History WesternAnimation / EarthWormJim

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Jim, Peter and Snot sneak into a research facility to get Jim's suit back by...walking right through the front entrance, past a pair of security guards.

---> '''Professor Monkey-For-A-Head:''' "Actually, it's kind of handy. If I twist the monkey's tail I can make pumpernickel."

---> '''Peter:''' "'I'm just a sugar, but I'm gonna barf too!' And the jelly! Jelly barf, '''jelly barf!'''"

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Professer Monkey-For-A-Head tried to get another Battery of the Gods, and the Gods turned him into a living breadmaker as a result.

** In the same episode, Peter's interpretive puppet show using condiments describing his HeroicBSOD devolves into something like this, until Peter's just having everybody barf by dumping the condiments onto the table.

** In the same episode, Peter's interpretive puppet show using condiments describing his HeroicBSOD devolves into something like this.

** Peter's interpretive puppet show using condiments describing his HeroicBSOD devolves into something like this.

* BigWrong: The Sword of Righteousness when Jim steals the Orb of Quite Remarkable Power from Psycrow.

* ButterflyOfDoom: In one episode, Jim gets ahold of a time machine and decides to play a trick. He hands Peter a penny and tells him to watch Lincoln's face change. He then travels back to the Gettysburg Address and interrupts Lincoln mid-speech, shaving his beard off (to which Lincoln says "That's a big goodbye to my credibility.") When he returns to the present, expecting everything except the penny to the be the same, he instead finds that Peter is now a southern gentleman who looks like {{Colonel Sanders}} and Jim himself is now known as "Earthworm Bubba." Jim quickly goes back and fixes everything. The whole fiasco lasts less than two minutes.

--->'''Brain Four:''' [[AllMenArePerverts Where are the girls]]?

--->'''Brain Two:''' I'm thirsty.

--->'''Brain Four:''' [[AllMenArePerverts Girls]].

[[WidgetSeries Yes, it's every bit as messed up as the video game on which it's based.]]

A Saturday Morning cartoon adapted from [[EarthwormJim the side-scrolling action game]] for the Super Nintendo and Genesis, ''Earthworm Jim'' is the saga of Jim, once an ordinary earthworm until a super-suit fell from space, and he crawled inside it and was mutated into a slightly-goofy superhero. With the assistance of his sidekick Peter Puppy (who has a tendency to turn into a hulking purple monster when provoked) and the beautiful Princess What's-Her-Name (who was changed from her typical DistressedDamsel role in the games, with [[AllThereInTheManual backstory]] portraying her as a ditzy stereotypical beauty type, into an ActionGirl), Jim battles an assortment of oddball villains, including The Evil Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-Filled, Malformed Slug-For-A-Butt (Princess What's-Her-Name's evil sister); the bird-headed mercenary Psy-Crow; the aptly-named MadScientist Professor Monkey-For-A-Head (and his sidekick, Monkey Professor-For-A-Head); Evil The Cat, the diabolical feline ruler of Planet Heck; and Bob the Killer Goldfish.

* CanonImmigrant: Snott was worked into ''EarthwormJim 2'', and Evil Jim later became the villain of ''Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 The Galaxy''.

* CreatorBacklash: This is the sole reason why this series will ''never'' see the light of day on DVD. Allegedly, WordOfGod states that they think of the show as their OldShame that they were forced into making to tie into the games, despite it being a very funny and entertaining show.
** This troper is hoping that [[http://b2b.madman.com.au/actions/catalogue.do?method=view&releaseId=15063 this official DVD listing]] is legit...

* IdiotHero - Jim has four [[InformedAbility incredibly advanced worm brains]].

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There ''were'' actual official release VHS tapes back in the mid-1990s (with select episodes), but with DVD becoming more popular than VHS, this [[JustForPun petered]] out real quick.
** Via Vision of Australia is releasing the series in one set later this year (2011).

* OnlySaneWoman: Princess What's-Her-Name

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: It suffered the same time slot demotion as ''{{Freakazoid}}!''

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Major Mucus might have eventually made his debut.

** Played more straight in "The Origin Of Peter Puppy" when Jim tries to cure Peter's transformations by desposing of the demonic spirit possessing him. This unfortunately also empowered his anthropomorphic abilities and turned him back into a normal non-anthro dog.

* {{Butterfly of Doom}} In one episode, Jim gets ahold of a time machine and decides to play a trick. He hands Peter a penny and tells him to watch Lincoln's face change. He then travels back to the Gettysburg Address and interrupts Lincoln mid-speech, shaving his beard off (to which Lincoln says "That's a big goodbye to my credibility.") When he returns to the present, expecting everything except the penny to the be the same, he instead finds that Peter is now a southern gentleman who looks like {{Colonel Sanders}} and Jim himself is now known as "Earthworm Bubba." Jim quickly goes back and fixes everything. The whole fiasco lasts less than two minutes.

* CatchPhrase: "Guh-roovy!"

* CrackOwMyBack: Lower Back Pain Man.

* DisneyDeath: {{Averted}} with Bob's henchcats [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep 1, 2 and 3]]. They went to the place where all cats go, [[strike:under the house]] [[FluffyCloudHeaven Kitty Heaven]].

* [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace Earthworm Jim Can Breathe In Space]]: And so can the entire cast. But they can't breathe underwater, obviously. Even Bob the Killer Goldfish must remain in his bowl.

* EvilTwin: Evil Jim

* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Princess What's-Her-Name
* FieryRedhead: Princess What's-Her-Name

--->'''Jim:''' EAT DIRT, EVERYBODY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY! *begins shooting wildly* [[LaughingMad AHAHA]][[CrazyAwesome HAHAHA]][[CrowningMomentOfAwesome HAHAHA!!!!]]
* HeroesWantRedheads: And Jim wants Princess What's-Her-Name.

--->'''Brain Four:''' [[AllMenAreperverts Girls]].

* {{Narrator}}

** Whats-Her-Name's name was [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] into being meaningful when a flashback revealed she got her name from being TheUnfavorite.

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Jim's assorted variants on his "Eat dirt!" line
* RedheadedHero: Princess What's-Her-Name

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Psycrow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head capture Jim at one point by threatening the narrator.
* TheUnintelligible: Snot
** Also, Monkey Professor-For-A-Head
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Earthworm Jim 3D and Menace 2 The Galaxy were rather lack-lustre attempts to [[CashCowFranchise milk the franchise dry]].