW the tie should be worn]]. Seeing that the blazer is lined in a bright red print, he wears it with the liner facing out. The administration appears to just give up and he wears it like that until graduation.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The episode covers Will's first day at Bel-Air Academy which occurred a few months before the present day.

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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The episode covers Will's first day at Bel-Air Academy which occurred a few months before the present day.day.
* WouldRatherSuffer: Will makes clear to Carlton he's not interested in having his friends.
-->'''Will:''' You just don't get it, do you, man? I don't want your friends. All right? If I woke up one morning and I had all of your friends and I was an Alligaroo and I wore those cute shirts with the little horses on them, I'd jump off the Empire State Building and hope to catch my eyelid on a nail.
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* OhCrap: Will's reaction to learning that Bel-Air Academy is an all-boys school.
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During a sleepover, Will tells Ashley and her friends a story about his first day at Bel-Air Academy.
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!This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
* BigManOnCampus: Will quickly becomes one upon entering Bel-Air Academy, causing tensions to grow between him and Carlton.
* ChewbaccaDefense: Will engages in this to try to justify vandalizing the Alumni Desk, putting forth that the academy's inaugural students were somehow ''worse'' than him by writing on the desk when it was ''new'', while it was old when he carved into it.
** Ned Fellows engages in this during the meeting as well via FeigningIntelligence about Will's less well-off background, arguing that where Will grew up, "bad" means "good".
* FramingDevice: Will's first day at the academy is told through a "scary story" he tells Ashley and her friends.
* KilroyWasHere: Will decides to leave his mark on the school by carving his name on the Alumni Desk, landing him in very hot water.
* NewTransferStudent: The episode focuses on Will's introduction to Bel-Air Academy.
* RushmoreRefacement: In addition to carving his name on the Alumni Desk, will puts his picture up on the wall along with those of the academy's inaugural students.
* UndyingLoyalty: Will gets saved at the end by the other boys at the school (sans Carlton) threatening to leave, and take their wealthy parents' money with them, if Will gets kicked out.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The episode covers Will's first day at Bel-Air Academy which occurred a few months before the present day.

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