The results of Flawless You when someone becomes too flawless.
Green MirrorWhile on a visit to BigTech, Tilly has the Greens take part in Gwendolyn Zapp's "Flawless You" project in an attempt to become the "perfect" family.
"Green Mirror" contains examples of:
- Ambiguous Ending: Whether or not the original Greens were killed in the Flawless You cyberspace and replaced with their backup copies is left unknown, even to the creators.
- Big Brother Is Watching: Tilly is a little unnerved to hear Gwendolyn casually boast that Big Tech knows the layout of everyone's house.
- Brain Uploading: Flawless You transports the minds of its subjects and Gwendolyn out of their bodies and into cyberspace.
- Brainwashing for the Greater Good: Gwendolyn's "Flawless You" program is meant to uploads people's minds, deletes perceived personality flaws, and then downloads the modified minds back into their bodies in an effort to improve them.
- Brick Joke: "Always keep a backup of your brain."
- Call-Back: The events of "I, Farmbot" were brought up when arriving at BigTech.
- Chain of People: The Greens hold on to each other as Tilly takes them through the door out of the simulation before it disintegrates entirely.
- Disney Death: Gwendolyn dies inside the cyberspace, but is restored back to life thanks to having her brain backed up.
- Empty Shell: Once the Flawless You reprogramming is through with the Greens, the code representing their mental processes is sparse and slow moving. The modified Greens themselves are superficially cheery and eerily compliant with whatever is suggested to them.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: The Greens all get these when turned flawless by Gwendolyn.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: The germs on Cricket's hands as he vows to touch everything in BigTech with them.
- "Join Us" Drone: The flawless-turned Greens give one to Tilly to persuade her into becoming flawless like them.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: The Flawless You project removes all flaws from the memory of someone.
- Laughing Mad: The episode ends with one from Gwendolyn, prompting the Greens to uncomfortably back away slowly.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Tilly tells Gwendolyn that his family is always causing chaos wherever they go, basically summing up the show's formula. When the other Greens burst into the presentation hall, Tilly notes that they did it sooner than usual; this happens barely two minutes into the episode
- No-Sell: Gwendolyn tries to use Flawless You on Tilly, but she is unaffected because the system recognizes her accepting her family's flaws as true flawlessness and a contradiction in the program, causing the machine to reboot while everyone's souls are still inside.
- Perfection Is Impossible: Tilly learns this in the end.
- Shout-Out:
- The title is one to Black Mirror, as the episode, much like the series, is about the horror of the unintended consequences of new technology (though this series puts a more comedic twist on the idea).
- The plot loosely alludes to Willy Wonka and Gwen's role for the series, when Cricket is shown to have stolen a golden egg from a room full of geese in BigTech.
- Virtual Cricket says “I don’t feel so good...” before disintegrating.
- Surprisingly Creepy Moment: When the Greens' flaws are erased, they start speaking in a creepy monotonous manner, which worries Tilly.
- The Unreveal: We never get to see the outside of Flawless You while it is in action.
Clash of the Tickets
Cricket's TicketsCricket gets two tickets to a sold-out show, and when both Tilly and Remy want to go with him, he becomes torn with power.
"Cricket's Tickets" contains examples of:
- Apple of Discord: The tickets Cricket finds.
- Bittersweet Ending: Cricket ultimately chooses to relinquish the VIP position to Tilly and Remy, since it only calls for two people and thus he gives up the opportunity, but on the good side, he makes up with them and apologizes for taking advantage of them.
- No Indoor Voice: Gregly screams nearly everything he says.
- One-Steve Limit: The boy Cricket gets to go to The Barnacle Banquet is named Gregly; previously we've heard of Chip Whistler's Mook "Wholesome" Greg.
- Police Are Useless: Officer Keys offers to let Cricket commit crime for one whole day in exchange for the spare ticket. "Any misdemeanor you want, but only one felony, mister."
- Stop Drowning and Stand Up: Cricket, Tilly and Remy all fall into the water on the Barnacle Banquet stage and are surrounded by shark fins. Then Tilly realizes the fins are just props and the water only reaches to their waists.
- Take a Third Option: Really a fourth. Cricket can only take either Tilly or Remy to The Barnacle Banquet; he chooses neither, prompting to take one of the other children instead. After the whole episode spending time Taking Advantage of Generosity, he ultimately decides to relinquish the tickets to Tilly and Remy so they can be VIPs themselves.
- Taking Advantage of Generosity: Cricket suddenly undergoes this, forcing Tilly and Remy to attain to his needs to see who is able to get the other ticket. He then uses this on the other children, forcing them to give up their belongings for a trade, until Tilly and Remy force them to take it all back. He learns his lesson in the end.
