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“It became the popular trope that somehow this was a solely American game that, almost in a culturally imperialist way, was imposed on Canadians,” said Bill Humber, perhaps Canada’s most renowned baseball historian.

Then again, it would have been set up a lot better than merely as a horror wannabe’s tour of his favorite tropes.

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Young people are also tired of tropes, including love triangles, toxic relationships that become romantic and relationships based mostly on physical attraction.

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For months, Fox News has been hammering him, painting the New York assemblyman with Islamophobic tropes, and calling him an anti-semite and a communist.

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It’s the crazy wall TV trope realized as a situational comedy, originating from a single pinpoint of Ron’s inability to let go of the smallest slights.

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