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''Earthworm Jim! A hero for all time!"'' }}

 

** In the same episode, while under the Queen's Mind Control, Santa shows some espionage and gadgetry knowledge, attempting to destroy Jim with "The Kissing Ball of Death" which Jim averts, then steps on.

* [["BANG!" Flag Gun]]: In "Bring Me the Head of Earthworm Jim", after Jim gets the weak suit:

'''Jim:''' ...Whoa. }}

* [[Berserk Button]]: Peter had lots of these.

** [[Oh Crap|Never, ever piss Peter Puppy off]], doing so proves you're [[Too Dumb to Live]].

* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: Jim's suit, which has tunnels big enough for Jim and Snot to casually crawl through, complete with giant killer security robots wandering them.

* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: relatively speaking, to the extent that a hyper-evolved worm in a super-suit can be: Jim once had his super-suit replaced with one that one that gave him the strength of a normal person. A normal, really big person, as professor Monkey-for-a-Head found out the hard way.

** Played more straight in "The Origin Of Peter Puppy" when Jim tries to cure Peter's transformations by disposing of the demonic spirit possessing him. This unfortunately also empowered his anthropomorphic abilities and turned him back into a normal non-anthro dog.

* [[Brown Note]]: According to 'Book of Doom', if all of the Reeking Beasts of the Malodoron system see a fondue fork, they will emit a sound that will shatter the universe. Thankfully for the universe, there's one Reeking Beast who's not only near-sighted, but possibly bonkers.

* [[Butterfly of Doom]]: In "Sword of Righteousness", Jim learns of the eponymous sword's "Portal of Time" ability and decides to play a trick. He hands Peter a penny and tells him to watch Lincoln's face change. He then travels back to the Gettysburg Address and interrupts Lincoln mid-speech, shaving his beard off (to which Lincoln says "That's a big goodbye to my credibility.") When he returns to the present, expecting everything except the penny to the be the same, he instead finds that Peter is now a southern gentleman who looks like [[Colonel Sanders]] and Jim himself is now known as "Earthworm Bubba." The sword orders Jim to go back and fix everything, and forbids any further time traveling. The whole fiasco lasts less than two minutes.

* [[Christmas Episode]]: Also the last episode.

* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: Parodied in an episode where, after his super-suit has been swapped for a weaker version, Jim tries various generic ways of gaining super powers (including [[Fantastic Four|space radiation]] and [[Spider-Man|radioactive arachnid bites]]). One of his attempts is to [[No Fourth Wall|tell the viewer]] he will get powers if the audience were to "Believe! Believe and clap very hard!" prompting

'''Peter:''' A few of 'em, most of them are just changing the channel. }}

* [["Close Enough" Timeline]]

* [[Comedic Hero]]

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: When Jim and Peter are tied up and left at the mercy of a swarm of flesh-eating ants.

'''Jim:''' Good thing worms don't have bones! ...wait, that's not going to help, is it? }}

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: Professer Monkey-For-A-Head tried to get another Battery of the Gods, and the gods turned him into a living breadmaker as a result.

* [[Couch Gag]]: The many, many variations of the "cow falls on somebody" closing gag. Sometimes it would fall on Jim, sometimes on the villain, sometimes on the very thing Jim spent the entire episode trying to save. And let's not forget the Evil Cow:

* [[Crack! Oh, My Back!]]: Lower Back Pain Man.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Peter Puppy

** [[Servile Snarker|He's still pretty loyal]].

* [[Death Glare]]: In "Sword of Righteousness", Jim learns of the "Eye of Truth", which requires him to simply stare at anyone in order to force them to admit their darkest secrets. Jim attempts this on Peter, but Peter thought he was being challenged into a staring contest and unwittingly shoots a [[Death Glare]] right back at him.

'''Sword:''' You ''stink'' at this magic power stuff, you know. }}

** Later, Jim tries the Eye of Truth again, this time on Psycrow. Psycrow is unaffected and throws an anvil on top of him.

* [[Evil Twin]]: Evil Jim.

** There was one episode where Evil Jim got hold of a gun that made Evil Twins of anything it hit (he wanted to make duplicates of the sidekicks so he would have some friends); unfortunately, the opposite of an [[Action Girl]] isn't particularly useful, and pissed off Evil Peter Puppy becomes a civilized monster. Eventually it was discharged against all the villains; Evil Evil The Cat becomes Good The Cat who neutralizes acid furballs, Evil Professor Monkey-For-A-Head becomes Monkey Professor-For-A-Head (they run away together), Evil Queen Slug-For-A-Butt is an old lady more concerned about knitting, and since evil Jim is already the opposite of Jim blasting him with the gun creates another Jim, lots and lots of other Jims.

'''Other Villains:''' We figured. }}

** Evil Jim at one point lampshades the illogical nature of the 'copy that stands for everything the hero doesn't.'

'''Evil Jim:''' Oh, don't be so literal-minded. }}

* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: The series two episode "Darwin's Nightmare" revolves around Bob the Goldfish's trying to "evolve" himself into a higher lifeform, recognizing that his fishy body is a physical limitation in his particular line of work. What makes this a bit strange is the fact that Doug TenNapel, is a creationist and the fact that Bob talks like a caricature of a fire 'n' brimstone Southern Baptist preacher (with a slight Mexican accent).

** Comes complete with [[Evolutionary Levels]]; Bob goes from a goldfish to a giant lungfish to a T-rex to a human to a human with a giant skull-piercing brain, super-intelligence & psychic powers and finally ends up a goldfish again.

* [[Expository Theme Song]]: "Earthworm Jim! Through soil he did crawl / Earthworm Jim! A super suit did fall ..."

* [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You]]: Psycrow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head capture Jim at one point by threatening the narrator.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]

'''Peter:'''[[I Thought It Meant|Oh! Right!]] }}

** Censors were taking a nap during the production of the episode "Peanut of the Apes." First, Jim attempts to increase his show's ratings by appearing, together with Peter, on a beach dressed in thong bikinis complete with Peter commenting "My suit is giving me a snuggie." Later in the same episode Jim barges in on Professor Monkey-For-A-Ahead shouting "Just what do you think you're doing?!" The professor quickly yanks a french maid outfit off of the monkey on his head and counters "Nothing! Nothing at all!"

* [[Green Lantern Ring]]: The Orb of Quite Remarkable Power

* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: Jim, Peter and Snot sneak into a research facility to get Jim's suit back by...walking right through the front entrance, past a pair of security guards. ''And greeting them.''

'''Guard 1:''' *picks up the phone* Hello, DNA lab? Whatever you guys are doing in there, ''cut it out!'' }}

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: And Jim wants Princess What's-Her-Name.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Peter has a hilariously over-the-top breakdown after Jim turns himself in to the police.

* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]

** "Note to self: do not throw super-villains at buses full of orphans."

* [[How We Got Here]]: One episode starts with Psycrow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head gloating over how they defeated (and taxidermied) Jim, and most of the episode is spent in flashbacks explaining how they got to that point. {{spoiler|Turns out their taxidermist was Peter in disguise, and Jim wasn't really taxidermied at all.}}

* [[Ice Cream Koan]]: The Master of Wow-Lin, whom Jim claims to have studied under. He spouts nothing but useless platitudes so nonsensical even Jim is quick to realize he's "a senile old [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|bat-nugget]]"

* [[Idiot Hero]]: Jim has four [[Informed Ability|incredibly advanced worm brains]].

'''Brain Four:''' [[All Men Are Perverts|Where are the girls?]] }}

** The fact that they can form coherent sentences makes them advanced for worm brains.

* [[Metaphorgotten]]: "Superheroes and evil twins go together like peanut butter and...''evil'' peanut butter!"

** In the same episode, Peter's interpretive puppet show using condiments describing his [[Heroic BSOD]] devolves into something like this, until Peter's just having everybody throw up by dumping the condiments onto the table.

* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Provides the page quote, but Evil the Cat is more of an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] that [[Didn't Think This Through|didn't think past the "destroy the universe" part]].

** Although in one episode, he claimed he was alive before the start of time and would be around when it ended (although didn't adequately back up either of those [[Badass Boast|Badass Boasts]] with evidence ) so he may yet have a plan. Other than gloat.

* [[Narrator]]

* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: From "The Origins of Peter Puppy," the Earthworm Mindmeld.

'''Jim:''' Don't question it. }}

* [[Nosy Neighbor]]: In "The Egg-Beater" Mrs. Bleveredge, Jim's next-door neighbor demands Jim return the Egg-Beater he borrowed, only to become a [[Chew Toy]] as Jim takes her from planet to planet in search of it.

* [[Overly Long Name]]: The Queen's full name is Queen Bloated, Pulsating, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-Filled, Malformed, Slug-For-A-Butt, which is said in full at least once in every episode she's in.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: One of Psycrow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head's plots to steal Jim's suit involves setting up a fake dry cleaners next to his house. Said dry cleaners is just Psycrow's spaceship with a sign on it, and the guy running the front desk is the Professor with a mustache and a cowboy outfit, complete with ludicrously large hat to hide the monkey. The Professor then talks like he normally does, except with added cowboy slang. Then a banana peel falls out of his hat, which he blames on head lice. [[What an Idiot!|Jim completely falls for this.]]

** From Hyper Psy-Crow:

'''Peter:''' Okay, okay, a dog in a dress, JUST TAKE OFF YOUR HELMET PINHEAD! }}

* [[Parental Bonus]]: Peter reading a framed letter from [[Harry Truman|President Truman]]. "Thank you for your kind offer to end World War II, [[Dude, Not Funny|but we have a bomb we wanna try out]]."

** [[Goldfinger|"Do you expect me to talk?" "No, no, no, Mr. Jim! I expect you to fry!"]]

** From another episode:

'''Snot:''' *gibberish*<br />

'''Jim:''' I dunno, Snot. Who's [[Jules Verne]]? }}

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Most of the Galactic Justice League falls under this category (Turns-His-Eyelids-Inside-Out Boy and Zantor, Master of the Flying Toupee, are prime examples of this trope)

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: ''Everything'' for the Planet of Easily Frightened People.

* [[World of Ham]]