History Recap / StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS2E37AllBeltsAreOff

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* RealityEnsues:
** Because of his BrattyHalfPint behavior, ''nobody'' likes Jeremy. Sensei in particular only puts up with him because of Jeremy's parents being rich.
** Sensei doesn't know much if anything about running a business and admits that Jeremy's rich parents are the only reason he can keep the dojo open.
** Marco is able to keep himself from sinking to Jeremy's level and be a GracefulLoser about not being chosen to represent the dojo. That doesn't mean he can remotely stomach Jeremy's bratty behavior and does eventually get fed up with it.
** Sensei's use of ExactWords and refusal to be upfront do ''not'' help things when Marco is looking for answers.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The show blatantly gets away with showing crap onscreen by making it rainbow colored.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: In-universe, Sensei apparently learned from watching a children's show that friends "do hurtful things to each other [[PoorCommunicationKills without explaining why]], because they know their friends will understand."

* KickTheDog: Jeremy glues a $100 bill on the sidewalk with a turd on it in order to mess with someone who wanted the bill. A man in glasses falls for the trick and ends up having his glasses land on the turd...and it was his birthday.

* HeelRealization: Marco eventually realizes how petty and dishonorable it is to keep insisting on representing the dojo over Jeremy and [[{{Blackmail}} blackmailing]] the latter for this purpose. Instead, the whole problem takes care of itself because karma caught up to Jeremy with everyone's disapproval of his bratty behavior.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: In-universe, Sensei apparently learned from watching a children's show that friends "do hurtful things to each other [[PoorCommunicationKills without explaining why]], because they know their friends will understand."

* BrutalHonesty: When Star interrupts Marco hiding in the bushes videotaping Jeremy- a child- she tells him he's being a creep.

* AccidentalMisnaming: The Grandmaster calls Jeremy, "William".
* BilingualBonus: Before showing his Karate demonstration to Sensei, Marco appropriately says, "Hajime," which is Japanese for "begin."

* EpicBattleBoredom: Jeremy made a big egotistical intro then quickly and arrogantly defeated a yellow belted opponent. This actually bored the Grandmaster and it had put him to sleep. When the Grandmaster woke up, he assumed that the event was over and quickly left despite Jeremy trying to tell him that he wasn't finished and that he had just started.

* PyrrhicVictory: Jeremy may have been selected to represent the Dojo, but he ends up ashamed when his mediocre display bores the Grandmaster to sleep and they only barely get his approval for certification. Plus, the entire audience sees firsthand what a conceited brat he is and he gets abandoned by everyone but his butler once the karate demonstration is over.

* HeelRealization: Marco eventually realizes how petty and dishonorable it is to keep insisting on representing the dojo over Jeremy and [[{{Blackmail}} blackmailing]] the latter for this purpose.

* RealityEnsues: Because of his BrattyHalfPint behavior, ''nobody'' likes Jeremy. Sensei in particular only puts up with him because of Jeremy's parents being rich.

* HeelRealization: Marco eventually realizes how petty and dishonorable it is to keep insisting on representing the dojo over Jeremy and {{Blackmail blackmailing}} the latter for this purpose.

* HeelRealization: Marco eventually realizes how petty and dishonorable it is to keep insisting on representing to dojo over Jeremy.

* BilingualBonus: Before showing his Karate demonstration to Sensei, Marco appropriately says, "Hajime!" Japanese for "begin."

* EpicBattleBoredom: In "All Belts are Off" Jeremy made a big egotistical intro then quickly and arrogantly defeated a yellow belted opponent. This actually bored the Grandmaster and it had put him to sleep. When the Grandmaster woke up, he assumed that the event was over and quickly left despite Jeremy trying to tell him that he wasn't finished and that he had just started.

* PyrrhicVictory: Jeremy may have been selected to represent the Dojo, but he ends up ashamed when his mediocre display bores the Grandmaster to sleep and they only barely get his approval for certification. Plus, the entire audience sees firsthand what a conceited brat he is.

* PyrrhicVictory: Jeremy may have been selected to represent the Dojo, but he ends up ashamed when his mediocre display bores the Grandmaster to sleep and they only barely get his approval for certification.

* ShoehornedFirstLetter: According to the Grandmaster, the How To Karate videos are based on the principle of D.U.H.: '''D'''iscipline, Ed'''u'''cation, and '''H'''onor.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Marco tells Sensei that real friends should be upfront with one another, instead of "doing hurtful things to one another because they know their friends will understand."