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10	!YMMV tropes for the ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'' series
11	!!YMMV Tropes with Their Own Pages
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13	* [[HarsherInHindsight/InsideJob2021 Harsher In Hindsight]]
14	* [[HoYay/InsideJob2021 Ho Yay]]
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17	* {{Adorkable}}:
18	** Reagan in abundance. Her social awkwardness makes her very endearing.
19	** Brett's unrelenting positivity is so infectious that he even wins over the normally abrasive Reagan.
20	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
21	** J.R. seems to teeter between PointyHairedBoss, BadBoss, and ReasonableAuthorityFigure. While he does embezzle from the corporation, his criticisms of Reagan's leadership skills are accurate as she later admits, he honors his word [[spoiler:to promote her when she corrects her flaws]]. He also doesn't seem to be a complete idiot [[spoiler:as shown when he tricks Oprah during the Shadow Council trials]]. Rand describes him as TheStarscream who staged a coup against him and painted Rand as one day away from a nervous breakdown - which is true, given Rand got ousted from his position as CEO in the first place due to trying to blow up the sun along with the other erratic behavior he's displayed throughout the series, meaning that this can be viewed more as J.R. accurately summarizing his alcohol addict of a former partner's character he's known since college rather than the biased and unjust smear campaign Rand would rather view it as. It's hard to know if J.R. is actually an Icarus that flew too close to the sun, or a face for the company that got BornLucky.
22	** Despite Rand's few PetTheDog moments and admitting he wants Reagan's approval as much as she wants his, [[spoiler:the season finale revealed that he was only raising Reagan as a pawn, wiping memories of her best friend so that she would skip grades and help him secure a position at Cognito, Inc. Not even Rick Sanchez from ''Rick and Morty'' did anything like ''that'' to his own daughter Beth. Is Rand even ''capable'' of love or self-awareness that he broke the one person that had to depend on him for most of her life? Of special note is that he doesn't try to rescue Reagan from Harold; Tamiko attempts it, and Rand follows to fight with her. Alternatively, some other fans have suggested that Rand ''does'' love Reagan... but thanks to his InsaneTrollLogic and BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad mindset that there are "special people" like him and Reagan that deserve to rule over the rest of the world as ubermenschen, he might not even be ''aware'' that his treatment of her is actually abusive]]. [[spoiler:Rand's HeelRealization in Part 2 after he loses his position and power in Congnito Inc. implies that it's more the latter. He does actually love Reagan, but he was completely unaware of how badly he had treated her until she wanted nothing to do with him.]]
23	*** Tamiko, however, Rand seems to genuinely still be in love with. It is notable that she kicked him out for a myriad of reasons, but his beef with her seems to begin and end with being kicked out. While he was far from a good husband, he exhibits fairly standard behavior of a narcissist's version of love. He is still possessive of her after their relationship has ended and rather sloppily contrives an argument for them to get back together. He only seems to speak ill of her to her face and will fondly reminisce so long as she isn't in the room.
24	** "The Brettfast Club" ColdOpen hints that [[AmazonChaser Brett may have a crush on Reagan]]. The [[spoiler:family simulation]] has his "mother" asking if Reagan is someone special in his life, as he blushes and says that Reagan is a coworker "business friend forever." Then after J.R. orders them to leave before they find his weird sex fantasies, Brett pulls them up and invites Reagan to watch with him. It doesn't go one way or the other since the episode ends with Reagan and Brett doing a platonic "business friends forever" movie night, [[spoiler:leaving it intentionally ambiguous]].
25	* {{Anvilicious}}: "Ghost Protocol" emphasizes that there are two things you should not do in public: attempt to break up with someone or manipulate a person into staying with you. Reagan tries to break up with Rafe gently by pointing out she was drunk when sleeping with him, but he causes a scene. While Reagan's coworkers make fun of her for not being able to break up with a guy honestly, they go MassOhCrap on realizing she had the better measure of his character since [[spoiler:he tracks them down, mistakenly thinking they killed Reagan on another villain's payroll, and reveals that he put a chip in Reagan's phone so he'd always know where she was. They outright call him a stalker and admit Reagan was right to try and break up with him]]. Reagan finally gets through to him by [[spoiler:strapping him to a Death Trap...and instead of wiping his memories, giving him a tongue-lashing about how he treats women, and knows nothing about her, and only wishes to possess her]]. It ends up doing the trick.
26	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The intro makes excellent use of "pa$$ the time" by Bronze ft. BBRC.
27	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Several of the darker jokes for certain conspiracies (i.e., Reagan complaining to Brett in the series premiere that [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror "jet fuel can't melt anything!"]]) are often so brazenly over the top that they're more hilarious than actually offensive.
28	* CrossoverShip: Reagan and [[WebAnimation/CampCamp Gwen]] has garnered a small fanbase due to their similar personalities.
29	* CryForTheDevil: In the first season finale, [[spoiler:Bear-O]] gets this by being an AntiVillain. [[spoiler:Bear-O was made to hug Reagan and comfort her, but instead he traumatized her. Under Rand's orders, Bear-O was forced to sedate Reagan while Rand erased her memories of Orrin, the only human friend that she had. Then he was dismantled for an indeterminate amount of time. After Rand rebuilds Bear-O in the present-day, Reagan compromises to let Bear-O serve as her personal assistant and party planner. It's revealed Bear-O has been observing Reagan for all the time he's been conscious, being ForcedToWatch her increasing misery at her job and with Rand ruining her childhood. When she seems to achieve her CEO promotion, Bear-O concludes that fulfilling her father's dreams for Reagan will make her unhappy, and takes it upon himself to destroy Cognito, Inc. He even tells Reagan when revealing himself as TheMole that he will shut down if she remembers his password, giving her a sporting chance]].
30	* DirectorDisplacement: Many people are under the impression that the series is created by Creator/AlexHirsch. In actuality, it's being created and overseen by Shion Takeuchi, while Alex Hirsch is only the executive producer. Hirsch himself once [[https://twitter.com/_alexhirsch/status/1120935062638215168 commented on this on Twitter]], stressing that the show was Takeuchi's creation.
31	* EnsembleDarkhorse: "Grassy" Noel Atkinson is mostly a BitCharacter aside from his [[ADayInTheLimelight Day in the Limelight]] in "Clone Gunman", but many fans still love him thanks to him being a [[NiceGuy genuinely nice]] CoolOldGuy who provides [[BoldlyComing a comically absurd]] reason behind WhoShotJFK, is proven to be [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass deceptively competent even in his old age]], and is also given an utterly hilarious vocal performance courtesy of Creator/AlexHirsch.
32	* EpilepticTrees: When Ron was first introduced, a popular fan theory was that he and Reagan were somehow related.
33	* EvilIsCool: The Shadow Board/Council might be super creepy and responsible for a ConspiracyKitchenSink that regularly make the place an exponentially worse place to live, but their unique costumes, EvilSoundsDeep baritones, and subtle RealityWarper powers make them also ''super'' intimidating and fascinating.
34	* FanficFuel:
35	** Many of the fanfics around the series like to explore the various conspiracies covered up by Cognito Inc., the Illuminati, and other organizations and seeing how each of them fits together (i.e., the Hollow Earth portal and its inhabitants, the existence of Atlantis, the independent American Moon colony along with the "Moon Nazis" on the Moon's dark side, the long-lived Reptoid civilization and many others) and how Cognito uncovered them and/or learned how to start covering them up. There's also been lots of theorizing regarding how certain conspiracies actually fit into the series' world and how they might work in regards to the series' worldbuilding.
36	** Exploring Reagan and Brett's childhoods, particularly after the [[WhamEpisode Season 1 finale]], and seeing how they became the people they are in the present, is also something explored by many fanfic authors.
37	* FanPreferredCouple:Shipping Reagan with Brett is fairly more popular than shipping her with her canonical love interest, Ron. Fans who like them together often say that the two have some rather good chemistry as a couple, and because of its appeal as a [[GenderInvertedTrope reversal]] of the BroodingBoyGentleGirl dynamic. Some even headcanon that Brett may have a small crush on Reagan.
38	* FriendlyFandoms:
39	** Because of their similar style of humor, art direction, and characters, many ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' fans have taken a liking to this show.
40	** Many fans of the show are also fans of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', which isn't surprising since the showrunner and [[Creator/AlexHirsch executive producer]] worked on both shows.
41	** Many fans of ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' have been drawn to the show because of the similar dynamic Reagan and Brett have to Gwen and David.
42	* GeniusBonus:
43	** The opening credits shows a member of Myc's species interacting with ancient apes, the latter of whom pick a piece off of the living mushroom and eat it. While this is clearly a riff on ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', it could also be a reference to the [[https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/stoned-ape-hypothesis.htm Stoned Ape Hypothesis]], which posits that psychedelics like psilocybin may have contributed to improving ancient human neocortices, helping humanity's ancestors develop what we would now refer to as sapience. [[FridgeBrilliance Which was also the purpose of the monolith.]] [[spoiler:The psilocybin connection is even made canon to the series' universe as of Season 1 Part 2, where it's revealed that humanity's apelike ancestors eating mushrooms allowed their intellects to evolve and eventually lead to humanity evolving from them]].
44	** Avril Lavigne being among Cognito Inc.'s collection of clones may just seem like some SurrealHumor on the surface, but in reality it's an allusion to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Lavigne_replacement_conspiracy_theory an actual conspiracy theory]] positing that Lavigne died in 2003 and has since been replaced by a look-alike.
45	** Cognito Inc.'s go-to hangout bar, [=McUltra=], has a bunch of background references to real or suspected conspiracies:
46	*** The name itself alludes to the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}'s mind control project, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra MKUltra]]. There are also two road signs for "Isbell Blvd." and "Gottlieb Ave.", referring to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Sidney Gottlieb]], a spymaster at the CIA in the 1950s and 60s who was responsible for the [=MKUltra=] project, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Isbell Harris Isbell]], a pharmacologist who also worked on the project. Another sign says "Orne St.", apparently referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Theodore_Orne Martin Theodore Orne]], a professor of psychiatry and psychology who used [=MKUltra=] funding for experiments with hypnosis.
47	*** There is a neon bowtie sign saying "Bilderberg", referring to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_meeting Bilderberg meeting]], an annual conference for the rich and powerful named after the hotel in the Netherlands where it was first held. Because of the secretive nature of the meeting, its existence has created a lot of conspiracy theories.
48	*** The bar also has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_ARTICHOKE a picture of an artichoke]] on a wall and a ''Myth/{{Polybius}}'' arcade game machine.
49	** In "How Reagan Got Her Grove Back", Bigfoot feels like he's suffering from an identity crisis because civilians who find him confuse him for Chewbacca. In RealLife, the actor who played Chewbacca in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' had to have bodyguards escort him around while they were filming in Redwood Forest because they were worried that he would be confused for a wild animal and get shot by hunters.
50	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Reagan's team thinks that it's very stupid of her to keep ROBOTUS's top half alive but confined within a Cognito Inc. lab. Nevertheless, they cover for her when ROBOTUS uses his knowledge of security footage to take down runaway clones and keep Grassy from being laid off. Reagan also opts to teach ROBOTUS that humans don't deserve to be wiped out by giving him seasons of ''Friends'', something he enjoys a lot. This ends up paying off in KarmicJackpot in the season finale, where [[spoiler:the team decide to give [=ROBOTUS=] weaponry to stop Bear-O and he agrees after they play to his ego. Reagan then makes [=ROBOTUS's=] containment tube mobile as thanks for him saving the team]].
51	* HilariousInHindsight:
52	** Gigi saying she refused to rig the Oscars for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio by saying "If [he was] the best, [he] would have won!" becomes even funnier come "Whoas-Feratu", which revealed Leo is a vampire and the most vicious of his circle of vampire actors at that. Gigi dissed a vampire!
53	** Also in "Whoas-Feratu", it's revealed that Creator/NicolasCage is a vampire. In ''Film/Renfield2023'', Cage plays a vampire, {{Dracula}} himself.[[note]]Yes, he had already starred in ''Film/VampiresKiss'' and produced ''Shadow of the Vampire'', but be honest--[[AppealToObscurity did you watch them?]][[/note]]
54	** The joke that TMNT would reference Tiktok if it still was on the air which the new movie WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantMayhem does.
55	* HollywoodHomely: While Reagan isn't considered ugly by any means, the series does have a habit of treating her appearance as below average at best. The art style she's drawn in, however, doesn't present her as such.
56	* JerkassWoobie:
57	** Reagan is a grouchy, unpleasant, and abrasive person with NoSocialSkills, has plans for world domination and is working for an evil corporation that covers up conspiracies so the Shadow Government can maintain power. However, the reason she is like this is that both of her parents were incredibly neglectful and she was groomed into this position by her abusive father who would rarely show her affection, not even giving her a hug. Currently, her father lives with her as a constant reminder of how much her childhood sucked while he mooches off of her. [[spoiler:And he also removed her memories of the only friend she had when she was a kid in order to get her to stay focused on becoming a scientist, for his benefit]]. She also shows signs of trying to be an InternalReformist... but given the DysfunctionJunction that is Cognito Inc., a lot of her efforts to do so often end up being AllForNothing.
58	** Glenn is a racist, [[PatrioticFervor overly patriotic]], bloodthirsty warmonger, but his transformation into a half-man half-dolphin hybrid has basically destroyed his life. Given how ugly he is, Glenn generally gets attacked and insulted by the general public, which has resulted in him letting himself go, only adding to his depression. Even worse, he mentioned that he [[DrivenToSuicide almost killed himself]] after his divorce, only being talked down by "Grassy" Noel Atkinson.
59	** Andre is an amoral MadDoctor who has created diseases, is obsessed with sex, and [[TheStoner is always high]]. He was also raised by [[TheFundamentalist hardcore Christians]] and uses drugs to keep his anxiety, Tourette's, OCD, and crippling self-loathing under control.
60	** Even Rand of all people becomes this at the end of Part 2. Despite being have been an amoral asshole who was a huge HateSink for his treatment of Reagan, after he is rejected by Tamiko following permanently losing his job, he ends up becoming a truly broken and depressed man remorseful for his actions while becoming desperate to get his family back, even if it meant altering the universe to find a timeline where his family doesn't hate him.
61	* JustHereForGodzilla: The show attracted a fair amount of attention among Nintendo fans after a clip referencing [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry "King K. Rool]] [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate in Smash"]] went viral.
62	* LGBTFanbase:
63	** Reagan's relatable personality and often intimidating presence (along with her HiddenBuxom nature as shown in "Blue Bloods") has caused her to develop [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer as many fangirls as she has fanboys]]. The hint via FreezeFrameBonus in "Sex Machina" that she may be bisexual helps too.
64	** Brett's lovable personality and [[MrFanservice highly attractive design]] also made him popular with gay[=/=]bisexual male viewers.
65	* LoveToHate: Rand Ridley is a manipulative moocher of a father, but he's hilarious to watch thanks to both his absurd dialogue and Creator/{{Christian Slater}}'s utterly unhinged performance. [[spoiler: The hilarity part goes away when it's revealed he raised Reagan to be his puppet for taking over Cognito Inc. He went as far as erasing her memories of her only friend so she would do nothing but focus on her work. What's worse is he actually succeeds in taking over Cognito. This makes him an astonishingly despicable human being. Even then, the hilarity now seems to come from embracing this and showing how over-the-top he can go as the ObviouslyEvil CorruptCorporateExecutive.]]
66	* MagnificentBastard:
67	** [[spoiler:[[BearsAreBadNews Bear-o]] is the unassuming, overly friendly hugging robot created by Rand Ridley for his daughter Reagan. Spending the series as a background character mostly used for humor, Bear-o is revealed to be TheMole inside Cognito, Inc., stealing secret files and playing the entire organization against itself to dismantle it from the inside. Bear-o intends to annihilate Cognito and all of Reagan's toxic friends, accurately having deduced that without them or her stressful job, she will no doubt have a happier life. When Reagan learns the truth and prevents Bear-o from his master plan to leak Cognito's files, Bear-o simply changes tactics to murdering the staff of Cognito, easily [[OneManArmy tearing through its defenses]] and even defeating the Gang's last-ditch ally ROBOTUS, coming within a hairsbreadth of completing his goals to improve Reagan's work-life balance.]]
68	** "[[Recap/InsideJobS1E7GhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]": [[DiabolicalMastermind Dr. Skullfinger]] is Rafe Masters' hammy but AffablyEvil nemesis, a criminal mastermind with a mind-control plan so good that Incognito Inc. sees him as a rival to be removed. When Incognito teams up with Rafe to arrest Skullfinger, Skullfinger reveals that he can break out of prison whenever he wants, engaging in a sincere conversation with Reagan Ridley that nevertheless ends with him successfully [[TheCorrupter convincing her to essentially become a supervillain]] to break up with Rafe Masters. Skullfinger breaks out at the end and renews his rivalry with Rafe Masters, realizing for as suffocating as Rafe is, [[WorthyOpponent they're soulmates]].
69	* MemeticMutation:
70	** Many fans of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' have jokingly commented that the entire subplot involving [=JFK=] clones in "Clone Gunman" was ''Inside Job'' serving as an unofficial third season to their own show.
71	** The show suddenly getting its production cancelled despite its growing fanbase and what looked like the promise of an actual second season (instead of the first season getting split into two parts) has some jokingly claiming that the reason Netflix did so was because the conspiracies in the show were indeed ''real'' and the government wanted to make sure that the public wouldn't find out. Of course, ''there are'' [[ConspiracyTheorist those]] who take this theory to heart and do legitimately believe that this was an attempt to repress knowledge on [[GovernmentConspiracy "the]] [[AncientConspiracy truth."]]
72	* MoralEventHorizon:
73	** At first, Reagan's coworkers tease her for not using her usual BrutallyHonest ways on Rafe Masters, and Brett gives a {{Squee}} when Rafe makes him a partner on a mission. Rafe ''did'' sleep with Reagan when she was too drunk to give consent, which is rape if not molesting since Reagan can't believe what she did when she wakes up the next day. If that isn't the moment where he crosses the line with QuestionableConsent, the moment that ''does'' convince them Reagan's judgment of him was correct is when [[spoiler:he storms their attempts to rebuild Project Gaslight, having used a tracking device in Reagan's phone to find them. (For context, Reagan faked her death and Rafe mistakenly believed her coworkers were responsible.) The others say that's messed up and Brett turned on Rafe because he says that real heroes don't stalk people they like]].
74	** [[spoiler:Buzz Aldrin crosses this when he plans on moving the Moon out of orbit, knowing that the gravitational effects on Earth would be catastrophic. He doesn't care and at the end everyone sees him as a BrokenPedestal. It can be argued that he actually crossed it much earlier than that after it's revealed that he killed the ''real'' Neil Armstrong [[GreenEyedMonster out of envy for not being]] [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter the first man on the Moon]].]]
75	** [[spoiler:Rand Ridley is revealed to have crossed this years ago when he erased the memories of his daughter's best friend from her mind, so she would be fine with skipping fourth grade and becoming a super-scientist so [[ItsAllAboutMe he would have a way back into Cognito Inc.]] Reagan is disgusted to learn this and wants him out of her life.]]
76	* OneTrueThreesome: Those who like Brett/Reagan ''and'' Ron/Reagan sometimes prefer to just ship all three characters together, mainly because they find that both ships have good chemistry and that Brett and Staedtler's relationship (while starting on rocky ground) actually quite wholesome.
77	* SelfFanservice: Reagan dresses modestly and is InUniverse perceived as at best, very plain looking (with a few hints of SheCleansUpNicely). But with a large part of the fanbase having a collective crush on her, Reagan has a lot of fanart depicting her as bustier and having her posing half-naked, sometimes drawing her face with a straight or concave nose rather than an aquiline nose.
78	* SignatureScene:
79	** Rand's EstablishingCharacterMoment in the very first scene of the show, setting the tone for the series' humor and social commentary
80	** Glenn defending as furries a valid community before admitting they are ''usually'' a sexual thing. While it happens in the final episode, it is often regarded as one of the funniest moments in the show and one of its best examples of meta-humor.
81	** Reagan finding out [[spoiler:Rand erased her memories]]. While it also happens in the final episode, it's seen as the darkest moment in the series and the moment the show began to deconstruct Rand's character as an Expy of [[WesternAnimation/RickandMorty Rick]] and take his actions seriously.
82	* SpiritualSuccessor:
83	** ''Inside Job'' has been semi-jokingly, semi-seriously described as a WorkCom take on the Website/SCPFoundation, thanks to both works being set in a ConspiracyKitchenSink and are primarily focused on a morally-bankrupt America-based NGOSuperpower (Cognito Inc. and the [=SCP=] Foundation respectively) dedicated to upholding TheMasquerade for mysterious reasons, has a staff full of various eclectic and dangerous paranormal ''and'' human entities, and is overseen by a shadowy OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness whose members are AmbiguouslyHuman (the Shadow Board/Council and [=O5=] Council). Many fans have even argued that the series' gradual CerebusSyndrome despite its ostensibly absurd premise and characters is a reflection of how the [=SCP=] Foundation itself was a pretty goofy collaborative writing project before the Mass Edit caused it to gain a more or less consistently serious approach and higher standard of writing quality.
84	** To ''Series/BetterOffTed'', with both series being goofy science-fiction {{Work Com}}s set in an immensely powerful EvilInc that basically runs the world, and is mostly centered around an OnlySaneMan (Reagan in ''Inside Job'', Ted in ''Better Off Ted'') struggling to serve as an InternalReformist in the face of their dysfunctional, AmbiguouslyEvil coworkers.
85	* StrangledByTheRedString: Reagan in Part 2. [[spoiler:With Ron. Goes from SlapSlapKiss in Episode 1, to SheIsNotMyGirlfriend in Episode 2, to ''desperately'' trying to get a RelationshipUpgrade in Episode 4, to considering throwing away her entire career, friendship with her crew ''and'' the promise of uncovering the Robes' secrets to go run away with Ron in Episode 8. Part 2 is effectively a RomanceArc with the usual shadow government antics as the B Plot, but with so many cut corners for Reagan it's distracting.]] To her credit, [[spoiler: she does ultimately recognize that their relationship can't really work and breaks it off, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy leaving Ron to be happy with someone else.]]]]
86	* StrawmanHasAPoint: Yes, Reagan cut corners in "Blue Bloods" by inventing robotic arms to hug Reptoids rather than try to figure out the reason for hugs being her TraumaButton. The thing is she was under a time crunch, and it was a case where she couldn't sit out an important event since Brett flaked out on speaking in favor of doing frat hazing. J.R. even noted she would need thirty years of therapy.
87	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "How Reagan Got Her Grove Back" briefly shows Queen Elizabeth in her Reptilian form in a crowd shot, and makes reference to Jair Bolsanaro being President of Brazil; by the time it aired as the first episode of Part 2, Queen Elizabeth had been dead for several months, and Bolsanaro had lost his re-election in Brazil. Neither of these had occurred during production, but it dates the piece significantly.
88	* UnintentionallySympathetic: In "Ghost Protocol", everyone tells Reagan that she should just go and ended things with Rafe Masters instead of ghosting him/[[spoiler:faking her death]]. However, not only is Rafe a trained killer, but he's also very unstable and very creepy (not only does he break down crying at the thought of woman he had a one night stand with breaking up with him, he talks about moving to her city and having kids with her). In fact, Rafe only becomes creepier after Reagan [[spoiler:faked her death]], to the point he reveals that he [[spoiler:bugged Reagan's phone and he has done the same with every woman he has every dated]]. Even if ending things with him face to face turned out to be the right call, Reagan is very justified in wanting to avoid him at all costs, especially since in some ways Rafe's behavior frighteningly resembles the behavior of real life stalkers.
89	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
90	** In "The Brettfast Club", when Brett wants to stay Still Valley longer, he comes up with a plan to douse the gang with a bit of the chemical Nostalgia Max so they will want to stay too. While Reagan and the others should have realized Brett was heading for an emotional breakdown and helped him, he was way over the line as not only is that brainwashing (it's worth mentioning that Reagan didn't even want to do that to the town), but Nostalgia Max has a chance to give people brain damage (as it has done exactly that to all of Still Valley). While he becomes sympathetic again when it's revealed that his love of the 80's was a coping mechanism for his family hating him, it's troubling that he seemed ready to do that to people he views as his friends (though to Brett's credit, he himself seems to recognize that it isn't a good idea before the Nostalgia Max briefly fries his brain).
91	** Harold, the leader of the Flat Earthers is given an AlasPoorVillain moment by Reagan after he [[spoiler:[[TooDumbToLive dies]] by [[ItMakesSenseInContext jumping into the portal to the hollow earth,]]]] indicating that we as the audience are supposed to feel bad for him too. The problem is, Harold was shown to be a violent psychopath who not only took the entire main cast and the other wedding guests hostage, but even [[spoiler:threatened to kill Brett.]] All this makes it very hard to feel bad for him. As a result, he [[spoiler:comes across as more of an AssholeVictim than anything else.]]
92	* TheWoobie: Brett. His family was often too busy for him and even pretended he was someone else's child whenever they'd go out in public. As an adult, he's become a YesMan people pleaser so he can receive the validation he never got from his own family.
93	** [[spoiler:Reagan is also this,]] given that she [[spoiler:was raised by her emotionally distant narcissistic mother and controlling father [[EducationMama who was obsessed with having her be a high achiever]] to the point of erasing ''all'' of her happy memories with her friend Orrin to make her focus on school, and is responsible for most of her emotional issues as an adult.]]
94	* {{Woolseyism}}: The Italian dub has in the final episode of Season 2 Brett, while in the van talking to Air Bud, talk apropos of nothing about Covid-19 with an oblique reference to Italy's poor management of it; in the original dub he was just telling the dog to avoid handles (since he taped a gun to the dog's head). Also, the Italian dub for the second season is RuderAndCruder for some reason, with all the characters swearing much more than before. The Hollywood celebrities episode from S2 also has an extra speaking in "cursive", referencing a then-popular (and widely mocked) comedy bit.

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