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'''A Plot:''' Adam plans to sing Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" in the school's holiday talent show. Jealous of Adam's rising popularity, Barry plans to do his own rendition as "Barry Joel", but he doesn't know any of the lyrics.

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'''A Plot:''' Adam plans to sing Billy Joel's Music/BillyJoel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" in the school's holiday talent show. Jealous of Adam's rising popularity, Barry plans to do his own rendition as "Barry Joel", but he doesn't know any of the lyrics.


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* {{Irony}}: Barry performs his version of "We Didn't Start The Fire" at the talent show...and starts a fire.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Beverly believes the Shwartzs are trying to make a play at being the hosting family for all celebrations. When she confronts Lou about it, he admits it and sabatoges her in the process.

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* ProperlyParanoid: Beverly believes the Shwartzs Schwartzes are trying to make a play at being the hosting family for all celebrations. When she confronts Lou about it, he admits it and sabatoges sabotages her in the process.
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* WhosOnFirst: Invoked; Pops attempts to convince Barry to do the classic Abbott & Costello routine instead of competing with his brother, only for the conversation to actually turn into this. It takes Barry two hours to finally get it.

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* WhosOnFirst: Invoked; Pops attempts to convince Barry to do the classic Abbott & Costello routine instead of competing with his brother, only for the conversation to actually turn into this. It takes Barry two hours to finally get it.it, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint at which point]] he decides it would be funnier if the players instead had childish insults as names.
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Beverly confronts Lou about trying to steal Hanukkah from her, Present Day!Adam states she spun out again... only to immediately state that for once she was right.


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* ProperlyParanoid: Beverly believes the Shwartzs are trying to make a play at being the hosting family for all celebrations. When she confronts Lou about it, he admits it and sabatoges her in the process.
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* HanukkahEpisode: This episode has Bev and the Schwartzes trying to one-up each other in hopes of being the house Erica and Geoff will choose to go to for their celebrations.

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* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: Barry does not know the lyrics to "We Didn't Start The Fire." At all.



* WhosOnFirst: Invoked; Pops attempts to convince Barry to do the classic Abbott & Costello routine instead of competing with his brother, only for the conversation to actually turn into this.

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* WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies: The main plot has Adam and Barry planning to do the song for the school talent show. Eventually, they end up using new lyrics about the school.
* WhosOnFirst: Invoked; Pops attempts to convince Barry to do the classic Abbott & Costello routine instead of competing with his brother, only for the conversation to actually turn into this. It takes Barry two hours to finally get it.
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'''A Plot:''' Adam plans to sing Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" in the school's holiday talent show. Jealous of Adam's rising popularity, Barry plans to do his own rendition as "Barry Joel", but he doesn't know any of the lyrics.

'''B Plot:''' Lou Schwartz and Beverly, each sensing a possible marriage between Erica and Geoff, start to compete over who will host Hanukkah celebrations for the combined families.
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* SiblingTeam: When trying to change Barry's mind proves futile, Adam approaches him with a way they can combine both of their strengths to do the Billy Joel song together.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Adam knows the lyrics and has the technical know-how to play the music, while Barry is better at performance and actually singing.
* WhosOnFirst: Invoked; Pops attempts to convince Barry to do the classic Abbott & Costello routine instead of competing with his brother, only for the conversation to actually turn into this.

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