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''Earthworm Jim! A hero for all time!"'' }}
[[Widget Series|Yes, it's every bit as messed up as]] [[Earthworm Jim (
A Saturday Morning cartoon adapted from [[Earthworm Jim (
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.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]:
** [[Oh Crap|Never, ever piss Peter Puppy off]], doing so proves you're [[Too Dumb to Live]].
* [[Bigger
{{quote| '''Jim:''' You're right! This IS a violation of the laws of physics! I'll make sure to notify the Physics Police at once!}}
* [[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.
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** Evil has "A minor setback..."
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Evil the Cat
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Snott was worked into ''[[Earthworm Jim (
** 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.
* [[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
{{quote| '''Jim:''' ...Well? Are they clapping?<br />
'''Peter:''' A few of 'em, most of them are just changing the channel. }}
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* [[Disability Immunity]]: Jim cannot be defeated by really bad sounds or smells, as he has no ears or nose. Overlaps with [[Forgot I Could Fly]] as this rarely comes into effect until one of the characters explicitly mentions this. Note that this [[MST3K Mantra|doesn't ever stop Jim from being able to hear or smell normally]].
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Evil the Cat gets one . . . in Malice the Dog.
* [[Don't Fear the
* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]: Jim loves these.
* [[Drop the Cow]]: literally, [[Once an Episode]], also the [[Trope Maker]]. Even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when he told [[Psy Crow]] that there would not be a [[Here We Go Again]] ending [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|in his show]]. [[Psy Crow]] asked what Jim would prefer as an alternative and he drops the cow.
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* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Queen.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Her Princess]]: Well, it's a lot easier than always having to say "Princess What's-Her-Name."
* [[Everything's Better
* [[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.
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** [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|"Did I mention I'm not a cat?"]]
* [[Narrator]]
* [[New Powers
{{quote| '''Peter:''' You just made that up, didn't you?<br />
'''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.
** She returns in the episode "Exile of Lucy" becoming friends with Queen Slug-For-A-Butt. (they share the same voice actress.) The very next episode "Hyper Psy-Crow" shows her sitting in a throne to the right of the Queen.
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Subverted. Professor Monkey-For-A-Head can replicate the super suit at will. It's just that he can't power the damn thing without another [[Forged
* [[Not Even Bothering
* [[Odd Job Gods]]: When Jim goes to get a replacement for the Battery of the Gods, he meets the God of Puns, the Goddess of Disco, and the God of Nasal Discharge.
* [[Once Per Episode]]: Peter Puppy eats haggis, the one food that he doesn't like, and states verbatim that it is "[[Foreign Queasine|the heart, lungs and liver of a sheep boiled in its own stomach]]." The origin being that he loved haggis until finding out what it really is.
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* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: [[Averted]], in that Jim keeps insisting that Princess Whats-Her-Name is so '''[[Everyone Can See It|obviously]]''' his girlfriend... except nobody, not even '''''[[Oblivious to Love|the Princess]]''''' knows what he's talking about.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To, of all things, [[Dune]] and [[Pulp Fiction]].
** The description of haggis is, word for word, from one of the flashbacks in ''[[
** [[Goldfinger
** From another episode:
{{quote| '''Jim:''' Peter, you keep a look out while Snot and I...''[[Journey to The Center of The Earth|journey to the center of the suit!]]''<br />
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* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Not only is the Narrator prone to being corrected by the characters, he's also at one point [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|bullied into reading a scene transition by Psy-Crow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head]] which skips over the two actually having to do what the transition says they've done.
** The episode "Wizard of Ooze" takes this to extremes: The narrator continually takes a sarcastic, defeatest and cranky attitude towards his job through the episode, at one point even asking the audience to read a book and calling his agent in the middle of the show. Jim snaps him out of it by threatening him with a jar of vocal chord-eating parasites.
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: Done frequently. Often a premise for mid-interval shorts in the first season with one of the [[Rogues Gallery]] [[A Day in
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: Apparently condiment theft is a truly atrocious crime in the Earthworm Jim universe.
* [[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)
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