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Recap / Captain N The Game Master S 1 E 9 Nightmare On Mother Brains Street

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Borrowing a page from Snow White, Mother Brain tricks Lana into eating a poison apple that puts her into an endless sleep. Captain N and Simon brave the world of Wizards & Warriors to come to her rescue, only to learn they'll also have to face their worst nightmares to do it...


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  • Collateral Damage: Kevin and Simon don't attack the Seven Warp Dwarves at all; they're tricked into killing each other instead while shooting at the N Team.
  • Cordon Bleugh Chef: Kevin tries to introduce Princess Lana to pizza at the beginning of the episode...with bizarre toppings that all start with "N". Almost needless to say, it results in a list of ingredients that might even put the 80's cartoon Ninja Turtles off their appetites.
    N for nuts, N for nectarines, N for nachos...
  • Easily Forgiven: Simon shoves Kevin through a door into a tunnel full of giant spiders, so Simon can be the one to rescue the princess. As soon as they meet up again, it's like that never happened.
  • Evil Sorcerer: Malkil, the guest villain from Wizards and Warriors.
  • Forgotten Phlebotinum: The villains use a remote control that lets them warp out of any TV screen, even right into the palace! It's never mentioned again.
  • Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: At one point they find a green key, which Kevin points out doesn't exist in Wizards & Warriors (He's right; keys come in red, blue and pink, but no green). This leads to an area where Kevin and Simon have a showdown with a septet of dwarves, who also don't exist in the game (and who get even space flea-ier when they turn into cowboys a minute later). It's implied Mother Brain and Malkil are "cheating" somehow to create traps that don't exist in the regular game to undermine Kevin's Genre Savvy, but this is never delved into again.
  • Girl in the Tower: Lana's imprisoned in the high tower of Malkil's castle.
  • Only in It for the Money: Simon accuses Kevin of this word-for-word when they kill a werewolf and it turns into a diamond. Kevin explains you need treasure to bribe the knights who guard the entrances to higher levels (which, again, is accurate).
  • Red Right Hand: Malkil has a deformed monster foot that doesn't match the rest of his body.
  • Save the Princess: Lana needs to be rescued again.
  • Series Continuity Error: Kevin and Simon's worst fears (being overwhelmed by his messy room and losing his good looks, respectively), are different than what was shown in "The Most Dangerous Game Master", even though only one guy wrote the scripts for the whole first season. At least in Kevin's case, he probably got over his fear of the bully after managing to befriend him again.
  • Suddenly Always Knew That: For an apparently nerdy video game fan, Kevin pulls off some impressive gymnastics moves without his Power Pad when he's hanging over a Bottomless Pit.
  • Title Drop: A weird example in that it wasn't dropped in this episode, but an earlier one.
  • The Voiceless: Out of the Seven Warp Dwarves, only one of them, Slimy (voiced by Ian James Corlett), gets any lines.
  • Whole-Plot Reference: As noted, to Snow White. It even has seven dwarves show up as enemies.

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