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* [[The Ace]]: Everyone other than Lane seems to have incredible skill at doing things. Highlighted by Lane's younger brother, who uses his book knowledge to pick up trashy women and build a ''launchable space shuttle'' in the attic.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: When Beth (Amanda Wyss) shows up at the dance, there is someone behind her wearing Freddy Krueger's sweater. Wyss played Krueger's first victim in ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]''.
* [[Alien LUnch]]: She's not an actual alien, but Lane's mother Jenny is enough of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] that she might as well be: she's shown on-screen cooking a meal where tentacles and claws wave from the pot; in another scene she serves the family a gelatinous green goo that flees Lane's plate when he pokes it with a fork.
* [[Ascended Meme]]: "I want my two dollars!"
* [[Animated Credits Opening]]
* [[Bad Job, Worse Uniform]]: Lane's job. See ''Burger Fool'', below.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Roy Stalin
* [[Braces of Orthodontic Overkill]]: Lane's unfortunate but practical blind-date.
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{{quote|'''Charles:''' I've been going to this high school for ''seven and a half years!'' I'm no dummy!}}
* [[The Determinator]]: "I want my two dollars!!"
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: By Beth breaking up with him.
* [[The Eighties]]: Identifiable by the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|catchy pop song soundtrack]].
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: "I want my two dollars!!"
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* [[Evil Genius]]: Badger possibly qualifies.
* [[Funny Foreigner]]: [[Foreign Exchange Student|Monique]] mostly avoids this, except {{spoiler|for one or two ''slight'' problems with English.}}
* [[High School Dance]]: The New Year's dance at which Lane briefly rescues Monique from Ricky.
* [[Homemade Sweater From Hell]]: Jenny wears a reindeer outfit which comes complete with an antler-headpiece, and gives one to her husband which is aardvark-themed.
* [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog]]: Lane ditching the paperboy.
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* [[Lethal Chef]]: Hoo boy. Jenny. Lane pokes one of her creations with his fork, and it ''starts moving away''.
{{quote|"It's got raisins in it. You ''like'' raisins."}}
* [[Malaproper]]: French exchange student Monique is mostly fluent in English, but has one or two ''slight'' vocabulary issues, resulting in lines like "He keeps putting his testicles all over me."
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Monique.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Roy ''Stalin''.
* [[Medium Shift Gag]]: There are a couple of gag sequences in both clay and hand-drawn animation, representing Lane's bizarre daydreams about dancing hamburgers and so forth.
* [[Mocking Music]]: After Beth has broken up with him, Lane is driving despondently and looking for something cheery to listen to on the radio. ''Every'' station is playing a breakup song; he ends up ripping the radio out of the car and hurling it out the window.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Ricky's harridan of a mother.
* [[My Girl Is Not a Slut]]: After the break-up, every guy from the [[One-Scene Wonder|math teacher]] to the rude mailman to [[The Flintstones|Barney Rubble]] is asking Lane if it would be all right to date his ex.
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