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After being exposed as a fraud, Kevin becomes so much of a widely-despised pariah, that Karen starts a national holiday called "Kevin Sucks Day". Kevin has no time to celebrate, as he has bigger problems. The precogs predicted that he'd masturbate in front of the monkeys at the zoo and he is determined to fight fate. Meanwhile, Agent Clappers of the FBI comes in to take over the argyle meth case, instantly blacklisting himself with Randall.


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  • Abusive Parents: Karen arranges Kevin Sucks Day to make Kevin a laughingstock in the town of Paradise. Randall is also among those celebrating the holiday.
  • A God Am I: Mr. Meowgi developed a God complex after cannibalizing Dusty's other cats.
  • Bigger Is Better in Bed: Karen has a fetish for large balls, to Randall's chagrin.
  • Body Horror: A lot of this happens in this episode. Most of it coming from Randall getting surgery to fill his scrotum with hundreds of testicles.
  • Brass Balls: Introduction of Agent Clappers and his big ball energy.
  • Butt-Monkey: Kevin. His own mother makes a national holiday out of insulting and berating him.
  • Easily Forgiven: Dusty easily forgives Bullet for neglecting to feed his cats while Dusty sat in the women's prison simply cause it's a holiday, Kevin Sucks Day.
  • Fat Bastard: After cannibalizing all the other cats in the apartment Mr. Meowgi has become a morbidly obese, insane megalomaniac that demands more cats to eat or else he'll eat Bullet.
  • Fictional Holiday: Kevin Sucks Day.
  • Furry Confusion: Bullet is shocked to see Mr. Meowgi talking, despite himself being a talking dog.
  • Gag Penis: A sub-trope of the gag penis is utilized in this episode when Randall fills his scrotum with hundreds of testicles, giving him two massive lumpy balls in his pants.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: Kevin becomes this for his mistake in arresting Dusty, who was innocent.
  • He's Back!: Miss Whiskers from "Task Force" returns in this episode.
  • Hidden Depths: It's revealed that Karen is actually obsessed with balls and that she was heartbroken when Randall literally lost his marbles back in '05, despite her insisting him that she didn't mind the destruction of his dangly bits. Even though we find out she's a ball-fanatic, she begins to hate balls just as much as she used to pretend to when Randall crushing her face to a hideous mutilation with his gigantic beanbag.
  • Hypocritical Humor: Bullet's shock over Mr. Meowgi talking.
  • Killed Off for Real: Two characters get this — Mr. Meowgi and Cop Bot.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Karen gets her face crushed by Randall's new ball sack, right after she callously made her own son a laughingstock among the townspeople.
  • Love Triangle: Randall, Karen, and Agent Clappers.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A running gag in this episode is for every one of Kevin's attempts at avoiding the zoo to lead him closer to the zoo.
    Kevin: Okay, Kevin. This should be easy. All you need to do is not go to the zoo. But just to make sure...
    [Kevin makes a phone call to the zoo]
    Kevin: [doing an Arabic accent] Oogy Boogy this is Al ... Jazeera! I planted a bomb at the zoo, so you'd better shut it down and refuse to let anyone enter! Ooooh!
    Zookeeper: Shut down? No way! Kevin Sucks Day is our biggest day of the year. [hangs up]
    Kevin: Okay. No big deal. You can still avoid the zoo.
    [Randall enters]
    Randall: Kevin, there's been a bomb threat. Get your ass down to the zoo.
  • "Pop!" Goes the Human: Or cat in this case. Mr. Meowgi eats Miss Whisker's brain, giving him feline aids and leading to him exploding all over the room.
  • Radish Cure: After having her face smushed and smothered by Randall's overstuffed ballsack, and watching it rupture, Karen doesn't ever want to see balls again.
  • Scary Librarian: Fitz fights some drug-dealing criminals in the library and the librarian shushes them.
    Fitz: WHO DO YOU WORK FOR!?
    Librarian: Shhh!
    Fitz: Oh, sorry. [whispering] Who do you work for?
    Criminal: [whispering] Fuck you, pig!
  • Showdown at High Noon: Randall and Agent Clappers get into a "ball off", where they face off in the hospital and have a ball kicking contest to see who can take the worst kicking to the cojones.
  • Suddenly Voiced: Mr. Meowgi's transformation also brings with it an inexplicable new voice.
    Bullet: AAAAH! A TALKING CAT!
  • Take That!:
    • Cop Bot tells a few jokes about Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
    • Randall's rap song "Big Ball Energy" have the lyrics, "Big like a Humvee! Dick like an oak tree! Wide like the red sea! Fat like Chris Christie!"
    • After Dusty screws up Fitz's police car for being too fat, Fitz tries calling an Uber. The Uber driver he summons also screwed up his own car by being too fat and having to walk around while wearing the car. Fitz exclaims he'll just walk.
    • Bullet claims Mr. Meowgi now heavily obese looks like Rebel Wilson from Cats.
  • Too Kinky to Torture: Miss Whiskers is such a sadomasochist she doesn't realize she's getting her brains eaten for nourishment, she continues to think it's all part of the threesome she's doing with Bullet and Mr. Meowgi.
  • Ungrateful Townsfolk: The town of Paradise (including his own parents, no less) are this towards Kevin, to the point of making a holiday based on his loser status.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: The precogs predict that Kevin will masturbate in front of the monkeys at the zoo. Kevin does not want to do something so humiliating, so he tries his damndest to prevent this from happening.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Fitz tries pulling this on Cop Bot once he acquires the Houndstooth Meth recipe. It doesn't work, it just makes Cop Bot angry and try to strangle Fitz to death as retribution and asserts Paradise is Not Big Enough for the Two of Us.

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