History Recap / WanderOverYonderS1E6TheBoxTheHat

[[caption-width-right:318:It really is a NiceHat...if you're nice first.]]

** Note that Sylvia pulls out some sort of device that lures the worm to her or tries to get her eaten whenever she tells the hat she has to find Wander.

* NiceHat: Which it literally is, to Wander. When Sylvia uses it, it's a bit more JackassGenie. [[spoiler:Subverted in the end when it actually ''was'' trying to get Sylvia eaten, so she can find Wander within the worm.]]

* AnimateInanimateObject: Wander's Hat. It appears to be smiling and making sad faces in appropriate moments (or after it's just played another mean prank on Sylvia). This is also the first episode to point out its sentience.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Both Wander's hat and the worm's mouth are the same color, which might be a clue to that Wander is inside the worm.

* AnimateInanimateObject: Wander's Hat. It appears to be smiling and making sad faces in appropriate moments (or after it's just played another mean prank on Sylvia).

* ADayInTheLimelight: For both Sylvia and, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as per the title]], Wander’s hat.

!!Tropes shared with both episodes:
* AbsenteeActor: Lord Hater and Peepers don't appear in either episode.

* AnAesop: The Lords of Illumination try to invoke this: You cannot open something that doesn’t belong to you. It’s important to resist. (It's deconstructed when Sylvia points out Wander's a literal-minded type and the lesson's going to fly over his head.)

* ExhaustedEyebags: Wander has them on the train after having been up all night, and again as his sanity gets stretched to the breaking point from the effort of resisting his natural curiosity.

* RewatchBonus: Everything about the hat becomes poignant in re-viewings since the audience now knows why the hat was attracting the worm from the start.

* AnAesop: You cannot open something that doesn’t belong to you. It’s important to resist.

* JackassGenie: When Sylvia asks the Hat to give her something to find Wander, it seems intent on giving her items that make it easier for the worm to find and/or eat her. [[spoiler:Subverted when it's revealed that she ''needs'' to be eaten to find Wander inside the worm's guts.]]

* NiceHat: Which it literally is, to Wander. When Sylvia uses it, it's a bit more JackassGenie.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Wander and Sylvia have to deliver the box because they crashed into the truck of a ''mail'' carrier who happens to be a ''[[DontExplainTheJoke snail]]''.
** According to the credits, his name is ''Snailman the Mailman''. [[FlatWhat What]].

* LeitMotif: Sylvia gets a "Ride, Sylvia Ride" sort of tune when she surfs the worm.
* NiceHat: Which it literally is, to Wander. When Sylvia uses it, it's a bit more JerkassGenie.

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* BagOfHolding/{{Hammerspace}}: Wander's hat.

* RummageFail: In "The Hat", Sylvia needs to find Wander using the stuff she takes out of Wander's hat. Everything the hat gives her, however, nearly gets her eaten by a giant worm. Wander had explained earlier that the hat gives you what you need, not what you want, but Sylvia doesn't seem to think so. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the hat's goal ''was'' to get Sylvia eaten by the worm, because inside the worm is where Wander was.]]