Recap / Centaurworld S2E4: Holes: Part 3

On a trip to the Underground Kingdom, Horse learns that Rider has a magnificent new horse named Becky Apples. Would Rider really replace her?

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This episode contains examples of:

• Amusing Injuries: After being dropped on her head, Horse suspects having brain damage and briefly speaks nonsense.
• Bait-and-Switch: Discussed and averted. The trope is mentioned word-for-word by Wammawink, who expects this to be the reason behind Horse's uninspiring speech, but after the latter runs away crying it becomes obvious this is not the case.
• Crush Filter: During "Becky Apples", Wammawink imagines Sunfish Merguy with chiseled features, muscular body and a flirty smile.
• The Diss Track: "Becky Apples" is a passionate duet sung by Horse and Wammawink, born out of their jealousy and hate for Becky and Jeffica, respectively.
  Horse: Becky, how you like them apples?
  'Cause I think your apples suck!
• Innocently Insensitive: Wammawink tries to cheer Horse up by bringing up the Trashtaurs recruited by the latter, but she describes them in a way that makes them appear less and less like warrior material, only making Horse more depressed.
• It's All About Me: Wammawink interrupts Horse's rant about Becky Apples to share her own opinion on Jeffica.
  Horse: I'm kind of not done being mad about Becky Apples.
• Left the Background Music On: West Covina disappears immediately after performing her rap number, but the melody keeps playing. Other characters are fond of the beat and eventually everyone starts singing and dancing to it.
• Metal Scream: Wammawink's reaction to realizing she hurt Horse is a loud scream combined with another Metal Scream in the background.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Every time someone brings up Mary, the scene cuts to her furiously complaining about a different aspect of her ruined wedding.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Glendale is a wanted criminal in the underground land of the Moletaurs, and adopts an extremely flimsy disguise: glasses, a moustache, speaking in Spanish, and claiming to be someone else named West Covina. Subverted: that actually is someone else, who merely resembles Glendale, who was in hiding elsewhere in all but one of the scenes in which the Spanish speaker appears. West is arrested, as the moletaurs think she's Glendale.
• Rage Breaking Point: Stabby gets so fed up with being treated like a baby that he explodes out of the blanket he's been wrapped in and runs away from the council hall.
• Shout-Out:
  • The Holetaurs exclaim their support for the cause in the same words as used during the Fellowship of the Ring being formed, only replacing weapons with instruments.
    Badgertaur: By my life or death, you have my fiddle.
    Wormtaur: And my recorder.
  • Glendale's prisoner number as seen on a Wanted poster is 24601, just like Jean Valjean's.
• "Wanted!" Poster: Wanted posters of Glendale can be seen in all tunnels of the underground, depicting her with tattoos, piercing and a muscular built she displayed the last time the herd visited the holes.