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Panic Collection (パニコレ) is a Vyond-animated YouTube anthology channel. It mostly stars Paige but other characters can have their own stories as well.

The English channel is here. The original Japanese channel can be found here.

Panic Collection features examples of:

  • Abusive Parents: Paige's parents from "My parents disowned me after I failed the entrance exam for the faculty of law" were lazy, abusive gamblers. While they were bearable whenever her grandmother kept them in check, they let loose once the kindly old lady passes away, quitting their jobs and forcing Paige to take up law school so they could mooch off of her once she became a lawyer. Eventually, they disowned her for failing the entrance exam.
  • Age-Gap Romance: In 'On my birthday, my 23-year-old husband who was younger than me said, "I don't need you hag!"' 25-year-old Paige marries 18-year-old Shawn, much to the worry of their respective parents. While it sailed smoothly, it all went downhill when their son Derek was born, as he disparaged Paige for being older than his friends' moms, with Shawn joining in.
  • Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: At Ryan and Paige's wedding day, "My narcissist fiancé announced that I was pregnant at the wedding ceremony, but I’m a virgin" the groom gets plastered before the emcee gives him the mic to give announcements, over which he claims Paige was pregnant despite having cheated on her nonstop. While she collapsed knowing he actually got another girl pregnant, a reassurance from her mother allows Paige to gather the courage to reveal she wasn't pregnant, but exposed Ryan's affairs before calling off the engagement. As a result, the guests left in embarrassment and Ryan's parents disowned him for his trouble.
  • Anonymous Public Phone Call: Henry calls Paige from a phone booth after learning that his new wife, Chelsea, was lazy and overspent on designer stuff to the point of taking loans from shady people (which eventually led to her being taken away to somewhere else to work off the debt). Moreover, this also led to Henry's firing; everyone cut ties with him after learning he was chased down by debt collectors.
  • Baby Talk:
  • The Baby Trap: Ivy, Paul's girlfriend from "I had special powers which my family was only aware of" not only was a Gold Digger, but when Paul announced she was pregnant with his baby, Phoebe revealed the baby wasn't Paul's out of the blue. While Ivy tried to play the victim, the entire family knew about Phoebe's power of prediction and thus Paul took her away to realize a DNA test on her. When the DNA test confirmed Phoebe's revelations, Paige and Phoebe come over to reveal the father was a married man she hooked up with at work and hooked up with Paul to have him pay the alimony to her lover's wife.
  • Bad Boss:
    • "Worked for this construction company, but then…": Taylor was the CEO's son who mistreated Joe and often mocked him. When Joe saved a little girl from being crushed by lumber caused by Taylor's carelessness, Joe got paralyzed from the waist down. Taylor fired him at the hospital.
    • "My sister comes home everyday looking worn out": Mr. Taylor not only abused and harassed Emma and his other employees into working harder for him so he could go home early, but also stole their projects to get promoted. Emma's older sister, Paige, finds out after putting a bug on the good-luck charm she bought for her and accompanies Emma to report the bastard to the CEO before confronting him.
  • Bait the Dog: In 'On my birthday, my 23-year-old husband who was younger than me said, "I don't need you hag!"' Derek and Shawn suddenly throw a birthday party for Paige and act nice towards her despite having disparaged her as a middle-aged woman in the past. When things calmed down, Shawn dropped the bombshell and demands a divorce. Much to their surprise, Paige takes it in stride and leaves.
  • Bedroom Adultery Scene:
    • "I recorded my husband while he was cheating on me": Paige catches Bunta and Rika naked and having an affair at the couch. Enraged by their betrayal, she uses Bunta's company PC to record the affair.
    • "We got revenge on my husband...": After Aoto leaves the house after being confronted by both Paige and his mom, the latter two catch him in bed with a younger woman named Lua. Afterward, Aoto demands a divorce and abandons his mother to run off with his mistress.
  • Beg the Dog:
    • "My parents disowned me after I failed the entrance exam for the faculty of law": After Paige's client wins the case against her abusive, gambling-addicted parents, they tried to disparage her for not siding with them. However, the couple folded into weeping, begging messes the moment the cops apprehended them, but Paige ignored their pleading and let them be taken away for their trouble.
    • 'On my birthday, my 23-year-old husband who was younger than me said, "I don't need you hag!"': Five years after Shawn divorces Paige and gets custody of Derek, he contacts her through the phone after the younger woman he was about to remarry scammed him out of every penny he had. Much to his dismay, Paige remarried a CEO and gave birth to a daughter.
    • "My husband and son looks down on me calling me a fatty": After Paige divorces Sean and gives him the custody of their teenage son Niall for their mistreatment of her and the former's affair with Sally, the father-son duo calls her to beg and cry for money after the mistress ran out with his savings and took loans under his name. However, Paige has none of it and reveals that Sally was never a secretary, but a sex worker.
    • "I was going to propose to my girlfriend but...": A worn-out, quickly-aged Shion comes over to beg her ex-boyfriend, Paul, for help after finding out Hibiki was an abusive bastard who chewed her out into cutting ties with any and all men she courted, which caused her to be fired from her job, on top of spending all her money on himself. Much to her dismay, Paul remarried another woman and had a daughter named Sachiko. Eventually, Hibiki catches up with her and drags Shion back home.
    • "I became pregnant at 18 and on my wedding day the groom left me...": Years after running off on Paige at the wedding day and eloping with his mistress, an aged, worn-out, and homeless Steven returns to beg her for forgiveness. It turns out that after Steven got fired twice from his parents' company and a black company he worked at afterward, his girlfriend, whom he married, was a chronic spendthrift to the point of borrowing black-market money, which got both lovebirds chased down by debt collectors. Understandably, Paige has none of his BS and leaves, with the bastard's former mother blocking his path.
  • Big "NO!": Tyler yells this after Briana's parents called his parents over after he found out that he and Briana moved into their house without their permission.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing:
    • Melissa appeared to be Rachel's best friend. However, when Rachel went missing on a trip to the woods that she and Melissa went on, Paul finds his mother Penny washing Rachel with a hose as the former reveals Melissa abandoned the latter in the woods. When the three went to confront Melissa, it is revealed that Melissa is in fact a lazy housewife who used her mother-in-law Tammy for chores and stole from her husband John. John divorced her and kicked her out of the house as a result.
    • Karen is a Struggling Single Mother who appeared to be concerned for the wellbeing of her infant son, Thomas, and thus she had Paige and Michael take care of the baby while she was away working. However, the couple start to suspect Karen's true intentions when Thomas grew into a Spoiled Brat once he entered kindergarten, with the SIL still dropping the boy off to Paige's home, which clued the couple on in Karen lying after Thomas vandalized the house. Moreover, it turns out the reason Karen's own husband divorced her was because she was cheating on him.
    • Tanner seemed to be a decent guy while dating and being engaged to Paige, but she starts to become suspicious when one of her friends, Nicole, mentions her new boyfriend is named Tanner only to shrug it off as "Tanner" was a common name. However, come the wedding day, when Hannah and Nicole came over and see the groom, the former tells Paige to get a divorce, with Tanner's panicked reaction to seeing Nicole confirming Hannah's suspicions. It turns out Tanner was a serial womanizer who dated not only Paige and Nicole at the same time, but had affairs with several other women.
    • Kendra seemed to be Pam's best friend, who was in trouble because her own husband divorced her. However, it all turns out to be a facade as she not only sought Pam to steal her happy life, much to her befuddlement. Furthermore, Pam herself bring up that Kendra also stole another girl's boyfriend back in high school and started rumors about her. Later on, it's revealed that Karson and his family were also fronting; Karson was a womanizer, his mother was the epitome of a monster-in-law, and Amaya was a Bratty Teenage Daughter.
    • Sarah appeared to be an angelic nurse who cared for the elderly at the nursing home. However, in reality she was abusing the elders, including Paige's mother Penny. When Paige noticed her hand, she grew suspicious and began recording everything using a hidden camera. One day, Sarah beat up a sleeping Penny, only for it turn out to be Paige and Sarah ended up being exposed. She was arrested soon after for elder abuse. It also turned out that Sarah was a former bully who often acted as a sweet girl.
  • Brother–Sister Incest: Karen was obsessed with her brother Michael, and got jealous when Michael got together with Paige. When Paige caught Michael being fed from a baby bottle like a baby from Karennote , she recorded the footage and sent it to their father. The two were promptly disowned and Paige broke up with Michael.
  • Buried Alive: Michael buried his pregnant wife Paige because he thought she was having an affair with Francis and the fact that her father had a criminal record. Fortunately, she was able to get out and expose him.
  • Business Trip Adultery: Bob, Pam's husband from "My husband cheated on me, but then…" is hinted to have been faking business trips to cheat on her, as Pam herself not only found his payslip reporting he only worked 5 hours of overtime, but at some point he smelled like women's shampoo. Later on, it's confirmed when Pam hired a PI to investigate Bob and found out he was indeed cheating on her with a younger coworker named Mary.
  • Cast of Expies: Paige's entire family is based on the family from Chibi Maruko-chan.
  • Catfishing: Kate pulls a marriage scam on the wealthy Sean by taking advantage of his terminally-ill grandmother's last wishes of attending his wedding, claiming she wants to marry him under her mother's name (Penny). However, when Sean got suspicious and tried to get her phone number in response to her refusal to let him see her parents, Kate gave him Penny's phone number to get him off her back. Much to her dismay, Sean visits Penny's house with his lawyer to take her and the truth is revealed, driving Penny to send Kate away working at an inn owned by a friend of Grandpa's.
  • Cheater Gets Cheated On:
    • "We got revenge on my husband...": after Aoto divorced Paige and abandoned his mom for siding with her before leaving with his mistress, Lua, Paige and her MIL team up to investigate the lovebirds. Paige then goes off to confront them and expose Lua's affairs with other men with evidence. Needless to say, Aoto breaks down crying after realizing he was deceived.
    • "My husband cheated on me, but then…": After Pam sells the house to John, a real-estate investor before divorcing and suing Bob for cheating on her with a coworker named Mary, the cheating husband tried to move in with Mary only to find out she was already in a relationship for years. After Mary's boyfriend finds out, he kicks her out and sues her for damages.
    • "My colleague at work stole my boyfriend… Months later, Karma got my ex-boyfriend": Nelson dumps Paige for her coworker, Michelle, and proclaims he's getting married to her instead. While this left her devastated, her other coworker, Kelly, helped her investigate the lovebirds, finding out that Nelson was a marriage scammer who pulled tricked other women besides Paige and Michelle, while the latter had many other lovers besides Nelson.
  • Child Prodigy: Paula is only in the fourth grade but she owns her own sushi restaurant.
  • Class Reunion: In "My husband found out his mistress was pregnant, and kicked me out…", Jessica's husband Thomas attends one where he reunites with a former classmate-turned-mistress named Michelle, who was the school madonna back in high school, and finds out she was pregnant. It turns out Michelle's fiancé died in a car accident and had no one to turn to until Thomas tells her he'll take care of the baby in the deceased place. In reality, he only does this to give his parents the heir they so desired and get their assets.
  • Color Failure: In "After I gave birth, my husband and mother-in-law stole my baby and kicked me out but..." when a 10-year-old Pauline asks her grandmother and father why are they mean to Paige, they turned pale and tried to come up with excuses to get the girl back into their clutches.
  • Con Man: Bob, Ali's ex-boyfriend from "My friend stole my boyfriend..." turns out to be a marriage scammer as revealed by Ali herself. Whenever they went to marriage venues, he wanted the most expensive and opulent stuff, which almost clued Ali in on that something was off until Katy stole him. As a result, Katy is the one who gets scammed instead the moment she agreed to his wedding ideas. Moreover, Ali reveals that Bob did this to other girls before and eventually got arrested.
  • Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: In 'My husband can't reject his female friend's call for help "I'm not cheating on you."', when Paige caught her husband Michael talking with his mistress, Green, on the phone, she promptly covers Pam's ears while taking the girl to her room before concocting a revenge plan on the lovebirds.
  • Credit Card Plot: In "My sister used my credit card to go on a solo trip, but then…", Alyssa breaks into Pam's house and steals her credit card to go on a trip to Okinawa. When Pam finds out and takes her bratty sister to task for the expenses she's charged, it turns out Alyssa honestly believed that Pam's card was a magic card that allowed her to buy whatever she wanted. Eventually, Pam and her mother both concoct a plan to punish Alyssa by following her around and force her to work in a fishing boat to pay off the credit card bill.
  • Crocodile Tears: At some point, the mistress of Paige's husband/boyfriend/fiancé may cry fake tears to get her way, but once she gets caught, she'll end up crying for real as she's about to face the consequences.
  • Deteriorates into Gibberish:
  • Didn't Think This Through:
    • "My husband would suspiciously sneak out of the house to walk the dog at 4am…": Kevin always got up at 4:00 AM and took the family dog, Gordon, to cover up his affair with Miss Morrison behind Paige's back. This becomes his undoing at Paige's birthday when she and her daughter Penny take Gordon out for a walk as he heads over to the mistress' house and barks at the door, which drove Paige to confront her cheating husband.
    • "The week after my husband divorced me, he got remarried to my little sister… But I got my revenge": Nelson cheats on Paige with her younger sister Rachel, and once caught, he eventually declares he's remarrying the latter instead as she had a job offer from a big company. One week later when they have a wedding, Paige and her mother Penny come over to reveal the latter had a wedding with Mr. Isaac, the CEO of Rachel's company, in the same day — it turns out the reason Rachel was hired at his company in the first place was because Penny requested it, owing to his crush on her. Therefore, the CEO fires Rachel for her piss-poor skills and sleeping with a married man, thus screwing the cheating husband out of freeing himself from his debts and reducing him to work at a restaurant.
    • "My sister-in-law thought I was unemployed, and tried to kick me out": Karen learned from a friend that getting a divorce gave her a settlement fee, so she cheated on Paige's brother, Paul, thinking that he would lose if he divorced her as he'd have to split his assets with her and therefore take the apartment to kick both siblings out. However, when the cheating SIL accidentally exposed herself to Paul, the siblings reveal that since she was married for less than three months, Paul won't have to split his assets with her. Moreover, the apartment was bought by Paige as she was the CEO of a small company. As a result, the cheating SIL ends up destitute and a pariah for what she did.
    • "An arrogant new hire got the job through connections and thought he could get me fired…": Maria colluded with her uncle Kevin to get Paige fired by filing a bogus bullying report to the CEO. Little did they know that he was secretly Paige's husband, and therefore revealed it to her. While Maria tried to make up lies about Paige, it all backfired when Paige said she had a pen-camera on her recording all the harassment, driving her to break it and expose her own crimes, over which the couple revealed it was a normal pen. Eventually, she goes ballistic to the point of exposing Kevin's lies and reveal herself as not his niece, but his mistress, all in front of the office's cameras and the entire workplace gathered to gawk at them. As a result, Kevin is divorced and sued alongside Maria for alimony.
    • "My husband found out his mistress was pregnant, and kicked me out…": Thomas cheated on Jessica at a class-reunion party with his former classmate, Michelle, who was already pregnant with her fiancé's baby when they met. While his parents were elated to have an heir, the cheating bastard still didn't bother to pay the mortgage for the apartment and left it to Jessica, who was too depressed to pay until Paige reached out to her. Moreover, the cheating ex-husband didn't take into account Paige herself would reveal the truth, but expose Michelle as an easy girl who went through so many guys that she actually didn't know who the father was; the fiancé was all made up to trick Thomas. As a result, Thomas' parents disown him for tricking them.
    • "My sister used my credit card to go on a solo trip, but then…": Alyssa breaks into Pam's house and steals her credit card to go on a trip to Okinawa behind her back. However, this becomes her undoing as she not only honestly thought the card was magic and bottomless, but also forgot to book a return flight when she was done. This was used to both Pam and her mother's advantage, as the latter had enough of Alyssa's antics and had her forced to work at a fishing boat to pay off the bill.
    • "I let out a sigh of relief when I was asked to divorce my husband...": While his parents took his shifts for him at their convenience store so he could have affairs with a woman named Yuka behind Paige's back, the couple advised to close it early instead as they were too old. This comes back to bite them in the ass when Paige finds out, as she not only sues the lovebirds but exposes the whole thing to the store's HQ, which sues Takashi's family for their poor work ethic.
    • "My selfish sister-in-law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…": Kelsey and Ezra cooked up a scheme to get money for a trip and luxurious stuff by lying about wanting to undergo fertility treatments at the prestigious Kore Ladies Clinic to become parents like Paige and Alan. However, Paige eventually sees right through Kelsey's scheme when she lied about her parents running out of money just to extort $1,000 out of her, unaware that Paige worked there as an assistant. Not only does the swindling couple blow up and reveal everything in fits of anger, but Paige reveals this wasn't the first time Kelsey and Ezra lied about the clinic's services to con people. Moreover, their harebrained scheme eventually got them sued for fraud and defamation by the CEO of Kore Ladies Clinic.
    • "The company I worked at asked me to quit because the CEO's daughter was going to take my job…": Miss Karen's parents knew something was wrong with giving her allowance and a salary to their daughter despite her not working. Rather than refusing to give her allowance or having her work elsewhere to help her become independent, they planned to have Paris quit her job so Karen would take it. Unsurprisingly, the plan goes south as Karen has proven herself completely useless; she couldn't turn in paperwork in time, and any she did was full of typos, and blowing up at complainers. Moreover, the couple didn't account that Paris would get a job at one of their biggest client's, causing all other companies to terminate contracts with them. Moreover, their giving Karen a high salary would count as tax evasion because it couldn't count as a business expense. As a result, the company collapsed and reduced the CEO, Vice-President, and Karen to working part-time jobs to make ends meet.
  • Dirty Coward: In "My sister-in-law went into my house and no permission and let her kids destroy my house…" when Karen is arrested by the police for breaking into Paige and Michael's former house to have her son Thomas destroy it without knowing they sold it away, she not only whines about doing nothing wrong, but vehemently blames the kid for the whole thing in a rather harebrained attempt to save her own skin.
  • Disowned Parent:
  • Does Not Like Spam: In "How I was able to overcome my hate for Mushrooms and Bellpeppers!" Paige doesn't like the titular foods, especially when her mother-in-law deliberately served them to her. However, after she gathers the courage to learn cooking from her MIL, she overcomes her distaste when she eats the mushroom and bell pepper dishes and realizes they were delicious.
  • Do-Nothing Housewife: Melissa is envious of Rachel for having a good relationship with her mother-in-law, unlike Melissa who hates her mother-in-law. The reason why Melissa and her mother-in-law don't get along is because Melissa is a layabout who does nothing but lay around, drink, and steal her husband's money. After Melissa's husband learns this (alongside the fact that Melissa tried to kill Rachel), he immediately divorces her.
  • Dub Name Change: The English channel renames the characters to English names though there are a few episodes which retain the original Japanese names.
  • Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Travis, the protagonist of "My wife went on a trip with another man, but left our daughter home alone" substitutes W's for both his R's and L's while speaking.
  • Engineered Public Confession: In "My selfish sister-in-law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…", when Paige arranges a meeting with the in-laws to confront Kelsey and her husband Ezra about trying to get fertility treatment at the Kore Ladies Clinic, Paige and her husband Alan agree to provide money for them by claiming the doctor herself will support them and that she'll pay for their transportation. The couple blows up and accidentally reveals why they wanted money —Ezra didn't want to work and Kelsey didn't even want kids— which understandably angered the in-laws while Paige recorded them. Moreover, they also blurted out they wanted to go on a trip and buy designer stuff. Afterward, Kelsey and Ezra tried to apologize only for Paige to reveal that since this wasn't the first time they conned people in this way, Kelsey and Ezra's scheme counted as defamation as they lied about KLC's services, angering the CEO of said clinic.
  • Face of a Thug: Mrs. Ezra and her henchmen from "Unemployed in-Law Drives My Luxury Car And Crashes It But When She Finds Out The Shocking Truth" look scary and imposing, but actually are all kindhearted, with said henchmen breaking down into Tears of Joy when Mrs. Ezra gave birth despite her old age, and even run an orphanage.
  • Failed a Spot Check: Ali sent Bob a message that was actually directed at her lover. When she learned about it, she tried to cover it up but Bob refused to hear her excuses until he saw a pill bottle on the table as she claimed to be dizzy. However, Bob suspects again when his friend called about Ali going to a bar with a guy.
  • Fake Pregnancy:
    • "Caught my husband cheating on me, but then…": When Ken brings his mistress, Jenna, to confront Paige, she claims being pregnant with Ken's baby, complete with ultrasound picture. However, when Paige thoroughly examines the mistress' body and the picture, she finds out and reveals Jenna was lying about being pregnant. When she insisted it was true, Paige quickly shuts her up by showing her a box full of pregnancy tests, which drove Jenna to spill the beans and reveal she lied to trap Ken into marrying her.
    • "My husband's secret lover got pregnant": When Paige demands both her cheating husband John and his mistress Katherine pay her 20 millions in compensation and the latter's father refused to let him marry his daughter upon finding out John was indebted from borrowing Paige's money to buy himself a sports car, the mistress herself revealed the pregnancy was a lie when the cheating husband brought it up.
  • False Friend: Kendra, Pam's best friend, actually sought to steal her husband and family and only was friends with her to look good. Moreover, it turns out Kendra also stole another girl's boyfriend back in high school.
  • A Family Affair:
    • "I recorded my husband while he was cheating on me": Bunta cheated on Paige with her younger sister Rika behind her back, even taking advantage of having remote work to have his affairs without his boss noticing. When Paige catches the lovebirds in the act, she gets back at them by using Bunta's work computer to expose him.
  • Fatal Attractor: Ethan, Paige's First Love from "Crazy Sister Steals My Fiance And Invites Me To Their Wedding → But When She Saw My Husband…!" attracted all kinds of bad women as all his three previous girlfriends had serious flaws; the first was a promiscuous cheater, the second was a thief, and the third was an alcoholic. While he chose Paige because she was kind and ordinary unlike them, he ultimately cheated on her with her sister Lucy after she got him drunk and forced him into the relationship in exchange for keeping the affair secret.
  • Fat Bastard: Aoto, the titular husband from "We got revenge on my husband..." is a fat man and he not only turned verbally abusive towards Paige, but cheated on her with a younger woman. Moreover, he even lambasted his mom whenever she defended Paige before abandoning her despite having a bad leg from old age.
  • Firing Day: At a dinner celebrating Henry's promotion to manager, he fires John on the spot for defending Paige from his and Chelsea's mockery. Moreover, Henry even threatened another employee with the same if he tried to call him out.
  • Food Slap: At a blind date with the three top men of the Panikore company, Mia spilled orange juice all over Paige's skirt to make her look bad.
  • Forbidden Friendship: In "When I got home, my mom looked like a monster and threw water on my wife…" Penny tried to have her daughter-in-law Rachel cut ties with Melissa as she suspected the latter was up to no good, but she and her husband Paul thought she was exaggerating. Later on, Penny's suspicions turn out to be correct when it's revealed Melissa not only abandoned Rachel to die at a mountain after taking her there under the excuse of foraging for mushrooms, but also had her own mother-in-law do the chores for her.
  • From the Mouths of Babes: In 'My husband can't reject his female friend's call for help "I'm not cheating on you."', Paige went with her daughter Pam to a meal with Sherry and her daughter Hazel. When Pam brings up how her dad never played with her and always came home late reeking of alcohol, Hazel insinuates that he was cheating on Paige, much to the other three's surprise.
  • The Gambling Addict: Bob always turned to gambling whenever he was stressed out, especially as his colleagues got promoted. This always got him into debt as he borrowed money to spend for gambling.
  • Gambling Ruins Lives:
    • "My husband betrayed me, but then…": Pam's husband, Bob, became a chronic gambler to cope with stress from his coworkers promoting while he didn't. He was so addicted to gambling to the point of not only taking loans much to Pam's chagrin, but by conning both Pam and his mom out of money by lying to the former that his mom stopped using her old bank account and to the latter that Pam got demoted and her parents were at the hospital. Moreover, his sister Nancy even reveals that he not only got addicted to gambling but also to hostess clubs. As a result, Bob is divorced, sued, and forced to work several part-time jobs under strict surveillance to pay his massive loan debts.
    • "My parents disowned me after I failed the entrance exam for the faculty of law": Paige's parents were addicted to gambling at pachinko parlors; her father quit his job once her kindly grandma passed away knowing he'll get inheritance from her while her mother slacked off and forced the housework on Paige. Moreover, back when she was in 12th grade, they had her study law hoping to mooch off of her once she became a lawyer until they disowned her for failing her entrance exam. Years later, when she finally became a lawyer and married her coworker Theo, she finds her parents not only became poorer from gambling, but got themselves in hot water for harassing her latest client to coerce money out of him because he bumped into them. As a result, the man successfully sues the couple and they're reduced to working for shady people to pay off the debts.
  • Get Out!: Near the end of "My husband's secret lover got pregnant", after Paige kicks both Katherine and her father after reaffirming she's going to get compensation from her for destroying her marriage, John tries to appease her. Understandably, Paige blows up at him for cheating on her while telling him to get out, causing the cheating husband to run away crying.
  • Girlish Pigtails: Karen from "I Caught My Husband Doing..." wears her hair in pigtails, showcasing her immaturity in mistreating Paige and her attraction to her older brother Michael.
  • Gold Digger:
  • Green Around the Gills: Aoto turns green from disgust when Paige shows him photos of his mistress Lua having affairs with other men, complete with a recording of Lua gloating about her affairs and Aoto being an easy mark for her to deceive.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Ms. Karen harassed Ms. Melanie because she was close to the new guy in the office, Steven, whom the former had a crush on. When the latter took a leave to rest from Karen's harassment, she caught Paige talking with Steven and harassed her instead.
  • Groin Attack: In "Parents Dote On My Genius Sister With 130 IQ And Neglects Me But After I Give Birth To Children…" when Paige and Siena's parents tried to kidnap the former's daughters Penelope and Kiera, the latter takes a bucket to her grandfather's groin area, causing him to let go as he doubled over in pain.
  • Hope Spot:
    • "I was going to propose to my girlfriend but...": While Paul doubted his girlfriend Shion after finding she was chatting with a guy named Takuya, he still had his hopes up when she invited him to a date at a fancy restaurant. When Paul came at the stated time, it's rendered moot when he sees her with a guy named Hibiki, who demands he break up with Shion. To add insult to injury afterwards, his coworkers reveal that Shion had been with other guys besides Hibiki.
    • "I became pregnant at 18 and on my wedding day the groom left me...": Steven starts to act suspicious when his girlfriend, Paige, became pregnant at 18 years old, not only acting dismissive towards her, but also neglecting their upcoming wedding ceremony. When she called him out on his attitude towards her, he becomes more attentive to the changes in Paige's body and fully committed to go through with the wedding ceremony. However, it's all rendered moot at the wedding day when Steven not only left her at the altar, but revealed he has been cheating on her with another woman.
    • "My friend stole my husband and family, but then…": Kendra is eventually divorced by Karson after he and his family abused her for so long after she stole him from Pam; she couldn't even afford a lawyer to get alimony. However, things seemingly go up for Kendra when a guy approaches her, but in the end he had her co-sign his debts, leading to Kendra working a risky job overseas.
  • Househusband: Shawn, the protagonist from "My wife treated me like crap, but then…" has become one after being overwhelmed by the stress of his job and let his wife Anna provide as she was an elite employee. However, when she became increasingly abusive towards him, Shawn had enough of her and revealed he was a stock trader.
  • Humiliation Conga: Has its own page.
  • Hypocrite: Mackenzie claims to be a vegan and always gave Phoebe a hard time for eating meat, saying that she feels sorry for the animals that were slaughtered to make her meal. However Phoebe caught her enjoying a steak and took a picture as proof, and showed it to the workplace. This embarrassed Mackenzie so much that she quit the company.
  • Indentured Servitude: Most antagonists end up with debts from having to pay compensation to their victims. They often borrow money from loan sharks and as a result are forced to do hard labor to pay them back.
  • I Have No Daughter!:
  • I Never Said It Was Poison: In "My unemployed sister-in-law kept taking my food out of the fridge… and told me I was crazy," when Paige's husband, Kelvin, confronted his sister Rachel for stealing Paige's pudding, she complained and denied having eaten six of them, which tipped them off as neither Paige nor Pauline mention how many puddings were stored in the fridge.
  • Infertility Intolerance: Paige became sterile due to a illness. When Natalie, the niece of Paige's husband Michael (who Natalie is also having an affair with), learns this, she calls Paige a useless woman.
  • Inheritance Backlash: "My brother kept leeching off of my parents, but then…": After John's parents died, his parents left him their inheritance. However it turned out that his parents deliberately went into debt to teach him a valuable lesson. As a result John was harassed by collection agencies and loan sharks. He tried to beg his brother Nate for help, but he refused to help him. In the end, John was forced to work on a crab-fishing boat to pay off his debts.
  • I Want Grandkids: Jessica's in-laws constantly hounded her for not having kids for years as they wanted to have an heir to take over the family's company. While she tried to talk it over with Thomas, he dismissed her concerns until it all devolved into bickering.
  • Japanese Delinquents: Paige's mom from "Cheating Husband Faces Reality When He Forces Divorce To Marry Someone Younger" is revealed to have been a notorious delinquent in her youth, which comes in handy when she scares off her former son-in-law for mistreating Paige.
  • Love Hotels: A common plot point in stories dealing with infidelity, in which the cheating spouse frequents these hotels behind the other's back.
    • "Caught my husband cheating on me, but then…": When Paige goes to clean up Ken's desk and finds a VIP for a love hotel, she becomes suspicious and confronts her cheating husband for it. Cornered, he reveals that ever since Paige was suspected infertile he had an affair with a woman named Jenna.
  • Mad Scientist: In the epilogue of "I was asked to go on a courting date, but then…", Paul calls Paige by the trope name when she brings up that her parents could live up to 200 more years with the robot bodies she built.
  • Malicious Slander:
  • Malingering Romance Ploy: In "My parents prioritze my weak sister" [sic], Liz faked being at her last moments to guilt-trip Paige into giving Jeff away to her, with their parents taking the former's side. However, Liz promptly gets exposed when Jeff himself proposes taking her for a checkup at his father's hospital; she screams and breaks down admitting to not being sick.
  • Man Bites Man: In "Parents Dote On My Genius Sister With 130 IQ And Neglects Me But After I Give Birth To Children…" when Paige and Siena's parents tried to kidnap the former's daughters Penelope and Kiera, the former bites her grandmother in the hand, causing the old crone to let go.
  • The Mistress: A common plot is Paige getting cheated on by her husband/boyfriend.
  • Mistaken for Pedophile: At the end of "A fellow mom stole my husband from me, and tried to collect a settlement fee from me…", after Amy and Michael are sued by their respective spouses for compensation and damages and lose their respective children's custody, Michael is last seen being arrested and thrown behind bars for loitering at the playground where he used to play with Pauline.
  • Motor Mouth: Mrs. Ortiz, Paige's neighbor from "Found out my husband was cheating on me…" is a talkative woman who blathers nonstop about inane subjects. However, this becomes an asset when Paige confronts Miranda and Eliam in their affair and gives suggestions on how to get alimony from the lovebirds before loudly exposing the affair throughout the whole apartment.
  • Ms. Red Ink:
    • 'My husband belittles me for working remote, and our daughter copied him and told me to “get out"...': Michael, Paige's verbally-abusive husband, was a chronic spendthrift who bought luxury goods despite not seeming to have enough money. Moreover, he even bought expensive toys for their daughter Ashley to sway the girl to his side and heap on the abuse. Eventually, Paige couldn't take it anymore and left the house after they gaslighted her into leaving.
    • "I was troubled by my infertility, but then my husband betrayed me and cheated on me": After Henry divorces his plain yet loyal wife Paige and remarries the prettier Chelsea, he learns too late that his new wife wasn't only a layabout, but also an overspender to the point of borrowing money from shady people, which resulted in Chelsea being hauled away to work at a hellhole country and Henry getting fired once the truth was revealed.
    • "My mother abandoned my sister and I, and this is how I got revenge!": Despite being born from a wealthy family, Emma revealed herself as a chronic spendthrift once she got married to Toru; she even neglected their twin daughters Yumi and Mami. When Toru tried to take over the family finances to save money, Emma had none of it and swiftly divorced the poor sap, taking custody of the girls to bilk child support money out of him and keep overspending until she abandoned them as she was getting remarried.
    • "I became pregnant at 18 and on my wedding day the groom left me...": After Steven elopes with his girlfriend to marry her instead and leaves Paige at the altar, the bastard ends up in huge trouble. Not only does he get fired from both his parents' company and the black company he worked in afterward, but his wife turns out to be a spendthrift who borrowed black-market money after he got fired, over which he divorced her as it got them both chased by debt collectors.
  • Mugging the Monster: In "When my fiancé met my family, my little sister tired to steal him and my parents told me to..." [sic], when Karen and her parents intercept her older sister Rachel to have her give up Paul to her, his little sister Paris joins the conversation and is mistaken for another lover of his. When Karen breaks into the office to slander Paul as a cheater to ruin Rachel's life only to stumble upon his whole family, he reveals that not only is Paris his little sister, but that she is the owner of the premises. Afterward, Paul's family chews the three of them out for playing favorites before his older sister Phoebe calls the cops on them.
  • Obnoxious Entitled Housewife:
    • Aileen was a single mother who had a habit of stealing others' stuff, especially Paige's. Moreover, she even used her daughter Twinkle to guilt-trip Paige into doing so when the latter was fed up with her stealing. When Aileen found out Paige's boyfriend, York, worked at a big company, she badgered her into "sharing" him only to be scolded by York.
    • Hilda always bragged about being a great housewife and mother of two while disparaging childless ones, especially Yvonne. Eventually, Yvonne got fed up with Hilda's bragging and read through the latter's blog, revealing that the "little angels" she bragged about were actually screenshots she took from someone else's blog, which she claimed belonged to Marisa, an infamous delinquent. While this scared the crap out of Hilda, Yvonne reveals the blog wasn't Marisa's after all.
    • 'My mom friend who always gets jealous targeted my husband saying, "I think we're a better match"': Raila, a mom friend of Paige's, not only tried to steal her bag the moment they met for the first time, but tried to have the latter's daughter, Pam, give away her dress only for the girl to give her a verbal smackdown. Even then, it's revealed that she also attempted this on other moms afterward. Eventually, Raila escalates into flirting with Paige's husband, James, and waiting outside of her house to demand she hand over James to her. Much to her dismay, Raila's own husband catches her in the act and divorces her, gaining custody of Hannah.
  • Obnoxious In-Laws:
    • "Mother-In-Law Keeps Disturbing My Online Meetings And Kicks Me Out → But When She Comes back...": Paige's mother-in-law and her daughter Ariana gave her a hard time about working from home, thinking that she just plays games all day. When Ariana broke Paige's laptop after failing to log in, she told everything to her husband and father-in-law. Paige's father-in-law divorced his wife and cut ties with his daughter Ariana. Ariana also got caught having an affair after her husband got suspicious of her going to Paige's house.
    • "My selfish sister-in-law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…": Paige's sister-in-law, Kelsey, not only was selfish enough to throw tantrums whenever things don't go her way. Moreover, when Kelsey brought her own husband to her parents' house and found out Paige was pregnant, she whined about wanting to become a mom too while claiming she's going through fertility treatments until her parents caved in and decided to pay for her treatments. However, when Kelsey bumped into Paige at the OB/GYN clinic and begged her for money as her parents stopped doing so, Paige found out it was a scam, but held on until they gathered at the in-laws' house.
    • "My unemployed sister-in-law kept taking my food out of the fridge… and told me I was crazy": Paige's sister-in-law, Rachel, is an obnoxious young woman who always stole food from Paige. Moreover, no amount of scolding could stop her from doing so; even when Paige put a "dangerous" sticker on a rare pudding to dissuade Rachel, she saw right through it and ate it anyway. Eventually, Paige got fed up with Rachel's thievery that she made a pudding with chili peppers to punish her.
    • "Cheating Husband Faces Reality When He Forces Divorce To Marry Someone Younger": Paige's mother-in-law constantly picked on her for whatever fault she found on her, no matter how small. Moreover, Paige's husband, Kevin, refused to help her out on the chores as he was the main breadwinner. The abuse worsened ever since her father-in-law became disabled as the MIL forced her to look after the old man.
    • "Someone stole money from my daughter, but then…": Tom's mother often berated his wife Pam. At first Tom defended her from his mother, but as soon as she moved in with them, he took her side more often than not, and often gave her money, despite her being a spendthrift. When Pam and Tom's daughter got her money stolen, Pam found out that it was Tom who stole it for both himself and his mother. When he acted callous about it, she divorced him and took their daughter with her.
  • Office Romance: Kevin from "Cheating Husband Faces Reality When He Forces Divorce To Marry Someone Younger" cheated on Paige with a younger coworker named Ana, who was his subordinate. When Paige found out, she confronted her cheating husband until he confessed.
  • Older Than They Look: Paige is always depicted as a child even as an adult though she is often portrayed as an adult in the thumbnails.
  • Open Relationship Failure:
  • Parking Payback: Sekota and Akemi keep parking on Paige's family's residence without their permission and making out on their property. Having had enough, the family came up with a plan to scare them off. They dressed up as ghosts and managed to scare them off their premises. It was revealed that they weren't a couple and were cheating with each other.
  • Parental Incest: An uncle-niece variant is shown in "My husband took in his college student niece and was obsessed with her…", where Paige's husband, Michael, and their niece, Natalie, started a relationship for five years. However, she gathered enough evidence and showed it at Natalie's wedding, exposing their affair and causing the groom to call off the wedding and sue the incestuous couple alongside Paige.
  • Phony Relative: Maria, the titular new hire from "An arrogant new hire got the job through connections and thought he could get me fired…" got her job by being Manager Kevin's niece despite her incompetence as Paige's subordinate. Eventually, when Maria threatens to get her fired, Paige investigates them and finds out Kevin was an only child, which clued her in on that Maria wasn't his niece, but his mistress. After Kevin and Maria's affair is exposed, Kevin loses his job and his own wife divorces him for cheating before suing Maria.
  • Pillow Pregnancy: In "My crazy sister tried to steal my fiancé, but…" a pregnant Zoe tries to kick Paige out of the apartment only to find out the latter still had her fiancé with her. When Paige herself reveals that the man she "snatched", Stefan, was a dangerous playboy and swindler, she angrily takes off her sweater, and put her hands under her own shirt to reveal stuffed several towels underneath to fake a pregnancy.
  • Playing Sick: Liz, Paige's older sister from "My parents prioritze my weak sister" [sic] is revealed to have been faking her illness to steal Paige's stuff since childhood; Paige herself saw right through her but her parents refused to believe her for years until her fiancé Jeff promptly exposes Liz' facade by proposing she gets a checkup at his father's clinic. She breaks down and admits to have been faking her illness, with the sisters' mother being also in on it to bilk money out of their father; the reason the mother-daughter duo tried to steal Jeff in the first place was because the father was about to retire.
  • Pop-Up Texting: There are occasional scenes where characters are communicating via text.
  • Positive Friend Influence: There are so many segments where Paige/Paniko/Pam is helping someone better themselves, whether it’s a former tormentor, or a potential love interest (especially after being cheated on by the first love interest).
    • I was troubled by my infertility, but then my husband betrayed me and cheated on me: After a humiliating dinner in which Henry (her soon to be former husband) and Chelsea (the soon to be revealed mistress) were mocking Paige for her infertility and John (a subordinate) for being a loser, they end up bumping into a pub after leaving the house. There, Paige noticed he was interested in programming and decided to encourage him to pursue what he wanted, even having him work under her brother. Five years later, he’s lost weight, became handsome and confident, working as a managing director, married to Paige with a daughter, and another child on the way.
    • Went to meet my fiancé’s parents, but then…: Kay, Shawn’s sister and Pam’s sister in law was introduced as the spoiled, favorite child who didn’t know how to do things on her own and was lazy. But after falling in love with Paige’s cousin Tom, and wanting to be a woman worthy for him, she went to Paige to help to better herself in appearance, life skills, etc. Now she’s working at a farm, happily married, in better shape physically, and kinder.
  • Predatory Prostitute: Sally, Sean's mistress from "My husband and son looks down on me calling me a fatty" is revealed by Paige to have been working in the sex industry since the age of twenty rather than as a secretary for a big company as she claimed.
  • Punished with Ugly:
  • Put on a Prison Bus:
  • Really Gets Around:
    • "Found out my husband was cheating on me…": After Vera is taken to task by Ms. Adelyn for showing up late to pick her son Roman up from daycare only to whine that she's finding a husband, Paige muses that Vera always showed up late because she had fun with her many boyfriends. However, this is confirmed when Vera confronts her on the way home as Paige was acquainted with her father who owned a dry-cleaning business.
    • "My husband found out his mistress was pregnant, and kicked me out…": When Paige arranges a gathering between Jessica and her family after Thomas dumped the latter for Michelle, the alleged class madonna back in his high school, Paige not only exposes Thomas' affair but reveals that Michelle went through so many guys she didn't even know who the father of her baby was; she lied about having a fiancé to trick Thomas.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: Mia from "Unemployed in-Law Drives My Luxury Car And Crashes It But When She Finds Out The Shocking Truth" is depicted wearing a strapless Little Black Dress with a red sash and is a promiscuous vixen who leeches off men and even stole other girls' boyfriends back in high school.
  • Relationship Gone Public: In "An arrogant new hire got the job through connections and thought he could get me fired…" when Maria files a bogus report against Paige for "bullying" her and both went on a meeting with the CEO to confirm it, the man accidentally praises Paige's cooking, over which she reveals the CEO was her husband. After Maria's bullying is exposed and is later found out that she was actually Manager Kevin's mistress and not his niece in front of everyone at the office, the relationship goes public as a result.
  • Relationship Sabotage:
    • "A fellow mom stole my husband from me, and tried to collect a settlement fee from me…": Amy steals Paige's husband, Michael, and becomes pregnant with his child in an attempt to collect a settlement fee from Paige, according to what she read on a website. Much to the homewrecker's dismay, Paige reveals that the website she read that from stipulated that a pregnant mistress could not only collect a fee from the wife, but from the husband as well, applicable only whenever the husband hurt the mistress' baby. Afterward, Amy folded and revealed she lied about becoming pregnant, much to Michael's shock.
    • "My Sister Steals My Boyfriend and Marries Him But When She Finds Out The Truth About Him…": Noa seduces Souta away from Paige and marries him. When she calls to gloat about it, Paige reveals that her "boyfriend" wasn't Souta, but a boy-band idol named Souma. Moreover, it turns out Souta was a stalker and only married Noa to get closer to Paige.
    • "Ex boyfriend’s fiancé was my ex best friend, who sent me a wedding invitation…": When Paige saw her best friend Sarah again, who was devastated from her breakup with Nick and helped her recover, the latter exchanged numbers with Paige's boyfriend Kevin, which led to them having an affair. Later on, when Paige befriended her other former classmate Michelle at Headquarters, she recorded Sarah gloating about inviting Paige to her wedding with Kevin to rub it in as he had a high salary. Much to the homewrecker's dismay, Paige attended with her new boyfriend, who turned out to be Nick, and invited Sarah to her wedding, which became the last straw for Sarah as she broke everything and demanded Nick be handed back to her, right in front of Kevin.
    • "Crazy Sister Steals My Fiance And Invites Me To Their Wedding → But When She Saw My Husband…!": Lucy always tried and failed to steal other girls' boyfriends since high school, but when Paige brought her boyfriend, Ethan, she succeeded and tried to rub it in at every opportunity. Later on, when Paige attends Lucy's wedding with her wealthy foreign husband, Lucas, who roasts both cheating newlyweds for their affair.
    • "My sister stole my fiancé, but then…": Paige's younger sister, Briella, successfully seduces Benson away from her and sets out to rub it in her face as he became a successful manager and CEO. Much to her dismay, it's rendered moot when Paige got engaged with a handsome and more successful man named Riley. When Briella tried the same on him, he turns her away and reveals he was the fat nerd who was cruelly turned down by her. To add insult to injury, Benson caught her and demanded a divorce.
    • "My sister tried to steal my fiancé, but then…": Ali not only stole Pam's stuff but also stole the latter's first boyfriend. This became a conflict point as she didn't want to introduce her new boyfriend, Joe, to her parents for fear of the same happening. A few days later after Pam and Joe married, Ali called her to brag about having stolen her fiancé, but she didn't buy it because Joe was next to her when she received the call. Later on, when Pam and Joe go on a honeymoon in Morocco, Ali calls again after seeing the couple's pictures; her victim reveals the "fiancé" was Joe's swindling, womanizing cousin.
    • "My sister in law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…": Pam's sister-in-law, Katy, not only flirted with several men behind Rob's back but she wasn't above targeting married men. She visited Pam's house to give Tom a bag of chocolates modeled after her own lips in a kiss, but when she contacted her parents and her brother as well, it's revealed Katy even pulled the same thing on Pam's father. When the flirty SIL visited again, Pam's whole family revealed that Rob was going to divorce her for her trouble.
    • "My bully big sister stole my fiancé and everything from me…": Paige's older sister, Sarah, stole her first boyfriend back in high school. While Paige was evidently hurt, she got over it as she found confronting them a waste of time. However, Sarah struck again by stealing Paige's second boyfriend after she got a job. Frustrated, Paige concocts a plan to get back at her by dating a wealthy guy named Michael, whose family was extremely traditional.
  • Remarried to the Mistress:
  • Revenge Is a Dish Best Served:
    • "My unemployed sister-in-law kept taking my food out of the fridge… and told me I was crazy": Fed up with Rachel stealing her pudding every time she bought it, Paige made a pudding with chili peppers to punish her. When the thieving SIL fell for it and burned her mouth, it's eventually revealed that she gave all the puddings she stole to her boyfriend, whose wife held back on her lawsuits when she promised to not see him. Moreover, Paige made ten chili pepper puddings, which she also sold without thinking. Eventually, Rachel's lover's store, Yucky Cakes, went bust after the rumors.
    • "My co-worker who I can’t stand had been stealing sweets from my desk, so I planned a little surprise": In retaliation for Katrina stealing the treats she made and giving them to Mr. Press to seduce him, Pam made sakura mochi with a lot of mustard and purposely left it on the table so Katrina would steal it. When Mr. Press tasted the tainted treat and hit Katrina in his rush to wash off the bad taste, it's eventually revealed he was engaged to Pam's coworker, Hailey, who rushes to hold the bastard accountable.
  • Revenge Romance:
    • "My crazy sister tried to steal my fiancé, but…": In response to Paige slamming the door shut on her and refusing to lend her money to pay the alimony she owes to her husband, her younger sister Zoe declares she's going to steal her fiancé to live a rich life in her stead. Paige herself dismissed it as a bluff until Zoe starts asking everyone for the fiancé's private information. When she seems to have successfully stolen Paige's fiancé, it turns out to be a plan by her friend Layla to drive Zoe away by hooking her up to a dangerous delinquent named Stefan.
  • Rich Bitch: "My mother abandoned my sister and I, and this is how I got revenge!": Toru's ex-wife, Emma, is born from a wealthy family, but she was a chronic overspender to the point of divorcing him and taking their daughters' custody by using her wealth to hire the best lawyer. Moreover, she even goes as far as only letting him see the girls in exchange for paying child support.
  • Right Through the Wall: Becomes a plot point in "Found out my husband was cheating on me…" when Paige hears the sounds of a man and a woman "getting cozy" coming from Miranda's room while tending to her baby daughter Penelope whenever her husband Eliam leaves for work. When she confronts Miranda on it, she tries to deflect the issue, but Paige doesn't buy it as Miranda's husband was an ordinary office worker. Eventually, she rushes into Miranda's room to warn her about the noise only to find Eliam at the door.
  • School Idol: Michelle, Thomas' mistress from "My husband found out his mistress was pregnant, and kicked me out…" is said to be "the class madonna" back in high school, and therefore the most popular. Much to his dismay, Paige comes over with his ex-wife, Jessica, and exposes Michelle as an easy girl who used her innocent looks to sleep with multiple men; her alleged dead fiancé was a lie to manipulate the cheating ex-husband into marrying her and thus live off his family's money.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Maria not only is a new hire with a poor work ethic and inability to do most basic jobs, but Paige reveals she only got her job because she was being Manager Kevin's niece. Furthermore, she took advantage of her status to lord it over Paige, eventually escalating into colluding with Kevin to get Paige fired by filing a bogus report about her bullying Maria. Eventually, Paige investigates them and finds out Maria wasn't even Kevin's niece, but his mistress; he lied about it to get her a job.
  • Secretly Wealthy: When Paris left the company building after quitting, Miss Karen tried to harass her only to find out a parade of luxury cars. She mistook the handsome men in suits for princes who came to pick her up in white horses, but they revealed themselves as Paris' butlers, ready to bring Miss Karen down for her harassment.
  • Serial Homewrecker:
    • "We got revenge on my husband..." after Lua's parents took her back to the countryside for her trouble after her affais were exposed to Aoto, Paige reveals in narration that Lua had affairs with other married men, with her parents contacting her lovers' wives to apologize before forcing her to work to pay the debt.
    • "I kept warning my daughter not to touch my cell phone but…": After Paige sues her cheating husband Neil and his three mistresses, she reveals in narration that said mistresses were married. After the divorce, the mistresses are dumped by their husbands and sued for alimony.
  • Shout-Out: In "My sister in law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…" The story of how Pam's parents have met involves the father buying chocolates modeled after Ittetsu Hoshi from Kyojin No Hoshi, with some scenes depicting a Vyond-styled rendition of said character.
  • Sleeping with the Boss: Katrina is revealed to have been seducing and sleeping with Mr. Press, the boss of both her and Pam, which explained the man's preferential treatment of Katrina. Moreover, it turns out Press was engaged to Hailey, Pam's coworker from earlier. After the lovebirds are fired for their affair, Katrina had an affair with the boss of another company only to get caught by his wife and asked to pay compensation, which she paid by borrowing from loan sharks.
  • Sleeping with the Boss's Wife:
  • Speak of the Devil: Paige's grandfather suddenly shows up out of nowhere when she talked with Hannah about how she played Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom with him. Even Paige herself is astounded by his sudden appearance. However, the grandpa explains that he was already there as he went two hours earlier to attend the turtle race.

    Paige: Woah, Grandpa, what are you doing here? Even though you live in a place that takes over two hours to get to from the bullet train here?

  • Spoiled Brat: Miss Karen from "The company I worked at asked me to quit because the CEO's daughter was going to take my job…" is the spoiled daughter of the CEO and the Vice-President who only went to the workplace to ask her parents for allowance and even paid for personal expenses using the company card whenever they weren't present. Eventually, Karen's parents decided to hire her in Paris' place in a harebrained attempt to help her become independent.
  • Stay in the Kitchen: Elizabeth gave Paige a hard time for running a restaurant while raising her daughter. She planned a reservation at Paige's restaurant and attempted to cancel it, but the other moms went to the restaurant. When Elizabeth went there to lecture her about running a business instead of being a stay-at-home mom, her husband Tommy showed up to tell her off for being a hypocrite and revealed that she doesn't do anything around the house, left childcare to his mother and had been trying to get into acting for a while but was unsuccessful. After that, Tommy and Elizabeth got a divorce.
  • Sticky Fingers:
    • "One morning, a guy who says he's a fiance barged in with a lawyer": Paige's younger sister, Kate, always stole her things since childhood. While their mother, Penny, scolded her for doing so and she seemingly subsided, her stealing got worse years later after being divorced by her own husband as she barged into Paige's room upon being let in and tried to steal money from her.
    • "My sister used my credit card to go on a solo trip, but then…": Pam's younger sister, Alyssa/Rumi, started to steal things from her ever since she reached her teens, owing to her being a Spoiled Brat since childhood. While the sisters' parents scolded her for her trouble and thought of disowning her, they decided against it for fear she may cause trouble for other people.
  • Taking the Kids: "After I gave birth, my husband and mother-in-law stole my baby and kicked me out but..." - After Paige gave birth and returned to Thomas and his mom's house, they decided to take away her baby daughter, Pauline, as the duo deemed her "a failure as a mother". Despite her and her parents' best efforts to take the baby back, they couldn't find the duo. But ten years later, Paige finds a ten-year-old little girl playing by herself at a park, who turns out to be Pauline. When the mother-son duo appeared to find the girl, they chewed Paige out and revealed they were grooming Pauline to marry into wealth.
  • Teen Pregnancy: In "I became pregnant at 18 and on my wedding day the groom left me..." Paige becomes pregnant at 18 while dating Steven. However, he became suspicious as he not only ignored her but also neglected the wedding ceremony until she called him out. While he seemed to commit and becomes more proactive about it, he goes back on all that right on the wedding day by no-showing and then calling Paige to announce he already has a girlfriend.
  • Terrible Artist: Steven is an aspiring manga artist, but his drawing skills are in fact terrible and was unsuccessful so Paige had to support him.
  • The Un-Favorite:
    • "My family were all doctors, and I was kicked out by them when I turned 18…": Stephen was put aside in favor of his older brother John, who because of his excellent grades in medical school, looked down on people. Not helping matters is that their parents, both doctors, see their patients as peasants to gouge money out of. Eventually, Stephen ends up disowned by his parents for getting into a car accident and thus failing his medical college exam because he was absent for a month.
    • "Went to meet my fiancé's parents, but then…": Shawn's parents always played favorites with his sister Kay and spoiled her causing her to be lazy and reliant on her mother for everything.
    • "When my fiancé met my family, my little sister tired to steal him and my parents told me to..." [sic]: Rachel was cast aside in favor of her younger sister Karen, whom their parents spoiled rotten. When she came over with her fiancé, Karen predictably tried to flirt with him much to Rachel's chagrin. When Karen demands that Rachel give Paul up with her parents taking the former's side, Paul himself reaffirms his relationship with Rachel, unaware that her family looked down on her.
    • "Even though I worked multiple jobs for 18 years to send my parents money…": Paige was loved by her parents but as soon as her younger sister Hannah was born, she was cast aside. Even when the two became adults, Paige's parents demanded that she give them money to satisfy Hannah's demands. However, after they called her useless, Paige cut them off. Hannah and their parents ended up in debt because Hannah's fiancé scammed them out of money and they were forced to work off the debt without any rest.
    • "The spoiled son who is gifted with cars and a hosue by his rich parents": While Aria's parents set out to educate her to the last detail after begrudgingly making her the heir, they gave up on her after her brother, Sun, was born. Since then, Sun became spoiled-rotten to the point of not only looking down on struggling people and spending on luxuries, but also gloated about four-timing despite being engaged. However, Sun's constant gloating becomes his undoing after the incompetent father, who stole company money to buy him luxuries, thoughtlessly sells out his company to Paige's. Much to the father's dismay, Sun also dropped out of university thinking his job was secured, posting a selfie while holding a dropping-out notice.
    • "Parents Dote On My Genius Sister With 130 IQ And Neglects Me But After I Give Birth To Children…": Siena was doted over Paige by their parents due to the former being acing her exams in elementary school. They ended up giving Paige away to her aunt Audrey, who loved her as if she were her own child. Years later, they tried to fetch Paige so she can support them, but she refused to come out. It later turned out that Siena had quit school and became a shut in. In the end, the parents were forced to get jobs to pay off their debts and Siena ended up in jail after scamming people.
    • "My little sister helped our toxic parents kick me out of the house, but it was for a reason…": Pam's sister Gabriella was favored more by their parents despite Pam getting a part time job to help pay off their debs. Gabriella helped her parents kick out Pam. Years later, after Pam got a successful career, she was reunited with Gabriella. Her parents tried to beg her for money since Gabriella's fiancée refused to pay their debt but both sisters cut ties with them.
    • "My parents prioritze my weak sister": Liz's parents constantly showered her with praise and gave her whatever she wants. They forced Paige to give anything she owns to her since they thought she was weak. Once they met Paige's fiancé, Jeff, they tried to force Paige to give him to Liz, however Jeff proposed that Liz get a checkup at his father's hospital. However it was revealed that Liz had been faking her illness the entire time and her mother knew about it but kept her father in the dark so he will keep giving her money. Paige and Liz's father divorced his wife and ended up quitting his job while Liz and her mother were forced to get jobs to survive.
  • Upper-Class Twit: In "I was asked to go on a courting date, but then…" when Paul is taken to a date for an Arranged Marriage with the daughter of the president of Reed Industry. However, the woman and her parents turned out to be stuck-up bastards who looked down on Paul's "poor-looking" background. However, the three of them fold when Paul's father reveals that his wife is the CEO of Pani Corporation, their biggest client.
  • Vandalism Backfire:
    • "My crap boyfriend got another girl pregnant while living with me, and tried to kick me out…": Kevin and Michelle both gleefully stomp on Paige's tablet after kicking her out of her house. Much to their dismay, Paige reveals that the tablet wasn't hers, but it belonged to Mr. Thomas, who gives the lovebirds a thorough verbal smackdown for breaking his property.
    • "My sister-in-law went into my house and no permission and let her kids destroy my house…": Years after swearing not to drop off her son Thomas to Paige and Michael's household in response to being held accountable for the boy's bratty antics, Karen goes back on her word and returns to the couple's house to deliberately have Thomas lay waste to it out of spite. Much to her dismay, when she calls Paige to gloat, the supposed victim not only reveals she sold the house, but the new owners installed CCTV cameras and a security system that immediately alerts the police the moment an intruder breaks into the house. As a result, Karen is arrested and is about to lose Thomas' custody to her husband.
    • "Unemployed in-Law Drives My Luxury Car And Crashes It But When She Finds Out The Shocking Truth": After Paige and her husband's family moves out in response to Mia stealing her expensive car, the evil SIL borrows Paige's expensive car a second time to crash it. Much to Mia's dismay, Paige reveals she sold said car to an acquaintance named Ezra, who came over with her goons to hold the SIL accountable.
  • Villainous Breakdown:
    • "An annoying colleague who brags about how popular she is, was exposed during a group date…": After all four investors pick Paige instead of Mia not only for the former's tasteful fashion style but because of the latter's bullying of her, Mia loses it and proceeds to wreak havoc at the restaurant only to be stopped by the staff and sued by the restaurant.
    • "My sister-in-law went into my house and no permission and let her kids destroy my house…": Karen's attempt to spite Paige and Michael by having her son Thomas trash their house is rendered pointless when Paige not only reveals she sold it, but that the new owners installed a security system that immediately alerted the cops to a break-in. Afterwards, Paige narrates that once the cops caught Karen, she not only ranted that she did nothing wrong, but vehemently blamed Thomas for the whole thing in an attempt to save her own skin.
    • "Ex boyfriend’s fiancé was my ex best friend, who sent me a wedding invitation…": Sarah's successful attempt to steal Kevin from Paige is rendered moot when the victim attends the wedding with her new boyfriend, who turns out to be Nick, the guy whom Sarah had a crush on and dumped her earlier on. She grinds her teeth in anger as Kevin complimented him and ignored her attempts to disparage Paige and eventually goes into a screaming and ranting fit after Paige gives her an invitation to her own wedding, demanding Nick be handed back to her, right in front of the groom. When Nick addresses Sarah and reveals he dumped her for trash-talking other women's appearances, she crumbles apart and breaks down crying as the newlyweds' parents scolded her for trashing the venue before he leaves with Paige.
  • Villain Protagonist: How a ridiculous fantasy led to unexpected disaster…: The episode's plot is mostly told from the point of view of Sarah, a lazy, self-centered, Stalker with a Crush, with Pam taking over the narration near the end. It's also combined with Unreliable Narrator, as Sarah attempts to paint herself as the good guy and the others as the villains.
  • Wedding Smashers: In "My selfish sister stole my fiancé on the day of our wedding but then…" Brooke wears a wedding dress to Paige and Asher's wedding to steal the groom. Much to the actual bride's dismay, Asher picked Brooke instead and left her at the altar. While Paige was devastated, her mother reassured that the lovebirds will be miserable in no time. Later on, Penny is proven right — the lovebirds realize they were lying to each other all along once they married.
  • White-Collar Crime: Miss Karen is found out to have embezzled company money and stolen company property on top of her constant harassment towards other employees. As a result, she is fired and sued for it all.
  • You Are Fat: Sean and Niall from "My husband and son looks down on me calling me a fatty" both looked down on Paige for gaining weight (which was a side effect of her menopause medication), even going as far as barring her from leaving the house until her body returned to normal.