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* BSODSong: "Marvin Hits Trina".

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* BSODSong: BSODSong:
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"Marvin Hits Trina".Trina".
** "You Gotta Die Sometime".
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Whizzer dies of AIDS at the end of Act II.]]



* DysfunctionalFamily: Marvin, Trina and Jason are almost never shown interacting healthily as a family. They even describe themselves as "tragic" and "a mess".
* FinalLoveDuet: "What Would I Do"

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* DefrostingIceKing: Marvin getting back together with Whizzer in Act II is when he really starts to [[TookALevelInKindness take a level in kindness]].
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: [[spoiler: The disease Whizzer contracts is never explicitly named, but is understood by the audience to be AIDS due to it being set in 1981.]]
* DysfunctionalFamily: Marvin, Trina and Jason are almost never shown interacting healthily as a family.family until later in Act II. They even describe themselves as "tragic" and "a mess".
* FinalLoveDuet: "What Would I Do"Do".



* JewishAndNerdy: Jason would rather stay home and play chess than socialize. Later, the company bemoans that his all-Jewish baseball team is better at "reading Latin" than actually playing baseball.

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* JewishAndNerdy: JewishAndNerdy / GameOfNerds: Jason would rather stay home and play chess than socialize. Later, the company bemoans that his all-Jewish baseball team is better at "reading Latin" than actually playing baseball.



* TheMasochismTango: Marvin and Whizzer initially, until they get back together in Act II and their relationship becomes more healthy.



* MinimalistCast: Only five, later seven, characters appear in the show. No background characters are shown.

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* MinimalistCast: Only five, later seven, characters appear in the show. No Only one background characters are character is shown.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''In Trousers'', the first part of the "Marvin Trilogy" which didn't make it into ''Falsettos'', introduced several characters from Marvin's past, as well as alluding to Marvin and Trina's second child and a pet parakeet, none of whom are ever heard from again.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''In Trousers'', the first part of the "Marvin Trilogy" which didn't make it into ''Falsettos'', introduced several characters from Marvin's past, as well as alluding to Marvin and Trina's second child and a pet parakeet, none of whom are ever heard from again.again.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The script is littered with Yiddish words and phrases to remind the audience that the characters are Jewish.

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