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Eastbound & Down

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Eastbound & Down is an HBO comedy series that tells the story of washout major league baseball pitcher Kenny Powers. After years of jerkassery towards the media and professional sports, Kenny finds himself back home in North Carolina, living with his brother's family with a sad look on his face and an even sadder pitch. He gets a job at his alma mater, Jefferson Davis Middle School, as a substitute gym teacher, working with oddball principal Terrence Cutler, obsessive music teacher Stevie Janowski, and art teacher (plus teenage-flame) April Buchanon. Kenny is willing to do whatever it takes to get back on top; whether it be the Majors or April. He aspires for both.The second season of the show sees Kenny making a trip to Mexico to try to play baseball there, while the third season features Kenny's return to America on a minor-league team in Myrtle Beach. Despite the apparent conclusion of the story arc at the end of season 3, HBO ordered a fourth season in which Kenny starts a career as a cable sports pundit, which ran in 2013. The series ended after four seasons and 29 episodes.The title is a reference to the Jerry Reed song "East Bound and Down," the theme song of Smokey and the Bandit, but the show has no actual connection to the plot.
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Drunk Driver
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Drunk Driver: Forms the relationship between Kenny and Stevie.
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Twist Ending
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Twist Ending: "Chapter 6". If the show hadn't been renewed, it would've just ended with Kenny and April leaving for Tampa, but the extension led to the call from Anderson and April getting ditched instead.
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Never Trust a Trailer
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Never Trust a Trailer: The summary for "Chapter 19" implied that the subject of the episode's Twist Ending would be a much bigger part of the episode.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Marilyn Manson, of all people, briefly pops up in "Chapter 27", without makeup, as a waiter who serves Kenny and April. In series finale "Chapter 29", Lindsay Lohan and Alexander Skaarsgard appear as Kenny's grown-up children in Kenny's elaborate Imagine Spot.
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Black Comedy
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Trilogy Creep
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Trilogy Creep: Danny McBride and his co-creators repeatedly insisted that the series would end after three seasons. Cue HBO not advertising the season 3 finale as the series finale and subsequently revealing a season 4.
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Porn Stache
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Porn Stache: Dustin and Roy both sport 'em in Season 3.
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Small Name, Big Ego
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Small Name, Big Ego: Kenny takes this to new levels. He won one championship game and it convinced him he was the single greatest player in baseball history. He rants constantly on how amazing he is and takes it for total granted that everyone fawns over him. A key part of the first season is him truly believing any day the phone will ring for him as surely any team wants such a once-in-a-lifetime athlete. When he heads to Mexico, he expects to be taken as a living hero and the idea they have never heard of him is impossible to accept. He truly believes a key reason he had to fake his death is because "the press would never leave me alone." That he's a one-hit wonder whose attitude makes it impossible for any team to take a chance on him never crosses his mind.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: Kenny's father, gone for decades before he reappeared in Season 2.
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Analogy Backfire
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Analogy Backfire: "Whenever I look at a Mexican, I will think of you. Whenever you look at that jackass, you think of me."
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Previously on…
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Previously on…
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Training Montage
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Training Montage: A parody of one in "Chapter 23", as Kenny trains for a sports talk show by doing things like learning how to smooth down his pants.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: Kenny casually exploits and abuses Stevie, and Stevie duly takes it all with the same devoted, sycophantic enthusiasm. But having Stevie to break up with Maria went beyond the standard Jerkassery.
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Friends with Benefits
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Friends with Benefits: Kenny and Tracy are fuck buddies.
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Cluster F-Bomb
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Cluster F-Bomb: It's on HBO.
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Jizzed in My Pants
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Jizzed in My Pants: Well, it IS Katy Mixon.
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Batman Gambit
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Batman Gambit: Kenny's plot to defeat Guy Young ("Chapter 27") requires Guy not only to fire Kenny, but to do it in a way that will offend the Sports Sesh audience.
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Actor Allusion: Likely unintentional, but Kenny tells Aaron to go back to his "Ewok village" in season 2. Deep Roy played one of the Ewoks at the beginning of his career.
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Deadly Distant Finale
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Deadly Distant Finale
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Every Car Is a Pinto
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Every Car Is a Pinto: "Chapter 21"
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: Kenny is a pathological liar who does whatever he can to make himself look good and others look bad. His dad is wired the exact same way.
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Inverted with Ashley Schaeffer, who sounds a lot more like a Cajun Will Ferrell than just plain ol' Will Ferrell in his second appearance.
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Metaphorgotten: "If that's what it takes, then a cock and dream it will be sucked upon."
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Important Haircut
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Important Haircut: Kenny's corn-rows. Stevie cuts off all his hair in "Chapter 18" after breaking up with Maria.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kenny is a complete bastard most of the time but has moments that show he's not all bad and genuinely tries to help people (Albeit in his own messed up way).
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Coitus Uninterruptus: While the act doesn't happen in reality, Ashley Shaeffer describes a dream in which his son walks in on him and his wife having sex and Ashley insists on continuing.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Series finale "Chapter 29" has Stevie read Kenny's screenplay and saying "But the ending—it could have been so much stronger."
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Comedic Sociopathy
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Male Frontal Nudity
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Male Frontal Nudity: From Shawnsee, Kenny's creepy fan, after Kenny and his friends are chased from the water park in "Chapter 24".
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending / Cliffhanger: The Season One finale.
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Kavorka Man
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Kavorka Man: Kenny's half-brother Casper says that all of the Powers men have a special touch with the ladies. This would actually make sense, since Dustin is the only Powers man shown to not be a total sleaze while both Kenny and Eddie being able to schmooze up old flames who have no reason to ever want to speak to them again.
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Trash the Set
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Trash the Set: Kenny, who is going through some issues, busts up the set of Sports Sesh in "Chapter 28".
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: Reg Mackworthy is bit of an ass to Kenny since they were supposed rivals, so Kenny pitches a ball so fast, it knocks Mackworthy's eye out.
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Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
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Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Kenny in "Chapter 21".
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Politically Incorrect Hero
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Politically Incorrect Hero: Kenny is the living embodiment of this trope.
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Genius Ditz
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Genius Ditz: Kenny isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he's an amazing baseball pitcher (at least when he's not in a slump).
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Bloody Hilarious: Stevie shoots his fake chin off in "Chapter 28". It is bloody, and it is hilarious.
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Beastly Bloodsports: Kenny Powers moves to Mexico and is in the cockfighting business until his cock "Big Red" dies.
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Sycophantic Servant: Stevie. There appears to be no humiliation Stevie is not willing to suffer in Kenny's service. After Kenny criticizes Stevie's weak chin Stevie blows thousands of dollars on a chin implant.
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Christmas Episode
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Christmas Episode: "Chapter 28". This being the show that it is, this episode involves a pile of cocaine cut in the shape of a Christmas tree and a Santa suit spattered with blood.
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Idiot Ball
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Idiot Ball: "Chapter 21". Kenny meant well, but...
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Is This Thing Still On?
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Is This Thing Still On?: Guy's career is ruined in the final season thanks to a hot mic and a backstage Badass Boast to Kenny sprinkled with racism.
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Auto Erotica
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Auto Erotica: Stevie has sex with a girl at a funeral in "Chapter 17" and seems to feel bad about it afterwards.
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Buxom Beauty Standard
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Buxom Beauty Standard: Kenny stares at April's rack when he sees her again, and in the second season he compares Vida (less bosomy, but a great butt) to April and decides that he's a tit man. In Season 4 Kenny has an idea for a theme restaurant, "Taters 'N Tits", so names "because all the waitresses at TNT have huge tits."
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Kenny Powers seems determined to take this to the extreme.
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Inherently Funny Words: Swear words, "Clegg", and "Dustin".
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Black-and-Gray Morality
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Black-and-Gray Morality: Ashley Schaeffer is pretty much the only person that could make you feel sorry for Kenny Powers.
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The Bus Came Back: Almost all the supporting players from Season 1 (except for Stevie, who remains a regular the whole time). Ashley Schaeffer, Reg Mackworthy, and Kenny's dad all make return appearances as well.
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot
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On the Next
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Brand X: Major League Baseball did not license their trademarks, so Kenny plays for "Texas" against "Cleveland" in the season 3 finale. Likewise, the season 2 finale features Kenny signing a contract for "Texas Baseball". Averted with the minor league teams, which have original names.
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As You Know: When Kenny meets his old teammate Guy Young in the fourth-season premiere ("Chapter 22"), Guy helpfully greets Kenny with "My old teammate!".
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Throw the Dog a Bone: Stevie gets back together with Maria and earns a happy ending.
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Trust-Building Blunder: Catching your falling coworker—with the usual result—in "Chapter 15".
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Every season has a radically different status quo to the extent where the show has no status quo: Season 1 had Kenny working as a substitute P.E. teacher in his North Carolina hometown. Season 2 had Kenny living in Mexico with the entire supporting cast save for Stevie absent. Season 3 had Kenny pitching for a Minor League team in Myrtle Beach and being a deadbeat dad. Season 4 had Kenny back in North Carolina, trying to make a home with April and starring on a sports talk show.
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Homage: The scene in "Chapter 26" when Kenny is about to upstage Guy Young—ambient noise drops away as a roaring dissonant sound fills Kenny's ears—sure did seem like a satirical takeoff on the scene in The Godfather where Michael kills Solozzo and the cop.
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My God, What Have I Done?: In season 3, Stevie cheats on Maria. Immediately after he does it, he is so overwhelmed by guilt that he throws up. He spends the next few episodes an emotional wreck.
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In series finale "Chapter 29", Lindsay Lohan and Alexander Skaarsgard appear as Kenny's grown-up children in Kenny's elaborate Imagine Spot.
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The episode name are simply listed as "Chapters". (ex: "Chapter 1", "Chapter 15")
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The Loins Sleep Tonight: Stevie suffers from this in the fourth season.
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Catchphrase: "You're fucking out!"
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Ms. Fanservice: Kenny's girlfriend that likes topless jetskiing in Season 1.
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Extreme Doormat: Stevie pretty much never even tries to stand up to Kenny's bullying.
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Jar Potty: "Chapter 29" reveals that Guy Young has not reacted well to losing his job on Sports Sesh.
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Spoof Aesop: Dustin explains to Kenny that he needs to realize he isn't amazing anymore and is back down to the level of normal people. Kenny DOES realize this... but won't accept it, as he's "better than everyone else," and plans to get back into major league baseball. Lampshaded in "Chapter 5": after Kenny accepts the Aesop, Dustin tells him to get back into baseball, since it's better than working on home repair.
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It's All About Me: Kenny is the king of this trope.
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Dead Sidekick: Shane in Season 3 after he ODs on cocaine while he and Kenny are partying.
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Hope Spot: For the unnamed Jerkass Woobie ball player at the beginning of "Chapter 21". He begins to apologize to a girl and says how bad he feels for acting like a jerk... and then he gets hit by a truck.
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Cringe Comedy: In spades.
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Fan Disservice: For every shot of April's cleavage and Vida's posterior, there's bound to be an equal and opposite reaction, usually in the form of Male Frontal Nudity. Kenny's skanky topless jetskiing girlfriend from Season 1, who announces "My pussy itches!" at a bar and then scratches it with a fork. Maria's grotesque fake breasts (presumably a prosthetic) in Season 4.
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Shout-Out: The show's title is taken from "East Bound and Down," the theme song to Smokey and the Bandit. The plots have nothing to do with each other other than a general southern setting and irreverent tone. The film refers to CB jargon for traveling eastbound and signing off. The show's title seems to refer to Kenny returning to his home on the East Coast and being "down" in his life.
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Smash to Black: Lampshaded mercilessly in the very last scene of the show.
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Informed Ability: McBride initially did a very poor job of imitating a baseball pitcher's motion. Later seasons had him work with an actual pitching coach as Kenny was shown pitching more often.
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Red Herring: Kenny's experimenting with a knuckleball grip, as seen in "Chapter 19", is never mentioned again.
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Drugs Are Bad: Played surpisingly straight in "Chapter 16", when Shane has a heart attack and dies while he and Kenny are snorting coke together.
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Kubrick Stare: Kenny in "Chapter 18" when surveying his failed Independence Day party.
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Sex for Solace: Shane's sister at his funeral in "Chapter 17".
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Ambiguously Gay: Stevie, whose relationship and obsession with Kenny is Played for Laughs.
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Attending Your Own Funeral: The fourth season opens with a montage that includes Kenny doing this. He reveals himself at the funeral, and his brother punches him in the face.
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Sidekick: Stevie is this trope personified, actively identifying himself as such and taking pride in it. It's simultaneously hilarious, creepy and a little depressing.
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Jerkass: Eddie (Kenny's Dad).
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Don't Explain the Joke: Kenny and his buddy Shane mimic intercourse with the classic finger-and-circle gesture, and then Shane announces, "Because our fingers are dicks! And these look like pussies!".
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