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* AmbiguousSituation: Principal Spoors and Don are brothers-in-law, but who married who's sibling isn't clear. It's to the point that Don himself doesn't even know.

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* AmbiguousSituation: Principal Spoors and Don are brothers-in-law, but who married who's whose sibling isn't clear. It's to the point that Don himself doesn't even know.



* KickTheDog: While it's clear Principal Spoors has every reason not to like Mr. Frond, the fact he was willing to give the job to his brother-in-law, who clearly has no qualifications at all and would've most likely been ''worse'' than Frond, was still something of a dick move.



* KickTheDog: While it's clear Principal Spoors has every reason not to like Mr. Frond, the fact he was willing to give the job to his brother-in-law, who clearly has no qualifications at all and would've most likely been ''worse'' than Frond, was still something of a dick move.
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* CentipedesDilemma: Teddy questioning Bob's burger flipping technique completely breaks his brain.

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* CentipedesDilemma: Teddy questioning Bob's burger flipping technique completely breaks his brain. According to Linda, the same thing happened when she asked him how he ties a tie. He couldn't tie one for 5 years after.
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*PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The episode title is a reference to ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Principal Spoors and Don are brothers-in-law, but who married who's sibling isn't clear. Don himself doesn't even know.

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* AmbiguousSituation: Principal Spoors and Don are brothers-in-law, but who married who's sibling isn't clear. It's to the point that Don himself doesn't even know.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Frond might not be much of a guidance counselor but he's right when he says Don's utterly unqualified. It's implied that Spoors only hired Don because of {{nepotism}}.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Frond might not be much of a guidance counselor but he's right when he says Don's utterly unqualified.unqualified--in fact, Don makes Frond look like the best guidance counselor in the world. It's implied that Spoors only hired Don because of {{nepotism}}.


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*ShoutOut: Louise won the fundraiser competition in part by selling some of her chocolate bars to Gene, who she convinced that one of the bars had a [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory golden ticket]].
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* YourMom: When Frond calls Don unqualified, Don tries to say "That's not what your mom says", [[InsultBackfire only to accidentally say "That's not what]]''[[InsultBackfire my]]'' [[InsultBackfire mom says"]].

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* YourMom: When Frond calls Don unqualified, Don tries to say "That's not what your mom says", [[InsultBackfire only to accidentally say "That's not what]]''[[InsultBackfire what]] ''[[InsultBackfire my]]'' [[InsultBackfire mom says"]].

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*ApatheticTeacher: Miss [=LaBonz=] is willing to tolerate Louise's blatant rulebreaking because she doesn't care.



*DramaticIrony: Frond is relieved that Don being hired will mean he finally gets help with his job. He has no idea that ''he's'' about to ''lose'' his job.
-->'''Louise:''' Look at him. Mr. Frond has no idea what's going on.\\
'''Tina:''' He's orienting his own executioner.
*EpicFail: Don is somehow worse at his job than ''Frond''.
*FirstNameBasis: While acting as principal, Louise refers to Mr. Frond as Phillip.
*ForeignCultureFetish: The fact that Jimmy Pesto has ''Italian flag-themed underwear'' says it all.



*LampshadeHanging: Ms. Schnur scoffs at Spoors attending a "leadership conference", fully aware that Spoors doesn't actually ''do'' anything to lead Wagstaff.



*LiveButDelayed: Frond goes to catch Louise during her interview with Tammy, but by the time he gets there she's long gone. Tammy points out that the school doesn't air news live, there's a delay in case kids swear.



* {{Nepotism}}: Who's Principal Spoors's first choice to replace Mr. Frond? His brother-in-law, of course.

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* {{Nepotism}}: Who's Principal Spoors's first choice to replace Mr. Frond? His brother-in-law, of course.course, despite him being ''more'' unqualified than Frond ever could be.



* WeWantOurJerkBack: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him, both because she feels like she fired him personally and because the replacement barely knows anything about the job, so she conspires to scare off the replacement and get Frond reinstated.

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* WeWantOurJerkBack: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him, both because she feels like she fired him personally and because the replacement barely knows anything about the job, so she conspires to scare off the replacement and get Frond reinstated.reinstated.
*YourMom: When Frond calls Don unqualified, Don tries to say "That's not what your mom says", [[InsultBackfire only to accidentally say "That's not what]]''[[InsultBackfire my]]'' [[InsultBackfire mom says"]].

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*AmbiguousSituation: Principal Spoors and Don are brothers-in-law, but who married who's sibling isn't clear. Don himself doesn't even know.



* JerkassHasAPoint: Frond might not be much of a guidance counselor but he's right when he says Don's utterly unqualified.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Frond might not be much of a guidance counselor but he's right when he says Don's utterly unqualified. It's implied that Spoors only hired Don because of {{nepotism}}.


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*{{Nepotism}}: Who's Principal Spoors's first choice to replace Mr. Frond? His brother-in-law, of course.

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* GodForADay: Louise thought being principal for a day would be this, but is disappointed to find that it's a purely ceremonial position with no power and she completes all her intended duties in 15 minutes and is told to go back to pretending she's a regular student for the rest of the day. So naturally, she breaks into the principal's office, gets his secretary on her side by letting her use the principal's private bathroom (she has trouble urinating in public bathrooms) and uses his memo pad to make new rules for the school.

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* GodForADay: Louise thought being principal for a day would be this, but is disappointed to find that it's a purely ceremonial position with no power and she completes all her intended duties in 15 minutes and is told to go back to pretending she's a regular student for the rest of the day. So naturally, she breaks into the principal's office, gets his secretary on her side by letting her use the principal's private bathroom (she has trouble urinating in public bathrooms) and uses his memo pad to make new rules for the school. Rather surprisingly, Louise's rules don't end up backfiring on her and Ms. Jacobson mentions the triple recess apparently helped a lot of kids focus.


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* JerkassHasAPoint: Frond might not be much of a guidance counselor but he's right when he says Don's utterly unqualified.
* KickTheDog: While it's clear Principal Spoors has every reason not to like Mr. Frond, the fact he was willing to give the job to his brother-in-law, who clearly has no qualifications at all and would've most likely been ''worse'' than Frond, was still something of a dick move.
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* WeWantOurJerkBack: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him, both because she feels like she fired him personally and because the replacement barely knows anything about the job and conspires to scare off his replacement and get Frond reinstated.

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* WeWantOurJerkBack: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him, both because she feels like she fired him personally and because the replacement barely knows anything about the job and job, so she conspires to scare off his the replacement and get Frond reinstated.
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* WeWantOurJerkBack: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him, both because she fells like she fired him personally and because the replacement barely knows anything about the job and conspires to scare off his replacement and get Frond reinstated.

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* WeWantOurJerkBack: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him, both because she fells feels like she fired him personally and because the replacement barely knows anything about the job and conspires to scare off his replacement and get Frond reinstated.
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* WeWantOurJerkBack: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him and conspires to scare off his replacement and get Frond reinstated.

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* WeWantOurJerkBack: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him, both because she fells like she fired him personally and because the replacement barely knows anything about the job and conspires to scare off his replacement and get Frond reinstated.
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* IHaveThisFriend: During the assembly, Regular-Sized Rudy asks the new counselor Don about a friend who has asthma and whose parents are getting divorced. After Don runs away, Rudy [[CaptainObvious confesses that he was talking about himself all along]].

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* IHaveThisFriend: During the assembly, Regular-Sized Rudy asks the new counselor Don about a friend who has asthma and whose parents are getting divorced. After Don runs away, Rudy [[CaptainObvious confesses that he was talking about himself all along]].
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* IHaveThisFriend: During the assembly, Regular-Sized Rudy asks the new counselor Don about a friend who has asthma and whose parents are getting divorced. After Don runs away, Rudy confesses that [[EverybodyKnewAlready he was talking about himself all along]].

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* IHaveThisFriend: During the assembly, Regular-Sized Rudy asks the new counselor Don about a friend who has asthma and whose parents are getting divorced. After Don runs away, Rudy [[CaptainObvious confesses that [[EverybodyKnewAlready he was talking about himself all along]].
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* IHaveThisFriend: During the assembly, Regular-Sized Rudy asks the new counselor Don about a friend who has asthma and whose parents are getting divorced. After Don runs away, Rudy confesses that he was talking about himself all along.

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* IHaveThisFriend: During the assembly, Regular-Sized Rudy asks the new counselor Don about a friend who has asthma and whose parents are getting divorced. After Don runs away, Rudy confesses that [[EverybodyKnewAlready he was talking about himself all along.along]].
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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: InUniverse. Teddy misinterprets ''Film/BullDurham'' as ''Bill Durham'' and thinks Bill is one of the characters.

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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: InUniverse. Linda and Teddy misinterprets misinterpret ''Film/BullDurham'' as ''Bill Durham'' and thinks think Bill is one of the characters.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"See you on the other side, Principal Louise."'']]

->''"We're talking innapropriate comic books, fireworks, fake vomit..."''
-->'''--Louise''', about the taken itens
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* WeWantOurJerkback: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him and conspires to scare off his replacement and get Frond reinstated.

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* WeWantOurJerkback: WeWantOurJerkBack: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him and conspires to scare off his replacement and get Frond reinstated.

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* IHaveThisFriend: During the assembly, Regular-Sized Rudy asks the new counselor about a friend who has asthma and whose parents are getting divorced. After the counselor runs away, Rudy confesses that he was talking about himself all along.

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* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Teddy steals a pair of Italian-flag-print briefs from Jimmy Pesto for Bob to wear.
* IHaveThisFriend: During the assembly, Regular-Sized Rudy asks the new counselor Don about a friend who has asthma and whose parents are getting divorced. After the counselor Don runs away, Rudy confesses that he was talking about himself all along.along.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Don gets overwhelmed by the kids asking him questions, and excuses himself by saying he left an ice-cream cake in his car before running away.



* PetTheDog: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him and conspires to scare off his replacement and get Frond reinstated.

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* PetTheDog: WeWantOurJerkback: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him and conspires to scare off his replacement and get Frond reinstated.
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* GodForADay: Louise thought being principal for a day would be this, but is disappointed to find that it's a purely ceremonial position with no power. So naturally, she breaks into the principal's office and uses his memo pad to make new rules for the school.

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* GodForADay: Louise thought being principal for a day would be this, but is disappointed to find that it's a purely ceremonial position with no power. power and she completes all her intended duties in 15 minutes and is told to go back to pretending she's a regular student for the rest of the day. So naturally, she breaks into the principal's office office, gets his secretary on her side by letting her use the principal's private bathroom (she has trouble urinating in public bathrooms) and uses his memo pad to make new rules for the school.

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* IHaveThisFriend: During the assembly, Regular-Sized Rudy asks the new counselor about a friend who has asthma and has trouble making friends. After the counselor runs away, Rudy confesses that he was talking about himself all along.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: After struggling with the combination lock to the confiscation locker, Louise discovers that the principal had the combination written ''on the lock itself''. The combination is "1111".

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* TheGhost: Principal Spoors is conveniently out of town, enabling Louise's plan to become a real principal for a day.
* GodForADay: Louise thought being principal for a day would be this, but is disappointed to find that it's a purely ceremonial position with no power. So naturally, she breaks into the principal's office and uses his memo pad to make new rules for the school.
* IHaveThisFriend: During the assembly, Regular-Sized Rudy asks the new counselor about a friend who has asthma and has trouble making friends.whose parents are getting divorced. After the counselor runs away, Rudy confesses that he was talking about himself all along.
* MagicFeather: Inspired by ''Film/BullDurham'', Teddy suggests that Bob wear Linda's underwear to cure himself of "the yips". Neither is willing to do this, so Teddy comes up with the next best thing: wearing Jimmy Pesto's underwear.
* ParalysisByAnalysis: Bob gets "the yips" from thinking too hard about flipping burgers.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: After struggling with the combination lock to the confiscation locker, Louise discovers that the principal had the combination written ''on the lock itself''. The combination is "1111"."1111".
* PetTheDog: Louise is at first happy that Mr. Frond is getting fired, but eventually she feels sorry for him and conspires to scare off his replacement and get Frond reinstated.
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* CentipedesDilemma: Teddy questioning Bob's burger flipping technique completely breaks his brain.

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* CentipedesDilemma: Teddy questioning Bob's burger flipping technique completely breaks his brain.brain.
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: InUniverse. Teddy misinterprets ''Film/BullDurham'' as ''Bill Durham'' and thinks Bill is one of the characters.
* IHaveThisFriend: During the assembly, Regular-Sized Rudy asks the new counselor about a friend who has asthma and has trouble making friends. After the counselor runs away, Rudy confesses that he was talking about himself all along.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: After struggling with the combination lock to the confiscation locker, Louise discovers that the principal had the combination written ''on the lock itself''. The combination is "1111".
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* CentipedesDilemma: Teddy questioning Bob's burgers flipping technique completely breaks his brain.

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* CentipedesDilemma: Teddy questioning Bob's burgers burger flipping technique completely breaks his brain.
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When her principal for a day job turns out to be useless and ceremonial, Louise takes matters into her own hands and enforces real, fun changes. Back at the restaurant, Bob deals with the yips.
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* CentipedesDilemma: Teddy questioning Bob's burgers flipping technique completely breaks his brain.

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