Recap / Jellystone S 1 E 9 Gotta Kiss Them All Jelly Wrestle Rumble

HBO Max release date: 7/29/2021

Cartoon Network air date: 10/30/2021

Gotta Kiss Them All

• A Bloody Mess: Captain Caveman demonstrates what he'll do to stop Augie from destroying the town... by smashing a watermelon to bits with his club. Watermelon juice gets everywhere.
• Adaptational Villainy: While in the original he was a morally gray Jerkass Genie, The Great Gazoo is now a Manipulative Bastard from a video game that can use unwitting players to unfold chaos and destruction in the real world.
• An Aesop: Doggie Daddy says it: "Fun is fun, but fun is done when someone gets hurt".
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Gazoo acts like a preppy, fun-loving NPC as he encourages Augie and Yakky to keep playing. He does this knowing fully well of the havoc and chaos they'll unleash onto the outside world.
• Blood-Splattered Innocents: After Captain Caveman smashes a watermelon meant to represent Augie, Doggie Daddy is left with melon juice on his face.
• The Cameo: At one point, Yankee Doodle Pigeon sits on top of Doggie Daddy's head.
• Child Hater: Winsome Witch suggests banning children in response to the girls wrecking the town.
• Gainax Ending: The ending has Gazoo (who supposedly lives in a Sugar Bowl video game world) doing community service after tricking Augie and Yakky into destroying Jellystone, only for the town to glitch into the video game world and back.
  Yakky: WHAT?!
• Good Is Not Soft: It's implied that Huck is willing to send Yakky, a child, to jail.
• Hidden Depths: Doggie Daddy showed enough mechanical skill to repair Ruff and Reddy to full functionality.
• Loads and Loads of Loading: Buddy Blasterz takes quite a while to load.
• Moral Guardians: After the town gets destroyed by the girls playing the game, Lippy the Lion suggests banning video games.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Both Ruff and Reddy have the video game "Buddy Blasterz" encrypted in their software which contains the sinister A.I. Gazoo who encourages any player to partake in legitimately dangerous gameplay.
• Shout-Out:
  • The episode title is a reference to the Pokémon Tag Line "Gotta catch 'em all".
  • The goal of Buddy Blasterz (allegedly) is to go around town and kiss everyone.
• Sibling Rivalry: As shown in the episode, Ruff and Reddy tend to get into arguments with each other over just about anything possible. From who can swing the fastest to who loves each other more.
• Simulated Fantasy, Post-Apocalyptic Reality: The episode has Augie and Yakky playing a VR game where you have to hug and kiss everyone, run by the Great Gazoo, looking like a Sugar Bowl. When Yakky takes off her VR visor, she sees the town in a state of complete chaos — they've been unknowingly zapping everyone with lasers the whole time they were playing, wrecking everything in the process.
• Something Only They Would Say: Doggie Daddy enters the virtual reality game Augie is playing to get her to stop. The Great Gazoo attempts to make Augie keep playing by turning into a copy of her dad so she can't tell them apart. Augie is able to pick out her real dad when he repeats the line he says under An Aesop.
• Sugar Bowl: The world of Buddy Blasterz is sugary and cutesy as a means to cover up the destruction of the outside world.
• Understatement: "I can tell that you're upset", Huckleberry says as the furious citizens are covered in bruises and bandages.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Doggie Daddy gets this for letting the girls play the game and wreak havoc on the town. The angry glances that the injured Wally, Brain, Peter, Lippy, Winnie, Magilla, and Benny all give him say it all.

Jelly Wrestle Rumble

• Beware the Nice Ones: The Funky Phantom is a former wrestler who is genuinely flattered and impressed by Huckleberry Hound's admiration of him, despite his last match ending in a career-ending loss. Then we learn exactly why Funky Phantom lost his last match: he became overwhelmed by competitive spirit and used his ghost powers to possess his opponent and mangle him from the inside out. He almost does the same thing to Yogi during Huckleberry's Jelly Wrestle Rumble.
• Broken Pedestal: A once-famous wrestler that Huck idolizes, Funky is eventually revealed to have been disgraced when he resorted to a dangerous method of cheating. However, Huck still has respect for him in the end.
• The Cameo: The episode has Mighty Mightor as the Funky Phantom's final pre-retirement opponent, as well as Gravity Girl from The Galaxy Trio taking the Phantom away after snapping and almost killing Mightor. In the same episode, Igoo can be seen in a match poster in Huck's wrestling shrine.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Grape Ape's fingers are enough to knock out Jabberjaw.
• Demonic Possession: In the past, Funky was disqualified from his championship match when he possessed Mighty Mightor to break his limbs. In the present, he possesses Yogi in a fit of rage and uses his body to harass the crowd.
• Dirty Commies: Touche Turtle's wrestling persona is Comrade Coconut, who appears to be a communist. His title is 'Comrade', he wears a stereotypical Russian hat, and his weapon is a sickle.
• Doomed Hometown: Peter Potamus accuses Touche Turtle of burning down his family village.
  Snagglepuss: Oh great, he came up with lore.
• Everyone Has Standards: When pitted against Yakky Doodle, Magilla expresses discomfort with fighting a child and immediately forfeits.
• Face–Heel Turn: The real reason Funky retired from wrestling. He was so ashamed of himself for turning Heel that he couldn't face his former fans from his actions.
• Fanboy: The episode reveals that Huckleberry Hound has been a wrestling fan since he was a kid, with his favorite wrestler being The Funky Phantom. He has his own private museum of vintage wrestling memorabilia underneath his office.
• Groupie Brigade: The Goofy Guards crowd around Funky Phantom and ask him many questions. Yahooey even asks him for an autograph...by lifting up his shirt.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Mildew Wolf calls himself 'expendable'.
• Hidden Depths: Peter Potamus does show some legitimate martial arts skill, likely owing to his Otaku interests.
• I'm Okay!: Said by Yakky after Yogi squashes her.
• It's All About Me: Yogi steamrolls the competition and forgets he agreed to lose to the Funky Phantom.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: There's this conversation between Snagglepuss and Mildew Wolf:
  Mildew: Very excited to be working with you, Snag. And to be working at all, in fact. It's been a tough couple decades.
  Snagglepuss: Spare me.
• My Greatest Failure: Funky retired from wrestling after losing a match for the championship belt. It's only after Huck recalls the match again that he remembers that it was a disqualification loss that was entirely Funky's doing.
• Mythology Gag: Snagglepuss and Mildew Wolf are the announcers of the wrestling match, a homage to Laff-A-Lympics.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Funky Phantom's full name in his cartoon, Jonathan Wellington "Mudsy" Muddlemore, goes unmentioned in this show, as everyone refers to him by his ringname.
• Pit Girls: Parodied. Atom Ant is the 'ring girl' and provides Fan Disservice with his incredibly tiny bikini.
• The Power of Love: Invoked and parodied. Augie and Daddy form the hippie tag team "Cutie and Patootie", introduced by Snagglepuss name-dropping this trope verbatim; Daddy boasts that kindness can beat any wrestling move and is promptly knocked out cold in one punch. Later played straight when Cutie and Patootie join the gang up on the out of control Funky Phantom, as their "showing of love" is a double hug that squeezes the Phantom out of Yogi's body.
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "I'm off duty."
• Product Placement: Mildew dedicates a portion of the show to advertising Funky Avocado Arrangements.
• Pro Wrestling Episode: The episode sees Huckleberry Hound meeting his old professional wrestling idol, the Funky Phantom, who retired after losing a championship match and has fallen onto selling avocado arrangements. Huck arranges a wrestling tournament involving Funky and the other townsfolk to honor him, intending for the other finalist to deliberately lose so Funky can win. Things get out of hand when Yogi/"Dr. Pain" refuses to displease the crowd by jobbing and Funky responds by using his dangerous method of cheating, forcing Huck and the eliminated wrestlers to team up to stop him.
• Squashed Flat: Yogi squishes Yakky flat.
• Sore Loser: When faced with defeat at the hands of Yogi, Funky promptly possesses him. It takes the combined efforts of every other wrestler, plus Huck as "Avocadog", to take him down.
• Stock Ninja Weaponry: Peter Potamus uses ninja stars. Then he hits himself in the eyes with them.
  Peter: Ow, my samur-eyes!
• Take That!: One towards Media Watchdogs.
  Yakky: I'm Okay!
  Snagglepuss: You hear that, S&P? She's okay!
• Would Hurt a Child: For the most part, Yogi isn't fond of harming children in any given way. Especially given his title as a doctor. However, he is willing to find ways around this principle as shown in this episode.
  Yakky: A doctor would never hurt a kid.
  Yogi: I'M off-duty. (proceeds to body slam the duckling)
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Yakky invokes this trope to get her adult opponents to forfeit. It fails when she uses it against Yogi, leading to her getting Squashed Flat.