Earthworm Jim (animation): Difference between revisions

** Actually, Snott was in ''EWJ 1'' (as the platforms in the final boss fight). Henchrat was in ''Menace 2 The Galaxy'', though.

*** ''Menace 2 The Galaxy'' was based more on the cartoon rather than the original games.

* [[Cartoon Creature]]: Evil the Cat looks more like a rat with pointed ears.

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

'''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.

* [[Description Porn]]: "Professor Monkey-For-a-Head's patented Reducing Cream, in lotion or ointment form".

* [[Determinator]]: Jim in general counts for this, but especially when he's trying to win the Princess' affections.

** 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!"

** A one-time character's name "Ethel" is pronounced incorrectly due to a lisp, sounding like "asshole".

* [[Giant Foot of Stomping]]: One of Psy-Crow's feet becomes one of these at the end of ''The Book of Doom'''s intro (due to Jim and Peter being bug-sized).

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Bob has this happen to him on numerous occasions, especially in the mid-intervals. Two of the more notable examples are when he finally manages to make his fishy minions intelligent enough to understand him by mutating them to have giant brains (they become intelligent enough to realise he is a dangerous megalomaniac who must be destroyed and blast him with psychic powers) and when he tries giving them an actual demonstration of what he means by destroying things (a bigger fish leaps out and starts beating him up).

{{quote|'''Jim:''' EAT DIRT, EVERYBODY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY! *begins shooting wildly* [[Laughing Mad|AHAHA]][[Crazy Awesome|HAHAHA]][[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|HAHAHA!!!!]]}}

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

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: During the introduction scene of ''The Book Of Doom'', this somehow manages to happen '''twice'''; first, Psy-Crow shrinks Jim and Peter to microscopic sizes so that he can crush them "[[Metaphorgotten|like some easily crushed thing]]", only for Jim and Peter to then use their new sizes to fly into one of his ears and then hijack his brain in order to make him dance...and then Psy-Crow's resulting ('''very''' bad) dancing ironically results in him crushing Jim and Peter beneath one of his [[Giant Foot of Stomping|massive feet]] after the two of them fly back out of his head through the same ear canal that they entered it through (whether or not Psy-Crow did that on purpose is unknown, however).

* [[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.}}

* [[Klatchian Coffee]]: Becomes the source of Psy-Crow's "hyperactivity" superpower(s) in ''Hyper Psycrow''.

* [[Lame Comeback]]: "Don't play dumb with me, you... dumb guy."

* [[Laughably Evil]]: The ENTIRE [[Rogues Gallery]] is friggin' hilarious.

* [[Madness Mantra]]: Peter often keeps himself calm by reciting the first few lines of the "Litany Against Fear" from Frank Herbert's ''[[Dune]]''

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Pretty Much everyone/thing/where has one of these, whether it's the Boulevard of Acute Discomfort, or Henchrat, or the Orb of Quite Remarkable Power

** Whats-Her-Name's name was [[Retcon|retconned]] into being meaningful when a flashback revealed she got her name from being [[The Unfavorite]].

* [[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.

* [[Suddenly Shouting]]: Most-notably this example from ''Conqueror Worm'':

{{quote|'''Peter:''' I'm just the sugar but I'm gonna barf too, and the JELLY, JELLY BARF, JELLY BARF!!!}}

* [[Talks Like a Simile]]: Jim and Peter in the denouement of several episodes. "Once again, evil is as grass beneath the mighty lawnmower of justice!"

* [[The Teaser]]

* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: Evil the Cat once tried to destroy the universe with one of these...and [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|a fondue fork.]] [[It Makes Sense in Context]].