Recap / Big City Greens S 2 E 12

This is what happens when you think your future's just a single sheet of music.

Time Crisis

When Remy finds himself unprepared for a major violin recital, it sends him into a tailspin of doubt about his future.

"Time Crisis" contains examples of:

• Animate Inanimate Object: In Remy's stress-induced Disney Acid Sequence, sentient violins assault him while singing about how he's screwed up his life forever, until an especially large one with a crown catches him, gives him an (inaccurate) "The Reason You Suck" Speech, and throws him into the Sea Of Failure.
• Bad Future: After realizing that he didn't study the rest of the music sheet, Remy instantly imagines how each of his career paths will turn for the worst. It all leads up to him becoming homeless on the street with only a bottle of ranch to keep him company. Cricket later imagines one when he realizes that without a plan for the future, he might end up a loser with nothing to show for and become a homeless bum on the street with Remy. Vasquez imagines one where he's back in the mercenary business, but finds himself lonely without Remy's company.
• Basement-Dweller: Cricket's original vision of the future is of him still living under his dad's roof.
  Future!Bill: Morning son. So when do you plan to move out?
  Future!Cricket (in a cheerful voice): Never!
• Big Brother Is Watching You: Cricket imagines Gloria becoming this once she becomes owner of Big Coffee.
• Bittersweet Ending: Remy doesn't study his entire music sheet, and his performance ends up awful. But the good news is, he still does make it into the orchestra, albeit the third seat, and isn't upset about it, and he has seen to himself never to worry about the future again.
• Black Comedy: Remy predicting the exact time and date of his death. We even actually see him pass on in his imagination.
• Black Comedy Burst: As Vasquez talks about having to go back to special ops, his Imagine Spot shows him sneaking up behind someone and snapping his neck.
• Brain Uploading: In Cricket's idea of the future, Gramma has uploaded her consciousness into the Cloud, visible as a hologram on a floating robot body. Officer Keys is somehow in the Cloud as well, begging to be let out.
• Close Up On Head: In Cricket's Imagine Spot as he answers a call from Tilly, all we're given of her at first is just her face, before the camera zooms out to show she's living with otters.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Remy's life book is akin to an actual bucket list, which Cricket found dark as shown in "Cricketsitter".
  • Once again, Remy lets out a long scream when things go downhill.
• A Day in the Limelight: For Remy, with Cricket taking up the Deuteragonist role.
• Disney Acid Sequence: Used for Remy's nightmare.
• Drowning His Sorrows: A PG example. In his imaginary Bad Future and after his recital, Remy takes up drinking ranch dressing to alleviate the pain.
• Foreshadowing: The episode opens with Remy practicing his violin and noting that the piece ends at a weird space. He dismisses it before realizing that there is more than one page to it.
• Freak Out: Remy when he realizes he is unprepared. Vasquez joins in, and eventually Cricket does too when he realizes that his future could be ruined as well.
• Nature Lover: In Cricket's vision, Tilly has gone to live with the otters and became their new queen.
• Neck Snap: Vasquez's Imagine Spot of him in the Special Forces has him do this to a criminal.
• Out of Focus: The "real" Tilly, Bill and Gramma are absent in this episode (we only see them in Cricket's imagined future).
• Schedule Fanatic: Remy has his entire life planned out, down to the very day and time of his death.
• Shout-Out: The concert hall is shaped like Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA.
  • The title for this episode is a reference to Namco's arcade game series Time Crisis.
  • When Cricket imagines himself as a stuntman, he's dressed like Kick Buttowski.
  • When Cricket pictures himself as a fireworks salesman one of his Skyrockets is labeled the big one.
• Stopped Reading Too Soon: Remy is confident he can ace the recital. Then he picks up his sheet music and it unfolds, revealing a whole section he hadn't rehearsed.
• Tempting Fate: "This single sheet of music will determine my future!" Immediately after he says this, Remy could not be more wrong...
• Wingding Eyes: Remy gets the "Xs" version when he passes away at the end of his Imagine Spot.
• What Happened to the Mouse?:
  • It seems odd that Remy's parents are not seen in this episode, they aren't even seen attending his audition.
  • In Cricket's imagined future, Nancy was nowhere to be seen.

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Little does she know she's transporting a double trouble duo.

Gramma Driver

The Greens get their first smartphones and Gramma starts a driving business where she meets two customers who become her best riders, but are secretly thieves, while Cricket becomes the subject of a prank call he pulls on Gloria, and Tilly believes one of the apps houses a real person and tries to "free" her.

"Gramma Driver" contains examples of:

• Actor Allusion: A dub-based example (though still enforced by the English creators). The entire reason why a Gramma-centric episode features a criminal couple based on Jessie and James? Because Meowth's voice actress in Japanese also does Gramma in Big City Greens' Japanese dub.
  • The Brazilian dub took it further, and had Jessie and James' voice actors actually voice Bella and Bash.
• A Day in the Limelight: For Gramma.
• Almost Kiss: Bash and Bella share a moment after robbing the Biggest Bank, but Gramma's car ruins the moment. Done on purpose though, as they need her to drive them to their next theft.
• Bland-Name Product: Gramma becomes a Swyft driver for the episode.
• Dissonant Serenity: Keyes has his foot literally flattened and doesn't even wince.
• Didn't Think This Through: Cricket actually lampshades this when he suffers the consequences of his Prank Call.
  Cricket: I can't believe that yet again, my actions have had consequences!
• Drives Like Crazy: Gramma's reckless driving upsets her customers, who give her one star ratings. Bella and Bash, however, think it's perfect for their getaways. When they steal her car with Bill inside, she commandeers Officer Keys' squad car and give chase, with Keys complimenting her skills afterwards.
• Expy: Bella and Bash are basically Jessie and James, complete with similar hair colors and the news referring to them as a "double-trouble duo".
• Failure Montage: Gramma is shown to drive various customers to their destinations with disastrous results at the start of her Swyft driving career.
• Forgotten Phlebotinum: The Greens' Fun Fons were never used again since this episode, with Bill being the sole member to use one other than Nancy. It's implied Bill took the phones back because following their respective mishaps with the phones, it's clear they're not ready to have them.
• Hopeless with Tech: Tilly stands out from the family, as she isn't quite used to a smartphone and never having used one before, to the point she believes the phone's assistant is an actual person's soul trapped inside the phone.
• Latex Perfection: Parodied. Bella and Bash are disguised as each other when we first seen them.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Officer Keys gets his foot run over, and his only reaction is to take a deep breath and cheerfully exclaim "Wow, that's no good!" He even lifts up his crushed, limply hanging foot to show Gramma and refers to it as "A flat" with absolutely no indication of the massive amount of pain he must be in.
• Outlaw Couple: Bank robbers Bella and Bash, who are Sickeningly Sweethearts as well.
• Prank Call: Cricket's first call with his new phone is to Gloria, pretending to be one Mr. Greenfield ordering 99 lattes to a fake address. Gloria knows it's Cricket and gets back at him by making him do the delivery.
• Real After All: Tilly initially believes that the A.I. in her "fun fon" is trapped inside and intends to free her. After she successfully breaks the phone, Agatha thanks Tilly for freeing her.
• Running Gag: Agatha the smart phone getting Tilly's name wrong as she speaks to her.
• Series Continuity Error: Tilly is shown to have no knowledge of using a phone, but she was able to use Remy's tablet without a problem in "Bad Influencer".
• Shout-Out: The title and Gramma being hired as a getaway driver for Bella and Bash are references the film Baby Driver
• Tranquil Fury: At the end of the episode, Bill calmly states that Tilly's phone (which she broke) costed him 200 dollars.

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