"The Swell Shark" is the 19th chapter of Junior Officers.
The Octonauts arrive at a kelp forest just in time to help a swell shark.
Tropes:
- Appetite Equals Health: Shellington being ill is signaled by his refusal to come eat breakfast.
- Cerebus Retcon: Turns out everyone making jokes at Shellington's expense wasn't exactly harmless...
- Feigning Healthiness: Shellington has a stomach flu and pretends to be well to avoid missing work. This backfires horribly, as he ends up humiliating himself by puking in the back of the GUP-A.
- Inelegant Blubbering: Shellington does this during his mental breakdown.
- Jaw Drop: Several Octonauts have their moths agape after hearing Shellington's mental breakdown.
- Playing Sick: Inverted; Shellington pretends to be well to avoid the others' concern. This backfires as he ends up vomiting in the back of the GUP-A.
- Precision F-Strike: "Oh, son of a bitch, Shellington..."
- Right Behind Me: A variant: after exiting the lab, Barnacles and Deborah find out that everyone had heard Shellington's mental breakdown.
- Sick Episode: For Shellington.
- Vomit Discretion Shot: "{Peso} heard a loud, painful retch followed by what sounded like fluids splattering against a metal surface."
- Wham Line: "What is it going to take me to be more than a lazy, gluttonous klutz who's terrible at everything?!"
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are:Shellington: I'm already a terrible Octonaut. It would be selfish of me to ask for time off.Barnacles: You are not a terrible Octonaut, and I don't ever want to hear you say that again. It doesn't matter to me that you're not perfect. I've seen you tough out toxic venom and rush headfirst into finding new creatures, and it astounds me that you never run out of steam. Trust me; Deborah couldn't ask for a better mentor, and I want you to know I mean it when I say there is not a single goddamn thing I would change about you.
