diff --git a/tests/ansible/integration/action/low_level_execute_command.yml b/tests/ansible/integration/action/low_level_execute_command.yml
index 7cb6c410..25e3c90f 100644
--- a/tests/ansible/integration/action/low_level_execute_command.yml
+++ b/tests/ansible/integration/action/low_level_execute_command.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
     - debug: msg={{raw}}
     - name: Verify raw module output.
       assert:
-        that: |
-          raw.rc == 0 and
-          raw.stdout == "root\r\n" and
-          raw.stdout_lines == ["root"]
+        that:
+        - raw.rc == 0
+        # WHY DOES VANILLA ANSIBLE INSERT NEWLINES HERE!?!?!?!?!?!ONE
+        - raw.stdout in ("\r\nroot\r\n", "root\r\n")
+        - raw.stdout_lines in (["", "root"], ["root"])
diff --git a/tests/ansible/integration/become/sudo_flags_failure.yml b/tests/ansible/integration/become/sudo_flags_failure.yml
index b0799846..0392e728 100644
--- a/tests/ansible/integration/become/sudo_flags_failure.yml
+++ b/tests/ansible/integration/become/sudo_flags_failure.yml
@@ -20,4 +20,5 @@
           - out.failed
           - |
             ('sudo: no such option: --derps' in out.msg) or
-            ("sudo: unrecognized option `--derps'" in out.module_stderr)
+            ("sudo: unrecognized option `--derps'" in out.module_stderr) or 
+            ("sudo: unrecognized option '--derps'" in out.module_stderr)
diff --git a/tests/ansible/integration/connection_loader/local_blemished.yml b/tests/ansible/integration/connection_loader/local_blemished.yml
index be9873b2..bb53cc48 100644
--- a/tests/ansible/integration/connection_loader/local_blemished.yml
+++ b/tests/ansible/integration/connection_loader/local_blemished.yml
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@
       register: out
 
     - assert:
-        that: out.mitogen_loaded or not is_mitogen
+        that: (not not out.mitogen_loaded) == (not not is_mitogen)
diff --git a/tests/ansible/integration/connection_loader/ssh_blemished.yml b/tests/ansible/integration/connection_loader/ssh_blemished.yml
index 6b295c7e..e39a3469 100644
--- a/tests/ansible/integration/connection_loader/ssh_blemished.yml
+++ b/tests/ansible/integration/connection_loader/ssh_blemished.yml
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@
       register: out
 
     - assert:
-        that: out.mitogen_loaded or not is_mitogen
+        that: (not not out.mitogen_loaded) == (not not is_mitogen)
diff --git a/tests/ansible/integration/context_service/lru_one_target.yml b/tests/ansible/integration/context_service/lru_one_target.yml
index 0ba2f21f..3abd7b48 100644
--- a/tests/ansible/integration/context_service/lru_one_target.yml
+++ b/tests/ansible/integration/context_service/lru_one_target.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
     - name: Reset all connections
       mitogen_shutdown_all:
+      when: is_mitogen
 
     - name: Spin up a bunch of interpreters
       custom_python_detect_environment:
diff --git a/tests/ansible/run_ansible_playbook.sh b/tests/ansible/run_ansible_playbook.sh
index 45a4a112..39580e37 100755
--- a/tests/ansible/run_ansible_playbook.sh
+++ b/tests/ansible/run_ansible_playbook.sh
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ export MITOGEN_MAX_INTERPRETERS=3
 
 if [ "${ANSIBLE_STRATEGY:0:7}" = "mitogen" ]
 then
-    extra="-e is_mitogen=1"
+    EXTRA='{"is_mitogen": true}'
 else
-    extra="-e is_mitogen=0"
+    EXTRA='{"is_mitogen": false}'
 fi
 
-exec ansible-playbook $extra "$@"
+exec ansible-playbook -e "$EXTRA" "$@"