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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:Meet the greatest metal band in the world.]] |
3 | We're introduced to Dethklok, the world's greatest metal band and the world's seventh largest economic power. The band hires a new chef who's horribly mangled in a helicopter accident, forcing the band to try and get their own food. |
4 | !!This episode contains examples of |
5 | * AndIMustScream: Jean-Pierre while kept barely alive in pieces on a machine. |
6 | * BigNo: Twice. |
7 | * BloodSplatteredInnocents: Dethklok staring in shock as they get splattered with Jean-Pierre's blood. |
8 | * CurseCutShort: "You ams a G-milf. That ams a [[LikesOlderWomen grandmother I would like to f...]]" (cue scene change) |
9 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The episode has noticeable pacing issues in comparison with later episodes. Also, Nathan, Muderface, and Toki's voices were at their earliest stages. |
10 | ** Toki had Skwisgaar's CharacterTic of fingering the guitar. Later episodes make it exclusively Skwisgaar's habit. |
11 | * EarlyBirdCameo: The opening riff of "Hatredy" (featured [[Recap/MetalocalypseS1E5Dethkomedy a few episodes later]]) is used as transition music. |
12 | * EpicFail: Dethklok's attempt at grocery shopping. |
13 | * EurekaMoment: When Toki says the band's attempt at sewing Jean-Pierre together would be wrong, Nathan gets the inspiration for "Sewn Back Together Wrong". |
14 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Even the most brutal band in the history of the world can't help but get a bit freaked out when they see what Jean-Pierre looks like after he's surgical reconfigured. |
15 | * HelicopterBlender: The Dethcopter slices through a flock of doves on the way to the concert. It also slices up Jean-Pierre after a mishap with fireworks launches him into the blades. |
16 | * HighTurnoverRate: Dethklok warns their new chef, Jean-Pierre, that their previous chefs frequently died {{Cruel and Unusual Death}}s. |
17 | * HypocriticalHumor: Jean Pierre offers wine from the Prime Minister of Norway. Nathan says the band never drinks [alcohol] before a show, only to reveal everyone else loading up on booze, including Nathan. |
18 | * LetMeGetThisStraight: At the grocery store, Pickles asks a seafood worker about cooking lobsters. |
19 | -->'''Pickles:''' Okay, hold on now, so you're telling me that you put these little guys in boiling water and they shriek, and they turn red and they die?\ |
20 | '''Worker:''' Yes sir.\ |
21 | '''Pickles:''' That is the most metal thing I ever heard in my whole life. |
22 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: Nathan explicitly states that they intend to do this to coffee with their endorsement of Duncan Hills. |
23 | * NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Jean-Pierre getting sucked into a dethcopter propeller. |
24 | * SoftGlass: Averted. Nathan shatters a glass display case at a deli with his forehead to grab some sausages. He comes away from this with several shards of glass stuck in his arms and head. He doesn't seem to notice. |
25 | * TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: This episode introduces the Tribunal, who do what Omnicient Councils of Vagueness do best. [[MagicalCamera Magical cameras]]? Check. Ill-defined plan? You bet'cha. |
26 | * OpeningShoutOut: Senator Stampington introduces the members of Dethklok by quoting the ThemeTuneRollCall verbatim. |
27 | * VetinariJobSecurity: Dethklok's attempts to make food while chef Jean-Pierre's in a coma [[EpicFail does not go over well]]. |
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