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* {{spoiler|[[Happy Rain]]: At the end, after a century of curse-induced drought, it begins to rain at Camp Green Lake.}}
* [[Hereditary Curse]]: A bad luck curse on the main character's family due to an ancestor cheating a gypsy drives the plot.
** It could also be considered a curse that Kate Barlow told the Wardens ancesotrsancestors that they could dig for the next 100 years and never find her treasure. This is scarily true since exactly 100 years later it was found by another and the warden was arrested without even seeing inside it.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: The [[Medium]] falls in love with Gus from ''[[Psych]]''. Hmmm...
** And [[Alien|Ellen Ripley]], [[The Incredible Hulk (film)|Samuel Sterns/The Leader]] and the Midnight Cowboy are in cahoots, running a ruthless detention camp.
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* [[Paranoia Gambit]]: After Stanley has learned to no longer expect water from the vengeful Mr. Sir, Mr. Sir surprises him by refilling his canteen. But then he takes it to his car and gives it back a minute later, still full. Then he waits for Stanley to drink from it. When he's so thirsty he can no longer bear it, Stanley pours the entire contents of the canteen, refusing to drink from it thanks to his suspicion.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Mr.Sir gives Zigzag an extra carton of orange juice for his birthday.
* [[Pig Latin]]: "X-Ray" is so nicknamed because it's pig latinLatin for his real name, "Rex".
* [[The Quiet One]]: Zero
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Yellow-spotted lizards are regularly mentioned to have red eyes, but they actually have yellow eyes with red spots around them.
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* [[Why Isn't It Attacking?]]: {{spoiler|Stanley and Zero}} fall into a pit of yellow-spotted lizards. But they don't attack, and it's implied it's because {{spoiler|they were repelled by the boys' onion diet.}}
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Kissin' Kate Barlow. {{spoiler|Originally just a schoolteacher in 19th-century Texas, she eventually falls with the the [[Where Da White Women At?|black onion seller]], Sam. This results in not only a mob burning down the school, but Sam is sentenced to death for kissing a white woman. She then becomes the most notorious outlaw in the Wild West. Her first kill is the sheriff who [[Scarpia Ultimatum|offered to not kill Sam in exchange for a kiss]].}}
** To a certain extent, the Warden counts as well. She had a rough childhood due to her grandfather abusing her and forcing her to dig nonstop for the treasure Kissing Kate robbed, not even being allowed to stop for christmasChristmas. Evidentially, this lasted to her adulthood.
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: Too much time passes, relative to the number of generations stated, between the time of Kissin' Kate Barlow and the main characters.