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* EatTheDog: The Bagges eat the fish that tells Courage that he's perfect.

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* TraumaButton: Seeing a picture of lost dogs on the back of a milk cartoon triggers Courage's childhood memories of the last time he saw his parents, and how he lost them, sending him into a severe HeroicBSOD.




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* YourFavorite: We learn that Courage's favorite food is chicken dumplings. He's drooling in anticipation as Muriel gets the food ready, so much so that he starts gnawing on his chair, and is visibly, and audibly, enthusiastic when he digs into his meal.
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* BittersweetEnding: Courage defeats the Cruel Veterinarian, saving his adopted family and ensuring that nobody else will be launched into space, and his previous victims, including Courage's parents, are shown to be alive and well (and quickly extract justice against him), but they're still trapped on the Moon with no indication that they'll ever be reunited.

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* BittersweetEnding: Courage defeats the Cruel Veterinarian, saving his adopted family and ensuring that nobody else will be launched into space, and his previous victims, including Courage's parents, are shown to be alive and well (and quickly extract justice against him), but they're still trapped on the Moon another planet with no indication that they'll ever be reunited.



* LaserGuidedKarma: The veterinarian is sent back to the moon, where the dogs he had previously stranded there, Courage's parents included, proceed to viciously maul him.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: The veterinarian is sent back to the moon, unknown planet, where the dogs he had previously stranded there, Courage's parents included, proceed to viciously maul him.



* OhCrapSmile: The vet gives a '''really''' satisfying one when he ends up on the moon and confronted by all the dogs he sent there, including Courage's parents.

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* OhCrapSmile: The vet gives a '''really''' satisfying one when he ends up on the moon another planet and confronted by all the dogs he sent there, including Courage's parents.



* ViolenceDiscretionShot: We never see what the dogs on the moon do to the vet when he winds up there.

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* ViolenceDiscretionShot: We never see what the dogs on the moon other planet do to the vet when he winds up there.
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* GrandFinale: This episode is close, involving Courage face off against the veterinarian that shot his parents into space and defeating him.

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* GrandFinale: This episode is close, involving Courage face facing off against the veterinarian that shot his parents into space and defeating him.



* OhCrapSmile: The vet gives a '''really''' satisfying one when he ends up on the moon and confronted by all the dogs he sent there including Courage's parents.

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* OhCrapSmile: The vet gives a '''really''' satisfying one when he ends up on the moon and confronted by all the dogs he sent there there, including Courage's parents.
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* AssholeVictim: The cruel Veterinarian.
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* ArtShift: Courage's flashbacks are animated is a more limited, simplistic style to appear more like a foggy childhood memory. These scenes were animated by the late Michael Sporn, a friend and colleague of John Dilworth's.

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* ArtShift: Courage's flashbacks are animated is a more limited, simplistic style to appear more like a foggy childhood memory. These scenes were animated by the late [[Creator/MichaelSpornAnimation Michael Sporn, Sporn]], a friend and colleague of John Dilworth's.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Eustace isn't exactly ''kind'' to Courage in the finale, but at the end he doesn't mind him siting at the table, and he laughs with Muriel about their imperfections as opposed to his usual griping.

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* TookALevelInKindness: Eustace isn't exactly ''kind'' to Courage in the finale, but at the end he doesn't mind him siting sitting at the table, and he laughs with Muriel about their imperfections as opposed to his usual griping.
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* BittersweetEnding: Courage defeats the Cruel Veterinarian, saving his adopted family and ensuring that nobody else will be launched into space, and his previous victims, including Courage's parents, are shown to be alive and well (and quickly extract justice against him), but they're still trapped on the Moon with no indication that they'll ever be reunited.
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* BeserkButton: Courage's teacher absolutely detests anything flawed.

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* BeserkButton: BerserkButton: Courage's teacher absolutely detests anything flawed.
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* BeserkButton: Courage's teacher absolutely detests anything flawed.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The perfectionist teacher's last line as she melts into nothingness: "Now you'll never reach the perfect level of perfection!"

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* MyGreatestSecondChance: After Courage failed to save his parents from blasted off into space by the veterinarian, he prevents his history from repeating itself being saving Eustace and Muriel from the same fate and blasting the vet into space to put a stop to him once and for all.

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* MoodWhiplash: The final flashback is how Courage was adopted by Muriel after the flashbacks of how Courage lost his parents.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: After Courage failed to save his parents from blasted off into space by the veterinarian, he prevents his history from repeating itself being saving Eustace and Muriel from the same fate and blasting the vet into space to put a stop to him once and for all. all.
* OhCrapSmile: The vet gives a '''really''' satisfying one when he ends up on the moon and confronted by all the dogs he sent there including Courage's parents.


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* TheScream: Courage uses his to stun the vet at the climax, grabbing his stethoscope and screaming into it.


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* ViolenceDiscretionShot: We never see what the dogs on the moon do to the vet when he winds up there.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Eustace isn't exactly ''kind'' to Courage in the finale, but at the end he doesn't mind him siting at the table, and he laughs with Muriel about their imperfections as opposed to his usual griping.
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'''Original air date:''' 11/22/2002

'''Production code:''' CCD-413a


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'''Original air date:''' 11/22/2002

'''Production code:''' CCD-413b
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* ResolvedNoodleIncident: The opening of the show states Courage was abandoned as a puppy, but the audience is never given an explanation as to why. This episode finally gives the answer.

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