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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** With the episode being a parody of old detective movies, one of them involves Hop Pop knocking out the newt waiter and stealing his clothes. The plot continues as normal, but then the newt suddenly regains consciousness and gets him kicked out of the restaurant.
** After Anne threatens to eat the kids who cut in front of her, somebody calls security, which bans her from the arcade.
** With the episode being a parody of old detective movies, one of them involves Hop Pop knocking out the newt waiter and stealing his clothes. The plot continues as normal, but then the newt suddenly regains consciousness and gets him kicked out of the restaurant.
** After Anne threatens to eat the kids who cut in front of her, somebody calls security, which bans her from the arcade.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
**SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: With the episode being a parody of old detective movies, one of them involves Hop Pop knocking out the newt waiter and stealing his clothes. The plot continues as normal, but then the newt suddenly regains consciousness and gets him kicked out of the restaurant.
** After Anne threatens to eat the kids who cut in front of her, somebody calls security, which bans her from the arcade.restaurant.
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** After Anne threatens to eat the kids who cut in front of her, somebody calls security, which bans her from the arcade.
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* AnAesop: Sometimes it's better to embrace the future rather than cling to the past. If you do, maybe you can bring some of the past with you along the way.
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* AnAesop: AnAesop:
** Sometimes it's better to embrace the future rather than cling to the past. If you do, maybe you can bring some of the past with you along theway.way.
** It's good to stand up for what you believe in, but be careful not to take things too far.
* AspectRatioSwitch: Whenever Hop Pop begins his PrivateEyeMonologue narration, the screen narrows to a cinematic 2.35:1.
** Sometimes it's better to embrace the future rather than cling to the past. If you do, maybe you can bring some of the past with you along the
** It's good to stand up for what you believe in, but be careful not to take things too far.
* AspectRatioSwitch: Whenever Hop Pop begins his PrivateEyeMonologue narration, the screen narrows to a cinematic 2.35:1.
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* InteractiveNarrator: Hop Pop frequently converses with his PrivateEyeMonologue, like when it scolds him for [[NarrationEcho repeating "Follow the sauce, find Sal"]], or when he tells the monologue its speculation about what might have happened to Sal gets too graphic.
* LameRhymeDodge: While infiltrating the gala, Hop Pop tells a lady he's a farmer, then hastily amends it to "pharmaceutical executive".
* LameRhymeDodge: While infiltrating the gala, Hop Pop tells a lady he's a farmer, then hastily amends it to "pharmaceutical executive".
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* InteractiveNarrator: Hop Pop frequently converses with his PrivateEyeMonologue, like when it scolds him for [[NarrationEcho repeating "Follow the sauce, find Sal"]], or when he tells the monologue that its speculation about what might have happened to Sal gets too graphic.
is "too graphic".
*LameRhymeDodge: LastSecondWordSwap: While infiltrating the gala, Hop Pop tells a lady he's a farmer, then hastily amends it to "pharmaceutical executive".executive".
-->'''Hop Pop''': [''narrating''] Nice save.
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-->'''Hop Pop''': [''narrating''] Nice save.
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* PoliceBrutality: The Newt cops taze Anne even though she was restrained.
* TheReveal: There was no conspiracy to kidnap Sal and steal the sauce recipe; Sal's restaurant was doing bad business, so he turned to selling his family sauce recipe directly and turned it into a culinary empire.
* TheReveal: There was no conspiracy to kidnap Sal and steal the sauce recipe; Sal's restaurant was doing bad business, so he turned to selling his family sauce recipe directly and turned it into a culinary empire.
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* PoliceBrutality: The Newt cops taze Anne even though she was already restrained.
* TheReveal: There was no conspiracy to kidnap Sal and steal the sauce recipe; Sal's restaurant was doingbad business, badly, so he turned to selling his family sauce recipe directly and turned it into a culinary empire.
* TheReveal: There was no conspiracy to kidnap Sal and steal the sauce recipe; Sal's restaurant was doing
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** With the episode being a parody of old detective movies, one of them involves Hop Pop knocking out the newt waiter and stealing his clothes. The plot continues as normal, but then the newt suddenly regains consciousness and gets them kicked out of the restaurant.A
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** With the episode being a parody of old detective movies, one of them involves Hop Pop knocking out the newt waiter and stealing his clothes. The plot continues as normal, but then the newt suddenly regains consciousness and gets them him kicked out of the restaurant.A
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: With the episode being a parody of old detective movies, one of them involves Hop Pop knocking out the newt waiter and stealing his clothes. The plot continues as normal, but then the newt suddenly regains consciousness and gets them kicked out of the restaurant.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** With the episode being a parody of old detective movies, one of them involves Hop Pop knocking out the newt waiter and stealing his clothes. The plot continues as normal, but then the newt suddenly regains consciousness and gets them kicked out of the restaurant.A
** After Anne threatens to eat the kids who cut in front of her, somebody calls security, which bans her from the arcade.
** With the episode being a parody of old detective movies, one of them involves Hop Pop knocking out the newt waiter and stealing his clothes. The plot continues as normal, but then the newt suddenly regains consciousness and gets them kicked out of the restaurant.A
** After Anne threatens to eat the kids who cut in front of her, somebody calls security, which bans her from the arcade.
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* AbsenteeActor: Marcy is once again absent in this episode, since she is still finding information on the Calamity Box.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Hop Pop knocking out the newt waiter and stealing his clothes doesn't work, it only gets him kicked out of the restaurant when the newt regains consciousness.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: With the episode being a parody of old detective movies, one of them involves Hop Pop knocking out the newt waiter and stealing his clothes doesn't work, it only clothes. The plot continues as normal, but then the newt suddenly regains consciousness and gets him them kicked out of the restaurant when the newt regains consciousness. restaurant.
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That kid didn't seem to be pretending to cry. You can see one of his friends consoling him as Anne's being taken away.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Anne tries to intimidate the kids who cut ahead in line, but when one of them bursts into tears to let her guard down, it just gets Anne, Polly, and Sprig [[PersonaNonGrata banned from the arcade]].
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Anne tries to intimidate the kids who cut ahead in line, but when one of them bursts into tears it just gets her, Polly, and Sprig [[PersonaNonGrata banned from the arcade]].
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Anne tries to intimidate the kids who cut ahead in line, but when one of them bursts into tears to let her guard down, it just gets her, Anne, Polly, and Sprig [[PersonaNonGrata banned from the arcade]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:There's some big trouble brewing in Little Frogtown...]]
[[caption-width-right:350:There's some big trouble brewing in Little Frogtown...]]
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* ScaryTeeth: When Anne announces herself as a monster from another universe and threatens to eat the kids who cut in line, her teeth are shown as shark-like fangs.
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* BrickJoke: In "Bizarre Bazaar", Sprig asks if Hop Pop has ever killed anyone. In this episode, Hop Pop accidentally causes a security guard to fall to his death.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Used in a BlackComedyBurst. Hop Pop tosses a security guard into a vat of boiling sauce and everyone later freaks out when his body is dredged up from the vat. All of this is PlayedForLaughs.
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* RealityEnsues: Hop Pop knocking out the newt waiter and stealing his clothes doesn't work, it only gets him kicked out of the restaurant when the newt regains consciousness.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Hop Pop knocking out the newt waiter and stealing his clothes doesn't work, it only gets him kicked out of the restaurant when the newt regains consciousness.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: When everything with Sal is resolved, Hop Pop mentions he's glad that he didn't take things too far. Than a floor worker shows up to tell Sal they found the body of the foreman that Hop Pop caused to fall into a vat of Sal's sauce.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: When everything with Sal is resolved, Hop Pop mentions he's glad that he didn't take things too far. Than Then a floor worker shows up to tell Sal they found the body of the foreman that Hop Pop caused to fall into a vat of Sal's sauce.
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* AbsenteeActor: Marcy is once again absent in this episode, since she is still finding information on the Calamity Box.
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* RealityEnsues: Hop Pop knocking out the Newt Waiter and stealing his clothes doesn't work, it only gets him kicked out of the restaurant when he newt regains consciousness.
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* RealityEnsues: Hop Pop knocking out the Newt Waiter newt waiter and stealing his clothes doesn't work, it only gets him kicked out of the restaurant when he the newt regains consciousness.
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* XRaySparks: Anne when she gets tazed by police.
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* XRaySparks: Anne when she gets tazed by police.security.
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* PoliceBrutality: The Newt cops taze Anne even though she was restrained.
* RealityEnsues: Hop Pop knocking out the Newt Waiter and stealing his clothes doesn't work, it only gets him kicked out of the restaurant when he newt regains consciousness.
* RealityEnsues: Hop Pop knocking out the Newt Waiter and stealing his clothes doesn't work, it only gets him kicked out of the restaurant when he newt regains consciousness.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Hop Pop is convinced he's uncovering a FilmNoir mystery, when the real answer is quite mundane.
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* AnAesop: Sometimes it's better to embrace the future rather than cling to the past.
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* AnAesop: Sometimes it's better to embrace the future rather than cling to the past. If you do, maybe you can bring some of the past with you along the way.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: When everything with Sal is resolved, Hop Pop mentions he's glad that he didn't take things too far. Than a floor worker shows up to tell Sal they found the body of the foreman that Hop Pop caused to fall into a vat of Sal's sauce.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The kids are ecstatic that Hop Pop brought them to a gaming arcade, only to find that he actually brought them to Sal's sandwich shop next door.
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* BaitAndSwitch: BaitAndSwitch:
** The kids are ecstatic that Hop Pop brought them to a gaming arcade, only to find that he actually brought them to Sal's sandwich shop nextdoor.door.
** Hop Pop searches all over Newtopia for Sal, thinking he's been kidnapped. Instead, he'd just retired from sandwich-making and opened a factory for his sauce.
** The kids are ecstatic that Hop Pop brought them to a gaming arcade, only to find that he actually brought them to Sal's sandwich shop next
** Hop Pop searches all over Newtopia for Sal, thinking he's been kidnapped. Instead, he'd just retired from sandwich-making and opened a factory for his sauce.
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* ShoutOut: The title of the episode is a play on Film/{{Chinatown}}.
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* MonsterFacade: Anne exploits her angle as a ferocious beast in order to intimidate some kids who cut in line. Unfortunately, it backfires when one of them bursts into tears and somebody nearby calls security.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: According to a note in Sal's desk drawer, the "secret sauce" is just food coloring and ditch water.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: According to a note in Sal's desk drawer, the "secret sauce" "[[SecretIngredient secret sauce]]" is just food coloring and ditch water.
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* ABloodyMess: Hop Pop is intially worried the recipe he finds in Sal's hidden safe is covered in blood, but it's actually Sal's secret sauce.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The kids are ecstatic that Hop Pop brought them to a gaming arcade, only to find that he actually brought them to Sal's sandwich shop next door.
* ABloodyMess: Hop Pop isintially initially worried the recipe he finds in Sal's hidden safe is covered in blood, but it's actually Sal's secret sauce.
* ABloodyMess: Hop Pop is
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* RightOnQueue: Anne and the kids have to wait in a long line to get into the arcade. Anne gets annoyed that a little kid and his friends cut in line, so she confronts them. Long story short, they get banned from the arcade.
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* XRaySparks: Anne when she gets tazed by police.
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* ConcealingCanvas: Hop Pop finds a safe hidden behind Sal's portrait in the restaurant
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* ConcealingCanvas: Hop Pop finds a safe hidden behind Sal's portrait in the restaurantrestaurant.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Whenever Hop Pop goes into noir mode, the scenes change to black and white.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Whenever Hop Pop goes into noir mode, the scenes change to black and white.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Anne tries to intimidate the kids who cut ahead in line, but when one of them bursts into tears it just gets her, Polly, and Sprig in trouble.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Anne tries to intimidate the kids who cut ahead in line, but when one of them bursts into tears it just gets her, Polly, and Sprig in trouble.[[PersonaNonGrata banned from the arcade]].
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Hop Pop investigates the disappearance of an old friend and the shadowy crime syndicate he suspects are behind it.
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Hop Pop investigates the disappearance of an old friend and the shadowy crime syndicate he suspects are is behind it.
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* AnAesop: Sometimes it's better to embrace the future rather than cling to the past.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Hop Pop doesn't notice that Sal's restaurant has been apparently abandoned for a long time until he goes inside and sees the place is a mess.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Hop Pop doesn't notice that the dilapidated state of Sal's restaurant has been apparently abandoned for a long time until he goes inside and sees the place is a mess.mess.
* FreezeFrameBonus: According to a note in Sal's desk drawer, the "secret sauce" is just food coloring and ditch water.
* InteractiveNarrator: Hop Pop frequently converses with his PrivateEyeMonologue, like when it scolds him for [[NarrationEcho repeating "Follow the sauce, find Sal"]], or when he tells the monologue its speculation about what might have happened to Sal gets too graphic.
* LameRhymeDodge: While infiltrating the gala, Hop Pop tells a lady he's a farmer, then hastily amends it to "pharmaceutical executive".
* FreezeFrameBonus: According to a note in Sal's desk drawer, the "secret sauce" is just food coloring and ditch water.
* InteractiveNarrator: Hop Pop frequently converses with his PrivateEyeMonologue, like when it scolds him for [[NarrationEcho repeating "Follow the sauce, find Sal"]], or when he tells the monologue its speculation about what might have happened to Sal gets too graphic.
* LameRhymeDodge: While infiltrating the gala, Hop Pop tells a lady he's a farmer, then hastily amends it to "pharmaceutical executive".
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* NarrationEcho: Parodied; Hop Pop's PrivateEyeMonologue scolds him for repeating "Follow the sauce, find Sal".
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* NarrationEcho: Parodied; MuggedForDisguise: Hop Pop's PrivateEyeMonologue scolds him for repeating "Follow Pop knocks out a waiter and steals his uniform in order to infiltrate the sauce, find Sal".kitchen.
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* TheReveal: There was no conspiracy to kidnap Sal and steal the sauce recipe; Sal's restaurant was doing bad business, so he turned to selling his family sauce recipe directly and turned it into a culinary empire.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Anne tries to intimidate the kids who cut ahead in line, but when one of them bursts into tears it just gets her, Polly, and Sprig in trouble.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Anne tries to intimidate the kids who cut ahead in line, but when one of them bursts into tears it just gets her, Polly, and Sprig in trouble.
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* ABloodyMess: Hop Pop is intially worried the recipe he finds in Sal's hidden safe is covered in blood, but it's actually Sal's secret sauce.
* ConcealingCanvas: Hop Pop finds a safe hidden behind Sal's portrait in the restaurant
* FailedASpotCheck: Hop Pop doesn't notice that Sal's restaurant has been apparently abandoned for a long time until he goes inside and sees the place is a mess.
* LiteralMetaphor: Hop Pop complains that the kids are leaving tradition in the dust, and ends up choking on the actual dust cloud kicked up by the kids as they race over to the arcade.
* NarrationEcho: Parodied; Hop Pop's PrivateEyeMonologue scolds him for repeating "Follow the sauce, find Sal".
* NoirEpisode: Inspired by an old detective movie Anne was showing them on her phone, Hop Pop does a ''film noir''-style investigation of his friend Sal's disappearance.
* ConcealingCanvas: Hop Pop finds a safe hidden behind Sal's portrait in the restaurant
* FailedASpotCheck: Hop Pop doesn't notice that Sal's restaurant has been apparently abandoned for a long time until he goes inside and sees the place is a mess.
* LiteralMetaphor: Hop Pop complains that the kids are leaving tradition in the dust, and ends up choking on the actual dust cloud kicked up by the kids as they race over to the arcade.
* NarrationEcho: Parodied; Hop Pop's PrivateEyeMonologue scolds him for repeating "Follow the sauce, find Sal".
* NoirEpisode: Inspired by an old detective movie Anne was showing them on her phone, Hop Pop does a ''film noir''-style investigation of his friend Sal's disappearance.
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Hop Pop investigates the disappearance of an old friend and the shadowy crime syndicate he suspects are behind it.
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