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* DoubleEntendre / IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title is a DoubleEntendre for the medium of the crime: penises and sex in Season 1; feces in Season 2.
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* DoubleEntendre / IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every DoubleEntendre: Most of the episode title titles have two meanings: one is a DoubleEntendre for perfectly innocent, while the medium of other alludes to something dirty (sex in the crime: penises and sex in Season 1; first season, feces in Season 2.the second). "#2" for example is literally the second episode of the season, but it's also a euphemism for feces, and the episode features two pranks involving feces.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title is a DoubleEntendre for the medium of the crime: penises and sex in Season 1; feces in Season 2.
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* CanadaEh: Ming, considered by [[LovedByAll everyone]] to be the nicest kid in school, is from Toronto.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler:Mackenzie spends the entire season withholding a video that proved Dylan was at her house during the vandalism because it showed evidence of her cheating on him.]]
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler:Mackenzie spends the entire season withholding a video that proved Dylan was at her house during the vandalism because it showed evidence of her cheating on him.]]
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler:Mackenzie spends CourteousCanadian: Ming, considered by [[LovedByAll everyone]] to be the entire season withholding a video that proved Dylan was at her house during the vandalism because it showed evidence of her cheating on him.]]nicest kid in school, is from Toronto.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Kevin's awkward mannerisms, smug persona, and elaborately anal-retentive methods of "properly" enjoying tea can all be indicators that he is on the autism spectrum somewhere. It's actually brought up in-universe by a classmate who claims that Kevin isn't autistic. This is further supported toward the end of the season, where Kevin confesses to have constructed his quirky persona in order to cope with being ostracized. Since his peers saw him as "weird" [[ThenLetMeBeEvil he decided to go all in on being weird in order to convince himself that he was okay with it]].
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* EmbarrassingAlibi:
** The plot of season 1 is that someone spray-painted penises on the 27 cars of the school's faculty. Class clown Dylan Maxwell is accused of the crime. His friends provide an alibi: he was with them, playing a mean-spirited prank on an elderly neighbor.
** The hole in Dylan's alibi is that during the exact half-hour window when the vandalism occurred, Dylan left his friends. His girlfriend Mackenzie says he was visiting her during that time. In order to prove that she'd have to show [[spoiler:a Twitch stream which shows Dylan arriving -- and also shows her cheating on him]].
** The plot of season 1 is that someone spray-painted penises on the 27 cars of the school's faculty. Class clown Dylan Maxwell is accused of the crime. His friends provide an alibi: he was with them, playing a mean-spirited prank on an elderly neighbor.
** The hole in Dylan's alibi is that during the exact half-hour window when the vandalism occurred, Dylan left his friends. His girlfriend Mackenzie says he was visiting her during that time. In order to prove that she'd have to show [[spoiler:a Twitch stream which shows Dylan arriving -- and also shows her cheating on him]].
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** By the fifth episode of Season 1, Peter and Sam have to deal with the fact that ''American Vandal'' has gained online attention (by, in-universe, having their episodes of the documentary posted on Vimeo, shared across social media) and that people are submitting theories about who the vandal is. In the opening of Season 2, Peter reveals that the viral explosion of the Vimeo documentary led to Netflix picking up the documentary, and offering a second season and a full production crew (along with adding more production value to the first season for its appearance on Netflix.) Peter and Sam end up selecting St. Bernardine out of hundreds of email requests for the American Vandal team to cover crimes ranging from total hoaxes to an ''actual murder.''
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** By the fifth episode of Season 1, Peter and Sam have to deal with the fact that ''American Vandal'' has gained online attention (by, in-universe, having their episodes of the documentary posted on Vimeo, Platform/{{Vimeo}}, shared across social media) and that people are submitting theories about who the vandal is. In the opening of Season 2, Peter reveals that the viral explosion of the Vimeo documentary led to Netflix picking up the documentary, and offering a second season and a full production crew (along with adding more production value to the first season for its appearance on Netflix.) Peter and Sam end up selecting St. Bernardine out of hundreds of email requests for the American Vandal team to cover crimes ranging from total hoaxes to an ''actual murder.''
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* RevealShot: Minor case early on: Dylan's brother is talking about how he used to terrorize Shapiro's class and warned Dylan not to take the class because Shapiro will have it out for him. He says Dylan didn't listen, because he's an idiot. Then a camera pan out reveals Dylan was there right next to him (''facing him too'') the whole time.
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* RevealShot: Minor case early on: Dylan's brother is talking about how he used to terrorize Shapiro's class and warned Dylan not to take the class because Shapiro will have it out for him. He says Dylan didn't listen, because he's an idiot. Then a camera pan {{pan}} out reveals Dylan was there right next to him (''facing him too'') the whole time.
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Kevin's band in season 2, The Horsehead Collective. They'd probably be a big hit on the avant-garde scene.
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These are specific incidents, not an overarching theme of the show.
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* ProppingUpTheirPatsy: Zig-zagged in both seasons.
** In season 1, Christa is one of Dylan's most outspoken supporters, starting a campaign on [=GoFundMe=] and selling "Free Dylan" t-shirts to raise funds for his legal defense. She even publicly announces that it was her (though that turns into an IAmSpartacus moment where ''everyone'' says it's them). It's suggested that she could be the vandal, though at other times it's treated like a RedHerring. In the end it's implied that [[spoiler:she ''was'' the true vandal]].
--->'''Peter:''' The Free Dylan t-shirts. The [=GoFundMe=] campaign. Where those protests of passion for Christa, or an attempt to clear her guilty conscience?
** Grayson Wentz, a former St. Bernadine student who was expelled over a minor prank, is interviewed early on in season 2. He believes Kevin [=McClain=] is just the school administration's scapegoat for the pranks, and implies that the culprit is an athlete who the school is [[SlaveToPR covering up to save face]]. [[spoiler:Both cases are true. Grayson is the mastermind behind it all, and manipulated both Kevin and star basketball player [=DeMarcus=] Tillman into carrying out individual pranks.]]
** In season 1, Christa is one of Dylan's most outspoken supporters, starting a campaign on [=GoFundMe=] and selling "Free Dylan" t-shirts to raise funds for his legal defense. She even publicly announces that it was her (though that turns into an IAmSpartacus moment where ''everyone'' says it's them). It's suggested that she could be the vandal, though at other times it's treated like a RedHerring. In the end it's implied that [[spoiler:she ''was'' the true vandal]].
--->'''Peter:''' The Free Dylan t-shirts. The [=GoFundMe=] campaign. Where those protests of passion for Christa, or an attempt to clear her guilty conscience?
** Grayson Wentz, a former St. Bernadine student who was expelled over a minor prank, is interviewed early on in season 2. He believes Kevin [=McClain=] is just the school administration's scapegoat for the pranks, and implies that the culprit is an athlete who the school is [[SlaveToPR covering up to save face]]. [[spoiler:Both cases are true. Grayson is the mastermind behind it all, and manipulated both Kevin and star basketball player [=DeMarcus=] Tillman into carrying out individual pranks.]]
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* ProppingUpTheirPatsy: Christa is one of Dylan's most outspoken supporters, starting a campaign on [=GoFundMe=] and selling "Free Dylan" t-shirts to raise funds for his legal defense. She even publicly announces that it was her (though that turns into an IAmSpartacus moment where ''everyone'' says it's them). It's suggested that she could be the vandal, though at other times it's treated like a RedHerring. In the end it's implied that [[spoiler:she ''was'' the true vandal]].
-->'''Peter:''' The Free Dylan t-shirts. The [=GoFundMe=] campaign. Where those protests of passion for Christa, or an attempt to clear her guilty conscience?
-->'''Peter:''' The Free Dylan t-shirts. The [=GoFundMe=] campaign. Where those protests of passion for Christa, or an attempt to clear her guilty conscience?
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-->'''Mackenzie:''' It's so easy for you to sit there behind that stupid camera and make accusations about people you don't even know. And look I am sorry if we ignored you before, but if this is what you're really like then I guess there's a reason everyone thought you were such a loser. And now everyone's secrets are out, throughout the entire school all because--what? You--you what? You had to make the best movie? You know what, when this is all over, so are you, okay? Because you are nobody and you're just mad about it.
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-->'''Ms. Shapiro:''' ...But, let's be honest with each other Dylan, you have terrorized me for four years in and out of this classroom. And your brother, four before that. So, yes, I'm sorry I suspected you vandalized the cars; I was wrong about that. But I don't believe I was wrong about you.
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* ProppingUpTheirPatsy: Grayson Wentz, a former St. Bernadine student who was expelled over a minor prank, is interviewed early on in season 2. He believes Kevin [=McClain=] is just the school administration's scapegoat for the pranks, and implies that the culprit is an athlete who the school is [[SlaveToPR covering up to save face]]. [[spoiler:Both cases are true. Grayson is the mastermind behind it all, and manipulated both Kevin and star basketball player [=DeMarcus=] Tillman into carrying out individual pranks.]]
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*** [[spoiler:Treating young people like they are not going to amount to anything more than a petty criminal is a SelfFulfillingProphecy. If all they know is that no matter what they do, they'll be seen as a troublemaker or loser, then they'll quickly internalize that there is little point to rising above those assumptions and will behave accordingly.]]
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*** [[spoiler:Treating young people like they are not going to amount to anything more than a petty criminal is a SelfFulfillingProphecy. If all they know is that no matter what they do, they'll be seen as a troublemaker or loser, then they'll quickly internalize that there is little point to rising above those assumptions and [[ThenLetMeBeEvil will behave accordingly.accordingly]].]]
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* AnAesop:
** The entire series is one about the duty of responsibility and mindfulness of consequences when making documentaries, ''especially'' true crime documentaries. After the documentary goes viral in-universe, fans bombard the Jansen family with demands to release the "Keifer Sutherland tape" to the point of harassment and likely harassed the students and faculty they believed were the real culprit as well. Peter ends up being shunned by several of his peers for destroying several students' reputations and even gets one of the teachers fired when he recklessly adds deeper secrets and private conversations to the documentary that were very loosely and circumstantially tied to the events of the crime at best. Sam on the other hand allows his blatant dislike of one of the students to get the better of him and actively attacks his character and accuses him of various wrongdoings including the actual crime at one point. While they get better in the second season their general inexperience still leads to [[spoiler:them warning the true criminal that they figured out their identity, leading to him releasing every bit of extremely compromising dirt he managed to gather over the year to the public]].
** Season 1: High school is only four years of your life, and defining people based on who they were in high school is not healthy for anyone, whether you be prom royalty or a dropout. Asking yourself who you are during this crucial developmental period is a bad idea, as your identity as a person hasn't solidified yet.
** Season 2: The internet has exacerbated the process of creating one's own public persona by allowing anyone to curate their own story on social media. While hiding behind a guise can lead to disingenuous or even deceitful or malicious behavior, it's still a valid way to figure out one's own identity, and it's an important skill to retain as an adult.
** The entire series is one about the duty of responsibility and mindfulness of consequences when making documentaries, ''especially'' true crime documentaries. After the documentary goes viral in-universe, fans bombard the Jansen family with demands to release the "Keifer Sutherland tape" to the point of harassment and likely harassed the students and faculty they believed were the real culprit as well. Peter ends up being shunned by several of his peers for destroying several students' reputations and even gets one of the teachers fired when he recklessly adds deeper secrets and private conversations to the documentary that were very loosely and circumstantially tied to the events of the crime at best. Sam on the other hand allows his blatant dislike of one of the students to get the better of him and actively attacks his character and accuses him of various wrongdoings including the actual crime at one point. While they get better in the second season their general inexperience still leads to [[spoiler:them warning the true criminal that they figured out their identity, leading to him releasing every bit of extremely compromising dirt he managed to gather over the year to the public]].
** Season 1: High school is only four years of your life, and defining people based on who they were in high school is not healthy for anyone, whether you be prom royalty or a dropout. Asking yourself who you are during this crucial developmental period is a bad idea, as your identity as a person hasn't solidified yet.
** Season 2: The internet has exacerbated the process of creating one's own public persona by allowing anyone to curate their own story on social media. While hiding behind a guise can lead to disingenuous or even deceitful or malicious behavior, it's still a valid way to figure out one's own identity, and it's an important skill to retain as an adult.
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* AnAesop:
**AnAesop: The entire series is one about the duty of responsibility and mindfulness of consequences when making documentaries, ''especially'' true crime documentaries. After the documentary goes viral in-universe, fans bombard the Jansen family with demands to release the "Keifer Sutherland tape" to the point of harassment and likely harassed the students and faculty they believed were the real culprit as well. Peter ends up being shunned by several of his peers for destroying several students' reputations and even gets one of the teachers fired when he recklessly adds deeper secrets and private conversations to the documentary that were very loosely and circumstantially tied to the events of the crime at best. Sam on the other hand allows his blatant dislike of one of the students to get the better of him and actively attacks his character and accuses him of various wrongdoings including the actual crime at one point. While they get better in the second season their general inexperience still leads to [[spoiler:them warning the true criminal that they figured out their identity, leading to him releasing every bit of extremely compromising dirt he managed to gather over the year to the public]].
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*** High school is only four years of your life, and defining people based on who they were in high school is not healthy for anyone, whether you be prom royalty or a dropout. Asking yourself who you are during this crucial developmental period is a bad idea, as your identity as a person hasn't solidified yet.
*** [[spoiler:Treating young people like they are not going to amount to anything more than a petty criminal is a SelfFulfillingProphecy. If all they know is that no matter what they do, they'll be seen as a troublemaker or loser, then they'll quickly internalize that there is little point to rising above those assumptions and will behave accordingly.]]
** Season2: 2:
*** The internet has exacerbated the process of creating one's own public persona by allowing anyone to curate their own story on social media. While hiding behind a guise can lead to disingenuous or even deceitful or malicious behavior, it's still a valid way to figure out one's own identity, and it's an important skill to retain as an adult.
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** Season
*** High school is only four years of your life, and defining people based on who they were in high school is not healthy for anyone, whether you be prom royalty or a dropout. Asking yourself who you are during this crucial developmental period is a bad idea, as your identity as a person hasn't solidified yet.
*** [[spoiler:Treating young people like they are not going to amount to anything more than a petty criminal is a SelfFulfillingProphecy. If all they know is that no matter what they do, they'll be seen as a troublemaker or loser, then they'll quickly internalize that there is little point to rising above those assumptions and will behave accordingly.]]
** Season
*** The internet has exacerbated the process of creating one's own public persona by allowing anyone to curate their own story on social media. While hiding behind a guise can lead to disingenuous or even deceitful or malicious behavior, it's still a valid way to figure out one's own identity, and it's an important skill to retain as an adult.
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:The finale paints the entire season as this. From the first episode, the question was whether or not Dylan was innocent, and blamed just because of his reputation. After trial and tribulation, and weeks upon weeks of investigating, it then turns out that yes, he was innocent. So he no longer has to pay the price for a crime he didn't commit. But the way things end up playing out, he still ends up not getting into his dream college regardless. He looses his cheating girlfriend. In the end, Dylan comes to the sad realization that practically everyone he knows--adult and student alike--think he's a troublemaker who will never amount to anything. So he spray-paints a dick on Ms. Shapiro's driveway ''for real'' and has to serve prison time. And just on top of that, the true vandal is never confirmed, just implied.]]
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:The finale paints the entire season as this. From the first episode, the question was whether or not Dylan was innocent, and blamed just because of his reputation. After trial and tribulation, and weeks upon weeks of investigating, it then turns out that yes, he was innocent. So he no longer has to pay the price for a crime he didn't commit. But the way things end up playing out, he still ends up not getting into his dream college regardless. He looses loses his cheating girlfriend. In the end, Dylan comes to the sad realization that practically everyone he knows--adult and student alike--think he's a troublemaker who will never amount to anything. So he spray-paints a dick on Ms. Shapiro's driveway ''for real'' and has to serve prison time. And just on top of that, the true vandal is never confirmed, just implied.]]
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->'''Peter Maldonado:''' I'm making a documentary about Dylan's case. Kind of like ''Podcast/{{Serial}}''.
->'''Lawyer:''' That's a terrible idea.
->'''Lawyer:''' That's a terrible idea.
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->'''Peter Maldonado:''' I'm making a documentary about Dylan's case. Kind of like ''Podcast/{{Serial}}''.
->'''Lawyer:'''''Podcast/{{Serial}}''.\\
'''Lawyer:''' That's a terrible idea.
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'''Lawyer:''' That's a terrible idea.
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'''Dylan:''' ''*{{beat}}*'' Yeah.
-->'''Peter (talking to the audience again):''' Personally, I think he is.
-->'''Peter (talking to the audience again):''' Personally, I think he is.
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'''Dylan:''' ''*{{beat}}*'' ''[{{beat}}]'' Yeah.
-->'''Peter (talking -->'''Peter:''' ''[talking to the audience again):''' again]'' Personally, I think he is.
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-->'''Dylan:''' I’m not, like, book smart or fucking street smart or whatever, but, like, I’m not dumb.
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-->'''Dylan:''' I’m I'm not, like, book smart or fucking street smart or whatever, but, like, I’m I'm not dumb.
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** In [[http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/american-vandal-ending-who-did-the-dicks.html this recap]] it is taken even further: [[spoiler: points out that Christa's last name, when taken with Van's full name and the first part of his last name spell out "CAR VAN-DEL". Also includes a reddit theory which point outs out their names are anagrams for "Car Vandal is Clearly End Theory,” and “Clearly is Car Vandal. End Theory.”]]
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** In [[http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/american-vandal-ending-who-did-the-dicks.html this recap]] it is taken even further: [[spoiler: points out that Christa's last name, when taken with Van's full name and the first part of his last name spell out "CAR VAN-DEL". Also includes a reddit theory which point outs out their names are anagrams for "Car Vandal is Clearly End Theory,” Theory," and “Clearly "Clearly is Car Vandal. End Theory.”]]"]]
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* TakeThat: Kevin refers to “Party in the USA” as “the bubonic plague of sound”.
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* TakeThat: Kevin refers to “Party "Party in the USA” USA" as “the "the bubonic plague of sound”.sound".
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misinterpretation of what happened; only the one cell phone was harvested
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* {{Catfishing}}: The Turd Burglar's [=MO=] is [[spoiler:catfishing students using their broken cell phones, forcing them to participate in crimes.]]
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* {{Catfishing}}: The Turd Burglar's [=MO=] is [[spoiler:catfishing students using their photos and videos downloaded from a broken cell phones, phone, forcing them to participate in crimes.]]
