When King Julien finds a strange mixtape and plays it for the kingdom, he accidentally awakens Pancho, who is a deep cover sleeper agent trained by Uncle Julien to assassinate King Julien.
Tropes:
- Abandoned Catchphrase: At the end of the episode Pancho thanks Julien for helping him figure out who he is and proudly declares that he's no longer "In the dark here!!", afterward Pancho will cease to use "I'm in the dark here!" as a catch phrase.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Along with being trained to kill, the sleeper agents also had to take improv classes and - worse of all - give Uncle King Julien bubble baths.
- Companion Cube: King Julien helps Pancho find the home he grew up in, where he discovers the family he thought he had is actually in illustration on a bag of manure. By the end of the episode he is seen with the bag promising to keep his "family" by his side forever.
- Continuity Nod: Realizing they need Uncle Julien to deprogram Pancho, the group recover him from the pit he was last left in.
- Crazy-Prepared: Uncle Julien was going to be crazy prepared with an army of sleeper agents each specially trained to deal with a specific threat to him, but he got bored with that idea and never finished it. On the other hand, he also had the kingdom equipped with an underground tunnel system that only he knows about, allowing him to move anywhere in the kingdom quickly.
- A Day in the Limelight: Pancho is the primary focus of the episode.
- Deadly Euphemism: The tape Julien finds is labelled "Killer Tunes", because it activates undercover assassins.
- Despair Event Horizon: Pancho resists his programming hoping Julien can find his family, but the revelation that the family he remembers isn't real seems to push him over the edge, and Julien is initially unable to use family to break him out of his Final Protocol programming as a result.
- Didn't Think This Through: Even Julien admits maybe he should have listened to the music he found first to make sure it was actually good before playing it for the kingdom.
- Food as Bribe: As Pancho succumbs to his programming, he sees Uncle King Julien promising him a watermelon lollipop.
- Leave No Survivors: When Pancho turns on Uncle Julien, he activates the Final Protocol; launch a missile from an old sub and blow up the entire kingdom.
- Magic Countdown: Pancho snaps out of it and manages to stop the missile launch between 1 and 0 seconds remaining, even after Julien accidentally makes the countdown accelerate to extreme speeds.
- Manchurian Agent: Uncle King Julien trained several sleeper agents to cover various threats to his throne when he was in power, Pancho is the only one of them left who happens to be trained to assassinate Prince Julien in case he ever staged a coup.
- Manual Override: Uncle King Julien had one installed for the missile in case Pancho failed.
- Potty Emergency:
- With Pancho active, Clover takes Julien to a safe house to explain what's going on, which happens to be an outhouse that Ted desperately wants into.Ted: Oh please, this is the only outhouse in the kingdom!
Julien and Maurice: We live in a jungle Ted! Use a tree!
Ted: Well, I never! - Uncle King Julien made secret tunnels all over his kingdom specifically because of his irritable bowel syndrome, so he would always be near a bathroom.
- With Pancho active, Clover takes Julien to a safe house to explain what's going on, which happens to be an outhouse that Ted desperately wants into.
- Trail Of Breadcrumbs: Having trouble tracking Pancho and Julien down, Mort notices that some of the leaves off Julien's crown have fallen off to make a trail to follow.
- Trigger Phrase: While the general activation of sleeper agents is done via a bizarre soundscape recording, Final Protocol is explicitly triggered with "Fontanelle, Ellipsis, Shmear".
- Your Mom: Played for Laughs during the recording's display of the sleeper agents' improv classes.
