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** In the librarian episode, Fleemco hired the old librarian to write a book. Persumably some of the people the replace are used to make profit. Plus, considering Conrad's entire motivation was to {{spoiler|help his niece and nephew}} he's probably not all that concerned about losing money. The Replacements are likely paid by whoever Conrad sticks them with (if they replace a teacher, the school, etc.) or not paid at all (it's not like K and Dick would need to be paid to be parents). A late episode confirmed that the Replacement program is, indeed, a secret, Conrad gets mad at Todd for not being more careful at keeping it secret. That same episode showed that, unless a replacement is explicitly sent back, they remain (the head of the school newspaper, eg). As for the qualifications, chalk it up to [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]].

* If Tasumi is in fact a brunette wearing a Sentai costume, what's up with the [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blue hair]] that's supposedly part of the costume? I had assumed that the photos she had of her family in season 1 were just high-quality screencaps, taken from the anime whose character she was dressed as, printed onto glossy paper. But in "The Means Justify the Trend", she manages to restyle the costume's hair in different ways, which she shouldn't have been able to do if it's just part of the costume! Also, "Todd Strikes Out" has her activating rockets on her boots when she goes up to bat, which she technically shouldn't have if it's just a costume! If the creators really planned for Tasumi to just be a girl in a costume making up her own backstory, why did they had this slip by?

* Tasumi puts her costume in the trash can and it's taken by the guy running the anime/manga fan store at the end of "Tasumi Unmasked". So how does she have the costume again in "Irreplaceable"?

** Maybe the guy running the anime/manga fan store sold it to the highest bidder (Before you ask, I haven't seen the episode in question, but the answer to your question will most likely be [[Money, Dear Boy]]), and the highest bidder was either Tatsuki or someone who later gave the costume to he? Or heck, could it have been a ''different'', [[Limited Wardrobe|identical]] costume, since she's apparently not an actual Sentai member in the second (or third, or whicheverth) season?

** {{spoiler|Wasn't he just a little '''too''' into that Riley-bot at the end of "A Tale of Two Rileys" to suit anyone else? Also, he has a cousin who looks an '''awful''' lot like Riley...even '''she''' notes it's creepy.}} Perhaps she's better off without him!...

* When Conrad Fleem reveals that {{spoiler|he's Todd & Riley's uncle}} in the last episode, he also reveals that he's actually a redhead. So why is it his flashback in "The Frog Prince" depicts him with his black hair disguise as a kid?

* Tasumi's unmasked design. It's..Creepy. Why doesn't she look more like her masked design or at least like everyone else in the cartoon? Her style is a bit different.

** She's the [[Token Minority|token minority]]. She's drawn in a somewhat anime-ish style, befitting her Asian heritage. Also, I think she might be a caricature of [[Ink Suit Actor|Lauren Tom in her youth]].

** They might have been already married to begin with.

** The orphanage (or possibly their dead parents) were replaced by them.

 

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