Cranky decides to send a time capsule to the moon for future generations to find, and Donkey Kong finds himself unable to think up a meaningful contribution. K. Rool hears about the event and is all too eager to take part- until he learns that Cranky plans on including a film of his most ignoble failures!
Tropes
- Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: When K. Rool sics Klaptrap on the Barrel Rocket;K. Rool: Eat, Junior!
Cranky: Stop, K. Rool! The Crystal Coconut is in that rocketship!
K. Rool: What?! Don't eat, Junior! - Cartoon Bomb: Klump and Krusha's attempt to destroy the rocket involve two of these.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Junior the Giant Klaptrap initially appears interrupting the Kremlings as they travel along the mine tracks asking for his dentures back. K. Rool gives them to him for the climax in hopes of eating the rocket to stop it from taking Cranky's "Worst of K. Rool" film to the moon.
- Continuity Porn: Cranky's "Worst of" film of K. Rool. It includes clips from past episodes set to sepia-tones.
- Drunk with Power / Leader Wannabe: Bluster eagerly uses his position as head of the time capsule project to belittle and look down on Donkey Kong. When asked why he put Bluster in charge, Cranky states that it's because he's the only one with a working rocket ship.
- Enemy Mine: A variant. King K. Rool sics Klaptrap on the Kong's rocket, and is (falsely) informed by Cranky that the Crystal Coconut is on the ship, resulting in K. Rool throwing a barrel for Klaptrap to eat, and urging the others to do the same, to stall him before he eats the Coconut with the ship. When the rocket takes off, seemingly whisking away the Coconut with it, K. Rool joins the other Kongs in confronting DK for apparently putting it there in the first place.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While Bluster isn't very polite in rejecting DK's offering of bananas as a contribution to the time capsule, he isn't wrong in saying that the bananas will rot. The whole point of sending the time capsule to the moon is for future generations to use and inspect the things inside, and a heap of rotten, mushy bananas will likely turn them away.
- National Anthem: DK's evental contribution to the time capsule: "The Island of Kongo Bongo", which effectively serves as this.
- Nobody's That Dumb: At the end, it seems like DK put the Crystal Coconut in the rocket. But no, he just hid it somewhere for safekeeping, and seems bewildered that Cranky and the others thought he would do that.Cranky: You mean it isn't up there?DK: No! Why would I send the Crystal Coconut to the moon?!(Everyone stares at DK in shock)
- Rage Breaking Point: Cranky after he and Diddy believed that DK had put the Crystal Coconut in the time capsule rocket.Cranky: OF ALL THE DIM-WITTED, SCATTER-BRAINED, CRAZY THINGS DK HAS EVER DONE, THIS IS THE LIMIT!!
- Rhyming Title: To The Moon Baboon.
- Show Within a Show: In the beginning of the episode, DK and Diddy explain to Cranky the plot of a movie they watched called "Maniac Monkeys on the Moon", where monkeys discover a time capsule on the moon and go berserk after finding out they're actually robots. The plot of the film indirectly gives Cranky the time capsule idea.
- Surveillance as the Plot Demands: How was Cranky able to make that movie?
- Unstoppable Rage: DK is very passionate about the time capsule project, so he is pissed when he catches Klump and Krusha trying to destroy the rocket, to the point where he chases them back to K. Rool's lair and punches them both out. He then warns K. Rool to stay away from it; not that K. Rool listens.
- What the Hell, Hero?: When the other Kongs (and K. Rool) thought that DK put the Crystal Coconut on the rocket ship.DK: I thought it was a good idea! (referring to his song)Cranky: PUTTING THE CRYSTAL COCONUT ON A ROCKET SHIP AND BLASTING IT TO THE MOON IS A GOOD IDEA?!DK: Are you crazy, Cranky?! That's a terrible idea!
