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American Vandal
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American Vandal is a 2017 Netflix original Mockumentary series parodying True Crime docuseries, except revolving around high school pranks.The first season focuses on a prank that involves somebody sneaking into Hanover High School in Oceanside, CA and spray-painting penises on the 27 cars of the school's faculty. Senior class clown Dylan Maxwell is accused of the crime and subsequently expelled. However, documentary filmmaker Peter Maldonado believes there is more to the story. Together with his best friend Sam Ecklund, he creates the documentary series American Vandal to investigate the case and prove Dylan's innocence. But along the way, they discover many more secrets about the school than they expected.A second season was released on September 14th, 2018, this time Peter and Sam head to a private school in Washington to hunt down and capture the Turd Burglar, a person who contaminated the school's drinks to cause everyone to have a massive diarrhea attack and is threatening to strike again.Note: Spoilers for both seasons are listed across the series pages, some marked, others not. Even just the tropes that appear will spoil both series. | |
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Strip Poker | |
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Strip Poker: Mackenzie exonerates Dylan and herself by revealing a time-stamped video of her apparently playing Strip Rainbow Six Siege. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Mackenzie has an acceptance letter from a college that's only referred to as "Boulder." This is presumably a reference to the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, but the show is very careful to never say that and only calls it "Boulder." | |
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Insists on Being Suspected: When Peter insists on being suspected as the one who drew the dicks. The problems come for him and his best friend, Sam, when he insists on treating Sam like a suspect, too, and while both are genuinely innocent, Sam takes issue to how Peter makes him look like a creepy stalker. | |
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The Promposal: Brandon gives one to Gabi at Nana's Party. He shoves her in a pool, then gives her a towel with "prom?" written on it. | |
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The Ghost: Whoever the cameraman is in Season 2 is never seen or discussed, unlike the first season. He might be the same kid, and he's never mentioned because he's never considered as a suspect this time. | |
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Paranoia Gambit: Subverted. When Dylan confronts Alex for lying about seeing him draw the dicks, he walks off making him think this trope is going to be in effect... then promptly returns a moment later to enact the "revenge" (ruining his pizza slice and shaking up his soda). | |
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Childhood Friend Romance: It's implied but never stated openly that Kevin has a crush on Chloe. | |
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Hot for Teacher: One of the janitors is only known as "Hot Janitor". | |
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Stealth Pun: Season Two includes minor character Carla Dickey in a clever nod to Season One's main plot. | |
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Instant Web Hit: By the fifth episode of Season 1, Peter and Sam have to deal with the fact that American Vandal has gained online attention (by, in-universe, having their episodes of the documentary posted on Vimeo, shared across social media) and that people are submitting theories about who the vandal is. In the opening of Season 2, Peter reveals that the viral explosion of the Vimeo documentary led to Netflix picking up the documentary, and offering a second season and a full production crew (along with adding more production value to the first season for its appearance on Netflix.) Peter and Sam end up selecting St. Bernardine out of hundreds of email requests for the American Vandal team to cover crimes ranging from total hoaxes to an actual murder. Subverted with the Wayback Boys. They only gain a few hundred more subscribers from the attention, but they still think it means they're viral stars. | |
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Ambiguous Situation: Is Peter's final theory, that Christa and her boyfriend Van spray-painted the dicks, accurate? It all adds up, and Christa's tense final interview heavily implies it. But—as Peter notes—he's been down this road before, with seemingly rock-solid, all-but-proven theories ultimately disproved. His suspicions are never confirmed. It's never confirmed one way or another just how much of a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Ms. Shapiro really is. She may or may not have coerced a student to accuse another student she disliked of cheating. She may or may not have been playing good cop to the vice principal's bad cop to coax someone into giving information about the vandal. It's not clear whether her mischaracterization of her nail-damaged tire as being "slashed" is a deliberate falsehood or whether she simply assumes Dylan did it, although her treatment of his after his exoneration is pretty indefensibly callous. Assuming that it was Christa that was the vandal: after a player pummels her at football tryouts, Coach Rafferty apparently said something bad enough to completely push her over the edge and drive her, a straight-A Honor student, to draw the dicks. What exactly he said is never revealed. All that's known is that it was bad enough for her to make a report. | |
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Reveal Shot: Minor case early on: Dylan's brother is talking about how he used to terrorize Shapiro's class and warned Dylan not to take the class because Shapiro will have it out for him. He says Dylan didn't listen, because he's an idiot. Then a camera pan out reveals Dylan was there right next to him (facing him too) the whole time. | |
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Alpha Bitch: Subverted with Sara. Early interviews paint a picture of her as this, but she's later revealed to be a fairly normal girl who doesn't care about popularity (e.g. her hooking with Pat Micklewaite of all people). | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: Season 2 begins after Kevin has been convicted and expelled, living under house arrest with an ankle monitor. This season, however, is released only after the mystery has been solved. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Mr. Kraz and a few others seem to think this is the case with Ms. Shapiro; Christa even states that one of her friends was coerced into saying a student Shapiro didn't like cheated off of her. | |
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Sadist Teacher | |
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Mrs. Shapiro toes the line between this and Sadist Teacher, and it's really dependent on whose testimonies you believe. She may have pressured a girl into accusing another student of cheating because Shapiro didn't like him. She also might have told Keene to get rid of off-campus lunches so that when she brought them back she would be seen as the good guy. But she is also very fast to brush Dylan off because of his actions and lies to help him get expelled and only gave a half hearted apology to him after his exoneration, and she begins acting just as cold to Peter and Sam as the documentary goes on. | |
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Smoking Gun | |
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Smoking Gun: The Spray Paint can, which helps narrow down who, specifically, was targeted in the dick drawing attack. | |
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Embarrassing Alibi | |
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Embarrassing Alibi: The plot of season 1 is that someone spray-painted penises on the 27 cars of the school's faculty. Class clown Dylan Maxwell is accused of the crime. His friends provide an alibi: he was with them, playing a mean-spirited prank on an elderly neighbor. The hole in Dylan's alibi is that during the exact half-hour window when the vandalism occurred, Dylan left his friends. His girlfriend Mackenzie says he was visiting her during that time. In order to prove that she'd have to show a Twitch stream which shows Dylan arriving — and also shows her cheating on him. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: "Hot Janitor", apart from his looks being so appealing as to attract the attention of even the nuns at St. Bernadine, is an accomplished botanist that grows all of his own food. | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | |
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Treating young people like they are not going to amount to anything more than a petty criminal is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. If all they know is that no matter what they do, they'll be seen as a troublemaker or loser, then they'll quickly internalize that there is little point to rising above those assumptions and will behave accordingly. | |
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Kid Detective | |
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Kid Detective: Peter and Sam. | |
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Loved by All | |
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Loved by All: Ming Zhang, a foreign exchange student notorious in the school for just being a Nice Guy in general. When discussing the alibis for the members of the news team (who had access to the security footage), Ming is ruled out as a suspect simply because "Dude, it's Ming." | |
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Kick the Dog: Given, he "terrorized" her and her classroom for years beforehand, but Ms. Shapiro does this to Dylan after his innocence is proven. She does apologize for falsely accusing him... then adds that, even so, she still thinks Dylan is a lost cause and everything else she said about him was true. | |
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Sara gives one to Peter in the final episode about invading her privacy, exposing her sexual history and leaving her open to slut-shaming, especially since it turns out to have nothing to do with Dylan's innocence or anyone else's guilt. Peter leaves it in the finished episode as a way of owning his irresponsible behaviour, as well as admitting in voiceover that she was absolutely right. | |
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Noodle Incident: Some of Dylan's detention slips from Shapiro are shown, where the offenses listed include "making whale noises" and "faking diabetes." The specifics of these events are not addressed or elaborated upon any further. | |
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Then Let Me Be Evil | |
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Then Let Me Be Evil: Dylan falls into this attitude by the end of the series. He has no prospects for the future, and everyone's pigeonholed him into being an idiot, so he decides to fulfill that role. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Sam and Peter are genuinely appalled when the success of the first season results in someone asking them to investigate a murder. They give that a quick no. | |
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Captain Obvious: After Jenna explains that a girl named Brooke Wheeler blackmailed her into doing the Shit Launcher prank and gave her all the Turd Burglar paraphernalia to do it, Peter asks, "So Brooke Wheeler is the Turd Burglar?" Jenna just stares at him in disbelief for a moment before saying, "Did... YEAH!" | |
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World's Smallest Violin | |
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World's Smallest Violin: DeMarcus' trademark taunt during games is to pretend to play the violin for his haters. | |
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Sad Clown | |
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Sad Clown: Kevin, although most people don't find him that funny, if at all. He explains that being bullied and left out made him act this way, so he could be "in on the joke". Also DeMarcus, although unlike Kevin, he's extremely popular with his funny stunts. However, he feels that no-one genuinely likes him and all are just interested in him because of his popularity. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Season Two's Big Bad Grayson Wentz stole an innocent woman's private photos and videos, and used them to catfish vulnerable students and a faculty member of the school that he was expelled from. After collecting their own private media, he blackmailed them into committing his poop pranks. He was so good at faking being an attractive girl that Kevin willingly committed the first incident after Grayson's first target refused. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Though Grayson is outed as the mastermind behind the Turd Burglar, Kevin is still guilty of the Brownout incident, as he was catfished by Grayson into doing it. His sentence is not commuted as a result, but his friendship with Tanner is mended, and he and Chloe are close again. DeMarcus' reputation has been severely dented and he's probably lost quite a few college offers, but the ordeal inspires him to take control of his life from Lou and his father, even starting a free basketball clinic for kids in his neighborhood, and he still gets a full ride to college in the end (in fact getting one to Villanova who had the number 1 ranked basketball team in the country that year). Though a teacher was fired and Mrs. Wexler resigned over circumstances surrounding the Turd Burglar, any additional consequences of Grayson leaking everyone's private photos, videos and conversations, outside of Grayson's sentencing, have yet to be seen, but it's insinuated that Drew Pankratz's life has been scarred forever. Also, Perry still suffers no consequences for bullying and sexually harassing Paige, and there's no indication that the over-privileged attitude towards student athletes that let Perry get away it and helped corrupt Grayson has been changed or even recognized. | |
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Left It In | |
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Left It In: In Season 1, Peter's sole devotion to telling the truth means he leaves in plenty of damning clips of people, including those close to him, even after they beg him to cut it out. Peter's In-Universe decision to release episodes before having completed the investigation and documentary means Peter and Sam unknowingly leave in red herrings and events that aren't relevant to the eventual truth of the matter but still have an impact on the rest of their documentary. That extends to Peter and Sam themselves. As they are both part of the Morning Show Nine 9, they examine each other about being the vandal. Sam doesn't take it very seriously when investigating Peter, but after Peter shows the investigation he conducted on Sam, it includes Peter seriously exposing Sam's hopeless crush on Gabi as potential motive, Sam flips out and leaves. Peter leaves both the investigation on Sam and the reaction to it in the documentary. Sam's reaction also includes the facts that Peter is in love with a girl named Ashley Hanson and that he jerks off to American Apparel catalogs. Their attempt to discredit Alex Trimboli by proving he lied about hooking up with Sara Pearson at the lake. That aspect of the investigation is resolved when Peter and Sam get their hands on Sara's private "hook up list". In addition to making it public, which hurts Sara for no legitimate reason, the list also happens to prove that Gabbi's boyfriend cheated on her with Sara at the lake, which hurts Sam and Gabi's friendship. The entire investigation thread regarding Sara and Alex results in absolutely no useful evidence for or against Dylan, or towards the actual vandal. | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot | |
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The dick-drawer. They were clever enough to erase the security footage, and carry out the deed on a student-free day when all the teachers would be occupied in meetings. Alex Trimboli said that the vandal was wearing a hoodie — why didn't they wear the hood up, in case someone was looking out a window? Alex says himself that he couldn't have identified the vandal as Dylan (mistakenly or otherwise) if the hood had been up. | |
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In-Universe | |
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In Season 1, Peter's sole devotion to telling the truth means he leaves in plenty of damning clips of people, including those close to him, even after they beg him to cut it out. Peter's In-Universe decision to release episodes before having completed the investigation and documentary means Peter and Sam unknowingly leave in red herrings and events that aren't relevant to the eventual truth of the matter but still have an impact on the rest of their documentary. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The show goes viral around the fifth episode of Season 1, and Peter devotes a segment to discussing theories that members of the audience have about the case. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: In the final episode of Season 2. When Peter and Sam are interviewing Drew Pankratz after discovering he was a catfishing victim by the Turd Burglar. Peter asks him how the Turd Burglar's catfishing persona got him to do the Brownout. Drew's response? "I didn't do the Brownout." | |
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Kavorka Man | |
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Kavorka Man: Peter and Sam are constantly amazed that the goofy-looking Pat Micklewaite has hooked up with a number of attractive girls. | |
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Book Dumb | |
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Book Dumb: Dylan admits that he is this, even explicitly saying he isn't "book smart". He also notes that he isn't really street smart either. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: Season 1 begins and ends with footage of Peter asking Dylan who he is. | |
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Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube! | |
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Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: The "Brownout" runs on this, with the motive being (correctly) guessed as the chance to humiliate the student body by seeing them shit themselves. | |
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CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable | |
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CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Sara manages to revive Ming with this when he passes out at party. It works and he wakes up none the worse for wear, but it's not really clear what he passed out from and how exactly the CPR worked. | |
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Country Matters | |
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Country Matters: Dylan's mom calls Mrs. Shapiro a "See You Next Tuesday." | |
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Internet Stalking | |
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Internet Stalking: The fictional investigative documentarians go through Snapchats, instant messages, Facebook profiles, stories and more to find clues. | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Mrs. Shapiro is this to Dylan. Pat Micklewaite becomes one to Peter as he begins to find more and more evidence of him being more popular than he is. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: In season 2, a shot of Peter's laptop reveals chat logs of recent conversations with not only Sam, but Gabi Granger, Dylan Maxwell, and Alex Trimboli. | |
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Restrained Revenge | |
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Restrained Revenge: When Dylan confronts Alex for lying about seeing him drawing the dicks (which contributed to the expulsion), he says he'll get even one day. After a beat he destroys Alex's lunch and leaves. It's clear Alex thinks he got off easy. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: The Hanover High teachers' hard-line behavior about the vandalism is justified. Not only is there considerable humiliation for all the teachers — how long did they have to drive around in those cars until their mechanic had a free slot, or the insurance company paid up for a loan car? The property damage was estimated to be $100,000, for 27 cars. That averages out to about $3,700 per car. Given that teacher's salaries are notoriously low, car paint colors can be tricky and expensive to match, and that insurance companies are notorious for dragging their feet about paying out or even denying claims on flimsy excuses (like 'vandalism is not covered by your policy'), the teachers might very well have lost up to a month's salary paying to get their cars fixed. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: Part of the series appeal is that it takes everything completely seriously — the dicks, the poop, whether Alex got a handjob from Sara, off-campus lunches, the use of periods after emojis or the number of Ys in the word "hey" — anything and everything is treated as an important factor in the case. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: By the end of the series, Peter and Sam theorize that Van Delorey drew the dicks while Christa deleted the tapes. Van Delorey sounds a lot like "Vandalery". It's probably not a coincidence that Christa's last name, Carlyle, has both the word car in itnote the dicks were drawn on the faculty's vehicles , but also a word that sounds like lie.note something that Christa is definitely guilty of doing, regardless of whether she really planned the dick drawings In this recap it is taken even further: points out that Christa's last name, when taken with Van's full name and the first part of his last name spell out "CAR VAN-DEL". Also includes a reddit theory which point outs out their names are anagrams for "Car Vandal is Clearly End Theory," and "Clearly is Car Vandal. End Theory." | |
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The Stoner | |
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The Stoner: Dylan and his buddies, The "Wayback Boys". | |
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Soapbox Sadie | |
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Soapbox Sadie: Christa, whose almost entire story arc is devoted to promoting various causes at the school—even if they tend to backfire on her. Played with to some degree, as she's revealed to actually have been interested in joining football as a kicker and wasn't just trying to prove a point about gender equality. | |
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Courteous Canadian | |
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Courteous Canadian: Ming, considered by everyone to be the nicest kid in school, is from Toronto. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Peter messaging the Turd Burglar that he knew he was Grayson before alerting the police, allowing the latter time to leak all of the compromising photos of his victims before getting arrested. Essentially, Peter completely humiliated and severely damaged the reputations of three students (and one scummy teacher) for the sake of making his documentary more dramatic. | |
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Once More, with Clarity | |
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Once More, with Clarity: Peter and Sam sometimes re-consult old footage to find stuff as they get new pieces of information. The footage is often shown as it was the first time, but with focus on something Peter and Sam, and by extension the audience, missed the first time. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerk Ass Has A Point: A minor case: Myles ends up admitting that Kevin's ridiculously fussy and involved method of drinking tea does make it taste better. | |
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PaintingTheFourthWall | |
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Painting the Fourth Wall: When Dylan and his parents are consulting their lawyer over the phone and Peter chimes in, he explains his presence: | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: It's more accurate to say that Peter and Sam get on a bus and go to Bellevue, Washington, in Season 2, leaving the rest of the cast behind. They don't even reveal the identity of their cameraman like they did in Season 1. | |
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Stern Teacher | |
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Stern Teacher: Mrs. Shapiro toes the line between this and Sadist Teacher, and it's really dependent on whose testimonies you believe. She may have pressured a girl into accusing another student of cheating because Shapiro didn't like him. She also might have told Keene to get rid of off-campus lunches so that when she brought them back she would be seen as the good guy. But she is also very fast to brush Dylan off because of his actions and lies to help him get expelled and only gave a half hearted apology to him after his exoneration, and she begins acting just as cold to Peter and Sam as the documentary goes on. Mr. Maeda also counts, concerning his penchant for confiscating student's property for long periods of time. | |
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N-Word Privileges | |
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N-Word Privileges: DeMarcus admits to changing the way he speaks around his white friends, especially about using the N-word, lest they think they have N-word privileges also. | |
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Consummate Liar | |
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Consummate Liar: Alex Trimboli is constantly lying in order to get popular — claiming to get a handjob from Sara Pearson, saying he was the drunkest person at Nana's Party, and giving info about the dick drawing in order to bring back off-campus lunches for seniors. In the final episode of Season 1, it's revealed that he may have actually seen the real vandal and just assumed it was Dylan because the two looked similar. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Peter is on the receiving end of a few thanks to the documentary. Sara gives one to Peter in the final episode about invading her privacy, exposing her sexual history and leaving her open to slut-shaming, especially since it turns out to have nothing to do with Dylan's innocence or anyone else's guilt. Peter leaves it in the finished episode as a way of owning his irresponsible behaviour, as well as admitting in voiceover that she was absolutely right. Mackenzie gives one to Peter when he accuses her of drawing the dicks with Dylan. It's a lot harder to feel sympathy for her, however, considering it's triggered by her realizing that in order to clear her name, she's going to have to reveal the Twitch footage that not only proves both her and Dylan's alibis, but that she's been cheating on him. Also exposing that she stood by and let her boyfriend of four years be expelled from school, have his reputation ruined and be left open to felony criminal charges and possible jail time or ruinous debt for his low-income family, rather than admit to it. Ms. Shapiro gives a short one to Dylan while apologizing about accusing him of drawing the dicks. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In Season 2, Peter and Sam find out the identity of the Turd Burglar (Grayson Wentz) and how he pulled off one of his crimes: he catfished Jenna Hawthorne until he got risque pictures of her, and then blackmailed her into doing the crime. After finding out who the Turd Burglar is, Peter texts him with his real name instead of immediately going to the police, as Sam and Chloe suggest. Unbeknownst to them, the Burglar had blackmailed more victims to commit his other crimes, and he decided to dump everything he had on his victims before the police came. Had the police been called before Grayson knew he was going down, they could have secured the blackmail material without it leaking. No one calls Peter out for this, nor does he even seem to realize he's done anything wrong. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: The Turd Burglar tricks Peter in digging around in a pile of poop with chopsticks. Sam cracks a bit of a smile as he obviously finds it a bit funny. | |
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Convicted by Public Opinion | |
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Convicted by Public Opinion: Dylan's case had circumstantial evidence at best plus one unreliable eye witness, but several teachers and other students saw him as a failure from the word "go" and barely gave him a chance to defend himself. To be fair, Dylan admits that as a student he's apathetic at best, and constantly disrupting class for stupid jokes that aren't even funny... just like the dick drawing is seen to be. | |
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Left Hanging | |
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Left Hanging: While we find out if Dylan was the vandal or not, we do not find out with any certainty who actually did it, only an extremely strong suspicion that Christa did it. We also don't find out exactly what Coach Rafferty did that made Christa angry at him. On the topic of Coach Rafferty, it's not made clear what he said to Crista on the field. | |
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Driving Question | |
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Driving Question: Who actually committed the season's central crime? | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons, Tanner accuses Kevin of committing the Brownout. He turns out to be right, but not for the right reason: Kevin wasn't trying to break up Tanner and Chloe by calling the police — an act committed by Lou, for a different reason — but he was cajoled into getting revenge on someone else by going through with the prank. When Peter gets personally contacted by the Turd Burglar, he suspects that it's because he's recently unknowingly interviewed the real identity of the Turd Burglar. This immediately causes him to suspect DeMarcus. However, he also recently interviewed Grayson, who turns out to be the Turd Burglar. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: "Hot Janitor": He's a janitor who is hot. | |
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Nerd Glasses | |
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Nerd Glasses: Peter and Ming both have them. | |
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Incredibly Obvious Bug | |
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Incredibly Obvious Bug: After Sam and Peter have been banned from shooting on school grounds, Peter attempts to surreptitiously record an interview with Coach Rafferty by putting his cell phone in his breast pocket with the camera peeking over the top of the pocket. Sam claims it looks obvious and everyone will notice, while Peter says it'll be fine. It takes Coach Rafferty less than five seconds to notice Peter's phone and point out that he's being recorded. He's perfectly fine with it and is more than happy to do the interview while being recorded, but he does find the lame deception pretty funny. They later try the same tactic with Vice Principal Keene. He's slower on the uptake, but much less forgiving once he does realize he's being recorded. The boys seem to have learned their lesson in the second season and record St. Bernardine teacher Mrs. Wexler with an audio-only bug that doesn't get noticed. | |
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Creepy Gym Coach | |
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Creepy Gym Coach: The coach, Mr Rafferty, appears to be extremely genial and popular, but it's hinted at that he's abused his position from time to time; Mr. Kraz claims that he "has roofied people" (although Kraz has already been established as a textbook Unreliable Expositor) and Peter learns that there's a mention on his file of showing "inappropriate conduct with a student". And there's whatever he said to Christa after knocking her down and injuring her, but it's never explicitly confirmed how sinister he is. | |
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Wild Teen Party | |
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Wild Teen Party: There are two in Season 2 First, there is the Skip Day; while it's downplayed story-wise, the party still contains the "Great American Challenge", in which participants race to complete very stupid teenage stuff, like finishing a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle after drinking a handle of vodka. Then there's the class charity trip to Costa Rica, where after a few hours of helping the poor, they go back to a high-end hotel for booze and sex. Even the teachers know it's a massive holiday, and there's a lottery for the four chaperone slots on the trip. | |
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Literal Metaphor | |
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Literal Metaphor: The Turd Burgler's crimes are all driven by his desire to prove his former classmates are "full of shit". | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Dylan is railroaded and expelled for a crime he didn't commit, and he's the spark for the aesop about stereotyping people described above. However, he really is kind of an unlikable prick, someone who tends to treat people like crap and engage in childish, mean-spirited pranks like "toddler farting" and "nun humping." And he really did torture Mrs. Shapiro for years. | |
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Feigning Intelligence | |
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Feigning Intelligence: Throughout Season 2, people note that Kevin isn't particularly intelligent; He just says things he thinks smart people say. There are a number of times where we see him trying to be smarter than he is. He recalls describing a pop song "an ocular disaster" when he was in 6th grade, which Chloe notes she had to look up and discover that he was using the word wrong. In another scene, he says that DeMarcus' poem "makes Dr. Seuss look like..." but can't come up with the name of a "more serious" poet. | |
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Bathos | |
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Bathos: Perhaps the main source of comedy. The investigation of these completely juvenile acts are played 100% seriously. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: We never find out which teacher sympathy-vomited as a result of the Turd Burglar's fourth prank. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: The Turd Burglar | |
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Rewatch Bonus | |
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Rewatch Bonus: Watch the Season 1 episode "A Limp Alibi" when Peter asks Mackenzie if there's any proof that puts Dylan at her house during the time in question. It's very quick, but she looks straight at the computer screen, swallows nervously, and makes her face absolutely blank before answering negatively. If you look closely throughout the first season at the background footage as well as the many students interviewed, every student shown is taller, shorter, fatter, thinner or has a very different hairstyle than Dylan. It's why it's believable that Alex Trimboli might have been genuinely mistaken about his identification of Dylan; the only person in the case who could believably pass as Dylan from behind (Van Delorey) isn't a student at Hanover High, and Alex hasn't seen him more than one or twice in the last six months - the only time it's confirmed that Van and Alex are in the same place at the same time since Camp Miniwaka is at Nana's Party, where Van was Christa's date. Alex very probably didn't have eleven beers, but contrary to Pete and Sam's opinion he still may have gotten drunk. So Alex might not recognize Van with his new haircut. | |
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Propping Up Their Patsy | |
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Propping Up Their Patsy: Grayson Wentz, a former St. Bernadine student who was expelled over a minor prank, is interviewed early on in season 2. He believes Kevin McClain is just the school administration's scapegoat for the pranks, and implies that the culprit is an athlete who the school is covering up to save face. Both cases are true. Grayson is the mastermind behind it all, and manipulated both Kevin and star basketball player DeMarcus Tillman into carrying out individual pranks. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Peter makes segments about each person with access to the deleted security footage, their motives for framing Dylan, and their alibis. In an attempt to be impartial he has Sam make a segment about Peter as a suspect. Sam's segment is satirical and suggests Peter is obsessed with cocks and movies, so staged the vandalism so he could make a movie about cocks. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Played straight with Perry Coleman. Before the events of the season, he stole school property and then used it to bully and humiliate another student for months. Due to his status as top athlete in his class, he faced no consequences, and is now in UCLA on a basketball scholarship. This blatant immunity that athletes enjoy at St. Bernadine is what throws some suspicion on DeMarcus. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode title is a Double Entendre for the medium of the crime: penises and sex in Season 1; feces in Season 2. | |
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Chekhov's Party | |
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Chekhov's Party: The skip day party that got broken up and got several people arrested. Tanner testified against Kevin because of thinking Kevin broke it up. He didn't, Lou did, trying to sabotage DeMarcus. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Inverted Trope. Christa's alibi was that she was getting her CPR and First Aid certificate. However, when Ming passes out at the post-prom party, she panics and asks if anyone knows CPR. | |
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All for Nothing | |
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All for Nothing: The Turd Burglar blackmailed people with their own salacious photos/video in order to compel them to do his crimes. When Peter lets him know the jig is up before calling the police, the Burglar releases everything he has online. | |
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RetCon | |
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Retcon: Despite being a supposedly amateur production uploaded to Vimeo, the first season of the show has a number of elements that would be beyond Peter and Sam's budget and abilities, including footage from drone cameras and the very professional opening credits. The second season explains that those elements were added by Netflix, who acquired the documentary for mass distribution and re-edited it. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Kevin refers to "Party in the USA" as "the bubonic plague of sound". | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Mackenzie's parents' divorce hit her really hard, so anything having to do with them will set her off. Mackenzie is also this for Dylan. He won't hear a bad word about her. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Really Gets Around: Coach Rafferty dates a lot of moms. Sara Pearson has hooked up with a lot of people, including the likes of Pat Micklewaite. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Episode 4 of Season 1 ends with Mr. Janson's daughter contacting Peter about the voicemail tape that could exonerate Dylan. In episode 5, she destroys the tape in front of Peter's face out of spite for bringing her and her father unnecessary harassment. In the Season 1 finale: Things are looking well for Dylan now that he's been proven innocent and he talks highly about bettering himself but slowly as the episode progresses he becomes less and less happy about his circumstances. Ms. Shapiro apologized for the accusation but stood by how she felt about his treatment to her, the College he thought he had lost for the accusations still did not accept him, Mackenzie finally decides to permanently end their relationship and when he finally sees the Documentary everyone has given him support for at the party he realizes that before it went viral nobody even cared about if he did it or not and found him to be a loser for how he already was. | |
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Gamer Chick | |
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Gamer Chick: Mackenzie is one with a pretty successful Twitch channel. | |
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You Can Always Tell a Liar | |
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You Can Always Tell a Liar: Alex has several tells, both subtle and obvious. Whenever he's just told a lie on camera, he briefly shoots a nervous glance directly toward it. He also overuses the phrase "100%" when lying about his certainty of something. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: DeMarcus is a subversion. He's shown being very friendly with everyone, and it's stated that everyone loves him. However, the actual things he says are often quite condescending and often insulting. He's also very rude to his teachers, believing that he's "untouchable" as the school's star athlete. Late in the season, he reveals that he feels that his friendly interactions with the student body are mostly fake. | |
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I Am Spartacus | |
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I Am Spartacus: During an assembly, Christa and Gabi lead a cry of "I drew the dicks!" among the students. | |
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ImpostorForgotOneDetail | |
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Impostor Forgot One Detail: One of the most important details regarding the crime is that someone tampered with the security footage. Peter discovers that Dylan is utterly Hopeless with Tech beyond the regular teen knowledge of how to use a smartphone. Justified because the real culprit wasn't trying to get Dylan blamed specifically. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Dylan mentions not understanding Inception. Peter outright says that he's making a series like Serial when someone asks him why he's filming. Kraz compares Shapiro to "the bald guy with no dick" (Varys) from Game of Thrones. Dylan announces his YouTube videos with the same "My name is X, and this is Y" setup as Jackass | |
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Laxative Prank | |
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Laxative Prank: Someone spikes the lemonade one day and causes a literal shitstorm throughout St. Bernadine's, which is dubbed "The Brownout". | |
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Real Stitches for Fake Snitches | |
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Real Stitches for Fake Snitches: Lou assumes Gonzo is Peter's source and gives him a sound beating, prompting Gonzo to come to Peter and start spilling the beans for real. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The Turd Burglar admits via social messaging that the motive is to expose that everyone at St. Berdardine is "full of shit." | |
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Cool Teacher | |
| American Vandal / int_cf231d54 | comment |
Cool Teacher: Mr. Kraz is a deconstruction. He's "cool" because he's immature. His edgy and irreverent comments get him fired from his teacher's position by the mid-point of the first season, and he's unemployed for the remainder. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Kevin tells Peter to call off the investigation because he was in fact the Turd Burglar the whole time; Peter and Sam write it off as another coerced confession. While it wasn't the whole truth, Kevin was in fact trying to admit his very real guilt. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
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"Eureka!" Moment: Sam gets a few of these by noticing details Peter overlooks. As he and Peter review social media footage of The Brownout, he believes Kevin's contorted facial expression means he was forcing himself to poop to appear to be a victim. He's right. He realizes that the calendar in the staff room of St. Bernadine's is exactly the same calendar as the one shown in one of the Turd Burglar's social media posts. | |
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Everybody Did It | |
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Everybody Did It: Played with in Season 2. While all the main suspects did do one of the pranks (Kevin, Jenna, DeMarcus, all are acting at the behest of a Big Bad, Grayson, and all except Kevin are unwilling participants.) | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Many times. When analyzing the motives of the Morning Show Nine, Sam makes a joke video about how Peter did it, while Peter makes a much more serious video about how Sam is trying to frame Brandon because he has a crush on Gabi. He storms out of the set, but they patch things up by next episode. Peter to Dylan for lying about not knowing which car was Ms. Shapiro's. Mr. Preston's daughter to Peter for causing her and her father to be harassed about the voicemail tape. Gabi and Peter both to Sam, when he callously tells Gabi about Brandon's cheating in an I-told-you-so kind of way. Dylan and Mackenzie to Peter for accusing Mackenzie of being the vandal. Sara Pearson to Peter, for exposing the fact that her hookup list exists. It's found out that Mackenzie had a video that proved Dylan was right and didn't draw the dicks this whole time, which she hid because it was also proof she cheated on Dylan. Dylan is upset about the cheating and that she had this video the whole time, but neither he or Peter calls Mackenzie out specifically for hiding the video. Dylan's final act of actually spray-painting a dick on Mrs. Shapiro's driveway, resigning himself to the same person everyone else perceives him as. | |
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ToiletHumor | |
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Toilet Humor: The Turd Burglar runs on this, making poop-related pranks and using poop-related puns on social media. This causes confusion when "the dump" turns out to have nothing to do with poop. | |
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Waxing Lyrical | |
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Waxing Lyrical: Alex gave a Rousing Speech during summer camp that was apparently just a Drake song with "red team" instead of the n-word. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": "Hot Janitor", a conventionally attractive custodian at St. Bernadine. His real name isn't even revealed when Peter and Sam interview him. | |
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Reaction Shot | |
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Reaction Shot: Kevin's smug persona drops for a moment when he realizes that his ex-friends Chloe and Tanner were hooking up. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Peter decides that both he and Sam need to investigate each other, Sam isn't very serious with Peter, while Peter takes a serious shot at Sam, making a case against him that he has a stalker-ish crush on Gabi with a motive for doing the dick drawings being an effort to shut down the Prom to prevent Gabi going with her boyfriend Brandon, who Sam immensely dislikes. Unsurprisingly, Peter exposing Sam's crush on Gabi and how much he hates her boyfriend results in Sam getting angry and quitting the documentary. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
| American Vandal / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: In Season 2, Peter and Sam inadvertently receive a text from the Turd Burglar at the exact same minute that their two chief suspects are on security camera footage that they later acquire, "exonerating" both of them. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: Van Delorey was mentioned a few times in the second episode as the guy Sara Pearson had the hots for, but passed her up for Christa Carlyle. However in the last episode, its theorized that he may have been the one to draw the dicks. | |
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Trashy True Crime | |
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Trashy True Crime: Peter and Sam have good intentions, as does Chloe in Season 2 (exonerating the innocent). However, their documentary exploits its subjects (for which Mackenzie viciously calls them out), humiliating them and revealing their secrets. Although they exonerate Dylan, he becomes a graffiti artist and vandal at the end of Season 1. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: When Peter's parents go to the school principal to protest his suspension, Peter confidently states, "My mom is a straight savage." He's reinstated the very next day. | |
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Manipulative Editing | |
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Manipulative Editing: The true mastermind of Season 2, Grayson, does this out of necessity to catfish his victims. | |
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Expy | |
| American Vandal / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Squeak is a member of the school's basketball team in season 2, and is constantly made fun of by the rest of the team. Just like Squeak in Baseketball. | |
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Gonk | |
| American Vandal / int_e542d80a | comment |
Sara Pearson has hooked up with a lot of people, including the likes of Pat Micklewaite. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Christa Carlyle ends her interview in the final episode of Season 1 by denying that she drew the dicks. According to Peter's theory, she really didn't draw them: her boyfriend Van drew the dicks while Christa erased the footage. | |
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Spotting the Thread | |
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Spotting the Thread: Peter notices that the dicks Dylan drew on the whiteboards have a different design (ball hairs, no mushroom head) than those on the cars. It's the first piece of evidence that convinces him that Dylan may not be responsible. | |
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Fan-Preferred Couple | |
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Fan-Preferred Couple: In-universe, Sam and Gabi have a lot of fans among Sam and Peter's viewers. | |
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Catfishing | |
| American Vandal / int_f2557d99 | comment |
Catfishing: The Turd Burglar's MO is catfishing students using photos and videos downloaded from a broken cell phone, forcing them to participate in crimes. | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect? | |
| American Vandal / int_f818b637 | comment |
Dude, Where's My Respect?: After Dylan returns to school, Ms. Shapiro's weak apology for accusing him and dismissal of his suffering drives him to vandalize her driveway. | |
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American Title | |
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American Title | |
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Answer Cut | |
| American Vandal / int_fd16495f | comment |
Answer Cut: Dylan has a job working for Postmates (where he delivers random items people order, like food or diapers). Sometimes, though, he eats customers' food (e.g. enough fries not to be noticeable). One of the defenses in his case is that he's too dumb to delete the security footage that was wiped. Peter then brings up to the audience that Dylan has a YouTube channel and does have basic knowledge of uploading videos. | |
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Stacy's Mom | |
| American Vandal / int_fff67ce9 | comment |
Stacy's Mom: Sam does a whole side segment on the most attractive moms of students at Hanover High. One of them is Peter's mom, which Peter is... not pleased by. | |
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1.0 | |
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American Vandal |
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