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[[Widget Series|Yes, it's every bit as messed up as]] [[Earthworm Jim (video game)|the video game on which it's based.]]
A Saturday Morning cartoon adapted from [[Earthworm Jim (video game)|the side-scrolling action game]] for the Super Nintendo and Genesis, '''''Earthworm Jim''''' is the saga of Jim, once an ordinary earthworm until a super-suit fell from space, and he crawled inside it and was mutated into a slightly-goofy superhero. With the assistance of his sidekick Peter Puppy (who has a tendency to turn into a hulking purple monster when provoked) and the beautiful Princess What's-Her-Name
Rife with [[Post Modernism]], this show played with and subverted about five tropes per week. The first season included mid-interval shorts, usually revolving around a brief glimpse of some villain not involved in the main story, but the second season dropped this.
[http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Earthworm-Jim-The-Complete-Series/16727 A DVD set] has finally been announced for a North American release!
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* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: The president in this series, [[Lampshade Hanging|as he points out in every episode he appears in]], is one of those generic presidents TV shows use to keep from being dated.
* [[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
{{quote|"Hiss, Hiss! Hello, I am a steam pipe. The intruders went that way. Hiss, hiss! Steam!"}}
** From Hyper Psy-Crow:
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