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* [[Bowdlerise]]: Parodied. After the events of the movie Senator Finistirre is still hard at work, attempting to censor cigarettes in old movies by covering them with bananas and other ludicrous objects.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Nick's speech to his colleagues at the MOD Squad after his [[Heroic BSOD]].
{{quote|'''Nick:''' "And right there, looking into Joey's eyes, it all came back in a rush. Why I do what I do. Defending the defenseless. Protecting the [[Acceptable Targets|disenfranchised corporations]] that had been abandoned by their very own consumers. [[Gaia's Lament|The logger]]. [[Ethnic Menial Labor|The sweatshop foreman]]. [[There Will Be Blood|The oil driller]]. [[Land Mine Goes Click|The landmine developer]]. [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|The baby seal poacher]]."
'''Polly:''' "''Baby seal poacher.''"
'''Bobby:''' "Even ''[[American Gun Politics|I]]'' think that's kind of cruel..."}}
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Late in the book (only), {{spoiler|Gomez saves Nick's bacon and provides him with clues.}}
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* [[Hand Wave]]: The entire concept is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]:
{{quote|'''Jeff''': Sony has a futuristic sci-fi movie they're looking to make.
'''Nick Naylor''': Cigarettes [[Recycled in Space|in space?]]
'''Jeff''': It's the final frontier, Nick.
'''Nick Naylor''': But wouldn't they blow up in an all-oxygen environment?
'''Jeff''': ... probably. But it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue. "Thank God we invented the, [[Applied Phlebotinum|you know... whatever... device]]."}}
* [[Herr Doctor]]: Dr Meisenbach.
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{{quote|'''Nick:''' I'm just tickled by the idea of the gentleman from Vermont calling me a hypocrite, when the same man in one day held a press conference where he called for American tobacco fields to be slashed and burned, and then jumped on a private jet and flew out to farmyard where he rode a tractor on-stage as he bemoaned the downfall of the American farmer.
'''Dennis Miller:''' Care to comment, Senator?
'''Finistirre:''' [[Angrish|The... I... shh...]] ''No''.
'''Dennis Miller:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|Eloquent in its brevity]].}}
* [[Informed Attribute]]: They say Nick is a heavy smoker but you never see him smoking.
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