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Recap / Paradise PDS 02 E 04 Who Ate Wallys Waffles

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Dusty finds an old kidcom on his new Disney Plus account that ended on a cliffhanger and goes crazy trying to find the former child actor of the show so he can revive it. Meanwhile, the Paradise PD officers are sickened to find that Kevin has to go home to take a dump rather than do it at work.


  • Big Bad Duumvirate: Dusty and Cory imprison Delbert and force him to continue his child star role as Wall-Eyed Wally against his consent.
  • Break the Cutie: Dusty loses his shit when his favorite show gets canceled and goes into full-on badass mode to the point where he holds his own boss at gunpoint, breaks into Robby and Delbert's family trailer to attack the family, and drives a room full of Disney Channel sitcom writers to suicide, but leaves one behind, so he can torture him.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: Dusty literally breaks the fourth wall by screaming at the top of his lungs and shattering the TV screen. During the opening credits, a crew has to be called in to replace the shattered glass.
  • Callback: Kevin uses the Poop on a Loop app to fake shitting at work, only Bullet actually paid for an ad-free premium version. Kevin got the free version with ads on it.
  • Companion Cube: Dusty still has the corpse of Mr. Meowgi with him and treats him like he's still there.
    Dusty: I feel like I died and went to heaven, just like you, Mr. Meowgi.
  • A Day in the Limelight: Delbert gets a major role in this episode and we learn a lot about him.
  • Given Name Reveal: Thester's last name is "Carbomb". He also has the same name as his father, grandfather, and great grandfather, making him "Thester Carbomb IV".
  • Hidden Depths: We learn that Delbert used to be a celebrity, who played the character of Wally on the Disney show, "Wall-Eyed Wally", before being kidnapped by Robby's parents to live with the family as Robby's birthday present.
  • Irony: Delbert gets mad at Robby for ruining his career as a child star to lead him down a path of drugs and crime.
    Delbert: Robby you son of a bitch! You kidnapped me and led me down a life of drugs and crime and those things would never happen to a child star!
  • Jerkass:
    • Dusty beat his team of writers to death with a coffee mug and drove the rest to suicide, except for one. This writer kept trying to kill himself but Dusty wouldn't let him die by forcing his ghost to re-enter his body. The reason for this was because he didn't like the scripts they wrote, despite the fact that he never read any of them. In the end, Dusty discards his writer's 858th and final script, saying that he likes the original script better.
    • To an even larger degree, Robby acts like an obnoxious, whiny bitch on his birthday and straight-up kills his meemaw just to get a picture in her iron lung.
  • Literal Metaphor: Dusty literally breaks the fourth wall in this episode.
  • Locked Away in a Monastery: All the racist characters from Disney's older productions are locked away in a safe labeled "A Simpler Time", never to be exposed to the public again until Robby blows the safe open and releases them. note 
  • Manchild: Kevin is unable to poop without his mom helping him.
  • New Powers as the Plot Demands: Hopson, whose bones are weakening from his age, is able to take on a liquid-like form and still be mobile similar to the T-1000, allowing him to catch Kevin when the latter fakes pooping at work.
  • Nobody Poops:
    • Apparently, Kevin leaves work every day to take a shit. However, after two seasons, he's never been seen doing this prior and nobody on the workforce has ever questioned it until now. This lack of Kevin's home-shitting can be excused by this trope.
    • Downplayed but present. Randall claims that, due to his poor health, he can only take a shit once a month, and when he does, it comes out like a Yankee cannonball. He shoots it as well.
  • Not Blood Siblings: Robby and Delbert are revealed to be this, when Delbert is mentioned to have been kidnapped and given to Robby as a birthday present, when they were kids.
  • Out of Focus: Fitz's role as the houndstooth meth kingpin is barely given any attention in this episode, Thester only makes a cameo and has one line, and everyone else from The Legion of Dooooom is completely absent, except for Frank who also just makes a cameo.
  • Pet the Dog: Karen is still happy to help Kevin out with using the toilet.
  • Psychopathic Manchild:
    • Dusty goes batshit crazy over the cancelation of a retarded sit-com on Disney Channel.
    • Robby behaves like a whiny Spoiled Brat despite clearly being an adult.
  • Rock–Paper–Scissors: Thester beats Frank in a game of rock paper scissors, because as a flipper person, Frank is only capable of throwing paper.
  • Rubber Man: Hopson's old age gives him soft bones that make his body unbelievably flexible.
  • Spoiled Brat: Robby acts like an absolute bitch whenever his birthday comes around by screaming at his parents, demanding a bunch of expensive gifts from them, and even forcing his father to kill his meemaw just so that he can use her iron lung.
  • Take That!: This episode mocks Disney to high heaven.
    Cory: You want us to take an unpopular and forgotten sit-com that was a cheap, lazy, derivative piece of shit to begin with and reboot it? ... You really know how to speak our language.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: After Kevin saves his own dad Randall from a bomb explosion once Randall's car gets strapped with one, Randall continues to lash out at Kevin for not pooping at work.

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