Benjamin Franklin as been kidnapped and held hostage by Captain Blackbeard! And now the infamous pirate has been hired by Governor Croque to find and keelhaul the Daring Dragoon.
Tropes featured in this episode:
- Anachronism Stew:
- In perhaps one of the most outlandish example of the trope in the series, Emilie constructs an electric-submarine out of copper. In 1801.
- When Blackbeard complains about his Dysentery, Croque asks for a servant to bring him penicillin, a medical marvel that wasn't discovered until 1928.
- At the end of the episode, Emilie jokes about "going for a cheeseburger", something that wouldn't be around until the 1930s.
- Big Eater: Ben Franklin spends all his time either eating 6-course meals or complaining about how hungry he is.
- Booze Flamethrower: Blackbeard's main mode of attack is drinking kerosene and spitting fireballs. He doesn't even need to light it.
- Child Hater: When Brogard has the Daring Dragoon at gun point, he tries to get him to relent by warning him that he and God have an arrangement. God gives DD winning lottery numbers in exchange for donating some of it to orphans, and shooting him will upset a lot of orphans. Brogard doesn't care because he loathes children.
- Evil Is Hammy: Captain Blackbeard can't say or do anything without shouting it and making obscene faces.Blackbeard: I spent most of me days sittin' on your flush-hole cause I was stupid enough to drink the water! Then, after a quick-dip in the lagoon establishment, I discovered the painful sensation OF BLOWIN' FIREBALLS OUT OF ME LONG. JOHN. SILVAAAA!!!
- Gargle Blaster: Blackbeard drinks straight kerosene from his flask. Not only does it let him breath fire, it also bleached part of his beard.
- Harmless Electrocution: Jack, not realizing what it means, offers himself as a replacement electrical conductor for Emilia's submarine and suffers no ill effects from being zapped directly through the head for 100 nautical miles. If this were Real Life, this would have killed him several times over.
- Hidden Buxom: When Jack and Emilia infiltrate a French fortress wearing "borrowed" soldiers' uniforms, Jack points out the obvious flaw in the plan, and she retorts, "they're not exactly detachable, you know."
- Historical Domain Character: Captain Blackbeard is the villain of the episode and Benjamin Franklin is his hostage.
- Historical In-Joke: Benjamin Franklin believes that Jack and Emilia's partnership will serve as the foundation of America and England one day putting aside their differences and becoming very close allies.
- Kidnapped Scientist: Croque has Ben Franklin kidnapped to create a superweapon that can redirect lightning.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Blackbeard has a weird habit of licking others to make them uncomfortable. Considering the fact that he has the table-manners of a pig and drinks kerosene, one could probably get scurvy just being near him.
- Not a Morning Person: Jack complains when Emilie's construction wakes him up at 4 in the afternoon.
- Slobs Versus Snobs: Jack and Emilie spend most of the episode bickering about who's nationality is better, Emilie accusing Americans of being Lazy Bums while Jack accuses the British of being anal-retentive snobs. By the end of the episode, Benjamin Franklin soliloquizes that they both have their merits and the point is to create a healthy union between both countries.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In Real Life, Benjamin Franklin died in 1790 of Pleurisy. Here he's still alive and well in 1801.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: On full display, as Jack and Emilia bicker constantly while trying to complete their latest mission. Benjamin Franklin muses that America and England could become close allies on the basis of this partnership, but only if Jack and Emilia don't end up killing each other first.
- Trojan Prisoner: A villainous example. Blackbeard and Croque manage to trick the Daring Dragoon into thinking that Captain Brogard was Benjamin Franklin.
