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The American President

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The American President	label	The American President
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The American President	comment	The American President is a 1995 romantic drama movie directed by Rob Reiner (in his first film after the infamous North) and written by Aaron Sorkin, starring Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Michael J. Fox, and Martin Sheen. These days it is most noted for being basically a dress rehearsal for Sorkin's later TV series The West Wing, which included a number of the same actors, albeit in different parts.US President Andrew Shepherd (Douglas), previously the governor of Wisconsin and a widower/single father, is on top of the world as the movie starts. His poll numbers are excellent, and together with his staff, which includes Chief of Staff A.J. MacInerney (Sheen) and Lewis Rothschild (Fox), he is planning to pass a major new crime bill. However, things change when he meets Sydney Ellen Wade (Bening), an environmental lobbyist who has been hired to push for new legislation. After the typical Meet Cute, Shepherd asks her out, and they begin dating, which of course draws major media interest.This also grabs the attention of Senator Bob Rumson (Richard Dreyfuss), who has an eye to challenging Shepherd in the next election, and wants to use his relationship with Sydney to drag the President through the mud. This calls into question Shepard's previous "family man" reputation and his professional judgment as the "most powerful man on Earth."The film also stars David Paymer as Deputy Chief of Staff Leon Kodak and Samantha Mathis as Personal Aide Janie Basdin.Features typically strong dialogue from Aaron Sorkin and good performances all around, particularly from veteran leading actors Douglas, Bening, and Sheen.
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The American President / int_10e22e6e	type	Can't Believe I Said That
The American President / int_10e22e6e	comment	Can't Believe I Said That: When Janie tells Shepherd his cousin can't make it to the State Dinner, Robin asks if he's going alone.
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The American President / int_1171ed72	type	Sexy Shirt Switch
The American President / int_1171ed72	comment	Sexy Shirt Switch: An unusual example is Wade dressed in one in a manner evoking Ready for Lovemaking, rather than after the fact.
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The American President / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The American President / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Shepard is clearly based on then-current President Bill Clinton; a young, charismatic, and moderate Democrat who previously served as Governor of a Midwest state (Arkansas for Clinton, Wisconsin for Shepard), while Rumson is based on Senator Bob Dole, a Kansas Republican Senator who was Clinton's 1996 opponent. Lewis Rothschild is based on George Stephanopoulos, who was, at the time, too young for the responsibilities given to him in the Clinton administration but, nevertheless, took everything on with passion.
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The American President / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
The American President / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: Sydney attempts to console her boss Solomon about her date with Shepherd by claiming it was a one time thing with zero attachment. Of course in that very same instant a staffer walks into the office with a gift basket and a note that Shepherd wrote personally. This is also right after her boss tells her that the time it takes to go from a major power player to a cocktail-party joke can be clocked on an egg timer.
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The American President / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
The American President / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: During her initial meeting with A.J. MacInerny, Sydney Wade verbally tears into President Shepherd for his refusal to give her environmental group's cause as much support as they want. Midway through her rant, Shepherd quietly enters the room and stands behind her, introducing himself only when she finishes ("Let's take him out back and beat the shit out of him!"). Later, though, when she apologizes to him, he takes it all in stride, reminding her that being viciously criticized like that is all a part of his job as President.
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The American President / int_1b6d7d29	type	The Creon
The American President / int_1b6d7d29	comment	The Creon: A.J. implies he is one when Andrew angrily demands to know why throughout his political career, A.J. has never sought office and has always been one step behind him, content to work as a loyal advisor.
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The American President / int_1bdbbbae	type	The Klutz
The American President / int_1bdbbbae	comment	The Klutz: In Leon Kodak's first scene, he has an Offscreen Crash involving a big ficus plant. Then he walks into the Oval Office and almost knocks over a lamp.
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The American President / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
The American President / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: Senator Rumson chooses to focus entirely on the moral implications of Shepherd dating Sydney while serving term as the President, hoping that the ensuing mudfight will allow him to swing the next election in his favor. This is despite the fact that drawing attention to the very clear ethical problems with a relationship between the President and a lobbyist would not only have stuck better, but would have allowed him to keep the high ground in his campaign.
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The American President / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
The American President / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: In an unscripted (in-universe) speech savaging Bob Rumson for using Sydney to smear him, Andy turns Rumson's catchphrase around.
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The American President / int_3129617b	type	Ridiculously High Relationship Standards
The American President / int_3129617b	comment	Ridiculously High Relationship Standards: Syndey has a touch of this when she balks at her budding relationship with the President. Her sister responds: "Sydney, the man is the leader of the free world. He's brilliant, funny, handsome. He's an above-average dancer. Isn't it possible our standards are just a tad high?"
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The American President / int_33175dd1	type	Fashion Hurts
The American President / int_33175dd1	comment	Fashion Hurts: Lucy is helping her father put on a bow tie for the state dinner and he complains that it's too tight:
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The American President / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The American President / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Presidential rival Bob Rumson ends all of his campaign speeches with the same cheesy line.
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The American President / int_3f2f2dea	type	Contractual Purity
The American President / int_3f2f2dea	comment	Contractual Purity: An In-Universe version where Shepard and Wade try to experience a relatively normal, adult relationship but the massive media attention skews it to where Wade is a "whore" and Shepard is taking her as his mistress. Shepard explains the trope as such in his final speech.
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The American President / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
The American President / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: President Shepherd regarding his relationship with Sydney.
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The American President / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The American President / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Shepherd temporarily loses his faith when the chips are down and he makes a deal which will screw over Sydney and her environmental lobby pursuits. This is after months of being harassed about his relationship by his political opponent. He finally snaps when he is confronted by Lewis.
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The American President / int_4fff0dfe	type	Sarcasm-Blind
The American President / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: Shepherd's aide Janie is going over his daily schedule with him. She mentions a meeting with American Fisheries and that they'll be giving him a 200-pound halibut.
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The American President / int_538a096f	type	Burning the Flag
The American President / int_538a096f	comment	Burning the Flag: Bob Rumson attempts to smear Shepherd with a picture of Sydney burning an American flag during a late-'80s anti-Apartheid demonstration.
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The American President / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
The American President / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: This comes up when the President's press secretary is trying to strategize the President's new relationship.
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The American President / int_5aab58a6	type	Mistaken for Prank Call
The American President / int_5aab58a6	comment	Mistaken for Prank Call: Shepherd's first attempt to talk on the phone to Sydney Ellen Wade goes badly, with her thinking he is a colleague trying to give his best Andrew Shepherd impression. It also happened to him when he tried to get flowers for Sydney. He tried calling the florist, only for said florist to hang up after he stated he was the President of the United States. Then, on his way to a fundraiser, he happens upon the shop of the florist he called, and gets out of the car to buy flowers as an apology to Sydney for canceling their date that night. Said florist is on the phone, and when he tries to get her attention, she blows him off, then does a Double Take. He asks her if she was the same florist he called earlier, and she faints at the realization that she hung up on the President of the United States.
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The American President / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
The American President / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Shepherd announces his plan to go to Sydney's house and do whatever it takes to win her back:
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The American President / int_618dc1ea	type	Parent with New Paramour
The American President / int_618dc1ea	comment	Parent with New Paramour: Andrew is a widower with a 12 year-old daughter.
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The American President / int_65c0f3fa	type	Dance of Romance
The American President / int_65c0f3fa	comment	Dance of Romance: Shepherd and Sydney dancing at the State Dinner provides the poster image.
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The American President / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The American President / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: When the amount of coverage starts to heat up, Sydney goes to the White House, telling her sister that she plans to end their relationship. She ends up consummating it instead. There's also a point in the montage where someone expresses concern about what impact the relationship is having on Lucy—while we see her playing an instrument and her father and Sydney applauding her.
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The American President / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
The American President / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Sydney nearly walks through the wrong door into the President's private office after their first meeting. Her sister finds this endlessly amusing.
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The American President / int_6eeba1f2	type	"Shut Up" Kiss
The American President / int_6eeba1f2	comment	"Shut Up" Kiss: Sydney gives one to Andy when he won't stop nervously talking as she's Ready for Lovemaking.
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The American President / int_788130a2	type	Emotional Regression
The American President / int_788130a2	comment	Emotional Regression: Shepard has been out of the dating loop for a long time, so his attempts at learning about Sydney come across as high school-ish.
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The American President / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The American President / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: A quite literal example. Andy interrupts a press conference at the end of the film to improvise a speech directly calling out Rumson and his cadre for attacking Sydney to smear him. He also mercilessly lays into Rumson about trying to turn his ACLU membership into a liability (and ripostes it into Rumson's lack of membership being a liability), and into Rumson being a demagogue in general.
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The American President / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
The American President / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: When Shepard's approval rating is dropping and he briefly loses faith:
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The American President / int_984763bb	type	555
The American President / int_984763bb	comment	555: Averted when President Shepherd gives Sydney the White House's phone number as 456-1414. Dialing that number after the 202 area code belonging to Washington D.C. actually does connect you with the White House's receptionist.
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The American President / int_9af54b9d	type	Double Take
The American President / int_9af54b9d	comment	It also happened to him when he tried to get flowers for Sydney. He tried calling the florist, only for said florist to hang up after he stated he was the President of the United States. Then, on his way to a fundraiser, he happens upon the shop of the florist he called, and gets out of the car to buy flowers as an apology to Sydney for canceling their date that night. Said florist is on the phone, and when he tries to get her attention, she blows him off, then does a Double Take. He asks her if she was the same florist he called earlier, and she faints at the realization that she hung up on the President of the United States.
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The American President / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
The American President / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: Not done on purpose, but when Shepherd introduces himself over the phone to Wade she doesn't believe him. She then proceeds to mock him, figuring he was a friend pulling a prank. Shepherd then gives her the White House number where the operator is ready to connect her call in order to convince her.
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The American President / int_a2340346	type	Friendly Address Privileges
The American President / int_a2340346	comment	Friendly Address Privileges: Defied: A.J. consistently calls Andrew "Mr. President" even when they're alone, despite them having been the best of friends for years. When Andrew calls him out on this once, he delivers his reply in the form of a Shout-Out to Dr. Seuss.
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The American President / int_a4878b81	type	It's Not You, It's My Enemies
The American President / int_a4878b81	comment	It's Not You, It's My Enemies: An inversion as it's Sydney who proposes they stay away from each other until after the election is over so as to not hurt his re-election chances.
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The American President / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The American President / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: After Andrew and Sydney consummate their relationship, a montage follows of the media pouncing all over the pair, as their dating starts dropping his approval numbers and Rumson begins to gain momentum by dragging their relationship through the mud.
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The American President / int_a7defafd	type	Code Name
The American President / int_a7defafd	comment	Sorkin later recycles the Code Name for The West Wing mid-season 1 (before, it's Eagle).
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The American President / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
The American President / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Sydney and the President meet for the first time while Sydney is viciously laying into the President at a lobby meeting. Unbeknownst to her, the President had just walked into that meeting from behind her to hear the whole thing.
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The American President / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
The American President / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: The climax is Shepherd delivering one of these at a press conference. And an awesome one at that.
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The American President / int_ac06a60c	type	Think of the Children!
The American President / int_ac06a60c	comment	Think of the Children!: Of course some pundit tries to paint Andrew's daughter as a victim, when really she likes Sydney and has encouraged her dad to pursue a relationship with her all along.
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The American President / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The American President / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Shepherd's second attempt to call Sydney after the first try was Mistaken for Prank Call results in this for Sydney.
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The American President / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The American President / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: It's a film written by Aaron Sorkin, so needless to say, EVERYONE is this.
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The American President / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
The American President / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Sydney is red-headed and a fiery top-level lobbyist that gets White House access.
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The American President / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The American President / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: A rare PG-13 film with three of them.
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The American President / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
The American President / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: The florist when Andrew drops by in person.
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The American President / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
The American President / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: How Shepherd rationalizes his deal with Sydney to A.J. If Sydney fails (as Shepherd initially expected her to), they move in with their softer bill and look like heroes. If Sydney succeeds, they pass a harder bill without having to most of the heavy lifting.
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The American President / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
The American President / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: The opening cast roll ends with "and Michael J. Fox as Lewis Rothschild".
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The American President / int_c428afb9	type	You Can Always Tell a Liar
The American President / int_c428afb9	comment	You Can Always Tell a Liar: Sydney says Shepherd has a look when he's holding something back. And of course, he's doing it while not telling her he's failing on his end of the agreement with the GDC.
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The American President / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The American President / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A.J. teases the President with some Dr. Seuss while playing pool.
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The American President / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The American President / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Shepherd orders a missile strike on Libya's State Sec in retaliation for their involvement in an attack that leaves 22 American soldiers dead. When his advisors suggest playing this up to paint him as a strong leader who can make hard decisions in a time of crisis, Shepherd chastises them for making the suggestion, reminding them of the human cost of his decision.
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The American President / int_d275c4f4	type	All Women Love Shoes
The American President / int_d275c4f4	comment	All Women Love Shoes: Lucy seems to think so; before the State Dinner, she tells her father that complimenting a woman's shoes is a good date move.
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The American President / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The American President / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Lewis gives one to Shepherd, but he has a good response to it.
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The American President / int_d80e9526	type	Sex for Services
The American President / int_d80e9526	comment	Sex for Services: Bob Rumson implies during a talk show appearance that Sydney may have traded sexual favors for votes.
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The American President / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: Bob Rumson, GOP candidate, is only seen gleefully taking money from wealthy donors, joking callously with political higher-ups and smearing the President while he campaigns.
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The American President / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Most of the major characters are embryonic versions of the cast of Sorkin's The West Wing, which makes watching it an interesting experience for fans of the show. For instance: Andrew Shepherd = Jed Bartlet A.J. = Leo Robin = C.J. Lewis = Josh Leon = Toby Mrs. Chapil = Mrs. Landingham
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The American President / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The Hate Sink is given to Senator Rumson, but Sydneyâ€™s boss Leo is actually the worst person by far. First he asks Sydney if sheâ€™s sleeping with the President. He says heâ€™s just doing it to prepare her for the Media Circus which will be coming (and he is correct), but itâ€™s still incredibly inappropriate, and likely illegal, for him to even ask her. Then to top it off he fires her after the President shelves the Environmental Bill sheâ€™s busted her ass to secure the votes for even though she 100% did exactly what she was paid to do!
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The American President / int_f5b7b990	comment	Verbal Backspace: Shepherd does this while trying to find a way to rein Lewis in.
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The American President / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Andrew has a very difficult time being President and personally buying flowers for Sydney. He finally manages it by having the roses picked from the White House garden.
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The American President / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Shepherd is a fan of doing this in an attempt to make a joke.
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The American President / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: You'd be hard-pressed to find a more accurate portrayal of the day-to-day workings of the White House. The sets would be re-used for The West Wing.
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The American President	hasFeature	All Women Love Shoes / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	American Title / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Borrowed Catchphrase / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Burning the Flag / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	But I Digress / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Did I Mention It's Christmas? / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Don't Call Me "Sir" / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Emotional Regression / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Fan-Preferred Cut Content / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Films of 1995â€“1999 / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Let Me Get This Straight... / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Mathematician's Answer / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Mistaken for an Imposter / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Mistaken for Prank Call / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	No Party Given / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Our Presidents Are Different / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Parent with New Paramour / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Ridiculously High Relationship Standards / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Right Behind Me / int_b857e789
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The American President	hasFeature	Sexy Shirt Switch / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Spit Take / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Straw Character / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	"Success Through Sex" Accusation / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	The Creon / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	The Exit Is That Way / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Unequal Pairing / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious / int_b857e789
The American President	hasFeature	Your Costume Needs Work / int_b857e789
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