Season 1, Episode 5: 12 Angry Goat Herders
Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
- Cannot Tell a Lie: Tyrannis wins the case when he realizes that Shlub has no shame, and as such has no reason to lie. Therefore, he is being truthful when he says he didn't kill the goats.
- Courtroom Episode: Shlub is put on trial for killing a lot of goats. As a matter of fact, this also serves as the first court system.
- Eats Babies: It is revealed that Shlub once ate human babies. He confesses that he was being fed the babies to appease him.
- Entitled Bitch: Deliria seems to think that she's entitled to humanity's worship while expecting to do nothing in return. When Tyrannus points out that people need an incentive to venerate her, she thinks it's a form of bribery.
- Fantastic Racism: Defied. The goat herders hire Brenda so that Tyrannis can't claim they are accusing Shlub just because he is a monster.
- Framing the Guilty Party: Turns out the one who really killed the goats was the last descendant of one of the babies who were sacrificed to Shlub, in order to show the citizens of Krapopolis that there was a monster in their midst. This just gets him beat up.
- It Will Never Catch On: Inverted when Shlub makes a comment about his weed being confiscated which Tyrannis denies because he's a tyrant, not a madman, weed will always be legal.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Brenda was willing to prosecute Shlub in exchange for the dead goats and she gets shot out of the sky by a returning Deliria and Hippocampus. Downplayed in that the rest of the family aren't comfortable with arbitrarily killing her since they know her, so they all go to check if she's still alive.
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Deliria dismisses Hippocampus both as her son and a scientist, so he endears her worshippers, the Killassians, to worshipping science and only offers to give them back to her if she agrees to call him "son". He states it's the only thing out of literally anything she can grant him that he'll accept because every time she calls him "son", it will be a reminder he got a win over her.
- Riddling Sphinx: A sphinx named Brenda shows up in court to testify against Shlub. She wows the crowd with the old "What walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?" riddle, which Tyrannis is not a fan of.
- Shout-Out: The title is a shout out to 12 Angry Men as Tyrannis invents the entire concept of a trial by a jury.
- Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Shlub claims he was trapped in a pit and fed babies by a tribe of humans because they were enemies. When Tyrannis questions how babies could possibly be enemies, Shlub explains that human morals tend to drift from once noble intentions.
- Special Guest: Jane Lynch guest stars as Brenda the sphinx.
- Torches and Pitchforks: An angry mob forms to go after Shlub for killing the goats. Tyrannis invents a court system to replace the large unruly mob with a smaller, more manageable mob (i.e., a jury). He also notes that the torches are unnecessary, as it is daytime.
