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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Team Leader Jean lives in New York, but she says her tomatoes blew into the Pacific Ocean, which is on the opposite coast. Whether that was intentional or a mistake, the mental image is a lot funnier.

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* BrokenAce: Wan Jo successfully projects an image of being perfect, and is admired by those around him. However, he's actually really hard on himself--denying small pleasures that he would like to enjoy if they have the smallest bit of potential to damage his carefully crafted image--and as a result, he's petty and judgmental who don't fit his standards. He does mellow out later under Eunjo's influence.

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Wan Jo successfully projects an image of being perfect, and is admired by those around him. However, he's actually really hard on himself--denying small pleasures that he would like to enjoy if they have the smallest bit of potential to damage his carefully crafted image--and as a result, he's petty and judgmental towards those who don't fit his standards. He does mellow out later under Eunjo's influence.influence.
** Josh similarly projects an image of wealth and perfection over a petty and judgemental interior, but deep down he's hurting from being demoted from the US branch. The hyenas remark that as upsetting as his situation is, he doesn't show it at all.



** "Goodbye" also features the mechanics of the previous Season 2 arcs. The first episode is a straight-up "Executioner" episode, the generator from "Acting Different" appears throughout the arc, and the third episode features a CoverDrop of "Don't Make It Obvious" and the Cupid of Love from "The Adult World".
* CoverDrop: The last episode of "Acting Different" includes the cover panel as a normal panel, while the third episode of "Goodbye" has the cover panel of "Don't Make It Obvious".



* FaceOfAThug: Josh runs into a giant, demonic shadow in "The Adult World" that introduces itself as the Cupid of Love. When Josh calls it a perverted demon, it feels hurt; it earnestly wants him to get it on with A-yeong.



* MoodKiller: In "The Adult World", A-yeong's sister kills the mood by returning to the apartment. A-yeong and Josh have better luck in Josh's apartment, but they're unable to proceed to third base because Josh is missing a critical item. Woong's call to Josh about having him head the US branch kills the mood for good.

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* MoodKiller: MomentKiller: In "The Adult World", A-yeong's sister kills the mood by returning to the apartment. A-yeong and Josh have better luck in Josh's apartment, but they're unable to proceed to third base because Josh is missing a critical item. Woong's call to Josh about having him head the US branch kills the mood for good.

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* IronicEcho: In the third episode of "Tomorrow's Jo", Eunjo gives Wan some cookies, but he recalls that she was picking her nose and touching her feet, so he tosses the cookies in the trash when she's gone. In the fourth episode of "Masks On", Wan has adopted Eunjo's relaxed mannerisms. When he offers the new worker, Mijo, a caramel, she recalls that he was just touching his feet and tosses the caramel in the trash when he isn't looking.

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* IronicEcho: InterruptedIntimacy: Josh and A-yeong just can't get their way in "The Adult World". First, A-yeong's sister returns home. They have better luck in Josh's apartment, but Woong's phone call ultimately kills their time together.
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In the third episode of "Tomorrow's Jo", Eunjo gives Wan some cookies, but he recalls that she was picking her nose and touching her feet, so he tosses the cookies in the trash when she's gone. In the fourth episode of "Masks On", Wan has adopted Eunjo's relaxed mannerisms. When he offers the new worker, Mijo, a caramel, she recalls that he was just touching his feet and tosses the caramel in the trash when he isn't looking.looking.
** "The Adult World" is about all the zany adult things Josh and A-yeong can do in their relationship. Alas, it also means that when the mood is killed and A-yeong heads out, Josh has to let her go.


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* MoodKiller: In "The Adult World", A-yeong's sister kills the mood by returning to the apartment. A-yeong and Josh have better luck in Josh's apartment, but they're unable to proceed to third base because Josh is missing a critical item. Woong's call to Josh about having him head the US branch kills the mood for good.
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* IronicEcho: In the third episode of "Tomorrow's Jo", Eunjo gives Wan some cookies, but he recalls that she was picking her nose and touching her feet, so he tosses the cookies in the trash when she's gone. In the fourth episode of "Masks On", Wan has adopted Eunjo's relaxed mannerisms. When he offers the new worker, Mijo, a caramel, she recalls that he was just touching her feet and tosses the caramel in the trash when he isn't looking.

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* IronicEcho: In the third episode of "Tomorrow's Jo", Eunjo gives Wan some cookies, but he recalls that she was picking her nose and touching her feet, so he tosses the cookies in the trash when she's gone. In the fourth episode of "Masks On", Wan has adopted Eunjo's relaxed mannerisms. When he offers the new worker, Mijo, a caramel, she recalls that he was just touching her his feet and tosses the caramel in the trash when he isn't looking.
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* IronicEcho: In the third episode of "Tomorrow's Jo", Eunjo gives Wan some cookies, but he recalls that she was picking her nose and touching her feet, so he tosses the cookies in the trash when she's gone. In the fourth episode of "Masks On", Wan has adopted Eunjo's relaxed mannerisms. When he offers the new worker, Mijo, a caramel, she recalls that he was just touching her feet and tosses the caramel in the trash when he isn't looking.
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* MistakenForFlirting: Josh's attempts to shame A-yeong come off as flirtatious advances. [[InvertedTrope On the flip side]], A-yeong's jab at Josh's extravagant taste was actually a flirty joke, but it hit a nerve and made Josh start to shame her in the first place.

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* MistakenForFlirting: Josh's attempts to shame A-yeong come off as flirtatious advances. [[InvertedTrope On the flip side]], A-yeong's jab at Josh's extravagant taste was actually a flirty joke, but Josh sees it hit as a nerve personal attack, and this made Josh him start to shame her in the first place.

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* ColorFailure: A-yeong goes completely pale when Josh tells her that he's quitting.



* SymbolicBlood: At the end of "Executioner", Woong and Josh drink cherry juice. Josh does a SpitTake after being passed up for promotion, causing the juice to drip from his mouth to his shirt and make him look like he really was executed. Then Woong spills juice on his own shirt, and Josh leaves after thinking Woong should die, making it look like Josh executed Woong.

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* SymbolicBlood: SymbolicBlood:
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At the end of "Executioner", Woong and Josh drink cherry juice. Josh does a SpitTake after being passed up for promotion, causing the juice to drip from his mouth to his shirt and make him look like he really was executed. Then Woong spills juice on his own shirt, and Josh leaves after thinking Woong should die, making it look like Josh executed Woong.Woong.
** As A-yeong compliments Josh while they're having lunch, "blood" starts to soak through his shirt. The original Korean caption says that he loves it so much that he's dying. It turns out that he spilled grape juice on himself.
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* RewatchBonus: Since "Executioner" and "Acting Different" cover much of the same time period from different perspectives, it helps to go back and forth between them to see how differently the characters think.

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* BlackComedyBurst: "Executioner" involves people wishing to execute each other as dramatic lighting highlights their grim expressions. The humor comes from the way such panels contrast the rest of the comic.

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* BlackComedyBurst: BlackComedyBurst:
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"Executioner" involves people wishing to execute each other as dramatic lighting highlights their grim expressions. The humor comes from the way such panels contrast the rest of the comic.comic.
** "Acting Different" is a LighterAndSofter arc that shows A-yeong's perspective of the previous arc. Then she herself goes into executioner mode after she sees Josh with a woman.


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* ManlyTears: After Hyeonsu tells Woong about his past romance, Woong tells his assistant to double the team workshop budget while tears stream down his cheeks.


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* OfficeRomance:
** Eunjo and Seonkyu get together for some time, but they break up after they leave Ku Woong Games. By the end of Season 1, Eunjo and Wan get together, and Eunjo returns to the company.
** Season 2 brings up an abundance of couples: Mijo and Macho, Lena and Paul, the lapsed relationship of Hyeonsu and Sujeong. It also sets up a romance between Josh and A-yeong and gives Hi and Anna romantic undertones.

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* BrutalHonesty: A-yeong Jo is blunt enough to call out Team Leader Josh on his needlessly expensive goods to his face.

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* BrutalHonesty: A-yeong Jo is blunt enough to call out Team Leader Josh on his needlessly expensive goods to his face. It turns out she was just trying to crack a joke the first time she did that.



* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Josh wears a bright red Jullie sweater, which is expensive but {{conspicuous|consumption}}ly so.

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* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: ImpossiblyTackyClothes:
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Josh wears a bright red Jullie sweater, which is expensive but {{conspicuous|consumption}}ly so.so.
** Since ''Webcomic/YumisCells'', Woong's wardrobe has shifted to more obviously expensive, but no less tacky.


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* MistakenForFlirting: Josh's attempts to shame A-yeong come off as flirtatious advances. [[InvertedTrope On the flip side]], A-yeong's jab at Josh's extravagant taste was actually a flirty joke, but it hit a nerve and made Josh start to shame her in the first place.


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* PerspectiveFlip: "Acting Different" starts at the same point as "Executioner", but from A-yeong's point of view.
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* BlackComedyBurst: "Executioner" involves people wishing to execute each other as dramatic lighting highlights their grim expressions. The humor comes from the way such panels contrast the rest of the comic.


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* SymbolicBlood: At the end of "Executioner", Woong and Josh drink cherry juice. Josh does a SpitTake after being passed up for promotion, causing the juice to drip from his mouth to his shirt and make him look like he really was executed. Then Woong spills juice on his own shirt, and Josh leaves after thinking Woong should die, making it look like Josh executed Woong.

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* EverybodyKnewAlready: Downplayed. After Eunjo gets together with Wan, they try to keep a SecretRelationship, but apparently the entire Dev team already know that they're a couple and wish that the two would just come out with it already. The same cannot be said with the other team members though, as the Planning team mistakenly believes that Eunjo is in a relationship with Josh instead.



** Mijo develops a crush on Wan after realizing that HeCleansUpNicely, but her crush goes nowhere as Wan quickly gets together with Eunjo. In the second season, which takes place sometime after Eunjo moves back to Kuwoong Games, she is shown to be dating a different team member named Macho.

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** Mijo develops a crush on Wan after realizing that HeCleansUpNicely, but her crush goes nowhere as Wan quickly gets together with Eunjo. Eunjo shortly after Mijo is introduced. In the second season, which takes place sometime after Eunjo moves back to Kuwoong Games, she is shown to be dating a different team member of the Planning team named Macho.

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* OffscreenRomance: After her attempts to date Wan doesn't work out, Joy decides to give up and move on. After the one year time-skip, she already has a new boyfriend.

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After her attempts to date Wan doesn't work out, Joy decides to give up and move on. After the one year time-skip, she already has a new boyfriend.boyfriend.
** Mijo develops a crush on Wan after realizing that HeCleansUpNicely, but her crush goes nowhere as Wan quickly gets together with Eunjo. In the second season, which takes place sometime after Eunjo moves back to Kuwoong Games, she is shown to be dating a different team member named Macho.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: A-yeong says she has no need for an expensive watch strap and wouldn't even accept it as a gift. Josh plans to make her eat her words by buying her the Jullie strap as a late birthday present. A-yeong wears the strap and tells her coworkers that Josh gave it to her, and they tease him because they get the impression that he has a crush on her.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: A lot of brands and stores in the series is called Julli, after the series' colorist.

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* {{Tuckerization}}: A lot of brands and stores in the series is called Julli, Jullie, after the series' colorist.Donggeon Lee's wife.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Eunjo briefly has a romance with Seonkyu. They break up during the TimeSkip and she moves on to Wan jo.
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* BrokenAce: Wan Jo successfully projects an image of being perfect, and is admired by those around him. However, he's actually really hard on himself--denying small pleasures that he would like to enjoy if they have the smallest bit of potential to damage his carefully crafted image--and as a result, he's petty and judgmental who don't fit his standards.

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* BrokenAce: Wan Jo successfully projects an image of being perfect, and is admired by those around him. However, he's actually really hard on himself--denying small pleasures that he would like to enjoy if they have the smallest bit of potential to damage his carefully crafted image--and as a result, he's petty and judgmental who don't fit his standards. He does mellow out later under Eunjo's influence.
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* NouveauRiche: Josh arrives at Ku Woong games with the second-highest salary in the company and a huge sign-in bonus, which gives him the urge to flaunt his wealth with expensive products.

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* BrokenAce: Wan Jo successfully projects an image of being perfect, and is admired by those around him. However, he's actually petty and judgmental, and is really hard on himself--denying small pleasures that he would like to enjoy if they have the smallest bit of potential to damage his carefully crafted image.

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* BrokenAce: Wan Jo successfully projects an image of being perfect, and is admired by those around him. However, he's actually petty and judgmental, and is really hard on himself--denying small pleasures that he would like to enjoy if they have the smallest bit of potential to damage his carefully crafted image.image--and as a result, he's petty and judgmental who don't fit his standards.

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* BlandNameProduct: One of Josh's sweaters is Gucchh (Gucci).



* BrutalHonesty: A-yeong Jo is blunt enough to call out Team Leader Josh on his needlessly expensive goods to his face.



* ConspicuousConsumption: Josh gets a huge sign-in bonus when he transfers to Kuwoong Games. This causes him to take an interest in expensive brands, but it's obvious that he's new money.



* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Josh wears a bright red Jullie sweater, which is expensive but {{conspicuous|consumption}}ly so.



* ThemeNaming: All of the important characters introduced so far have "Jo" in their names: Eun'''jo''' Lee, Wan '''Jo''', '''Jo'''y Kim, Seonkyu "'''Jo'''nathan" Kim, and Mi'''jo''' Meng.

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* ThemeNaming: All of the important characters introduced so far have "Jo" in their names: names. Season 1 has Eun'''jo''' Lee, Wan '''Jo''', '''Jo'''y Kim, Seonkyu "'''Jo'''nathan" Kim, and Mi'''jo''' Meng.Meng. Season 2 has '''Jo'''sh and A-yeong '''Jo'''.

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* BrokenAce: Wan Jo successfully projects an image of being perfect, and is admired by those around him. However, he's actually petty and judgmental.

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* BrokenAce: Wan Jo successfully projects an image of being perfect, and is admired by those around him. However, he's actually petty and judgmental.judgmental, and is really hard on himself--denying small pleasures that he would like to enjoy if they have the smallest bit of potential to damage his carefully crafted image.

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* ContinuityCavalcade: In "Masks On", the mechanics of the previous arcs show up in quick succession: Eunjo and Wan take a horseback ride to a cookie store à la "Kings Apps", Wan forces his Tomorrow's Jo to let him eat the hotteok, and Wan's Luck Manager tries to spend his points to convince Eunjo not to leave.

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In "Masks On", the mechanics of the previous arcs show up in quick succession: Eunjo and Wan take a horseback ride to a cookie store à la "Kings Apps", Wan forces his Tomorrow's Jo to let him eat the hotteok, and Wan's Luck Manager tries to spend his points to convince Eunjo not to leave.leave.
** In "Return of Tomorrow's Jo", the messenger from "King's Apps" pushes a notification through Wan's silenced phone, Wan's Luck Manager uses points to get him to reach the open elevator, and Wan's classmates from "Cheat Sheet" congratulate him on getting the right answer on Eunjo's test.
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* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: When Wan tries to kiss Eunjo, she rejects him, saying that it's better if they remain JustFriends. Later she admits to her Tomorrow's self that she does like him, but isn't sure that he's serious, and is afraid that trying to take things further will just ruin their friendship.

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* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: When Wan tries to kiss Eunjo, she rejects him, saying that it's better if they remain JustFriends. Later she admits to her Tomorrow's self that she does like him, but isn't sure that he's serious, and is afraid that trying to take things further will just ruin their friendship. She finally does take the plunge at the end of season 1.
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* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: When Wan tries to kiss Eunjo, she rejects him, saying that it's better if they remain JustFriends. Later she admits to her Tomorrow's self that she does like him, but isn't sure that he's serious, and is afraid that trying to take things further will just ruin their friendship.

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* CallBack: Sia has a flashback to the time Woong was about to go on a blind date with Yumi, showing that she regretted not confessing her feelings.
* ChickMagnet: Wan Jo is the handsome new employee at Ku Woong Games. He was summoned by Eunjo's luck manager so she could start an office romance, but Joy makes a move on him first. When Mijo joins the company, she also has a crush on him once she realizes he cleans up nicely.



* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Eunjo has a bob after the time skip, which makes her look more like her Tomorrow's Jo. It shows that she's putting more effort into her appearance.



* RaceForYourLove: In a flashback of what could have been, Sia runs to catch up to Woong and confess her feelings so he won't go on a blind date with Yumi.



* SharedUniverse: With ''Webcomic/YumisCells''. The main characters are employees in Woong's company, and Eunjo and Ruby apparently frequent the same dating advice forum.

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* SharedUniverse: With ''Webcomic/YumisCells''. The main characters are employees in Woong's company, and Eunjo and Ruby apparently frequent the same dating advice forum. Sia is a producer at Julli Software, where Joy and Eunjo eventually start working.
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* ObliviousToLove: When Wan goes to meet Eunjo after a year without contact, he drops several hints that he likes her, but she keeps brushing them off as friendly gestures. When Wan leans in to kiss Eunjo, she pushes him away, thinking he's acting on impulse. It's only after she reflects on the past that she realizes Wan could have feelings for her.


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* TwiceShy: Eunjo likes Seonkyu but has to initiate a lot of the friendly gestures (pulling) because she isn't sure he likes her back. Seonkyu refuses to accept the streak of luck until Eunjo gets up and leaves (pushing), at which point he finally confesses to her. Eunjo is still a bit shy about admitting that she likes him too.


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* YouMustBeCold: When it starts raining during Eunjo and Wan's meet-up, Wan gives Eunjo his cashmere coat to shelter her from the rain and prevent her silk blouse from getting ruined.
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* AppliedMathematics: "Cheat Sheet" sometimes involves formulas to calculate characters' thoughts. Joy's calculations of Wan's interest in her involve variables like "stupid mosquito" and "stupid meeting". Wan's relationship formula to figure out Eunjo's thoughts involves rabokki, the width of the blanket, and the number of mandarins.
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* OffscreenBreakup: Eunjo broke up with Seonkyu during the timeskip.

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* SheCleansUpNicely: Eunjo is attractive enough normally, but when she lets Wan Jo pick out some clothes and style her hair, she becomes radiant. She's not willing to go to the effort required every day, though.

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Eunjo is attractive enough normally, but when she lets Wan Jo pick out some clothes and style her hair, she becomes radiant. She's not willing to go to the effort required every day, though.though.
** After Wan starts DressingDown in "Masks On", Mijo joins the team. She thinks he's a slob at first, but she's surprised about how well he cleans up, unaware that he used to always dress well.

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