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* ExactWords: Larissa attempts to exploit this, but fails to do so when she confesses about taking Leilene's photos. She claims that she "took it and hid it." Monique didn't buy it.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: This was the reason that Becky was originally planned to be eliminated in the episode Larissa is eliminated. A major flaw of Becky's is that she always wants to quit when things go bad for her (such as in Flavor of Love when she almost quit when Like Dat confronted her, and when she quit when New York returned). She was even planning to quit because of the picture incident.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: This was the reason that Becky was originally planned to be eliminated in the episode Larissa is was eliminated. A major flaw of Becky's is that she always wants to quit when things go bad for her (such as in Flavor of Love when she almost quit when Like Dat confronted her, and when she quit when New York returned). She was even planning to quit because of the picture incident.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: This was the reason that Becky was originally planned to be eliminated in the episode Larissa is eliminated. A major flaw of Becky's is that she always wants to quit when things go bad for her (such as in Flavor of Love when she almost quit when Like Dat confronted her, and when she quit when New York returned). She was even planning to quit because of the picture incident.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While it was extremely selfish of Larissa to try to throw Shay under the bus for the picture incident, she was completely right on how Shay was just as guilty as Larissa and how Shay loves to act like she's innocent. Shay even played the victim by feeling sorry for herself about it, despite her gleefully going along with Larissa for not only the picture incident, but for her hostility towards some other contestants.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Keith is a blunt judge, and will give the girls a harsh assessment of themselves whenever they are called down to the carpet. Downplayed with Monique and Mikki, as their assessments come off as less harsh.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Although Brooke turned out to be a BitchInSheepsClothing in the long run, she thought it was wrong for Leilene to donate her deceased mother's rings.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Although Larissa had issues with Heather in the past, even she believed that it was unfair how Schafer got away with the theft of Heather’s dress.
** Although Brooke turned out to be a BitchInSheepsClothing in the long run, she thought it was wrong for Leilene to donate her deceased mother's rings.
** Although Larissa had issues with Heather in the past, even she believed that it was unfair how Schafer got away with the theft of Heather’s dress.
** Although Brooke turned out to be a BitchInSheepsClothing in the long run, she thought it was wrong for Leilene to donate her deceased mother's rings.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Shay was all too willing to go along with Larissa's EvilPlan to get Schatar expelled, until Schatar (along with Darra) gets expelled. She then rethinks what she does, plays the victim for feeling bad for what she did, and even condemns Larissa for getting angry at her for snitching. Yes Larissa was wrong for getting mad at Shay for snitching, but Shay was no saint herself (but then again, Larissa had everyone in the house think Shay took Leilene's photos). Even Larissa calls her out on this at the reunion episode.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: {{Hypocrite}}:
** Larissa constantly berates Leilene for being a paid stripper and flaunting her sexuality throughout the show, despite the former performing a lap dance for Flav's friends on ''Series/FlavorOfLove''.
** Shay was all too willing to go along with Larissa's EvilPlan to get Schatar expelled, until Schatar (along with Darra) gets expelled. She then rethinks what she does, plays the victim for feeling bad for what she did, and even condemns Larissa for getting angry at her for snitching. Yes Larissa was wrong for getting mad at Shay for snitching, but Shay was no saint herself (but then again, Larissa had everyone in the house think Shay took Leilene's photos). Even Larissa calls her out on this at the reunion episode.
** Larissa constantly berates Leilene for being a paid stripper and flaunting her sexuality throughout the show, despite the former performing a lap dance for Flav's friends on ''Series/FlavorOfLove''.
** Shay was all too willing to go along with Larissa's EvilPlan to get Schatar expelled, until Schatar (along with Darra) gets expelled. She then rethinks what she does, plays the victim for feeling bad for what she did, and even condemns Larissa for getting angry at her for snitching. Yes Larissa was wrong for getting mad at Shay for snitching, but Shay was no saint herself (but then again, Larissa had everyone in the house think Shay took Leilene's photos). Even Larissa calls her out on this at the reunion episode.
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Berserk button doesn't work that way.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Leilene.
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* BerserkButton: Calling Brooke a whore. Also, don't insult Leilene's mothering skills.\n
* BewareTheNiceOnes:Leilene.Leilene shows that she's dangerous when she gets angry. When Larissa makes comments about her mothering skills, she gets so angry and looked like she was about to attack Larissa.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: Schatar comes off as this due to her bad weave and her antics.
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* DirtyCoward:
** Larissa and Shay. These two only seem to bully and antagonize people who appear timid and don't fight back.
** Brooke also counts. She was able to stand up to Schatar and Leilene, but acted scared and cried when LArissa and Shay confronted her.
** Larissa and Shay. These two only seem to bully and antagonize people who appear timid and don't fight back.
** Brooke also counts. She was able to stand up to Schatar and Leilene, but acted scared and cried when LArissa and Shay confronted her.
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* ArchEnemy:
** Larissa and Leilene.
** Saaphryi sees Darra as this, although it's one-sided.
** Larissa attempted to make herself this to Monique.
** Eventually, Leilene and Brooke.
** Larissa and Leilene.
** Saaphryi sees Darra as this, although it's one-sided.
** Larissa attempted to make herself this to Monique.
** Eventually, Leilene and Brooke.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The entire reason for the "New York" interview challenge. Every single one of the girls pretty much hated New York, but the point of the challenge was to learn how to bite your tongue and not allow yourself to be tricked into making a fool out of yourself out of anger.
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* BeYourself: Played with as the show tried very hard to teach Becky "[[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Buckwild]]" to embrace being a white girl and not pretend to be black. It sort of works, Becky learns that there's no shame in being "Becky the white girl", but ''also'' learns that doesn't take away from her still being Buckwild, deciding she can be both.
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* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Just like in ''Flavor of Love'' this is pretty much Becky a.k.a. "Buckwild" in a nutshell. The shows seems to try and break her out of his habit, but by the end she instead learns that she can be Becky the white girl, but ''also'' be Buckwild as well.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The entire reason for the "New York" interview challenge. Every single one of the girls pretty much hated New York, but the point of the challenge was to learn how to bite your tongue and not allow yourself to be tricked into making a fool out yourself out of anger.
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* AesopAmnesia: When entering this competition, it appears that Heather didn't seem to learn anything from her experience with some of the other female contestants from ''Series/FlavorOfLove''. This also leads to her elimination in the second episode. She didn't choose her partner for the challenge wisely, and had she watched Season 1 of ''Series/FlavorOfLove'', she would have known how conniving and dishonest Schatar really was (she appeared to have "stolen New York's jacket and lied many times while taking the lie detector test). This leads to Schatar stealing Heather's belongings, and Heather acting the way Schatar planned for her to act, thus leading to the former's elimination.
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* AesopAmnesia: When entering this competition, it appears that Heather didn't seem to learn anything from her experience with some of the other female contestants from ''Series/FlavorOfLove''. This also leads to her elimination in the second episode. She didn't choose her partner for the challenge wisely, and had she watched Season 1 of ''Series/FlavorOfLove'', she would have known how conniving and dishonest Schatar really was (she appeared to have "stolen "stolen" New York's jacket and lied many times while taking the lie detector test). This leads to Schatar stealing Heather's belongings, and Heather acting the way Schatar planned for her to act, thus leading to the former's elimination.
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* CombatStilettos: When the girls first put on their Charm School uniforms and come down to the foyer Mo'Nique criticizes a few of them for choosing to put on completely inappropriate 'stripper heels'.
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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Monique and Courtney. Also Leilene on occasion among the other girls, especially closer to the end of the show after she's matured considerably.
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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: OldShame: Leilene obviously felt bad for the fact that she used to be a stripper, and gets understandably angry at Larissa for bringing it up and shaming Leilene for it.
* OnlySaneWoman: Monique and Courtney. Also Leilene on occasion among the other girls, especially closer to the end of the show after she's matured considerably.
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* TragicKeepsake: Leilene had a ring that was given to her by her mother who tragically passed away. Leilene ended up selling it, only for it to be returned to her at the end.
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* MisplacedRetribution: While Schatar getting punished for the theft of Leilene's photos comes off as LaserGuidedKarma, Darra has to be punished along with her because she was Schatar's partner for that episode.
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* BatmanGambit: Schatar stealing Heather's gown in the second episode counts. She chose Heather as a partner because she found the latter easy to manipulate. Schatar expected Heather to get upset over her stolen items, and for Heather to also get upset when Schatar revealed what she did to Andrew during the challenge. It works, which leads to Heather's eliminaton.
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* BatmanGambit: BatmanGambit:
** Schatar stealing Heather's gown in the second episode counts. She chose Heather as a partner because she found the latter easy to manipulate. Schatar expected Heather to get upset over her stolen items, and for Heather to also get upset when Schatar revealed what she did to Andrew during the challenge. It works, which leads to Heather's eliminaton.
** [[spoiler:Larissa and Shay's]] EvilPlan to take Leilene's photos and frame Schatar. It works, and Schatar ends up getting expelled.
** Schatar stealing Heather's gown in the second episode counts. She chose Heather as a partner because she found the latter easy to manipulate. Schatar expected Heather to get upset over her stolen items, and for Heather to also get upset when Schatar revealed what she did to Andrew during the challenge. It works, which leads to Heather's eliminaton.
** [[spoiler:Larissa and Shay's]] EvilPlan to take Leilene's photos and frame Schatar. It works, and Schatar ends up getting expelled.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Brooke is revealed to have been this in the episode of her elimination. She appeared to have been doing well during the competition and managed to avoid being on the carpet. It's not until the prom episode that it's revealed that she, indeed, never learned anything while at Charm School and behaved promiscuously towards the other guys. She also shows her true colors to Leilene when it was revealed that she was only manipulating the latter to vote for someone else besides her on who performed the worst during the challenge. This also leads to her being called to the carpet for the first time and to her expulsion.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Although Brooke turned out to be a BitchInSheepsClothing in the long run, she thought it was wrong for Leilene to donate her deceased mother's rings.
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* AesopAmnesia: When entering this competition, it appears that Heather didn't seem to learn anything from her experience with some of the other female contestants from ''Series/FlavorOfLove''. This also leads to her elimination in the second episode. She didn't choose her partner for the challenge wisely, and had she watched Season 1 of ''Series/FlavorOfLove'', she would have known how conniving and dishonest Schatar really was (she appeared to have "stolen New York's jacket and lied many times while taking the lie detector test). This leads to Schatar stealing Heather's belongings, and Heather acting the way Schatar planned for her to act, thus leading to the former's elimination.
* BatmanGambit: Schatar stealing Heather's gown in the second episode counts. She chose Heather as a partner because she found the latter easy to manipulate. Schatar expected Heather to get upset over her stolen items, and for Heather to also get upset when Schatar revealed what she did to Andrew during the challenge. It works, which leads to Heather's eliminaton.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Leilene in the first season. She does grow out if it. Brooke even attempts to exploit this at the near end of the show before the finale in the prom episode by convincing Leilene to vote for someone else besides her on who did the worst at the Prom challenge the night before. It didn't work, and Leilene votes for Brooke anyway, causing Broke to lose the second challenge and become furious at Leilene.
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* FreudianExcuse: Saaphryi's aggressive behavior is discovered to be a natural reaction to her being borderline homeless. Due to the fact she had to learn that you don't put anything that belongs to you down because someone could steal it when your back was turned, she becomes extremely defensive about anything she perceives as her own (like the bed incident during ''Flavor of Love'', or her UGG boots during this show).
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** Saaphryi's aggressive behavior is discovered to be a natural reaction to her being borderline homeless. Due to the fact she had to learn that you don't put anything that belongs to you down because someone could steal it when your back was turned, she becomes extremely defensive about anything she perceives as her own (like the bed incident during ''Flavor of Love'', or her UGG boots during thisshow).show).
** Larissa also appears to have one as well. In a deleted clip of the show, she would talk about how her mother was too harsh on her when she was a child.
** Saaphryi's aggressive behavior is discovered to be a natural reaction to her being borderline homeless. Due to the fact she had to learn that you don't put anything that belongs to you down because someone could steal it when your back was turned, she becomes extremely defensive about anything she perceives as her own (like the bed incident during ''Flavor of Love'', or her UGG boots during this
** Larissa also appears to have one as well. In a deleted clip of the show, she would talk about how her mother was too harsh on her when she was a child.
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** Thela goes to see Mo'Nique in the first episode to explain that she has anger management issues, possibly to appeal to Mo'Nique's sympathies or to set up an excuse for her future behavior. Instead, Mo'Nique decides to eliminate Thela ''first'' since she realized someone with anger issues would be a detriment to the other girls.
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** Thela goes to see Mo'Nique in the first episode to explain that she has anger management issues, possibly to appeal to Mo'Nique's sympathies or to set up an excuse for her future behavior. Instead, Mo'Nique decides to eliminate Thela ''first'' since she realized someone with anger issues would be a detriment to the other girls.
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* CheatersNeverProsper: While Heather was pretty foolish for allowing herself to fall into Schatar's trickery, Schatar eventually gets what she deserves when she's framed for stealing pictures.
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* PanderingToTheBase: In-universe when the girls have Darra act as their fashion model instead of the much more obvious choice, Cristal (who actually ''was'' a model in real life), to appeal to Mo'Nique as a BigBeautifulWoman. Mo'Nique not only flat out calls them out on what they're doing, but also says they missed the mark completely because Darra looked a mess, with chicken feathers on her eyelashes and an unflattering dress made out of Mo'Nique's own drapes!
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Saaphryi gets livid when Darra tries to give her some clothes that she didn't sell to the thrift store, accusing Darra of being manipulative and trying to treat her like a charity case just to make herself look good before elimination.
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