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Trial & Error

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Trial & Error is a single-camera Mockumentary anthology sitcom starring Nicholas D'Agosto, Jayma Mays, Steven Boyer, and Sherri Shepherd. Each season focuses on a sensational trial that occurs in the town of East Peck, South Carolina as the core cast of oddball legal experts try to win the case by whatever means necessary.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: A flashback to Jesse Ray's murder trial shows Judge Kamiltow announcing that this is his last trial, and he's going to become an opera singer. Unfortunately, that was the trial in which he lost his voice.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: There is an actual M Towne podcast that provides supplemental information about East Peck and the Lavinia Peck-Foster trial.
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Master Forger
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Master Forger: It's revealed that there's one living in East Peck who has a skill for creating forgeries. His name is Forge "Clooney" (yes, Clooney is his nickname, not Forge) and he works at the local ice cream shop. Joshua goes to him to ask about something from Jessie Ray's trial. He's later found frozen to death inside his own freezer.
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New Season, New Name
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New Season, New Name: Season 2 is being called "Trial & Error: Lady, Killer". The punctuation between "Lady" and "Killer" is not for irony.
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Taxidermy Is Creepy
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Taxidermy Is Creepy: Josh shares an office with the local taxidermist, who is quiet and unkempt in appearance. He becomes a suspect when he was spotted near the crime scene shortly after the murder, so Josh and Dwayne investigate his house. Turns out the taxidermist was retrieving a dead owl found in the premises, which turns out to be real cause of Margaret's demise.
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Ironic Name
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Ironic Name: Subverted with "Lady, Killer", when it's revealed that Lavinia is, in fact, a killer.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Josh is the only person who realizes just how screwed up East Peck is since he's never lived there.
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Arcadia
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Arcadia: East Peck is a parody of the quiet rural town, with the residents swinging wildly between naive friendliness and open hostility depending on the situation. Also, the local banker is so trusting that when he has to leave early, he simply tosses the keys to Dwayne and Anne and asks them to lock up the bank for him. Hilarity Ensues.
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Non-Indicative Name
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Non-Indicative Name: East Peck is actually directly west of North Peck.
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A Date with Rosie Palms
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A Date with Rosie Palms: The DNA tester compulsively masturbates when anxious. When he's called as a witness in the trial, his evidence is dismissed because he's contaminated every crime scene he's been in.
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Ambiguously Jewish
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Ambiguously Jewish: Josh Segal's character is commonly thought to be Jewish, but this is never explicitly stated. Just that he's "Northeastern", that his father is "Northeastern", his mother is from Arizona but converted to "Northeastern...ism", and loves bagels so much that he has them regularly shipped to East Peck from his favorite New York deli. Josh's reaction to Carol Anne's joke about their potential pregnancy may imply that he is. Then again, she may be commenting on his actual love of bagels.
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Person as Verb
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Person as Verb: The Pecks had some kind of animosity with Dwayne's family, going so far as to popularize using their last name as an euphemism for excrement (e.g., "I just stepped on some Reed").
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Putting the Pee in Pool
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Putting the Pee in Pool: During the investigation, it's revealed that Lavinia's servants have been using her indoor pool to pee in. Josh doesn't learn this until after he'd been in said pool with Lavinia.
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Open Heart Dentistry
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Open Heart Dentistry: Dwayne accidentally shoots his pinky toe off but has Dave the Taxidermist sew it back on after realizing that the missing toe was affecting his balance. Carol Anne's prosecution of Lavinia's murder trial results in her regular doctor refusing to see her so she has to resort to visiting a local veterinarian for her prenatal exams.
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The Unintelligible
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The Unintelligible: Judge Kamiltow speaks in a barely audible high-pitched mumble. Everyone but Josh seems to understand him just fine.
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Hollywood Law
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Hollywood Law: The legal proceedings are played for laughs rather than accuracy. Most notably, both the prosecution and the media constantly refer to Larry as "the murderer" when legally they are only allowed to refer to him as "the suspect" or "the accused."
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Not Helping Your Case
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Not Helping Your Case: Pretty much everything Larry does and says makes him look guilty.
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Discriminate and Switch
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Discriminate and Switch: Jeremiah Davis said the country club didn't used to let "your kind" in. He points to a sign which says "No Lawyers".
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Bowel-Breaking Bricks
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Bowel-Breaking Bricks: When Lavinia demands all the contents of the box found in her hedge maze, Anne drops a gold ingot from under her skirt.
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Cluster F-Bomb
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Cluster F-Bomb: Carol Anne's gigantic meltdown upon realizing that Lavinia's being acquitted in Episode Five.
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Vocal Dissonance
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Vocal Dissonance: Carol Anne says that she's not in labor because her voice would lower if she did. When she does go into labor in the middle of interrogating a witness, her voice deepens considerably.
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Skewed Priorities
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Skewed Priorities: A Running Gag is that Larry gets more upset about trivial matters than the fact that he's accused of murdering his wife. He puts the 911 call about his wife's death on hold to take a call from the cable company. He becomes more concerned with getting his skate key back from court security than in getting through the trial deposition. Justified in that the key is an inscribed gift from his wife. When he confronts a key suspect (the cable technician who was there when his wife died), it's not about killing his wife, but about not showing up on time to fix the cable. When a witness claims that the person who pushed Margaret would have been the exact same height as Larry, Larry is relieved that he didn't mention his weight. After being sentenced to life in prison, Larry seems more distressed about the fact that the prison is on an island.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Josh gets Lavinia to admit to a long series of murders, Jesse Ray Beaumont goes free, and Carol Anne eventually gets elected DA. But the father of Carol Anne's baby turns out to be Rutger Hiss, to the disappointment of both Josh and Carol Anne. On the upside, the two are now openly flirting with each other with the possibility that they will pursue an actual romantic relationship.
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Big Fancy House
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Big Fancy House: The Peck estate is so vast Lavinia suggests that her servant may have gotten lost.
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Paper-Thin Disguise
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Paper-Thin Disguise: Lavinia's man disguise, which is just her in a wig and fake mustache.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the tenth M Towne podcast, Dwayne and Anne acknowledge that the podcast's second season only had ten episodes, despite the first season having 13 and receiving much critical acclaim.
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Taking the Heat
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Taking the Heat: When his daughter Summer becomes a possible suspect, Larry decides to plead guilty to spare her. Unfortunately, it's too late in the trial for him to change his verdict.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: Carol Anne's pregnancy causes her feet into humongous slabs that need to be censored for the home audience.
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No Pronunciation Guide
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No Pronunciation Guide: Josh has trouble discerning the proper pronunciation of Judge Horsedich's name from how it's written. ("Heisendyke", for the record.)
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Blind Mistake
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Blind Mistake: Anne is unable to recognize faces, which leads to her making many of these. She's good a recognizing penises, though.
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Bumbling Sidekick
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Bumbling Sidekick: Dwayne, the not-too-bright former cop and Anne, the basket of odd neurological conditions, serve as this for Josh.
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Sequel Hook
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Sequel Hook: The last episode of the season has two: A phone calls for Josh to exonerate three people accused of witchcraft, and Lavinia escapes prison and arrives in Barcelona to find her son.
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We Named the Monkey "Jack"
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We Named the Monkey "Jack": When Dwayne wins a goat in auction, he names it after John Lithgow, who played Larry on season one.
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Serious Business
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Serious Business: Moose Day, where the residents of East Peck eagerly watch to see if Mickey Moose sees his breath or not because that determines if the town gets Saturdays off in November. Everyone has a "Second Friday" calendar just in case Mickey Moose doesn't see his breath.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Trial & Error: Lady, Killer
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Punny Name
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Punny Name: Several characters have them. Carol Anne Keane is a play on Carolyne Keene, the pen name for the authors of Nancy Drew. Dwayne Reed is a pun on New York drug store chain Duane Reade. The judge presiding the case in season one is named Horsedich. The joke continues in season two with Judge Alexander Kamiltow.
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And the Adventure Continues
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And the Adventure Continues: As Josh celebrates getting Larry freed, news come out about another murder, and he gets the call to take part on the case.
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The Cuckoolander Was Right
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The Cuckoolander Was Right: At the very start of the series, Dwayne suggests "Bird" as the cause of death. Turns out it was a bird, an owl, specifically, that accidentally killed Margaret.
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Belligerent Sexual Tension
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Josh and Carol Anne are clearly attracted to each other but they are also working the same case from opposite ends and are keen to see the other go down in flames.
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Dwayne believes that since he's a cop nothing he does is illegal. This includes taking the watch and wallet of the recently deceased Mr. Foster and shooting out the glass on the vending machine to get a snack.
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"L" Is for "Dyslexia"
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"L" Is for "Dyslexia": Dyslexia is the least of Anne's many neurological disorders. It turns out Margaret was dyslexic as well, a fact discovered when Anne reads one of her notes correctly. This information leads to the unlocking of her phone, and the discovery of how she really died. Which is Artistic License – Medicine, since Dyslexia doesn't work like that.
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Celebrity Paradox
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Celebrity Paradox: Dwayne naming the goat John Lithgoat when Larry Henderson was played by John Lithgow.
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Reckless Gun Usage
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Reckless Gun Usage: Dwayne has a habit of misplacing his gun and pulling the trigger whenever he gets spooked. East Peck fires a cannon at 5am and 5pm everyday to commemorate a Civil War battle that took place near the town (historical records are hazy on whether or not it took place in the morning or the evening). But instead of setting off a powder charge, the town fires actual cannonballs and they're East Peck's third leading cause of death.
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Expository Hairstyle Change
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Expository Hairstyle Change: A minor one, but Josh switches from slicking his hair to a softer side part in an attempt to seem friendlier when it comes time to stand before a jury.
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Comically Small Demand
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Comically Small Demand: Judge Kamiltow sets Lavinia's bail at $10, who then pays it for her.
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Convicted by Public Opinion
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Convicted by Public Opinion: Exaggerated with Larry, whom even his lawyer's own assistants refer to him as murderer.
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Artistic License – Law
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Trial & Error: Lady, Killer
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Truth in Television: All of Anne's odd conditions are actual things.
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Denser and Wackier: The East Peck of Season 2 is even more absurd than what was shown in Season 1.
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Which is Artistic License – Medicine, since Dyslexia doesn't work like that.
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Continuity Nod: Jeff has a picture of him with Larry and is shown reading Larry's book.
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Cluster Bleep-Bomb: When Larry's male lover Alphonse is brought in to testify, he describes a sexual act that produces about 20 seconds of bleeping. Which is then repeated 5 times to the horror of the court.
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Inconvenient Itch: Carol Anne gets a nasty rash during the closing days of the trial, and scratches herself rather inelegantly during her closing statements.
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Polyamory: Larry and Margaret had an open marriage, agreeing that they could have affairs as long as they were open and honest about it.
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Lonely Rich Kid: Lavinia is the richest person in town, heiress to the founders and namesake of East Peck. Despite this, she has lost everyone she was close to, most recently her husband, and now lives utterly alone, longing for companionship.
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Leave No Witnesses: As Josh investigates the murder of Chet, the people who would testify against Lavinia are killed one by one... including beloved East Peck mascot Mickey Moose.
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Juggling Loaded Guns: A video shows Dwayne playing around with his Glock 17 during a gun safety lecture, bragging that he's the only one in the room authorized to handle such a weapon. He then shoots himself in the foot.
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Blue Blood: Lavinia Peck-Foster is considered to be East Peck royalty (she's descended from the Pecks as in East Peck) and the town is so deferential to her that even the trial judge stands when she says: "All rise."
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Luck-Based Search Technique: Anne accidentally triggers a secret door in Lavinia's pool room that leads to the river below, proving that she could've killed Edgar and disposed of the body within the timeframe, putting yet another wrench in Josh's case.
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Courtroom Antics: In the finale, Josh tricks Lavinia into confessing to the killings by bringing out her long lost son Trig (who is actually an impostor), accuse him of the murders, and arrest him, knowing that Lavinia would not stand for it.
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Retcon: Season two fudges with the timeline a little between cases. Josh and Carol Ann sleep together four months before the season one finale takes place; the finale then establishes their new case. In season two, Carol Ann is seven months pregnant as the trial begins, meaning three months have passed somehow.
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Amoral Attorney: Prosecutor Carol Anne, who is gunning for a district attorney job and is not above Courtroom Antics to get a conviction. Subverted with Josh, who clearly cares deeply about Larry, and genuinely believes he's innocent.
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Do Not Try This at Home: When Dwayne tries to reenact a possible erotic asphyxiation, a graphic on screen reads "DO NOT TRY THIS! [flashing] EVER! THIS MAN IS A MORON!" And then later, "SERIOUSLY! YOU WILL DIE IF YOU DO THIS!"
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Love Triangle: Between Josh, Carol Anne and M Towne host Nina.
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Show Within a Show: M Towne, a true-crime podcast also covering the Lavinia trial.
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Shout-Out: To The Night Of, with Carol Anne Keane's rapidly spreading rash appearing just in time for closing statements directly referencing John Stone's extensive eczema, right down to slathering her legs in lotion, wrapping them plastic wrap, and scratching her rash with a pencil.
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Description Cut: Josh says that his team is the most capable in town. Cut to Anne throwing Dwayne inside a suitcase. (In their defense, they were testing out the timeline for the murder.) Josh declaring that his client isn't a criminal is followed by surveillance footage of Lavinia in disguise shoplifting from a convenience store. Complete with a graphic identifying her as "criminal".
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