History Recap / CloneHighS1E06HomecomingAShotInTheDArc

* DudeWheresMyRespect: After Joan overcomes a sexist (and speciest) school rule and score the winning shot, the rest of the students all cheer for their hero: ''Abe!'' Because he gave Joan an inspiring speech.

* MathematiciansAnswer: Mr. Buttlertron gives one to Joan while comforting her.

* YouGoGirl: Joan of Arc disguises as a boy by [[PaperThinDisguise putting on a cap, t-shirt, and mustache]], and calling herself "John D'Arc" so she can play for the boy's basketball team, since they don't allow girls or animals. When her disguise is blown, Abe gives a speech on letting Joan take the last shot. She then hits a free-throw to score the school's first point against their competition, and win a bet principal Scudworth had made against their rival's principal... [[SubvertedTrope and then the team treats the Abe Lincoln clone as a hero for his speech]], leaving Joan feeling completely betrayed.

!!Tropes present in this episode

* SweetPollyOliver: Joan as "John Dark."

'''Original Air Date:''' December 1, 2002

* GagPenis: While in the men's locker room, Joan at first snickers at Napoleon, implied to have a {{teeny weenie}}, then looks on incredulously at Genghis Khan, who's walk is [[BiggusDickus accompanied by what sounds like a boulder being dragged]].

* WouldntHitAGirl: Parodied. Abe attempts to shove "John Dark" but because he's really a girl, Abe ends up pushing himself to the ground in his vain efforts, meaning he's ''incapable'' of hitting a girl.

* ShoutOut: "John Dark"'s story about "his" clone counterpart ends with him [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes finding the Statue Of Liberty and realizing "he'd been on Earth the whole time."]]

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Parodied. Principal and Colonel Principal decide to raise the stakes of their previous bet, which was Scudworth's first-born son, to "loser does the winner's laundry for a week."

* DudeWheresMyRespect: After Joan overcomes a sexist school rule and score the winning shot, the rest of the students all cheer for their hero: ''Abe!'' Because he gave Joan an inspiring speech.

* PuttingOnTheReich: GESH has a very Nazi-esque aesthetic, complete with red-and-white flags embroidered with angular "G"s meant to resenble swastikas.

* InternalReveal: Inverted for the sake of comedy. Joan is never seen putting on or removing the disguise until the end, and when she does, it's given a long, dramatic reveal to imply that even ''the audience'' fell for it!

Clone High's basketball team is facing steep competition from [[OpposingSportsTeam rival school GESH]] (Genetically Engineered Super Humans), especially now that Principal Scudworth has made a high-steaks bet with GESH's principal on whether or not the clones can score a single point this season. Scudworth decides to crack the whip on the basketball team, but despite her natural skills, Joan isn't allowed to join because [[AnimalAthleteLoophole the rules don't allow girls or animals]]. Instead, she dons [[SarcasmMode a]] [[PaperThinDisguise clever disguise]] and, under the assumed name John Dark, joins the team, leading them to great success. Meanwhile, Ghandi, severely pissed about GESH defacing the school's banner, goes after the rival school's mascot ("Because if Mahatma Ghandi stands for anything, it's ''revenge!''"), only to discovered that it's actually a genetically engineered monster and become attached to it.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: "[I]f Mahatma Ghandi stands for anything, it's ''revenge!''"

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Geshi bites the arm off a referee and the only reaction he has is to signal a foul, using his recently detached limb no less.

'''Original Air Date:''' December 1st, 2002

* PaperThinDisguise: Joan's "John Dark" disguise is nothing more than a fake mustache, a backwards baseball cap and a fake deep voice. It fools everyone, to the point that nobody believes her confession until she takes off the mustache. And just to make it extra-meta, Joan is never seen putting on or removing the disguise until the end, as if ''the audience'' is supposed to be just as shocked! After this, Scudworth tells every team member in a fake mustache to get off the court... and all of them are animals in fake mustaches (and [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]])!

* AbsurdlyHighSteaksGamble: Parodied. Principal and Colonel Principal decide to raise the steaks of their previous bet, which was Scudworth's first-born son, to "loser does the winner's laundry for a week."

* GagPenis: While in the men's locker room, Joan at first snickers at Napoleon, implied to have a {{teenie weenie}}, then looks on incredulously at Genghis Khan, who's walk is [[BiggusDickus accompanied by what sounds like a boulder being dragged]].

* GagPenis: While in the men's locker room, Joan at first snickers at Napoleon, implied to have a {{teenie weenie}}, then looks on incredulously at Genghis Khan, who's walk is [[BiggusDickus accompanied by what sounds like a boulder being dragged]].

* WouldntHitAGirl: Parodied. Abe attempts to shove "John Dark" but because he's really a girl, Abe ends up pushing himself to the ground in his vain efforts, meaning he ''can't'' hit a girl, let alone do it intentionally.

Clone High's basketball team is facing steep competition from rival school GESH (Genetically Engineered Super Humans), especially now that Principal Scudworth has made a high-steaks bet with GESH's principal on whether or not the clones can score a single point this season. Scudworth decides to crack the whip on the basketball team, but despite her natural skills, Joan isn't allowed to join because the rules don't allow girls or animals. Instead, she dons a clever disguise and, under the assumed name John Dark, joins the team, leading them to great success. Meanwhile, Ghandi, severely pissed about GESH defacing the school's banner, goes after the rival school's mascot ("Because if Mahatma Ghandi stands for anything, it's ''revenge!''"), only to discovered that it's actually a genetically engineered monster and become attached to it.

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: JFK becomes increasingly self-conscious about his attraction to "John Dark," first attempting to distract from the homo-eroticism of the men's locker room by swapping sexcapade stories with the other students. When that doesn't work, he tells "John" that he's "open for anything." Of course, the second Joan reveals that she was John the whole time, JFK drops any notion that he might be attracted to men.

* HaveIMentionedImHeterosexualToday: JFK becomes increasingly self-conscious about his attraction to "John Dark," first attempting to distract from the homo-eroticism of the men's locker room by swapping sexcapade stories with the other students. When that doesn't work, he tells "John" that he's "open for anything." Of course, the second Joan reveals that she was John the whole time, JFK drops any notion that he might be attracted to men.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: JFK is rather put off by the "piece of fresh tail" turning around and revealing "his" big bushy mustache. Subverted in that it's Joan in a PaperThinDisguise.

* AttractiveGenderBent: Parodied. Joan doesn't look any different as John Dark than she normally does, but both JFK and Cleo are insatiably attracted to "him."
* BilingualBonus: Lampshaded by George Washington Carver, John Dark is meant to sound like Jeanne d'Arc, Joan of Arc's French name, which also makes the title a StealthPun.

* SweetPollyOliver: Joan as "John Dark."