Line #24 Recap/RoadRage


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:A road trip comprising of [[BumblingDad Pop]], [[AbusiveParents Linda Stotch]], [[EnfantTerrible Stewie Griffin]], [[FatBastard Eric Cartman]], and [[NiceGuy [=SpongeBob=]]]. This could only go so well.]]
3	Airdate: February 25, 2022
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5	"Road Rage" is the first episode of the second season of ''Gory Toons''.
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7	Linda and Pop are going on a road trip while taking a few kids along. However, the little rascals gotten into a fight over a lollipop, causing the candy to fling into Linda's hair. And things are about to get messy from her.
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9	!!"Road Rage" contains the following:
10	* AdultsAreUseless: Pop does absolutely nothing when Linda's rage potentially threatens everybody's lives. The other dads are just as helpful, since they simply coward behind Pop.
11	* AnvilOnHead: Linda is baited into getting crushed by an anvil. Similarly, Pop gets his head smashed in by an anchor.
12	* AssholeVictim: Sure, Cub was definitely going overboard in [[DisproportionateRetribution killing his father over some Oreos]], but it's at least a breather seeing Cub being the one killing Pop.
13	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Linda is usually tender and quiet, but in this episode, she appears to have a horrifying temperament.
14	* BewareTheQuietOnes: For a normally shy and not very talkative woman, Linda does grow a rather massive spine in this episode. She manages to strangle Wario and even ''Stephen'' fears her.
15	* BlowingARaspberry: Wario delivers one to our protagonists when they are stuck in traffic. Man, he shouldn't have done that...
16	* CharacterDevelopment: Linda Stotch was originally just Butters' mom. This episode gave her an additional trait of having a horrifying temper.
17	* CrossPoppingVeins: Linda when she ''really'' started to become angry.
18	* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
19	** Kirby is dropped into a meat-grinder and gets ripped apart.
20	** Linda is crushed by an anvil.
21	** In similar vein to the previous death, Pop is crushed by an anchor.
22	* ChokeHolds: A consequence of pissing off an already stressed-out Linda, Wario gets strangled to death by her.
23	* ADayInTheLimeLight: Surprisingly enough, Linda Stotch (Butters' mother) is the lead this time around. Granted, Pop is also a prominent character as always too, but [=SpongeBob=] is a mere cameo in this episode.
24	* DebutQueue: This episode marks Eric Cartman as the last main character introduced in ''Gory Toons''.
25	* DisproportionateRetribution: At the end of the episode, Cub deliberately kills Pop with an anchor just because he ate the last Oreo.
26	* DirtyCoward: Though clearly witnessing Linda beating up Wario, Pop doesn't intervene and blatantly drives off, abandoning Linda as well.
27	* DisasterDominoes: Eric Cartman bullies Stewie without any provocation by smacking him with a lollipop. Stewie punches said lollipop into Linda's hair, pissing Linda off. Wario taunts Linda off while in a traffic jam. Linda is angered. [[AdultsAreUseless Pop]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking does absolutely nothing]] [[BumblingDad except panic.]]
28	* ElongatingArmGag: Linda stretches her arm several feet to grab Kirby and toss him into a meat grinder.
29	* EvilVsEvil: Stewie and Cartman are both [[EnfantTerrible sociopathic children]] who are both [[GeniusDitz remarkably clever but incredibly short-sighted.]] In a meta-sense, both characters were also the instigators of the entire conflict.
30	* FatBastard: Strange pattern.
31	** Cartman perfectly establishes two of his infamous traits; his gluttony and love for antagonizing others.
32	** Meanwhile, Wario, the fat treasure hunter, sticks his tongue out at Linda.
33	* FromBadToWorse: Stewie and Cartman annoy Linda ''while'' in a traffic jam. Cue to [[FatBastard Wario]] [[BlowingARaspberry blowing a raspberry at Linda...]]
34	* HenpeckedHusband: Stephen is a nervous wreck upon learning the news that Linda is angry.
35	* HighPressureEmotion: After Wario rudely blows a raspberry at Linda, she is infuriated while boiling like a teakettle. [[TranquilFury Her face remaining pretty much the same doesn't help the tension.]]
36	* KarmicDeath: Linda is crushed by an anvil right after she has beaten up Wario and killed Kirby.
37	* KickTheDog: Cartman spent the entirety of his role in the episode taunting Stewie Griffin with his lollipop.
38	** Wario had no reason to taunt Linda. Actually, factoring in the episode's narrative, he was BullyingADragon.
39	* HairTriggerTemper: Appears that almost anything can tick off Linda Stotch.
40	* JerkassBall: Normally, Linda is one of the least violent characters. Here, she is depicted as explosive and ferocious.
41	* OutOFFocus: [=SpongeBob=] makes an appearance only in the beginning, where he is completely a LivingProp who plays no significance on the episode's plot at all.
42	* RoadTripPlot: Pop and Linda were driving the kids to somewhere, but none of them would behave. Because of their unruly attitude towards each other, Linda is pissed.
43	* SmallRoleBigImpact: Both Stewie and Cartman were the ones who first provoked Linda, but proceeding the scene that took place inside the vehicle, neither of them showed up for the rest of the episode.
44	* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Wario, Kirby, Linda Stotch, and Pop die in this episode.
45	* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: A strange one. When Linda begins strangeling Wario, his ''cap'' turns blue alongside his face.
46	* ThrowTheDogABone: Stewie Griffin, Eric Cartman, [=SpongeBob=], Russell, The Mole, Stephen Stotch, Gerald Broflosvki, Butters Stotch, Randy Marsh, and Squidward survives this episode.
47	* TokenGoodTeammate: Even putting aside Linda being an abusive parent, Pop having incompetence that usually means a terrible death for Cub, Eric Cartman being a bigoted and anti-semitic psychopath, and Stewie being a malicious infant determined for world domination, [[NiceGuy [=SpongeBob=]]] was the only one to not contribute to this fiasco.
48	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Technically, Stewie and Cartman's feud is what caused Linda's anger to fuse.

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